krigl wrote on Sep 14
th, 2007 at 4:23am:
Choosing a payware shot was easy this time – I wanted to recognise in a small way the amazing work which Harold Kip has been putting into his Pacific Coast tour. The pictures are great, but the information included with them has made the series come alive in a way that no tour has done before. Hats off to Harold!
Thank you very much Roger! I really appreciate the recognition for my Tour of the Pacific Coast.
For those of you who are not aware of my tour ... here's a little backgrounder:
(you can also 'click the sig' - there's a link to the previous part on top of every thread)
The goal of my tour is to fly along the entire Pacific Coast; starting at the most northern point of the American Pacific Coast, Attu Island in Alaska and flying all the way to Tierra del Fuego, the most southern point of the American continent. Initially, I was planning to do so using only one plane, my
Cessna C206 Stationair but decided for the
Beech D-18S. After some feedback I also decided to use different aircraft for the different legs.
TSC helped me with a nice little storyline for switching to another aircraft.
Just for my own enjoyment I started searching through a lot of different Flight Simulator websites for scenery that I could use in my tour and I ended up acquiring over 350 different (freeware and payware) scenery packages ... only for Alaska. And yes, I know that is a little awkward. But I thought it would be really nice to show most of these scenery packages to the SimV community, so that everybody knows which packages are available for that part of the world, besides only showing some nice screenshots.
Again, for my own enjoyment, I would look up information on the island, mountain, town or airstrip that I was flying over and I ended up adding that information to the different threads of the tour to make the reading a little more interesting and educational.
I thought that flying the Pacific Coast would take me a month, maybe two to complete the tour but as my scenery library grew and a lot of time went into research and coming up with new ideas, I decided I would just take my time finishing the tour. Also I didn't want three or more threads of my tour 'gracing' every page in the screenshot forum.
So who knows when I will finish my tour ... right now I think it will easily continue into the next year, but I have no idea when I will arrive in the south of Argentina - that is still a lot of planning, research and scenery files away - but I will get there! I'm not fishing for compliments but please keep sharing your feedback on my tour as it continues. If anything is encouraging it is feedback, positive
or negative. Please tell me what you like or don't like. And if anybody has suggestions for the tour please do not hesitate to message me.
Watch out for the next parts of my Tour of the Pacific Coast coming soon!
Here's a little teaser ...
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