Simviation Forum - Seaplane bases

Dec 5^th, 2009 at 2:48pm

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Good afternoon all...

Had a friend over who looked at my FSX and I showed him my flight from Ketchican to Juneau Alaska using MoCats Snow Dog Tours. Lots of seaplane bases to drop into.

He fell in love with the scenery and now would like to install MoCats Snow Dog Tours on his FS2004 but we are not sure it will work. He does not have FSX.

If MoCats Snow Dog Tours will not work in FS2004 is there another freeware package available with lots of seaplane bases? I just went through 140 +- pages of the FS2004 Scenery downloads and didn't see anything.
Perhaps I missed something.

A "Link" or information would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #1 - Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:14pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 2:48pm:

Good afternoon all...

Had a friend over who looked at my FSX and I showed him my flight from Ketchican to Juneau Alaska using MoCats Snow Dog Tours. Lots of seaplane bases to drop into.

He fell in love with the scenery and now would like to install MoCats Snow Dog Tours on his FS2004 but we are not sure it will work. He does not have FSX.

If MoCats Snow Dog Tours will not work in FS2004 is there another freeware package available with lots of seaplane bases? I just went through 140 +- pages of the FS2004 Scenery downloads and didn't see anything.
Perhaps I missed something.

A "Link" or information would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

This is not scenery but might be of value -

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=fs9seabases.zip&CatID=root&Go=Sea...

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #2 - Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:50pm

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Sounds like your friend needs Holger Sandman's 'Glacier bay'

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004scenery102.htm

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Reply #3 - Dec 5^th, 2009 at 5:55pm

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I suggest a visit to flightsim.com's library and conduct a search for "Glacier Bay".

Among the 20 or so returns is Glacier Bay V2 by the team led by Holger Sandmann.

This is a must have for FS9, make sure to get V2, it is in 2 parts.

The file names are - glbayv2a.zip and glbayv2b.zip

Includes 16 floatplane bases.

Also seen in those search results is Pete & Sid's Viva Scenery which consists of 4 parts and I believe will contain floatplane bases covering Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Also do a search for "Wensley". Roger has released dozens of sceneries for Canada, many contain floatplane bases. Most of his work is based on Ultimate Terrain and may not work without it.

Another search for "Freeborn" will return the works of Bill Freeborn. Many include floatplane bases and though some are for FS2002 I suspect they will work with a default (sans Ultimate Terrain) FS9.

While Opa's tip is good, unfortunately all you will get is a list of seaplane bases included in FS9, none of which have any scenery to depict an actual floatplane base.

Hope this helps,
Joe

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Reply #4 - Dec 5^th, 2009 at 7:41pm

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I have several addons for FS9 that have docks, etc. I can't remember the names right now but I will take a look and post the list later.

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Ok. It's quite a list, and unfortunately, I can't tell you where to get all of them. Several are here on SimV, but not all. This is all addon freeware scenery.

Air Mountain Ranch, Washington KMNT
Golden Eagle Flying Ranch, HH, WA, KLL3
KLL5, KLL9 by same person as KLL3
Henderson Field, PMDY, Midway Islands
Robert Palmer's Roosevelt Lake, Arizona
Woodland Caribou Ranger Station, R02, Sabourin Lake, Ontario
Bill Melichar's Faa, Tahiti, French Polynesia, NTAA (can't start from dock, but you can land there and save the flight, then go to saved flights to start from dock)
Bill Melichar's Motu Mute, Bora Bora, French Polynesia NTBB (ditto to above)
Bill Melichar's American Samoa, Pago Pago Intl, NSTU (ditto to above)
Brent Hricziscse's Kijik Lake, Ak
Pirate Island
VT15 Vermont
Kenibuna Lake
Two Lakes (I think this is by the same author as Kenibuna. Not much there, but there is a dock.)
Mark Twain Lake
Hannibal, MO
Vancouver INTL
Sorry I can't give you the sites for all these, but it will be
worth the time spent searching for them.

Seaplane Bases in Glacier Bay (the best addon I have seen)
2Y3 Yakutat
3Z9 Haines
5Z1 Juneau Harbor S
5Z1 Juneau Harbor N
7K2 Skagway
A43 Taku Harbor
BQV Bartlett Cove
CAD6 Atlin, B.C.
CEB7 Carcross, Yukon
ELV Elfin Cove
EXI Excursion Inlet
FNR Funter Bay
HWI Hawk Inlet
OOH Hoonah

BTW, if he really wants to spend time looking, here is a list of real seaplane bases. I have no idea how many of them have been done for FS.

hawk air, wawa, ontario, canada
akhiok, ak
akiachak, ak
warm spring bay sb, baranof, ak
hot springs seaplane base, bell island,ak
chatham sp base, chatham,ak
chefornak sp, chefornak,ak
chernofski sp, chernofski,ak
coffman cove sb, coffman cove,ak
douglas sb, douglas,ak
elfin cove sb, elfin cove,ak
golden horn sb, golden horn, ak
bartlett sb, gustavus,ak
hollis sb, hollis, ak
hyder sb, hyder, ak
ivanof bay sb, ivanof bay, ak
juneau sb, juneau,ak
kake sb, kake, ak
waterfront sb, ketchikan,ak
lake hood, alaska
bradford camps sb, ashland, me
lucky landing marina and sb, bangor, me
nugent chamberlain lake sb, chesuncook,me
shesuncook lake house sb, chesuncook,me
greenville sb, greenville,me
currier's sb, greenville junction, me
moose river sb, jackman,me
millinocket sb, millinocket,me
seven g's sb, mount vernon,me
long lake sb, naples,me
brandy pond sb, naples,me
buckhorn camps sb, norcross (millinocket), me
shin pond sb, patten,me
rangeley lake sb, rangeley,me
long lake sb, sinclair, me
van buren sb, van buren,me
scott's resort sb, crane lake, mn
charlotte amalie harbor sb, st. thomas, virgin islands
christiansted harbor sb, st. croix, virgin islands
whistler air, whistler, british columbia
soldotna,alaska
norman wells, northwest territories, canada
dusty lake, " "
airventure seaplane base, oshkosh, wi
jack brown's seaplane base, winterhaven, fl
westgate-on-sea, kent, united kingdom
brough aerodrome, east riding of yourkshire, uk

Cheers,
Larry

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Reply #5 - Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:01pm

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Thanks one and all...will get a start on a couple of those tomorrow. Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #6 - Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:42pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 2:48pm:

my flight from Ketchican to Juneau Alaska

Look also for Holger's FS9 'Tongass Fjords' - down around the PAKT area.

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Reply #7 - Dec 6^th, 2009 at 5:01am

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Not seaplane bases I know, but if your friend goes for the Tongass Fjords package (It is excellent!), then get him to have a look at the Stikine Ice Fields Research add on here: http://edtruthan.com/sirp/sirpmanual.htm

It really is an excellent addition with snow covered landing strips, snow blowing across the tundra & a whole host of 'camps' to visit - all with NDB's, no GPS rubbish here. Smiley