*** Grant Narrows and Rambo's bush base ***
*** Pitt Lake, BC, Canada ***
By James Belk


THE larger runway at Grant Narrows has a 15 degree bend (blind at ground level: the corner needs to be anticipated by using the pair of orange marker cones as a guide & on take-off, care must be taken not to apply full throttle too early). The shorter runway is on a slope that involves an unconventional downhill landing & an uphill take-off (STOL planes only!). Both are bumpy, and require Holger Sandmann's mesh for the required effect (see below). A dock is provided down on the lake shore for visitors on floats. The landing strips are fictional, set in an area of wilderness on the shores of Pitt Lake - but only 20 miles from downtown Vancouver. The first Rambo film was shot in the hills just to the east in the Golden Ears Provincial Park: if you fly north from Grant Narrows you'll find Rambo's airstrip hideout just a couple of miles past the end of the lake - the real life location of a popular fishing lodge.
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INSTALLATION:

Place the 'bc1' folder in 'c:\program files\microsoft games\fs2002\addon scenery' (or wherever you keep your extra sceneries). Now open up the Scenery Library in FS2002 and add the new area - or manually edit the scenery.cfg file as required. Put the NOVA smoke effect file in fs2002's /effects folder, if you don't have it already.

Install Gerrish Gray's tree library (trees_v3.zip) using the author's enclosed instructions.

NOTE ON MESH:

This scenery was designed specifically for use with Holger Sandmann's mesh of the Lower Mainland of Southern British Columbia (bcmesh9c.zip).

OPTIONAL LANDCLASS ENHANCEMENT:

Fraser Valley by Russel Dirks (fvlc.zip).

[Quick links to all the required files can be found on my website:
http://home.clara.net/jgbelk/fs2k2.html]
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THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Scenery developed using Airport v2.6, LWMDraw4, and Easy Object Designer.

I used macros developed by the following authors:
Gerrish Gray: Trees
Tom Fica: Conifers, Zodiac, fuel barrel, & wood pile.
Jim Jackson: dock, dock ramp, & construction cone.
Frank Betts: Old cabin
Bob Wening, Jerry Arzdorf, & Robert Palmer: yellow cub
Ken Nelson: plane port.
Original texture BMPs used in my own macros by Tom Fica & Doc George.
Smoke effect by NOVA
Sorry if I've forgotten anybody - please let me know if there are any omissions.

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LEGAL/DISCLAIMER:


This scenery is distributed as freeware, and this readme file must be included with it if used elsewhere. Use these files at your own risk: no responsibility is accepted for any damage they might cause to your computer.

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James Belk   March 2003
aeryn_sunpk@hotmail.com
http://home.clara.net/jgbelk/fs2k2.html