Aspen 98 Scenery

by Dan Vanevenhoven (26 August 1998)

he scenery around Aspen Colorado in real life is nothing short of breathtaking, and this scenery speaks for itself in those regards.

INSTALLATION

Create a sub directory ASPEN in FLIGHT SIMULATOR\SCENERY, with additional sub directories of SCENERY and TEXTURE in ASPEN. Copy the Aspen scenery and exclude BGLS to ASPEN\SCENERY and copy *.R8 files to ASPEN\TEXTURE. If replacement winter textures are to be used, again, make back-ups of the default files in \Flight Simulator\Texture and unzip the new PRARIEW.R8 and PRAIRW_M.R8 files into that directory. Set up as LOCAL scenery in Scenery Manager. Set up as LOCAL scenery in Scenery Manager above the FS CD-ROM US files. Check for other Colorado scenery that might be active.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

There are four airports included in this scenery: Aspen-Pitkin Airport, Lake County Airport, Eagle County Regional Airport and Glenwood Springs Municipal Airport. The designer has also included a lot of reference information including information right out of the IAP (instrument approach procedures) manuals including a map for missed approach, as you don't want to hit a mountain after a missed approach. Also included is the info from www.airnav.com on all four airports.

REVIEW

This is a very well done scenery. The mountains have real depth and the airports have a lot of attention to detail. For example, the designer has even made the ILS antenna at ASE (Aspen). The designer has even correctly modeled the special I-PKN ILS that is used for the missed approach; don't try to land using this ILS! I did notice the loss of scenery for the city of Aspen and the other cities.

I flew this scenery a lot and most of this area is VFR which gives you a different perspective but that is half the fun. Mountain flying in real life is tricky and this scenery does a very good job of giving you that feeling. This scenery also includes a adventure file with it. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give this scenery a 6.

Review By Dan Vanevenhoven
dvaneven@rocketmail.com

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