Oshkosh EAA 97 Scenery

by Dan Vanevenhoven (29 July 1998)

iving so close to Oshkosh myself I have looked at the scenery of this familiar area in depth. I find this scenery very well done from the very nice buildings to the fact that you can turn on the runway lights by going to the CTAF frequency 118.5. There is alot of detail in this scenery.

Instructions for FS98 Install

If you're using FS98 make sure you have the updated oshkosh.exe (available here on FlightSim.Com) because all the others are copies without the updates. While installing you will be asked for the directory of your FS. The default is FLTSIM5, and if you want to leave it that way, it's OK, but you'll have to do some extra work. I recommend you install it to your particular FS directory, which probably is something like

Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator

After it installs, verify that 17 SEED files reside in your main texture directory. Strange? I know, but they have to be there. If not, then make sure you go to wherever you installed Oshkosh and copy those files into your Main Texture folder. The other textures can be in the newly created one, but the seeds must not be misplaced.

Couple Of Notes

When you change the directory during the installation program, make sure you delete the FLTSIM5 part. For example, you'll press the BROWSE button to locate your FS directory. After you find it, you should see something like

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\FLTSIM5

But that is incorrect. It should read

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator

Once that is done then it will install properly. Next, you must install FSASM. Its setup program was installed along with Oshkosh. You'll find it in your Flight Simulator path, for instance,

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\FSASM

Unzip the file FSASMLIB.zip and install it. You will need the correct lib file for your flight simulator only; the lib file for FS5 is with this scenery. After all of that, start up the simulator and go to the Scenery Library. Once inside you may search the disk for sceneries or ADD it yourself (recommended). Type in this unless you changed something:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\Scenery\Oshkosh\Scenery\*.bgl

Whewww! OK I admit, that's a lot of typing, but it's worth it. Now you can choose Oshkosh again and go fly there. Make sure scenery complexity is very dense to see everything. Remember to use the radios because there are special frequencies for getting the runway lights on for example etc., etc... Tune to the tower (118.50) to get the runway lights.

What's In The Scenery

This scenery is a must for anyone that likes to fly fun aircraft. The annual EAA fly-in at Oshkosh is the biggest in the world. To give you idea how big the fly-in is there are 250 take-offs and landings per hour and this scenery does a good job of duplicating it.

This scenery overall gives you a very good feel of the EAA fly-in experience. I tried it on three machines, a 133 MHz, 200 MHz MMX and a 300 MHz with 3D graphics. It worked good on the 133 but the frame rate was very poor on dense scenery. The 200 was very good and the 300 with 3D graphics was excellent. There are three airports on this scenery, Wittman Regional at Oshkosh itself (OSH), Fond du Lac County (FLD) and Appleton--Outagamie County (ATW). Oshkosh shows a lot of detail and even includes detail outside the the airport area. The tower and the EAA museum are very realistic looking and very well done. Appleton and Fond du Lac are also very well done. The only error I saw with it is the fact that on FS98 it makes the default scenery for Green Bay disappear. Other than thats it's great.

So, if you can't make it to the real EAA AirVenture '98, this virtual scenery can be the next best thing.

Dan Vanevenhoven dvaneven@rocketmail.com
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