About This File
FS2004 Scenery--Ketchikan PAKT Part 2 In Southern Alaska (AK), USA. This is the second part of Ketchikan, dealing mostly with the airport side water access, but also adding to the airport itself and slightly modifying the docks on the town side, plus other items. There is now a road down from the airport to a ferry dock on the water, with a ferry, and as explained in Part 1 this cannot be as per reality given that the airport, in the real world, is not on one level. The road made here is arranged so that a covered walkway can also be made, connecting down to a float dock, while in reality it connects from the terminal building. The choice is between something missing (the road and walkway) and having something inaccurate, and both choices are not as per reality. This scenery is made to conform to an installation that has FS9, an Alaska Genesis mesh, Ultimate Terrain Alaska Canada, and the three Misty Fjords sceneries installed, and there may be differences when installing to a different setup. The PAKT apron ground markings have been modified as one part was forgotten, and it should be mentioned here that the runway ground markings at the hold shorts are reproduced exactly as per real life, on only one side of the taxiway center line. There is a float dock below the airport for refueling, and also for picking up passengers from the airport and flying them directly to their house on a nearby lake; a taxi rank with Beavers. There is a modification to a small part of the docks on the town side. The AF2_PANT was included in part 1 as this airfield on Annette Island (south of Ketchikan) is shown in Misty Fjords as abandoned while not deleting the FS2004 runways; this deletes them. Another aside, there was somebody on flightsim writing about how to fly a Beaver on floats and there was advice on the use of flaps; I could not find it again to add a note to the advice, but the POH for a Beaver states that full flaps must never be used with floats. By Roger Wensley.