

DC-3 Airways Air Mail Night Flights for FS2002.

A guide for the installation of the DC-3 Air Mail Night Flight Beacons in FS2002. 

If you are unfamiliar with the procedure required for installing 'Add-on Scenery' to your Flight Simulator please follow these simple instructions.

Before you commence any scenery additions you must first ensure that your Flight Simulator is not running.

The installation of the "DC-3 Air Mail Night Flights" scenery will place rotating lighted beacons with 5 nm range NDBs attached, at specific locations, to enable you to fly these routes, during night, VFR conditions without the help of other Nav Aids such as VORs and regular NDBs.


Installation.

 1.  If you do not already have an area where you are storing new scenery files then it is suggested that you create a New Folder on your main drive, probably C, and call it, for instance, Simulator Scenery. (This folder name can be any name you choose and can be located anywhere on your hard drive). You only have to remember where it is.  

 2.  You have downloaded the new scenery file (night_mail_fs2002.zip) to a Temporary folder.  Since you are reading this you have done this.

 3.  Unzip (night_mail_fs2002.zip) to this same temporary folder. This will create a Folder called,"DCA AM Night Flts 2k2.zip". Within this folder there are a further two folders. The first, named "Scenery", contains three .bgl files. The second folder is named "Texture", and contains a single .bmp file.  The main folder also contains a "readme first please.txt" file. A readme Installation.txt file. Two Word files which are the Flight Descriptions. Two pdf files which are also the flight descriptions. An Image which is a map of the Early Transcontinental Air Mail Route and finally, there is a "SCENERY.dat file.

 4.  Copy the complete "DCA AM Night Flts 2k2" folder and paste it into the Simulator Scenery Folder that you created on your C Drive, or to the location you have chosen.

 5.  Start FS2002.

 6.  With the simulator running, click on WORLD. 

 7.  In the drop down box, click on SCENERY LIBRARY

 8.  In the SCENERY LIBRARY' panel click on 'Add Area'.

 9.  A panel called 'Select Scenery Directory' will appear.  You now need to navigate to the Simulator Scenery folder that you installed. Click on the 'DCA AM Night Flts 2k2' folder once only, the path to which will then appear in the box called Directory. Ignore the option to rename the file.

10.  Click on 'OK'.

11.   The new DCA AM Night Flts 2k2 scenery will now appear on the list as number 1.  If the 'Enabled' box at the left is empty, click on it to enable the scenery.

12.  Click on 'OK'.

13.  Now close down the simulator.

14.  When you next start FS2002 the Light Beacons and NDB's will be visible at their proper locations.

Enjoy............


Disclaimer:
I cannot accept responsibility for any problems or damage resulting from the installation of these files.  If you have a problem installing these sceneries, please feel free to e-mail me at: al-gay@rogers.com.


