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Antarctic frequencies (FS2K2)
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| airgard 2006-03-13, 7:38 pm |
| Does anyone know of a patch or instructions that will add radio
frequencies to the antarctic bases? There is no radio at all and you
have to call Christchurch centre for a following.
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| David Wilson-Okamura 2006-03-13, 7:38 pm |
| I don't know of anything. If you're willing to get your hands a little
bit dirty, this is one of the easier tasks that can be accomplished
with the freeware program AFCAD. You can get frequency info for some of
the "airports" here: http://worldaerodata.com/countries/Antarctica.php
Not surprising that you need to call Christchurch for flight following.
Actually, you're lucky to be getting that. Here's what the CIA World
Fact Book has to say about landing fields in Antarctica: "There are no
developed public access airports or landing facilities; 30 stations,
operated by 16 national governments party to the Antarctic Treaty, have
restricted aircraft landing facilities for either helicopters or
fixed-wing aircraft; commercial enterprises operate two additional
aircraft landing facilities; helicopter pads are available at 27
stations; runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or
compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft; of
these, one is greater than 3 km in length, six are between 2 km and 3
km in length, three are between 1 km and 2 km in length, three are less
than 1 km in length, and two are of unknown length; snow surface
skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are
available at another 15 locations; of these, four are greater than 3 km
in length, three are between 2 km and 3 km in length, two are between 1
km and 2 km in length, two are less than 1 km in length, and four are
of unknown length; aircraft landing facilities generally subject to
severe restrictions and limitations resulting from extreme seasonal and
geographic conditions; aircraft landing facilities do not meet ICAO
standards; advance approval from the respective governmental or
nongovernmental operating organization required for using their
facilities; landed aircraft are subject to inspection in accordance
with Article 7, Antarctic Treaty; guidelines for the operation of
aircraft near concentrations of birds in Antarctica were adopted in
2004; relevant legal instruments and authorization procedures adopted
by states party to the Antarctic Treaty regulating access to the
Antarctic Treaty area, that is to all areas between 60 and 90 degrees
of latitude South, have to be complied with (see information under
"Legal System"); an Antarctic Flight Information Manual (AFIM)
providing up-to-date details of Antarctic air facilities and procedures
is maintained and published by the Council of Managers of National
Antarctic Programs (2004 est.)."
Having said (or rather, pasted) that, searching the AVSIM file library
for "antarctic" (leaving off the -a at the end to pick up any
adjectival forms) turns up a couple interesting files: a detailed
make-over for one 30 degree wedge by Jim Keir (creator of the
Slartibartfast program that has given us so many detailed coastlines in
the last year) and a fictional ice city.
I'm a little puzzled by Keir's choice of which slice to improve. The
readme says "between 30W and 0E, from 68S to the pole." I just went in
the other room to check my globe: that's Coats Land. Why not the
Peninsula, I wonder? Or the McMurdo area closer to NZ? Well, here's the
readme:
"Antarctica has some of the most dramatic scenery anywhere, yet it's
rendered in FS as a dull plain scattered with snowy rock. This package
corrects the coastlines, landclass, textures and mesh for the slice
between 30W and 0E, from 68S to the pole. I've also included the set of
macros I produced a few years ago covering some of the British
Antarctic Survey bases and depots.
"It includes:
- Landclass
- LOD8 Mesh
- Coastlines
- Replacement textures
- Some fuel dumps, remote observing posts and a complete base -
Halley."
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| David Wilson-Okamura 2006-03-13, 7:38 pm |
| Ok, I installed the scenery and thought I would start at Halley
station, the "complete base." Doesn't appear as an airport in FS9, so I
thought I'd google around some more. Still don't know how to get to
Halley directly, but I did figure out why Keir chose this slice of the
continent: he was stationed there for two years as part of the British
Survey. Well, if that's not a good reason to make scenery I don't know
what is.
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| airgard 2006-03-14, 11:32 pm |
| airgard wrote:
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> Does anyone know of a patch or instructions that will add radio
> frequencies to the antarctic bases? There is no radio at all and you
> have to call Christchurch centre for a following.
Y'know those runways at Scott base and McMurdo have landed most of
what the USAF have thrown at them. I know we used to have the occasional
Galaxy fly down from Christchurch...I dunno if they actually used the
ice runways for a c5...?!?
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| Tom Orle 2006-03-15, 7:35 pm |
| airgard <supagard@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
quote:
> Does anyone know of a patch or instructions that will add radio
> frequencies to the antarctic bases?
I've used AFCAD for that as well as to add some ILS.
-=tom=-
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