Gepard

F-4J(UK)

Taking a Cessna an flying from Chicago over Cleveland to Detroit. It's a pity, that TK wont gave us the possibility to fly simple ferry missions. Just for fun and sight seeing.

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (WIP). The basic layout is placed. The rest will come later.

MiG Ye-8 A prototype what could have become the MiG-23. Agile as a F-16A, but 10 years earlier.

You will find Mc D a couple of times on the map. Promised! If i had the right buildings, i would include Burger King or Subways too. Or whatever you have on the other side of the big pont.

Some eyecandy. Mc D is made by Swambast.

Who's next?

Cleveland Burke Seaside Airport is not using a runway LOD file, but only the texture of the terrain tile From low altitude it looks not really good From 500 meters upwards it looks accaptable From 1.000 meters and above it looks good I made the setting of the target.ini so, that is airport is rarely used and the low quality at low altitudes will not often appear. Next airport is Cuyahoga County Airport, a smaller airport in Cleveland region.

Oh, Canada!

Squadron ready for takeoff!

Okay, the runway problem is not to solve on the easy way. As you see the runway object does not fit to the terrain tile. It is set to 240°. If i set it to 239° the mismatch is on the right side of the runway. Thatswhy i decided to make an invisible runway. The problem is, that from distance it looks good, but if you drive over the runway during takeoff the resolution of the terrain tile is low and it looks terrible. I think i will set the invisible airport to small_airport and so the most american fighters will not use it as base, but only as target. That should work.

Looping over Guernsey.

A small question to the fellow terrain makers. Is there a way to give a runway a direction of 239.5° instead 239° or 240°? If i place a runway over the Cleveland airport tile neither 239 nor 240 will fit perfectly. I tried it with 239.5, but it seems to be, that the game engine will not accept it. It there a trick?

The other way is to open the file F-4M.ini with notepad editor. Then delete all lines and save the file.