Gepard

Over Stonehenge.

9/11 is a date, that changed everything. In Germany it was a warm, sunny day. For me it was perfect to use my bicycle to drive to my job. I enjoyed the day, it was perfect. The whole day i run the radio, but short before 15:00 CET i switched it off. Later i learned that few minutes later the radio station gave out the news, what happend in New York. I knew nothing about it. When my working day was over i swung myself on my bicycle and a half our later i was home again. There i found my wife sitting in front of the TV and starring into it. I saw a burning high rise building and believed that it was a Hollywood movie. I asked her: "What kind of rubbish do you watching?" And she answered: "No rubbish. It's real!" I did not realized it and went to the bathroom to wash myself. While i was in there i heared hear scream: "There just crashed a second plane in the other tower!" And my next thoug was: "Damn! That means war!"

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.

L-410UVP Turbolet, used by the Luftwaffe after the reunification of Germany.

A new tile for the Cleveland Burk Lakefront Airport. With standard tiles it would have been not possible to place this airport on the map. It is still WIP.

T-7A RedHawk

Super Mystere

I-153 over a german airfield in July 1941.

Over Michigans fields.

For this do following things: First open file A-10A.ini with notepad editor Look for line: AircraftFullName=A-10A Thunderbolt II Change it into: AircraftFullName=A-10A Thunderbolt II 3W save the file. Thats it. But be aware, that the game sometimes overwrites the ini files of the stock aircrafts. That means that all of your changes are gone.

What excactly have you edited? Did you only renamed the files or did you change something in the files?