Introduction

SubLOGIC Scenery Disks are an enhancement designed to expand the potential flying environment of Flight Simulator II and other SubLOGIC flight simulation programs. You must have Flight Simulator II, Microsoft Flight Simulator, or Jet in order to use a Scenery Disk.

Twelve separate Scenery Disks covering the entire continental United States were developed using NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Sectional Aeronautical Charts and Airport/Facility Directories. These charts divide the United States into 37 different sectionals. Each sectional includes all of the airfields and radio-navigation aids in the area covered by the chart. Sectional charts also show topographical information and obstacles that are important to aviators. Scenery Disk databases were digitized from these NOAA sectionals.

Scenery Disks include enough radio-navigation aids and visual sceneryto allow the user to navigate anywhere in the sectional areas covered.A typical Scenery Disk (SD) covers three aeronautical sectionals, and includes approximately 100 airports and 100 radionav aids. Some SD's may have more airports and radio-nav aids, since some areas of the country are more densely populated than others. Any of these SD's are ideal for simulating cross-country, flights.

SubLOGIC Scenery Disks are grouped by aeronautical sectional. Each SD covers a geographical region of the United States, generally comprised of three sectionals:


             WEST			     EAST
	1. Dallas -Ft. Worth		 7. Washington
           Houston		       	    Charlotte
	   San Antonio			    Jacksonville
           Brownsville			    Miami

	2. Phoenix			 8. Memphis
           Albuquerque		 	    Atlanta
	   El Paso		 	    New Orleans

	3. San Francisco		 9. Chicago
           Los Angeles		  	    St. Louis
	   LasVegas			    Cincinnatti

	4. Klamath Falls		10. Billings
	   Seattle		  	    Twin Cities
	   Great Falls			    Green Bay

	5. Salt Lake City		11. Lake Huron
	   Cheyenne		  	    Detroit
	   Denver	
					12. Halifax
	6. Omaha			    Montreal
	   Wichita	  		    New York
	   Kansas City



In addition to twelve regional Scenery Disks, a number of STAR Scenery Disks are also available. A STAR Scenery Disk covers a small area with a relatively dense amount of scenery. These disks are mainly intended for visual flight (sight-seeing). They include buildings and landmarks, as well as detailed renditions of the major airports in the area.



Using a Scenery Disk with Flight Simulator II

Load Flight Simulator II in the usual way .When the program has finished loading, enter the simulator's program editor as described in your operating manual and set the NORTH and EAST coordinates of the airport you've chosen from the directory for the region you'd like to explore (set ALTITUDE to 0). Exit the editor, remove the FSII disk and insert the appropriate Scenery Disk. Next, press CTRL E and wait for a menu to appear. This menu page lists the names of the sectionals included on the Scenery Disk. Press any key to exit, and you should find yourself at the airport you've selected. If no scenery is visible, go into radar mode and zoom out to determine your approximate location.You may be able to zoom all the way out and view the entire continental United States database, complete with rivers, highways, coastlines, and the Great Lakes. This default database display indicates that you are not within the boundaries of the sectionals included on your disk. Re-enter the program editor and double-check your coordinates, making sure that both NORTH and EAST coordinates are correct.

When you find yourself at the airport you've selected, it may be a good idea to save your position to a User Mode (see User Mode Library in the FSII Pilot's Operating Handbook). This way, if you crash, you will be returned to the selected airport. Otherwise you will be returned to a preset location (above Lake Michigan) in the default USA database.


Crossing a Sectional Boundary

When you fly over a sectional boundary, one of two things will occur. If the neighboring sectional is also included on your Scenery Disk, that sectional will load and you will have to switch to the appropriate new map and directory provided. If the neighboring sectional is not available on your disk, a common default USA database will load.This default database allows you to zoom out (in radar mode) to view the major geographical features of the United States.

If you have another Scenery Disk containing the appropriate sectional, you can switch disks and press CTRL E to log-in the new disk. After a brief load, the names of the new sectionals available on this disk will be displayed. Press any key to exit and return to Flight Simulator II.

IMPORTANT - If you want to change Scenery Disks or go back to the scenery on the FS2 disk, you must log-in the new disk by pressing CTRL E. If you do not login the new disk, you will not get the new scenery and you will risk causing a disk load error.


Using the Microsoft Flight Simulator Disk as a Scenery Disk

The Flight Simulator disk contains all of the usual scenery for the Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York areas. You can insert this disk and log it in as you would any other Scenery Disk to fly in these areas. 


Conclusion

As of this writing there are no fuel or repair facilities available on regular Scenery Disks (although they do occur on STAR Scenery Disks).To refuel, just land at an airport and enter the program editor. Your tanks will be filled and repairs will be made when you exit the editor.


 					1985 SubLOGIC Corporation