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______________________________________________________________ MICROSCENE SCENERY HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ______________________________________________________________ Microsoft and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Flight Simulator is a registered trademark of SugLOGIC Corporation. IBM and PC-DOS are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Hercules is a registered trademark of Hercules Computer Technology. ______________________________________________________________ ------SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS------------------------------------- -MS-DOS or PC-DOS operating system version 2.0 or later -Personal computer using 80286 or higher processor recommended -640K memory -Hard drive -CGA, EGA (EGA requires 256K display memory), MCGA, VGA, or Hercules graphics adapter (16 color recommended) -Microsoft Flight Simulator version 4.0 -Microsoft Aircraft and Scenery Designer ------INSTALLATION-------------------------------------------- These scenery disks require Microsoft Flight Simulator version 4 and Microsoft Aircraft and Scenery Designer. Those products should be installed on your hard disk before installing the scenery. 1) Insert the scenery disks into your floppy disk drive and copy their contents onto your hard disk in the Flight Simulator directory. COPY A:*.* C:\FLTSIM4 Replace "A:" and/or "C:" drive letters as required by your system. 2) Start Flight Simulator and select the default startup mode. Do not yet select any of the new modes provided with this scenery. 3) Select menu #1 (MODE) 4) Select option J (SCENERY DESIGN) 5) Select option 0 (Setup Configuration) 6) Set the following configuration values: A - 56000 B - 6000 C - 20 and press ENTER to save the configuration. 7) Exit Flight Simulator and restart it. You are now ready to select any of the modes within your new scenery and start flying. 8) Whenever you use this scenery be sure that the following options on the SCENERY DESIGN Menu are selected "ON". AUTO STATIC SCENERY SELECTION AUTO DYNAMIC SCENERY SELECTION Furthermore, you should set "Ground Texture" to "OFF" on the "SIM" menu. NOTE: This scenery is designed to properly overlay and enhance the default scenery provided with Flight Simulator. Proper operation and blending with any other optional third party scenery is not assured. IF YOU SEE MESSAGES ABOUT MEMORY SHORTAGES Flight Simulator version 4 requires a large amount of free memory. During installation you configured Flight Simulator to request even more memory than it uses by default in order to accomodate these high density scenery files. If there is not adequate memory available for all features of Flight Simlulator, selected features will be disabled. But your new scenery will still function properly. Refer to your Aircraft and Scenery Designer manual page 9 for suggestions concerning memory usage. ------MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR VISIT TO HAWAII----------------- The scenery in the Hawaii region is quite dense and detailed in many areas. Additionally, the islands of Maui, Kahoolawe, Oahu and Kauai have dynamic scenery. To best view the scenery stay low and slow. While the business jet may be a fast way to journey between the islands it is usually inappropriate for general scenery viewing (although you may find it usefull for attaining the altitudes needed to reach the mountain summits on Maui and Hawaii). The Cessna is a good allround mix of speed, climbing ability and manuverability. In some very high density areas such as Honolulu/Waikiki or the Kaanapali area on Maui you may prefer the Sopwith. Stay below 2500 feet to view the denser building areas in the cities and resorts. You may prefer to stay very low (500 feet or less). The closer you get, the more visible the denser scenery will become. Although all NAVAIDS necessary for high altitude night flying and such are included; these scenery files are intended for VIEWING rather than navigating. Due to performance limitations, these dense scenery regions each cover fairly small surface areas. At very high altitudes, the current scenery region will be BELOW you rather than in front of you. Furthermore, in order to increase the quantity of colors used in the scenery, compromises have been made which may cause the scenery to have unrealistic appearances if viewed at night. Once again, this scenery is intended for VIEWING. Microsoft recommends an 80286 or above processor for use with Aircraft and Scenery Designer. This is because of the lower performance considerations of the earlier CPUs. Although these scenery regions will operate on slower hardware; we also recommend an 80286 or above processor. If you encounter slow aircraft response you should try the following: -Turn OFF ground texture. There is no need for ground texture in these regions anyway. -Set Crash to DETECT or OFF rather than DETECT AND ANALYZE. DETECT AND ANALYZE needs to constantly record flight statistics. -Select a lower image complexity setting (COMPLEX, MEDIUM, SPARSE) on menu 2 - display control. This setting affects the distance over which scenery will be displayed. In certain areas and altitudes you may wish to experiment with this setting. For example, at high altitudes over a city, you will probably wish to use a COMPLEX setting. But while flying down a street, SPARSE may be perfectly adequate and will improve response. -Fly LOW and SLOW. The slower plane initiates less severe scenery changes. Flying low also limits the amount of scenery which must be updated. -Switch dynamic weather OFF. Flight Simulator will have less work to accomplish between screen updates. -Switch dynamic scenery OFF. You will lose some detail, particulary at airports, but again, Flight Simulator will have less scenery to update. -As a last resort, consider upgrading to an 80386 processor or a VGA video system. Flight Simulator will perform best in those hardware environments. We believe that you will enjoy the Hawaii scenery regions regardless of your system or previous experience with Flight Simulator. We have taken great care to assure the accuracy of this scenery. Positioning, color, shape and overall appearance of details as small as buildings, roads, city streets and streams have been designed to the maximum possible accuracy. Consider, if you will, that it would be perfectly valid to use this scenery as a high quality road map; and in some areas as an accurate city street map. If you needed to find your way from the airport to your hotel, you could do so! Care has been taken in many ways to assure that your flight around the Hawaiian Islands will be as close as possible to the real thing without actually having to travel there. Enjoy and explore beautiful Hawaii. ______________________________________________________________ NAVIGATING IN HAWAII ______________________________________________________________ The Hawaiian Islands have been positioned at their correct latitudes and longitudes in the real world. It is entirely posible to fly from anywhere in Flight Simulator's world to or from Hawaii; although the flight will be quite long. Many startup modes are provided that place you at a selection of airports, ready for takeoff, in Hawaii. The distances between the individual islands are not great. In fact it is possible to fly between the islands relying only on visual information with two exceptions. -The large island of Hawaii is not visible from its closest neighbor Maui nor is Maui visible from Hawaii. You may use the VORs on Maui and Hawaii to assist. The charts provide recommended bearings between specific points on these islands. -Kauai and Oahu are not visible from each other. Use the VORs or consult the charts for recommended bearings. Maui, Kahoolawe and Lanai are all visible from each other. Molokai is visible from western Maui and Lanai. Maui and Lanai are visible from Molokai. Oahu is visible from western Molokai and Molokai from eastern Oahu. Kauai and Niihau are visible from each other. The scenery consists of 12 individual scenery regions; some of which are quite small. When you view a distant island you will be seeing only a limited amount of the detailed scenery actually available on that island. The detail, at such a time, is reserved for the closer island. To view detailed scenery on an island you must fly quite near to that island. As you do so, the area of detail will change to the local island. Flight Simulator will retain an active scenery area until you actually fly into another scenery area. To cause the detailed scenery to switch to another island, generally, you must fly within just a few miles of the shoreline of that island. Since you have Aircraft & Scenery Designer, you can, of course, modify any of this scenery yourself, if you so desire. We highly recommend that you not modify scenery region boundaries in any way. Great care has been taken to assure the smoothest possible overlap of scenery regions. Overlapping regions are perfectly synchronized and dimensions and centers of regions are highly tuned for maximum consistency. If you add or modify the scenery, be aware that in many instances, any individual scenery item may actually exist in several different scenery regions. For example, the coastline and mountains of Lanai actually exist in six different scenery regions. If you were to modify that scenery within the Lanai region itself, that change would have no effect on Lanai's appearance as viewed from any of the other five regions in which Lanai is included. ______________________________________________________________ THINGS TO SEE IN HAWAII ______________________________________________________________ ------HAWAII-------------------------------------------------- Hawaii is called the big island. It is the largest by far of the Hawaiian Islands. Larger, in fact, than all the other islands put together. There are five mountain areas on Hawaii. The Kohala Range (maximum 5480') forms the northwest tip. Snow topped Mauna Kea (summit 13,796') is the next mountain southward. Along the west coast (Kona Coast) is Hualalai (summit 8271'). Mauna Loa (summit 13,679') is the largest mountain on the island. In fact, if measured from the ocean floor, its the largest mountain in the world. Even if only viewed above water, it is still an impresively large mountain filling the whole southern half of the island. Due east of the summit of Mauna Loa, near the southeast coast, is Kilauea (4078'), the present home of Pele, Goddess of the Volcano. Due to the size of the island and the relatively high altitudes of some of the mountains, you may find that the business jet is the most practical plane for just getting around on Hawaii. However, there is still a great deal of low altitude, high density scenery as well as several tight, twisting canyons to be seen and flown; which may be better accomplished in a slower aircraft. The largest airport on Hawaii is General Lyman Field at Hilo on the central east coast. The Keahole airport serves the Kailua/Kona area on the central west coast. There are several other smaller airports scattered around the island. Things to see on Hawaii: -The Kona coast north of Keahole airport and the several large resorts in that area (also known as the Waikoloa area). -The Kona coast south of Keahole airport around and south of the town of Kailua (also known as Kona). -The Waipio valley (and its neighbor the Waimanu Valley) along the northeast coast near the southernmost end of the Kohala Range. Waipio is the more southerly of the two valleys. -The summit caldera area of Mauna Loa. The caldera floor is at 12,000'. The rim varies from 12,500' to 13,679'. -The Southwest Rift Zone of Mauna Loa along the ridge stretching south from the Mauna Loa summit/caldera area. Just along the ridge is a series of disconnected cracks (some long, some short, some quite deep, all narrow). Fly down from the summit keeping as close to the ridge crest as possible and drop into the cracks when possible. -The Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa along the ridges stretching north and east of the summit/caldera area has fewer cracks than the Southwest Rift, but has several peaks to dodge and turn between. -The Kilauea area and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The Kilauea caldera (Halemaumau) is at 3412' and the rim varies from 3652' to 4078'. A few miles northeast of the actual Kilauea caldera along the East Rift Zone you will see Pele at work enlarging the island of Hawaii. Just north of that is the city of Hilo and its airport. ------MAUI---------------------------------------------------- Maui is known as the valley isle. Haleakala Volcano (summit 10,023') forms the east part of the island and the West Maui Mts (5788') form the west end. Between is a large, heavily irragated valley where large quantities of sugar cane and pineapples are grown. Maui is a major resort island; with large hotels along the west and south coasts. Maui has three airports. The largest is at Kahului on the north central coast. There is a small airport at Hana on the northeast corner of the island; and the West Maui airport serves the Kaanapali/Kahana resort area on the west coast. While on Maui be sure to visit the following areas: -The northeast coastline from Kahului to Hana. -The summit area of Haleakala Volcano National Park. The caldera varies from 7000 to 8000 feet and the rim from 9000 to 10,023. -The Iao gorge in the West Maui Mts west of Kahului. Look for the Iao Needle deep inside at the head of the canyon. -The beach resorts at Makena and Wailea on the south coast and at Lahaina, Kaanapali, Kahana and Kapalua on the west coast. -The marine sanctuary at Molokini Island just southwest of the Makena area between Maui and Kahoolawe. ------KAHOOLAWE--------------------------------------------------- Kahoolawe has been uninhabited since it was taken over by the US Navy for use as a bombing and gunnery range on Dec. 8, 1941 (the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor). Being in the rain shadow of Maui, it is quite arrid and near lifeless. Set the position 13456.0584 N, 56649.4420 E, 1800' altitude, heading 227 to watch two F14s make a crossing run over Kahoolawe. There are no airports on Kahoolawe. ------LANAI------------------------------------------------------- Lanai is known as the pineapple isle, and is owned by Dole Pineapple. There is one airport near the southwest corner of the island. The mountains reach their summit at Lanaihale (3370'). While on Lanai you may wish to explore the following areas: -Lanai City just northeast of the airport. -The southwest coastline from the harbor at Kaumalapau around south and east to the recreation and resort area at Manele Bay. -------MOLOKAI---------------------------------------------------- Molokai is almost two different islands in one. The western end of the island is mostly low hills and is largely owned by the Molokai Ranch. The eastern end is high rugged mountains dropping straight to the ocean. There are two airports on Molokai. The largest is the Hoolehua airport roughly in the center of the island. There is also a small local airport on the Kalaupapa penninsula on the central north coast. While on Molokai you should visit: -The northeast Molokai coastline from Kalaupapa east. There are several deep canyons reaching up into the mountains which attain 4970 feet at Kamakou. -The southeast coastline east from the main city and port of Kaunakakai. The coast is dotted with dozens of fish ponds. -The isolated Kalaupapa penninsula; once site of the infamous leper colony. -The Papohaku beach resort area near the middle of the west coast. -------OAHU-------------------------------------------------------- Oahu is the most populous of the Hawaiian islands. The center of that population is Honolulu on the south coast. Oahu is formed by two mountain ranges, the Koolau Range along the northeast (3105' maximum at Puu Konahuanui north of Honolulu) and the Waianae Range along the southwest (4040' maximum at Kaala). Between are a large valley and Pearl Harbor. There are many airports on Oahu. All are military except Honolulu International (which actually shares its runways with nearby Hickam AFB) and Dillingham (which once was an AFB but is now mostly used by gliders and parachute jumpers). While on Oahu be sure to visit: -Waikiki beach and the many high rise hotels in this area. See if you can fly between the buildings down Kalakaua or Kuhio streets. (The Sopwith is recommended). -Downtown Honolulu and the port of Honolulu including the Dole Pineapple plant just west of the downtown area and the famous Aloha Tower in the port area. -Honolulu International and Hickam AFB. -The Pearl Harbor area including the Arizona Memorial on the east side of Ford Island and the Aloha Stadium just northeast of Pearl Harbor. See if you can fly the Sopwith down inside the stadium. You might even be able to land on the football field. -The coastlines of Oahu, particularly from Diamond Head around to Kaneohe Bay and the Kaneohe Bay area. There are various resorts scattered along the coasts at Kahala, Makaha and Turtle Bay. There are also many detailed objects in the Barbers point area, including an oil refinery and a power plant. SPECIAL NOTE FOR THE HONOLULU AREA: Because of the extreme scenery density in the Honolulu and Waikiki areas you may wish to change the image complexity setting to "COMPLEX". Doing so will decrease aircraft responsiveness, but will also allow you to view detail that might otherwise not be visible. Normally this would only be appropriate at relatively high altitudes. But the density of scenery here places that altitude limit as low as about 2000 feet. -------KAUAI-------------------------------------------------------- Kauai is called the garden isle and is the wetest of the islands. The summit area of the island at Kawaikini (5170') is considered to be the wetest spot on earth, getting 500" of rain each year. There are countless canyons on the island. Waimea Canyon is the largest of these. Lihue is the largest airport on Kauai and is your startup mode for the Kauai and Niihau area. While on Kauai be sure to visit: -Waimea canyon; which is the westernmost canyon along the south coast. There are many secondary canyons heading rightward toward the highest peaks. Be prepared to climb rapidly to over 4000' at the heads of any of these canyons. -The Na Pali coast along the northwest coastline. The mountains here drop from over 4000' straight to the ocean. -The Hanalei Bay/Princeville resort area on the north central coast (just east of the Na Pali coast). -The Wailua resort area along the east coast north of Lihue. -The Lihue area and the port and resorts there. -The Poipu resort area near the southeast corner of the island. -Wainiha canyon on the north coast (first major canyon east of the Na Pali) where the Wainiha Pali rises 4000' above the canyon. -------NIIHAU------------------------------------------------------- Niihau is privately owned by the Robinson family. Fewer than 300 people live on this island where Hawaiian is the primary language. Niihau is known as the forbidden island. Access is limited to members of the Robinson family, the local residents, visitors specifically approved by the Robinsons and an occasional doctor or tax official. Niihau has no port or airport, only one paved road and only three small villages. The island is small and arrid, being in the lee of Kauai. The mountains attain 1281' at Mt Paniau along the northeast coast. The southern portion contains Hawaii's largest natural lake, Lake Halalii. Just off the northwest tip of Niihau is the island of Lehua; formed by the tip of a volcano just extending above sea level. About 20 miles south (bearing 170 degrees) from the southernmost tip of Niihau is the islet of Kaula. -------THE LEEWARD ISLANDS------------------------------------------ NIHOA, NECKER, FRENCH FRIGATE SHOALS, GARDINER PINNACLES, MARO REEF, LAYSAN, LISIANSKI, PEARL and HERMES REEFS, MIDWAY ISLANDS, KURE ATOLL The Leeward Islands are the most ancient of the Hawaiian Island chain; stretching over 1200 miles north and west of Kauai. They are the erroded remnants of once green and high islands that were made when Pele was much younger. They stretch like a chain of dozens of gems across the vast blue Pacific. The business jet is certainly the plane of choice for visiting these remote islands. You have three starting points for your exploration - Kauai, the Coast Guard station on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals and the Naval Station on Midway Island.