Military AI Works

For those that are interested John Stinstrom made a very good photo scenery for Wake Island (PWAK). It is very good scenery, although there is 2 static Orion planes in the scenery that I do not like. (The file name is pwak_j.zip)

Do any Air Force planes still go to Wake Island?

Check the scenery files for any .bgl's that say anything about Orions or static planes... I find that most designers have options to remove static aircraft.

Calvin Gwin wrote:Check the scenery files for any .bgl's that say anything about Orions or static planes... I find that most designers have options to remove static aircraft.

Did that but there wasn't any.

If you dont want them you could shoot off an Email to the designer, I'm surprised that the statics are not optional, unless they are part of some museum I would not want them there either.

The vast majority of FS users don't use the program like we do. That's why FSX contains nothing new AI-wise. So I am not surprised to see designers add things like statics.

John has just come out with some yellow and green military ground support equipment for this scenery and others. They are all part of scenery object libraries.

I know he was very helpful to me with questions I had on his WWII blimp sceneries. I was surprised that on the Wake Isl. scenery, he placed the static aircraft not in a separate bgl file, as he did on the blimp sceneries. Maybe if asked, he might correct that so they could be removed if so desired.

Do any planes planes from the current MAIW packages go to Wake?

I know I could use Ttools to get the airport list for each package but there are a lot of packages. I thought someone might know of the top of their head.

I don't think I would keep the scenery if no military planes go to Wake anymore. And I know John made a AI pack for the scenery, but I like to keep my FS2004 like the real world, so if no planes go to Wake in the real world then no planes go to Wake in my sim.

Joseph, I don't know of any of our packages that use Wake to transit aircraft back and forth.

Since 1974, Wake Island has served as a launch platform for military rockets involved in testing anti-missile systems and atmospheric re-entry trials. As such, it would not be out of place to assume that military cargo and personnel transport planes do fly there - both regularly and irregularly.