Excellent Question, the answer will be good for everyone. This is one of the
USFS cabins.
"USFS" is the key. If you go to the
USFS Cabins page (Misty's Place top buttons), when the pages comes up do a CTRL-F (Windows) and enter Josephine ... you will find the Josephine Lake USFS Cabin. It is in the Thorne Bay District table. Now look to the right at the
GREEN letter ... you will see it is a
"P" ... that means (from the legend at the top of the page) that it comes from ORBX PFJ ... built into the software, so if you have PFJ, there is no location to download and add.
The cabin object actually comes from
FTX_PFJ-objects-cabins_USFS.bglThis brings up another point. There are some MISSING USFS cabins (this is not one of them). So for anyone working with the cabins, it is always a good idea to download the
Missing Cabins.zip file at the top of the page for the Cabins. It is a quick download. When it is installed, you will have EVERY USFS cabin listed by the United States Forest Service. The Missing cabins have a
green "R" to the right of the title. Look in the top cabin table Admiralty National Monument and look at Big Shaheen (2nd one in the list). You will see the
green "R" to the right. That means RTMM put in that cabin and it is not one that comes with the ORBX software, it comes in the "
Missing Cabins.zip" file.
For the NewComers to RTMM, this is an example of the depth we have gone to for accuracy on the Cabins. Most people have no idea about the legend on the page or what those things mean. So this is a great "teaching" moment for folks flying to the cabins. And don't forget, every cabin has a To/From flight plan that is now included in the
RTMM Flight Plans.zip file. (
Here2There Page).
The Real World: The only way to get to many of these [real] cabins is by float plane. The "real" pilots up there are ferrying people back and forth from an airport or SPB to the cabins. People rent them and stay only a week or so. So PAKT harbor buzzes like a beehive during the summer with the many float planes taking people from Ketchikan out to the cabins and then bringing them back. With their blinking landing lights (for safety), the in-out patterns remind you of a busy commercial airport. Sitting on the deck of a cruise ship in the harbor watching, you'll see sometimes 5 or 6 planes in the pattern for landing and taking off ... very busy! For the Virtual Airlines pilots ... the "cargo" on these flights is PEOPLE and their supplies. These are flights that are actually happening up there every day in the summer. And, if you think about it, the flights go in nearly any weather. A person is staying at a cabin and is due to come back next Wednesday, the cabin is booked by a new person that Wednesday. Two parties are depending on the flight happening ... so they fly low and slow under the weather and make it happen. That's why it is always interesting to check the Misty's Place weather cams ... if the planes are lined up at the dock ... then don't even think about flying. But as bad as the weather is, during the day, they are not there ... they are out working IN the bad weather.
The Cabins make RTMM as real as it can get. Those flights are real, the cabins are real (clicking on the name of the cabin on the Cabins page takes you to that cabin's USFS site so you can see what the real one looks like). Another detail many don't realize is built into the Cabins page.
Heck of a long answer, but again, a great "training moment," and a great question that needs an in depth answer for the many new people we have coming on board. Thank you Spud.
PS: The whole internet was "flaky" last night. I was having problems uploading to the server, for some reason, Time Warner's internet service completely stopped during the President's speech! It looks better this morning, but the whole internet in the US had a bad evening. Sorry about the disruption, but I'm betting it was more than just our server.