Salmon Creek Hydro - By Thomas Menzel
Thomas has finished Salmon Creek Hydro. It is "up" on the site for QC. You will be amazed at the detail in this one too. When you look at the little stone walls, and piles of boulders ... each one is sized, rotated and placed, and usually placed perfectly adjacent to one attaching to it. On many of these, you have to also set the individual objects' altitude from the ground. A tedious process. In this one there is almost a little garden at the base of the dam with some wonderful little bridges and hiking areas, even a little campsite. (see screenshot). As you follow the stream down, you will be able to see glimpses of the penstock, and the creek is "riverscaped." The actual hydro facility is perfectly blended into the little town down by our recent medical center. This is really a great example of attention to detail with the eye of an artist. (Well done, Thomas!).
This was the last plant remaining to "place" into our APP set. We ask anyone interested to download the APP and give it a final checkover for Quality Control. With this kind of detail, we can have errors. So please point out anything out of place you may see.
Next ....
I'll now go to work on the dispatches. I'll be flying each one, using the float plane and will give a bit of a commentary for float planes. Corbu is going to give me some wording that will help the heli pilots on approaching and taking off from the various helipads. Again, any/all of you are welcome to add a comment or two to the dispatches. We'll keep them very simple, but we also want them useful.
Once we are OK on QC and the dispatches are finished, I'll put the final touches on the Web Page. I'll move the construction log to the very bottom of the page so we can keep it for historical purposes. The top "Under Construction" table will be eliminated and the zip button for downloading (introduction table will become linked and the link at the bottom of the log will be deleted). I'll be putting some final touches onto the readme document for the whole project. Robert P is going to be making a "trailer" video to advertise APP. So the team will have (1) link to APP, (2) link to Readme.doc (3) link to trailer movie. We can then offer these on the many sim forums so people can "come and get it."
As I look at these, there is no way you are going to be able to appreciate them from a float plane. The heli folks will be able to see a lot more of the detail. So I think, in the readme, I'll put something about getting out of the aircraft and "slewing around" to view the details that are in each of these. The "hours" are in the details ... and there is a lot to see that you cannot see from 1200 feet.
If any of you have ideas on how to present this to the flight sim community, we are listening. I'll have the "links" package posted here so anyone can grab the "advertising" and take it to their special forum.
Home stretch . . . . .
Doug
