OK, I've put the final touches onto the Escape from Misty Moorings package. There are now two parts to it:
1. Doug's Hawaii
2. Hawaii Tours
NOTE: The old "Doug's Hawaii" has been deleted. The "Doug's Hawaii for Pilots" has been renamed "Doug's Hawaii". Be sure to make changes in your scenery library. To avoid confusion, I would delete "Doug's Hawaii" and "Doug's Hawaii for Pilots". Eliminate them from your simulator's scenery library. Then add the new Doug's Hawaii and activate it. Sorry about that confusion, but it will be simpler in the long run.
I've put in special "Thanks you's" to Steve, Norm and Guy for their help while this VERY CONFUSING package was being created.
This is not an easy package to put in, there are many variants ... different sets of Hawaiian Airports, there is PhotoReal Hawaii and PhotoReal Hawaii Plus ... there are different meshes involved, etc. So installing this can be more difficult and PLEASE, if you are having problems, let us know so we can help you. The result is worth all of the effort.
I've been asked again the difference between Doug's Hawaii and Hawaiian Tours. Doug's Hawaii are actual locations (except for 2 that are fictional). I have personally been to many of the locations and using the photoreal, I was able to duplicate many of the ports fairly accurately. Doug's Hawaii are basically a set of ports where you can dock boats and ships, floats and amphibs. Except for Lono Harbor which is fictional and also on the coast, I did not do any airport work on the interior of any of the islands. So Doug's Hawaii depicts actual places, most you can land or dock at.
Hawaii Tours is meant as a "sight-seeing" scenery set. Again thanks to PhotoReal, we can "see" many special locations, but when we land on them, it is like landing on a 2 dimensional post card. I've put in objects in many of the key tourist sight-seeing locations so you can fly over them low and get a feel for where they are and generally what they look like. Although in many I've slipped in a helipad here and there, mostly, these locations are for low flyover only.
The only major location left out of these two is The Punchbowl. This is an important (and beautiful) tourist site and I will continue to try to make it happen. But most of the rest of the sites are there for you to see. So if you are going to visit Hawaii, you can get a "feel" for where things are. And if you never visit, this will be as close to the real thing as you can get.
Enjoy ... Aloha
Doug
