OK, Big Creek Lodge is now "posted" for everyone to enjoy. You'll see the announcement in the NOTAMS. Along with it, be sure to download "Silt Lake Cabin" ...one of the first places to "fly to" from Big Creek Lodge. We will be making more small locations in this beautiful area.
This one was a bit tricky. It is at about 4300 feet altitude. When using IS3 for object placement, if you don't have something that rests on the ground, (elevating or de-elevating it), it shifts position when IS3 is "off". For instance, I usually put a fuel pump on a float plane dock. If I do that with this one, the pump is about 3 feet away, in the air from the dock. So you'll see, I've put the float plane fuel depot ON THE GROUND to the left of the amphib pullout. Not the way we usually do things, but necessary. I had a rotating beacon that looked great (using xml), except if you looked closely, the turning beacon was about 4 feet to the right of the tower it should be attached to. So no rotating beacon.
This complex will make a good "base" for this beautiful area that we are now exploring. You can get to this area from Vancouver, but it is a 90 mile flight. So we needed something more resident to this area for the shorter bush-type flights. There are a couple of airstrips about 35 miles away, both are relatively undeveloped in ORBX PNW. I'll probably look at fixing those up a little. One is a lodge (that isn't there). So lots of "fun" things to do in this new area. I apologize for PF61 being "outside" the ORBX PNW area (3 miles), but when you see the unique geography, you'll see why I chose this location for our hub in that area.
As an adjunct to Big Creek Lodge, I created Silt Lake Cabin to give us our first place to "fly to" from PF61. With the creating of PF61, we can start flights there now with the flight planner.
A special thanks to Norm Richards for looking over my shoulder on this one. Spud's computer is acting up so we didn't have his sharp eye for QC on these two ... but Norm and I did our best. We hope you enjoy the new locations.
PS Norm: the second windsock is on the point to the right as you leave the amphib pullout ... this for the floats that might not get up to the airstrip complex.