TORONTO.SC1 - MSASD scenery file for Toronto, Ont.
TORPLUS.SC1 - Scenery File for the 'Golden Horseshoe', Oshawa, Toronto, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls.
TORONTO.DY1 - Dynamic scenery file for the same. Scenery elements in Toronto area only, but file can be used with TORPLUS.
Three FS4 Mode Files:-
MTHOPE06.MOD - Learjet on ground at Mount Hope (Hamilton) airport.
YYZ_RAMP.MOD - 747 at Terminal 1, Pearson (Toronto) International Airport.
T-ISLAND.MOD - Cessna 182 on Runway 26, Toronto Island Airport.
One Demonstation File:-
TORONTO.DEM - A sightseeing flight from Toronto Island. (With commentary).
The file you are now reading:- TORONTO.DOC.
Both of the SC1 files have been enhanced using EZC with SEE3. Neither of them had enough memory to do a complete enhancement but the smaller file looks
really good at night.
TORPLUS is basically the same file that is listed in MSAPP Library 15 under the name TORONTO.ARC. When I created this file I was unaware of the existanc of Scenery Disk 11 otherwise I would not have gone to so much trouble moving Lake Ontario so that I could place things at the correct Lat. and Long. I also did not know anything about the Flight Simulator activity in the Gamers Forum. Finally I did not know that I was, to some extent, duplicating the work of Mark Lyth, whose Toronto scenery file was uploaded nearly six months ago. In spite of this I decided to upload these two files for the benefit of anyone who does not have the Sublogic Scenery Disk.
To run these files you need Flight Simulator version 4.0 as well as the
Microsoft Flight Simulator Aircraft & Scenery Designer. Select Menu 1, Item
J (Scenery Designer) and ensure that the "Active" and "Autoload" settings are
ON for both Static and Dynamic Scenery. Next select option 0 (Configuration)
on the same menu. You will need the full 60,000 bytes for the static scenery
and 16K for dynamic. The default value of 20 Dynamic objects is sufficient.
The aircraft used for the three modes can be changed to your own preference
of course. T-ISLAND.MOD has most of the action - aircraft taking off and
landing in a very undisciplined manner, and a sailboat. If you reset Dynamic
Scenery (Menu 1,J,8) before starting this mode you will have a near miss with
an inbound 767. This only occurs if you maintain a heading of 250 degrees
with a climb rate of 500 fpm or so for about 2 minutes after takeoff.
The Hamilton area offers the Burlington Skyway bridge to fly under and the
Hamilton "Mountain" with a gorge to fly up or down if you follow Hwy. 6 to or
from Mount Hope Airport.
The Demo (Menu 1,H,) is for use with T-ISLAND.MOD. It works best with the Cessna or similar aircraft. If you use a jet or other high-performance type the stall warning will be sounding for most of the flight. If you have the TORONTO.SC1 file loaded when running the demo, a night flight (set your instrument panel clock before starting) is quite realistic, even beautiful in some parts. Some of the commentary refers to things only properly visible during the daylight hours.
This was my first attempt at scenery design, and I got somewhat carried away.
I put in so much detail in such a large area that the program runs rather
slowly. Part of the problem is that FS4's Lake Ontario has its shoreline
displaced by several miles. Consequently I had to relocate about 100 miles
of shoreline using Polygons. One result of this is that distant areas tend
to switch from land to water (or vice versa) as you approach them.
Most objects - Roads, Airfields etc., are accurately positioned. Runways,
taxiways (where shown), are reasonably accurate but radio navigation aids
were taken from the 1978 Toronto VTA chart and may well have changed since
then. Runway headings are only estimates or from memory (somewhat clouded
by the 13 years since I last flew.*) I took liberties with the colour of
buildings such as Control Towers and Hangers. These may not be accurately
positioned either. ILS facilities are purely my own invention, both as to
location and radio frequency, as are runway markings and lighting systems.
Radio Navigation facilities, and their approximate locations are as follows:-
TORONTO ISLAND Runway 08 109.0 MHz OSHAWA 391 43:53N, 78:55W
TORONTO ISLAND Runway 26 111.0 MHz ST. CATHARINES 408 43:09N, 79:15W
Comments or suggestions are welcome.
John Kelley
73670,3107
May 1st, 1991.
*I know the runway headings at Pearson are 10 degrees out, due to changes in the location of the Magnetic Pole, however the numbers I used are the ones I was used to, many years ago.
