I KNOW I KNOW,the real Hettinger ranch isn’t looks like this,but I just can’t stop myself to building up on such a nice place.BASE ON REALITY,BIGGER THAN REALITY is what a simulation needs to be.
Hettinger ranch,Idaho,located at the south fork salmon river,4 miles north of McClain ranch,east end of Smith creek,elevation approx 2845ft,split as north side and south side ranch by smith creek,runway located at the north side,turf,and the main ranch is located at the south side,steep hills are all around the ranch place.
Anyway,the terrain roads vegetation river are made as close as possible to the real look,and the basic structure of the ranch is correct.I didn’t shape any custom 3D models to copy the real buildings looks,because I’m not efficient for 3D modeling,and as you might know it’s gonna cost a lots of time and patience,as my first freeware addon I prefer finishing it more than perfecting it.For your convenience and lower the performance drop,most of the buildings and items are picked in the fs base libraries and those world update libraries,just a little of them are picked in 3rd party libraries,I’ll listed out what libraries you need in the end of description.
I also drew a airport facility chart for it(included in the file package),made as the same format as official does,it might help to planning your trip there.
Below are what I did in the ranch:
1.Create a fiction ICAO code:IDHT;
2.Terraforming north side and south side ranch area;
3.Nearby south fork salmon river terraforming and elevation fix;
4.Roads network rebuild and vegetation rebuild around the ranch;
5.Paths and vegetation rebuild inside the ranch;
6.Replace all the buildings inside the ranch(see the notes above about buildings and items);
7.Build up some fiction ranch project such as horse barn,abandoned fish farm,several huts etc,even some of them are fiction,but you will not gonna have any unnatural feels.However,the real hettinger ranch is simple and clear;
8.Night lighting all around the ranch,you will see much better and clear when at dawn and dusk;
9.Add a hidden strip at south side ranch,hard and fun,only available for skillfully pilot;
10.Draw a airport facility chart in official format;
11.And there’re more details waiting for you to find out!
To see all the buildings and items,you need to have couples of 3rd party libraries installed,they’re listed below:
1.BeeKay Pack1;
2.Mikea.at-AssetPack;
3.PBK Effect Library.
It still works fine even if you don’t have them,but just gonna missed some of the items and smokes.
Thank you for downloading my first addon,please please let me know what you think and how you feel about it,can’t wait to see your comments!
Excellent! What a challenging approach. I've been flying it for the last hour. Here is a youtube link to this airstrip. It's amazing to watch!
https://youtu.be/n3L4LQLGJlA
1 years ago
Thank you,much appreciated it.
1 years ago
FlyPig_Ricky
jcs89
Great job! This is now one of my top 10 places to visit and "try" to land at. LOL. Challenging indeed!
1 years ago
Thank you,have a good trip there.
1 years ago
FlyPig_Ricky
thx1169
Used this to start my stream from tonight and I have to say I am very impressed! Very well done!
1 years ago
Thanks for your kind words,much appreciated it!Enjoy your flight!
1 years ago
FlyPig_Ricky
Splasher6
beautiful place 😍 and horses would do well to add some cowboys maybe dave's people but i'm not sure if they are there but it would be very nice. i see all bildings normal. thanks for your work. I think I saw a similar place on the internet, Britten Norman lands there. but I'm not sure. maybe just the same place. anyway. interesting place. you have to be a local forester to land here. very well hidden.
1 years ago
Good idea, I’ll have a little try on it,thank you for comment,please give it a rate if you like it.
1 years ago
FlyPig_Ricky
ardeeff
Hi, I have some buildings missing. The requisite libraries are in place so I guess you are 'borrowing' the shacks from another airport that I do not have active in community folder. Do you know which airport?
1 years ago
hello,can you please provide the building location which you’re missing?
aside those 3rd party libraries,rest of them I’m using fs-base/Microsoft-lib/asobo c53 lowerloon creek/asobo wx53.
ill double check them again once I got your feedback,thanks for your comment.
1 years ago
FlyPig_Ricky
davidvance