FSX / P3D scenery

FSX Midway Atoll (Midway Islands) Photoreal Scenery

Midway Atoll photoreal scenery brings Sand Island and Henderson Airfield (PMDY) to life in FSX with sharp 1 m/pixel ground imagery (LOD 15), an 8,000-foot runway suited to large aircraft, and straightforward taxiways. Basic airport autogen rounds out the remote Pacific stop once used for transpacific refueling.

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United States Minor Outlying Islands

Flight Simulator X Prepar3D

Midway Atoll (Midway Islands) Photoreal Scenery. Midway Atoll - or Midway Islands as it is often called - is a tiny atoll at the northwestern end of the Hawaiian Islands chain. It lies halfway between Asia and North America which made it an ideal refueling stop on transpacific flights. Henderson Airfield on Sand Island has an 8000 foot runway which is ideal for all kinds of heavy metal. Texture resolution is 1m/pixel (LOD 15). Package comes with a simple runway and taxiways and basic airport autogen. By Tiberius Kowalski.

How to install:

1) Close FSX.

2) Extract zip file to your hard drive, this will create the folder [MIDWAY_ATOLL]

3) Run FSX.

4) Go to "Scenery Library" and add folder [MIDWAY_ATOLL], click ok and scenery library will update automatically.

5) Now you can choose the airport Midway (PMDY) and off you go!

Settings:

1) default fsx mesh is enough.

2) set texture resolution to 1m/pixel.

How to uninstall:

1) Go to "Scernery Library" in FSX and delete [MIDWAY_ATOLL], click ok, scenery library will update automaticallly, then close FSX.

2) Delete folder [MIDWAY_ATOLL] from your hard drive.

Happy flying!!!

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File information

Filename

diego_garcia-1.zip

File size

17.23 MB

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Freeware

Content rating

Everyone

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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D scenery

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Place scenery in Addon Scenery

Create a folder under FSX\Addon Scenery\ containing scenery and texture sub-folders.
Activate in Scenery Library

In FSX, go to Settings → Scenery Library → Add Area. Higher priority means it overrides lower entries for the same location.
Always read the included readme

Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.

Finding the scenery

Use these coordinates to fly directly to this location once the mod is installed.

FSX / Prepar3D coordinates (or generate a flight plan)

28.20000000,-177.35000000

Decimal degrees

28.200000°, -177.350000°

Degrees, minutes, seconds

28° 11' 60.000" N 177° 20' 60.000" W

Launch FSX or Prepar3D and use Flights → Load to open the downloaded .pln file. Your aircraft will be positioned at this location.

What’s inside this archive

The archive diego_garcia-1.zip has 24 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

This list displays the first 500 files in the package. If the package has more, you will need to download it to view them.

Filename/Directory	File Date	File Size
MIDWAY_ATOLL	11.17.11	0 B
FILE_ID.DIZ	11.17.11	586 B
read me.txt	11.17.11	1.31 kB
scenery	11.17.11	0 B
CVX_MIDWAY_HYDRO.BGL	09.02.11	1.65 kB
CVX_MIDWAY_SHORELINES.BGL	11.07.11	830 B
CVX_MIDWAY_SHORELINES_EX.BGL	09.02.11	687 B
Midway.bgl	09.02.11	18.75 MB
PMDY.BGL	09.02.11	9.76 kB
texture	11.17.11	0 B
002020232330232an.agn	09.01.11	728 B
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002020232332003an.agn	09.01.11	472 B
002020232332010an.agn	09.01.11	1.54 kB
002020232332011an.agn	09.01.11	1.29 kB
002020232332012an.agn	09.01.11	496 B
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002020232332100an.agn	09.01.11	520 B
002020232332101an.agn	09.01.11	384 B
002020232332110an.agn	09.01.11	200 B
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B