Description:
This landscape is based off a non-published scenery developed for Condor v1 of the Northeast by a former club member from my local gliding club. The primary purposes are for primary student training as well XC training for pilots for members of my local gliding club. This is why most of the detail has been focused around Sterling Airport (3B3), the home airport for the local club (GBSC - Greater Boston Soaring Club).
Terrain elevation data is derived from the 1/3rd arc-second DEM 3DEP data supplied by the USGS. The raw data was merged and warped to the UTM19 coordinate system, and scaled to a resolution of 30m with integer meter precision.
Textures are derived from the USDA Farm Service Agency NAIP 4-band images. The 4th band (near-infrared) was also used to help generate water alpha maps, as well as combined with red/green bands to generate thermal maps.
Tree canopy coverage maps were derived from the 2016 USFS Tree Canopy Cover raw data. There have been a couple touch-ups to the coverage map around Sterling Airport, but otherwise the forest maps are coming from the raw canopy cover data after projection and scaling to the proper resolution for the landscape. This means there will be some inaccuracies like stray trees here and there that will require manual touch-up (but for most purposes, is just a cosmetic issue).
3D models were either made by me or sourced from freely licensed online sources (e.g. the Condor assets library).
Only Sterling airport has been "fully" modeled with asphalt and 3D objects. Some other local airports have been modeled with asphalt and objects. All other airports have been untouched in terms of models, however the terrain has already been flattened to facilitate easy updates to the scenery without having to update the base scenery files (patches will just include the airport G/O .c3d files).
I'll happily accept donations at my e-mail address (see Paypal button), but I want to be clear I don't expect any and am primarily maintaining this landscape for my local club's purposes (i.e. happy to do the work for free in my spare time, but am not guaranteeing anything in terms of quick responses to updates, etc.). I'd also happily welcome other developers to help maintain the landscape as well (develop new airport models, touch up forest and thermal maps, etc.). I currently have the landscape maintained in a local SVN repository on my computer, and would be happy to publish it if someone were to be able to provide hosting (a tall order, due to some of the large filesizes), which would make collaborative development very straightforward.
8,255.18 m. by LSanyika on December 16th, 2022. 8,144.06 m. by HarryHN1 on August 7th, 2020. 4,883.07 m. by BC1 on August 12th, 2020.
Longest fly (duration):
2h 29m 19s by Eric t on February 27th, 2025.
Longest fly (distance):
175 km by Eric t on February 27th, 2025.
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Title
Filename
Total downloads
File size
New England 1.1
NewEngland_main_1.1.7z
623
93.25 MiB
Patch 1.0 -> 1.1 New airport: 7B2 (Northampton, MA)
on December 16th, 2022.
HarryHN1 
