FS2004 Atlantic convoy

[michaelvader]

Hallo especialy for the scenery experts,

does any one know where I can find a (freeware) scenery which would simulate the atlantic convoys
in the northern atlantic aera which supplied the allies in WW II to great britain or murmansk?
Or if such a scenery does not exist would some one do such a little scenery (freeware and frame rate friendly)?
It would be nice to go with the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C.

Happy landings
Yours
Michael "Papi" Vader

 

[aeromed202]

It wouldn't be too hard to make something in ADE9 I would imagine, don't even have to be an expert. Create an airport at sea but just populate it with freeware ship objects. I could try it but not for a few weeks.

 

[Mick]

You could also take some pilotable ships, which are really aircraft with a very little altitude capability, like the liberty ship and other freighters and tankers from FS Shipyards and the Virtual Navy, and use Static Model Maker to turn them into scenery objects and place them at sea. You could use wake effects to simulate motion, like with Paul Clawson's carriers and battleships. That way you wouldn't have to clutter up your airports list with a non-airport. Or maybe you'd want to make a simple AFCAD with just a water start location, and maybe a navaid of some kind, so you could always find your convoy even if you had to cheat a little.

Actually, there are libraries of static ship scenery objects, but they're kind of basic, meant to be viewed from a distance. If you really want to get down there on the deck, like the Condors did before the convoys got catapult Hurricanes and more AA guns, it would probably be worth the extra step to convert the more detailed pilotable ships.

 

[Shessi]

Great idea Michael,
And yes lots of ways to do it.

If you want moving ships then a simple way is to use FS Recorder, record a ship, then replay adding more ships until you have a convoy, then play the final recording and 'attack' it with other ac. Not an elegant way, and time consuming, but an easy and relatively fast way of achieving it.

As Mick suggested, I had already put HMS Victorious off Norway, with wake effect and smoke, and a landable deck, for Barracuda and Helcat attacks on Tirpitz. Ok, so it's not moving, but looks good and is very usable.

Cheers Shessi

 

[Butcherbird17]

There is a package at either flightsim or avsim that Holger Sandmann did that has moving AI ships for fs9.
It also explains how and what you need to do it your self. Or come over to the dark side (FSX) and have
convoys or fleets of ships sailing the world.

Joe

 

[leuen]

You can't have AI ships crossing the Atlantic, it's absolutely to far. AI ship traffic works within a radius of about 45 n, not more. Furthermore all seas in FS9 aren't flat. So after some miles AI ship won't move stable and finally disappears. What is possible in FSX, isn't in FS9.

Bernard