Golden Wings?

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Is Bill and Lynn Lyons Golden Wings still available somewhere? I have re-installed FS2004 today, as there are far too many beautiful models which don't exist in FSX. As I mainly fly in the pre-war era, I was thinking to convert this fresh install into Golden Wings.

The links here ( http://www.goldenwings.info/ ) are very dead!

Help is very much appreciated,
Huub
 
i installed this a few days ago to give my warbirds a new home away from them vacuum cleaners on steroids, loving it so far!:salute:
 
Where are you planning to fly Huub? There are some nice additions to GW3 here at SOH, courtesy of messrs Donker & Elliott.
 
AndyG43 said:
Where are you planning to fly Huub? There are some nice additions to GW3 here at SOH, courtesy of messrs Donker & Elliott.
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Mainly in my own country and Great Britain therefore I will most probably install all stuff by Cees, Ian and Gary (Burns). For my Dutch fleet Waalhaven and Bergen will be their home base. The Germans will occupy Valkenburg and Schiphol. And the Brits and Americans will use the vintage UK scenery. But I saw some gems located at the other side of the ocean which are too good to leave out as well.

Thanks for your help,
Huub
 
No problem. Don't forget to check at Flightsim then as well, there are some goodies there too; Old Rhinebeck is a must, and John McKeon's Vintage London Airports pack, Brooklands, Croydon & Hendon. Happy flying .... and welcome back to FS9! :icon_lol::icon29:
 
Gold Wings is great, I installed it about a year ago and haven't loaded FS9 since. Also the sim runs faster and smoother without those giant airports and tubes flying everywhere. Don't forget the Waco factory and Florida Keys from the Old Hanger!
 
Up and running! I was forgotten how beautiful GW3 looks in autumn!

Thanks,
Huub

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Don't forget to install Golden Hawaii as well. It has full period scenery, a/c, including a blimp, and flights, and gets rid of the Arizona memorial. It's a good compromise to use in FS9 if you don't want a full GW3 install.
 
Yes, Golden Hawaii is a must for Golden Wings!

In a standard installation Golden Hawaii can be activated or inactivated, and when it's activated you lose New Zeqaland and I think Australia. It's possible to make a permanent installation of Golden Hawaii where you don't loase anything else.

Here's how:

First, delete any other Add-On Hawaii sceneries, including mesh. (You can put them back later if you want to.)

With Golden Hawaii active, go to the scenery\ocen\scenerytb folder and copy all BGLs EXCEPT those listed below into the scenery folder.

AB903230
AB904290
AB905240
AB905350
AB905380
AB905390
AB906240
AB906250
AP903230
AP904290
AP905240
AP905350
AP905380
AP905390
AP906240
AP906250
AT9OCEN1
BR9OCEN0
BR9OCEN1
FL903230
FL904290
FL905240
FL905350
FL905380


FL905390
FL906240
FL906250
FL986260
HL903230
HL904290
HL905240
HL905350
HL905380
HL905390
HL906240
HL906250
Honolulu
HP903230
HP904290
HP905240
HP905350
HP905380
HP905390
HP906240
HP906250
kilauea
NV9OCEN0
oahuTL
OB9OCEN0
RD903230
RD904290
RD905240
RD905350
RD905380
RD905390
RD906240
RD906250
 
On this side of the pond, might I humbly suggest two sceneries that David Wooster and I made: Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Massachusetts and Springfield Airport (home of the Granville Brothers and the Gee Bee racers.)

Also, John Sindstrom's series of US Navy blimp bases are very good.

Old Rhinebeck is a must, along with the AI package (separate releases.) Actually, Old Rhinebeck didn't exist in the pre-WW2 days of Golden Wings; it was created in the 1960s. But it sure fits right into Golden Wings. I have it in both my GW and more modern (early 1950s) installations, even though it's anachronistic in both of them.
 
Golden Wings question

I would like to ask a few, hopefully not too stupid questions here to demonstrate the depth of my lack of knowledge about FS9.

I'm running FS9 on a separate, external drive, in order to save space on the computer's primary drive. My installation there is called Flight Simulator 9. Would it be possible to run a GW-only copy of FS9 on the same hard drive by renaming it?

If this can not be done, the other solution is to go ahead and install the second copy of FS9 on the computer's primary drive. With GW installed in this 2nd copy of FS9, as the description says a lot of the larger airports disappear or are downsized - hence their system resource draw as a scenery object goes down. This will probably be negated in turn by installation of the new terrain mesh(es). I would like to install every vintage aircraft I have in my external "hangar" file into the GW edition of FS9, thus cutting down on the number of aircraft that would need to be installed and flown on the original FS9 - to be used by WWII-era and later aircraft. Does this sound workable?

Sounds like the RR41 add-on would be a natural for GW, with the exception of the ATC routes as these are WWII-era.

One last question - DC-3 Airways would be a natural add-on for FS9 GW. When I go to their site, to do anything at all, I'm told by my machine I have some problem with JavaScript, and I can not thereafter enter the site. Is there a fix for this?


Thanks
SSI01
 
Thanks for all the tips guys. Mick I already had downloaded your scenery, I already knew Springfield from my revious FS2004 installs.

Thanks for repairing the links Ickie! This site is the first link you will get when you google on Golden Wings 3 FS2004.

SSI01 I have standard FS2004 and GW3 installed on the same disk, even both in the same Microsoft games folder, without any problems. Just follow he instruction and it will work as advertised. I know people who have four or five installs.

I assume the Javascript are caused by an incompatible java version. Google on "javascript update" and you will find links to the required updates.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Rotterdam in Golden Wings....

(Waalhaven by Cees Donker and the Fokker D.XXI by Paul Straney (CFS2-beta!)


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GW3_a2.jpg
 
There's a lot of good stuff for GW3 at The Old Hangar. Plus look for Bill Lyon's Classic Aircraft for that time period at flightsim. You can also do a search at flightsim and avsim for the following: 20s 20's 30s 30's 40s 40's. If you want to include WW2 there's Operation Valkyrie at Lionheart Creations. It's really a complete program.
 
i'd be one with 4 or 5 FS installs :D

1. Bog Standard (Usually used for paints testing)
2. Spinny Things (Helo's & Props & Turboprops)
3. GW3
4. Fast Air (Modern Fast Jets)
5. Commercial Aviation

:icon_lol: gotta refine more... may need another....... :kilroy:
 
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