ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL SCENERY
FOR FS98

BY IAN STANDFAST & NICK CANNING


Introduction

Many of you will already be aware of Ian Standfast's excellent FS helicopter
models which have appeared on Compuserve & various selected Internet sites. I
first came across his work while I was doing some research for the Helicopter
Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) Team at the Royal London. He had created a 
very detailed model of the Dauphin helicopter which the HEMS team use. Once 
FS98 came out and vertical take offs & landings became possible I thought it 
would be a good idea to re-create the actual hospital complete with helipad. 
After several months of hard work by the pair of us, here it is, we hope you 
enjoy it as much as we do.

Installation

Simply create a directory called RLH anywhere you like, I've created a FSSCENE 
directory away from my FS98 program to make life easier. Place the enclosed 
zip file in the new directory & unzip it as normal. You should get scenery & 
texture subdirectories.

Now start FS98 and make sure that you have the default Europe Scenery active. 
It is possible to use this scenery with other 3rd party scenery products but 
in my experience the helipad altitude needs to be changed. Chuck Dome has 
created an excellent product called ELEVAT for doing this.

Click on World from the menu at the top of the screen, then Scenery Library, 
Files, Add & type in the full path to the new scenery (mine is 
D:\GAMES\FSSCENE\RLH\SCENERY\*.BGL). Give the scenery an appropriate name and 
make it Local. Finally click on OK.


Now go to Arrange Layers and make sure that the RLH scenery layer is lower 
than the FS98 default europe scenery layer.

Your installation is now complete. When flying around London I would recommend 
that the denser you can set the scenery the better but obviously this can 
adversely affect simulation speed.

Situations

2 Situations are enclosed, they both have STN extensions and should be copied 
to your FS98\PILOTS sub directory. The RLH situation should place you on the 
Royal London helipad. the DENHAM situation will put you outside the hangar 
where G-HEMS is serviced overnight. If you want to fly from Denham to the 
Royal London, your heading should be 108 degrees. There should be a moderate 
westerley wind blowing & you should try to land facing west to take advantage 
of it.

Things To Do

If you have ever seen the Royal London for real as I have you'll appreciate 
the excellent texture work that Ian has done on the main building and the 
Alexandra Wing (below the helipad). Fly round the hospital & check it out.

If you go to the north end of the QE2 bridge at Dartford (N51:28:53.24 
E00:15:35.60) you will see a road traffic accident involving three lorries 
which has caused a standard M25 tail back. Fly from the Royal London to the 
accident scene & pick up all 4 casualties within one hour (this requires 2 
trips as the Dauphin can only carry 2 stretchered patients).

Have you ever tried landing on the pitch at Wembley Stadium (N51:33:23.6 
W00:16:36.00)? This requires scenery to be Dense or higher. Try this scenario:

It's the 1998 FA Cup Final & one of the players has suffered a suspected neck 
injury (I won't name names in case I appear biased, suffice to say that I'm a 
Geordie so it wasn't Alan Shearer!!!). The player can't be moved in case 
further injuries occur & you have been scrambled to help. You must land inside 
the ground & return to the Royal London and land on the helipad as smoothly as 
possible.

Forthcoming Attractions

I've written several adventures which Ian has kindly tested for me. They 
include the missions already mentioned but use actual live HEMS sound files. 
Unfortunately the sound files are over 5MB (Zipped) so it's not really 
practical to upload them. I'm looking at ways of making them smaller. If 
there's enough interest in the HEMS scenery etc, we'll do our best to get the 
adventures uploaded. Watch this space.

Credits

Firstly I'd like to thank Ian Standfast for his help with this project. I've 
learned a lot about scenery & aircraft design from him.

I'd also like to thank the HEMS team, particularly David Gurney (HEMS Pilot), 
for their support & co-operation & for a few memorable journeys into London 
aboard the Dauphin.

Finally I'd like to thank the guys at Apollo software for their Scenery & 
Object Designer, Flight Simulator Flight Shop and their newly released FSWOW 
airport scenery enhancer. I'd also like to thank the guys at Kikiware for 
their excellent PREFAB product which allows buildings to be created using 
Flight Simulator Flight Shop.

Enjoy!!

Nick Canning		nickcanning@compuserve.com
Ian Standfast		106071,2027@compuserve.com