Introducing CAX6 Ganges Water Aerodrome

[Larry_R 694]

Can’t afford to visit Ganges, a delightful town on Saltspring Island in British Columbia?  Here’s your chance and it’s free. Over 70 buildings and building complexes in the town are modeled, many with high resolution textures, and many authentic on all sides.

 Ganges is the home of Salt Spring Air so naturally there is a static model of their DHC2. In addition Salt Spring Air repaint textures for the default DHC2 are included in an Extras folder. Guess what; they are free too. 

Ganges is also home of Canadian Coast Guard Station Ganges and the Canadian Coast Guard Cape Class vessel Cape Naden. An AI version of this boat is modeled in great detail. (Thanks much to forum member Réal Déraps  for his technical assistance. Réal serves aboard a CCG Cape Class vessel.)  A Gulf Islands AI water taxi that goes to Port Washington is also included.

About this project: the late Jon Patch (Vancouver Plus, Victoria Plus, etc) and I were working on Ganges as a follow-on to Victoria Plus for Orbx PNW at the time of his death. I decided then I would do Ganges in my own style in his memory. I hope Jon would have liked the result.

And now a few screenshots which should give you a feel for the place:

 

[Jack Sawyer 40,371]

Oh my gosh!  This is simply beautiful Larry.  What wonderful work, thank you!  I will be downloading it as soon as I get a chance.  I'm thrilled!

[BamaKevin 10]

Looks great Larry!  

[Gerhard 6]

Hi Larry, I am totally impressed! That really looks great. Can't wait for the download.

[pmb 1,001]

Jon would be certainly happy to see this. I just re-installed Van+ and Vic+ into my new system, now looking forward to add this jewel. The Greater Vancouver region is getting better and better.

 

Thanks and kind regards, Michael

[Sniper31 3,984]

Stunning Larry, stunning! Amazing detail and so many little loving details. Great work!

[Jordan King 235]

A worthy tribute to a worthy man such as Mr. Patch. You have done well Larry! 

[paddler 360]

Incredible, simply wonderful! Jon would indeed be happy.

[Dom Mason 27]

Wouah looks good. and totally new artistically. Gives a true realism.

Dom Mason

 

[Jack Sawyer 40,371]

How do we get this?  I just now had a chance to turn on the PC, start FTX v3 and I don't see it listed.  Is it still a work in progress?

 

Thanks.

[TigerTigerM 7,333]

Phenomenal level of detail.

Payware standard +.

A fitting tribute.

TTM 

[Larry_R 694]

4 hours ago, Jack Sawyer said:

How do we get this?  I just now had a chance to turn on the PC, start FTX v3 and I don't see it listed.  Is it still a work in progress?

 

Thanks.

Thanks so much guys.  One of the buildings uses some of the texture Jon was working on, so there is a little bit of Jon in the project beyond his spirit.  Jon is responsible for this in another way too; he was the one who convinced me to post some of my stuff.  I had been doing for myself, just for fun. I still do it just for the pleasure of creating something.

Jack,  barring any showstoppers that I can't solve,  Ganges should be available through OrbxDirect soon.  As for exactly when, your guess is as good as mine. For those who have not installed freeware with OrbxDirect,  think of it as payware where the price is 0.00 AUD.  Add it your account and then install with FTXC3. It's almost  too easy. Just kidding JV!

[Jack Sawyer 40,371]

11 minutes ago, Larry_R said:

Thanks so much guys.  One of the buildings uses some of the texture Jon was working on, so there is a little bit of Jon in the project beyond his spirit.  Jon is responsible for this in another way too; he was the one who convinced me to post some of my stuff.  I had been doing for myself, just for fun. I still do it just for the pleasure of creating something.

Jack,  barring any showstoppers that I can't solve,  Ganges should be available through OrbxDirect soon.  As for exactly when, your guess is as good as mine. For those who have not installed freeware with OrbxDirect,  think of it as payware where the price is 0.00 AUD.  Add it your account and then install with FTXC3. It's almost  too easy. Just kidding JV!

Thank you Larry, you're very kind to share this with us and I really appreciate it.  I will look every day on my FTX3 and when I see it I'll get it. And it is a lot easier than FTX2 in my opinion.

This is some really wonderful work here, I was looking through the screens and it was like I was a tourist there.  My wife loved it, we just sorta walked around end enjoyed being in the moment.  She now wants to visit it in real life someday.  It's a charming little village.

[BrianV 468]

A beautiful tribute to Jon as well as a outstanding gift from Larry. A wonderful transformation suited for exploration with seaplanes. Hopefully we will soon have a new Beaver to explore it with.

[Vora 172]

Wonderful work, Larry. Jon would have loved this, I'm sure.

Halfway between Nanaimo and Victoria harbor. Perfect. I assume that's no coincidence.

[andy1252 2,680]

Simply beautiful. Wonderful piece of work and a fine tribute. Thank you for this, Larry. A fine region keeps on getting better.

[real 5]

Wow! Beautiful. i'll install it as soon as it's released.

[gregmorin 1,721]

Simply Amazing!

 

Thank you Larry!

 

Greg

[Ripcord 930]

4 hours ago, BrianV said:

A beautiful tribute to Jon as well as a outstanding gift from Larry. A wonderful transformation suited for exploration with seaplanes.

 

+1 here.  Thank you Larry.

 

[billhuntsman 15]

It is gorgeous!  Thank you, Larry.  Your (and Jon's) scenery have certainly transformed this area.

 

 

[RobdeVries 29]

Thanks Larry and Jon. Love your work!

[Hangar200 8]

The textures for the runways are outstanding!

 

Seriously, simply fantastic!

 

[Bermuda425 3,776]

Are we still talking about flight simulation?

[Larry_R 694]

Maybe some real life shots taken from near the end of the seaplane dock  would help.

[Scott Harmes 1,859]

Just incredible Larry.  Fantastic effort and thank you in advance.  I'm sure Jon would have loved it too.  Your eye for detail and ability to recreate it in the sim is astonishing.  I have to agree with Bermuda's comment above.  This scenery is much too special to just fly over.  I will be spending quite a bit of time walking around and admiring the details up close also.

 

Cheers,

 

 

[Ziggy 547]

Wow Larry! You are way to good to us!

This looks absolutely amazing, such a beautiful area to replicate 

 

Cheers

Greg Z

[Steve Colbert 596]

Looks gorgeous, Larry!

 

You contribute much to this hobby and I think of you and your gifts to us every time I fly over one of your ferries or terminals.

 

Can't wait for this....

 

Steve

[VH-KDK 35,669]

Too good for freeware, astounding realistic shots.

Many thanks for this, you are going to make a lot of simmers very happy.

[hkterry 69]

Hi Larry

Thanks for you freeware. 

 

[antonvs 335]

Thank you in advance Larry, a fitting sequel to Nanaimo.


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[Chuckers 11]

I'm speechless.  Your work is impeccable.  Absolutely beautiful.  The fact that you offer it as as a tribute to Jon Patch is touching. Jon is definitely smiling down on how realistic your projects look.  It's difficult to tell the difference from the simulator pictures and the real world pictures, until you see the people in the real world pictures. The fact that you are offering the scenery for free is greatly appreciated.  I would pay cash for them.  Thank you for making it available to us!

 

As a side note, I took a flight in FSX last night from Victoria to Vancouver in a float plane.  I love making these type flights when I can do them.  Your work is making me continue to use FSX, because I don't have a good float plane in P3D.  I cannot wait for this product to be released.  

[taruhanbola 0]

 

like Real Very beautiful you can deserve respect

[cabnz 108]

Beautiful - Thank you

[hdiallo 1]

Simply terrific and what a beautiful tribute!

 

Best.

 

Thank you!!!

[Nirgal76 27]

A beautiful tribute for the lovely man Jon was.

 

[Eeros 16]

Lovely, thank you very much!

[matrax2 0]

On 6-12-2016 at 3:01 AM, Larry_R said:

Maybe some real life shots taken from near the end of the seaplane dock  would help.

First of all a very big thank you to the developers and for making it freeware. My old FS days are back! Rediscovered some old waterplanes and got them working in P3D v3.4. Even the good old Beaver, the A2A Cub, the Carenado C185, the C172 and the U206g. Last one is my favorite, because the others exept the Beaver are underpowered. Also the Ozx Goose is nice, but difficult to maneuver in the water. For the Beaver you need to change the panel cab file, found how to this on the Aerosoft forum. There are quite a few waterbases in the area I didn't know. Found them with Google Earth and kmz file, they can be recognized by the green colored symbol. 

Thanks for the pictures too, almost the same...

[bernd1151 2,702]

First of all a huge thank you again for this, Larry and I am sure that Jon would have approved

 

On 5.12.2016 at 3:11 AM, Larry_R said:

One of the buildings uses some of the texture Jon was working on, so there is a little bit of Jon in the project beyond his spirit.  Jon is responsible for this in another way too; he was the one who convinced me to post some of my stuff.  I had been doing for myself, just for fun. I still do it just for the pleasure of creating something.

 

I had to smile when I read this, Larry. I remember quite well that a few years ago Jon had posted on his private blog (that I had subscribed to after having bought his sceneries), that he has a guy working on some stellar sceneries. But he had yet to convince this man to upload this scenery somewhere. I had then asked him, whether he would be willing to share the name of this person, so that we could approach him very carefully in order to convince him too. But Jon answered that he was not allowed to share that person's name with anyone. He would continue to work with the guy and hopefully one day he would have convinced him to share his work. That person was of course you, Larry 

 

Jon was a wonderful man and I guess that we all here are extremely greatful that you share your fine work with us.

[FireRx 252]

Man, I want it now  

Masterpiece , Larry, Bravo!

[Larry_R 694]

Thanks so much for the further comments guys. It should not be too long now; the right stars just need to come into alignment. Thanks for the story Bernd. I really do miss Jon. He was good at things I am not, and to some extent vise versa.