oil platforms at sea

[bab2150]

Does anyone know if FS2002 or2004 have any oil platforms to land on? Or where I can find some to install? Thanks.

[gw]

One I have seen in the default scenery is in Alaska.  Take off from Nome (PAOM) and follow the coast west for a few miles.

gw

[Galactic_eyes]

If I remember right, there was one off the coast of Texas.

[JRoc]

There's also one about 25 nm south of Dallas, if I remember correctly.

[Fly2e]

Hi Bab2150!

There is a real nice add on here at simV that puts about 50 oil rigs off the coast of Venezuela! They blow smoke and are various different structures! It is very challenging. Get it Here, it is defiantly what you are looking for!
Top of the page....

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004scenery14.htm

Dave

[wji]

The Alaskan oilrig is 250 deg from Teller, AK


http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bai/fly/oilrig.jpg

bill

[stevewilson]

I have the rig that wji shows, used afcad2 and placed a hard surffice at the hilo pad, works great.

[afi0yz]

"  There's also one about 25 nm south of Dallas, if I remember correctly."


where is the ocean that close to dallas?

[JRoc]

I might have wrote that wrong. Anyways, it's in the gulf of Mexico.  In the Scenery section of the learning center it tells you where that is, plus more detailed scenery.

[Woodlouse2002]

I would look in the North Sea. Then again, knowing M$ there's probably nothing there.

[bab2150]

Thanks for the help, now I have a new problem-my scenery goes sky blue on me all the time (on the ground) in large patches for FS 2004 also my frame rates are slow after installing several new aircraft (especially the super hornet F-18 ).
My computer is a sony vaio pentium 4 2.52 gig with 512 RAM & 2- 100 gig hard drives. The partition used for my Flight sims (CFS-2, 2002 prof, and 2004) is 86 gigs, shouldn't that be enough to run one sim at a time without bogging down? (Video card is nvidia geforce4

[stevewilson]

bab:  I know that this is going to sound strange, but try installing fs9 on the other harddrive.  A fellow simmer was having similar problems and found out that his hard drive was going bad. Another thing might be your power supply.

Just fual for thought.

[muggimek]

There is also an add-on of danish oil rigs in the north sea...very nice if i may say so...think its named northseaoilrigs.zip.....

[krazyj]

hey muggimek

I have that installed but I've never been able to find it.. where do you fly from and do you have the coords for it..I'd love to see it since I work with some of the choppers who fly out there everyday  ;D so it would be nice to find it

thanx

[muggimek]

I have a map ref and a map...not highly detailed but it worked for me......Got an email? I