Arrows Across America v2 update is now available
Our update is now ready and includes:
- our original Contract Air Mail 5 (CAM5) route from Salt Lake City, UT to Pasco, WA** but with new and improved models and lighting (59 beacons)
- the CAM32 route from Portland, OR to Spokane, WA using the new models and lighting (33 beacons)
- the additional lighting for CAM32’s 25 mile stretch through the Columbia River Gorge, east of Portland, with beacons positioned to allow air mail pilots to fly under the low cloud and fog that frequently blankets the gorge
- the northernmost section of CAM8 from Portland, OR to Seattle, WA , using the new models (17 beacons)
- eleven Intermediate Landing Fields (ILFs) along the airways; located, laid out and lit according to their descriptions in the official Airway Bulletins, making it possible to fly shorter sections of the CAMs (or land in an emergency)
- Hangars with internal parking spaces and animated, controllable doors on four of the ILFs
- terraforming and tree felling to ensure that arrows and beacons are visible in the modern landscape
- a CSV file for building your own flight plans
- KMZ reference files for each of the routes
- a 32 page illustrated manual with information about the CAM system and the air mail pilots, the different elements of the addon, suggestions of what to fly, links to the original sectional and strip maps and the 1931 weather overviews for the states we cover
All three routes are provided as a single file so you can fly uninterrupted along the three airways airways between Salt Lake City, Portland, Seattle and Spokane.
You can download the update from our flightsim.to page - Arrows Across America: fly the US Air Mail routes 1926 » Microsoft Flight Simulator
And don’t forget that we also have @Megadyptes7635 Varney Air Lines liveries (operator of our CAM routes) for the DC Designs Stearman available at Stearman PT-17 Varney Air Mail » Microsoft Flight Simulator
We would love to hear your feedback and see screenshots of your air mail runs.
Varney Air Lines Stearman at KCZK Cascade Locks Intermediate Landing Field, CAM32