Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Mary River CMR2 on Baffin Island in Nunavut Canada

Images related to this file:

• mary_river-1.jpg
• mary_river-2.jpg

File Description:
This is a very early version of an airfield in Nunavut built to serve an iron ore mine some 100 miles south of Pond Inlet on Baffin Island. In 2004 the airstrip was just being built, with a very basic camp set up for the construction crew who then went on to develop the roads etc in the immediate area. The original plan was for an opencast mine, with ore being transported south on a new (and expensive) railroad link to a new port on the south shore of Baffin Island. This plan was later changed to a (much cheaper) road to Milne Inlet, north of Mary River. And there my story rests, as although production has now started I have no further information about the operating mine. Nolinor currently flies regular supply flights into the camp; the AI here is for the early days. The gravel runway is 4,800 feet long and 150 feet wide, aligned 124T-304T as all runway headings in the north are given as true rather than the unreliable magnetic, which would be 12-30. Runway lighting and PAPI was installed early on and is included here; signage is not and the apron is the early version.

Filename:	mary_river.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	18th August 2018, 02:57:19
Downloads:	129
Author:	Roger Wensley
Size:	5.04 MB