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| Cordova Smith PACV & Municipal CKU in Alaska US |
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Cordova is on the south coast of Alaska, around 150 miles east of Anchorage and 45 miles south of Valdez. The town is mainly built on a small but relatively flat area between the east side of Prince William Sound and Eyak Lake, and has a population of around 2,350 in 2010, the approximate date of this scenery.
The Municipal Airfield CKU is on the north side of Eyak Lake to the east of Cordova, with the runway that is 1,800 feet of unlit gravel squeezed between the lake and the road that runs around the lake. The hangars and parking aprons are reached by taxiing across, and to some extent along, the road. Float planes are also taken from the lake to an apron to the west of the runway.
Cordova Airport PACV (named in the real world "Merle K. (Mudhole) Smith", and I will leave you to research this) is known as Cordova Smith in FS9 and is 10 miles to the east of the town on relatively flat ground between mountains to the north and the sea to the south. The runway is 8,080 feet of lit asphalt aligned 09-27 with ILS on runway 27 and VASI on both ends. The aprons are to the north side of the runway and are reached by back-taxiing; there are no taxiways parallel to the runway. The main apron serves Alaska Air via the western of two taxiways. The GA parking and hangars are mainly reached by using the eastern taxiway, though there is in fact a connecting taxiway between the two (for GA, but definitely not for airliner use). The taxiway further to the west serves the separated Alaska Coastguard apron and hangar, which is mainly for helicopter use. There is a nominally grass runway 1,900 feet long and aligned 16-34 to the south of the main runway; in fact it appears to be more gravel than grass. I have left this inactive as otherwise AI Alaska Air planes would be attempting to use this when the wind made it seem like a good idea.
The AI includes Alaska Air (twice a day) and also Coastguard helicopters, along with GA.
| Filename: | Cordova_Smith_PACV__Municipal_CKU_in_Alaska_US.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 22nd January 2022, 21:53:03 |
| Downloads: | 148 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 16.93 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Haines Junction CYHT in Yukon Territory Canada |
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Haines Junction is a village in the Yukon Territory, Canada, amid the Rocky Mountains and around 80 miles west of Whitehorse. It is sited at the junction of the Haines Highway and the Alaska Highway, hence the name. The village was established in 1942 when the Alaska Highway was under construction, and the Haines Highway was built over the Chilkat Pass to connect to the town of Haines on the Alaska coast.
The date of this scenery is, as usual, around 2010. At that time there was a regular service (not always a daily one, depending on the time of year) by Yukon Air North, and in this case it is by an ATR 42-300. There is a helicopter company based at the airfield, Trans North Helicopters, and there is also Kluane Glacier Air Tours, which, as the name suggests, takes you to a glacier so you can stroll around on ice. And then brings you back. The gravel runway is 5,000 feet long and aligned 04-22, and is lit, with PAPI at both ends. Right hand circuits are required for runway 04 as the terrain is not flat.
This post will be followed by two other airfields to the northwest, Silver City and Burwash, both of which are on or close to the Alaska Highway.
| Filename: | Haines_Junction_CYHT_in_Yukon_Territory_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 22nd January 2022, 21:53:16 |
| Downloads: | 117 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 20.46 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Silver City CFQ5 in Yukon Territory Canada |
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Silver City is a ghost town in the Yukon Territory, Canada, amid the Rocky Mountains and around 35 miles northwest of Haines Junction. It is on the southern end of Kluane Lake and in the Kluane National Park and this probably explains it's (minimal) survival after what appears to have been the shutdown of mining for silver. There is little information readily available. The date of this scenery is, as usual, around 2010. There was no recent regular service by Yukon Air North or any other airline, and the primary user of the airfield adjacent to the lake is a company called Icefield Discovery Tours. Their activity is probably very similar to the company at Haines Junction and involves trips to the National Park amid mountains and glaciers. There is also another organisation at the airfield, the Kluane Lake Research Station of the Arctic Institute. They have four buildings there but it is unclear how much aerial activity they generate, or if in fact they fly at all for their work. The runway is 3,000 feet of unlit gravel, aligned north-south. This post will be followed by Burwash, which is at the far northwestern end of the lake. There is no video of the Silver City airfield on Youtube, and it is not the most exciting airfield in the world, but the location is enough in real life for a visit to be made. On YouTube there is a series of posts by Angle of Attack showing the preparation and then the flight of an old Cessna 172 from Homer to Oshkosh for the installation of modern instruments. Interesting for me as they visit or fly over airfields I have made: Homer, Merrill, Tok Junction, Burwash, Silver City, Haines Junction, Watson Lake, Fort Nelson, and Grande Prairie. But they fly in the winter so it all looks very different.
| Filename: | Silver_City_CFQ5_in_Yukon_Territory_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 22nd January 2022, 21:57:41 |
| Downloads: | 97 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 9.86 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Burwash CYDB in Yukon Territory Canada |
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Burwash Landing is a very small village in the Yukon Territory, Canada, situated amid the Rocky Mountains at the northern end of Kluane Lake and some 30 miles from Silver City. The airfield, called just "Burwash" in the Nav Canada listing, is 2 miles northwest of the village and adjacent to the Alaska Highway. The runway is 5,000 feet of lit gravel aligned 10-19 and 130 feet wide, with VASI at each end. The date of this scenery is, as usual, around 2010. There is a company based at the airfield called Rocking Star Adventures, which is engaged in the same activity as the other companies at Haines Junction and Silver City, ie taking tourists around the glaciers of Kluane National Park. The park is very imressive from the air. The Ai was included with the Haines Junction post.
| Filename: | Burwash_CYDB_in_Yukon_Territory_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 22nd January 2022, 21:57:47 |
| Downloads: | 120 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 11.24 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Medicine Hat CYXH in Alberta Canada |
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Medicine Hat is a town in south Alberta, beside the South Saskatchewan River, and around 180 miles southeast of Calgary. Originally a railroad town, and in fact still served by the railway and now also by the Trans-Canada Highway, it is currently mainly known for the large natural gas fields in the area. As Rudyard Kipling said, Medicine Hat has "all hell for a basement". The name of the city is a translation of the Blackfoot tribal name for the eagle tail feather headdress worn by tribal medicine men, and it was curiosity about the name that first got my attention.
The date of this scenery is not 2010, as is usual for my scenery; it is more like 2015. The terminal building has been extended and improved, the apron around the two large southern hangars and the large rental hangars behind them is still visibly new, and the tie-down parking places on the grass accessed off one side of the old taxiway are in place and in use. The airport is now (2015) not in the busy usage that it experienced in the second half of the 1900's and old taxiways and a runway have been left to decay and large old hangars have been demolished. Hence the visible remains. The current runways were rebuilt (on top of the existing as foundations) and are 03-21 with 4,990 feet of lit asphalt 150 feet wide with PAPI at both ends, and 09-27 with 2,885 feet of lit asphalt 100 feet wide.
The two newish hangars to the south are a helicopter operating and maintenance company with a flight training school based in the adjoining offices (light grey buildings) and an FBO in hangar and offices (dark grey). Further buildings have been erected since then, and some existing ones have been reclad (eg. light grey now, in 2021, has a light blue roof).
I have cheated in one respect. In reality, the edges of the airport have been gradually utilised for various purposes, such as workshops, storage sheds, factories, etc, with access from the surrounding urban roads. As I have almost no information regarding their appearance I decided to leave the airport area as it was originally built, rather than incorporating buildings that I know are false. I admit that this was also the laziest solution.
The scenery includes a grass strip 3 miles to the south of Medicine Hat, namely Schlenker CFZ3. It is the only airfield I have come across where the fences are not around the edge of the airfield, they are instead around the runways and apron. I presume this is so animals can be left to feed off the grass in summer.
The AI includes flights by Air Canada Jazz.
| Filename: | Medicine_Hat_CYXH_in_Alberta_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 23rd January 2022, 20:11:10 |
| Downloads: | 142 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 19.15 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Fort Nelson CYYE in British Columbia, Canada |
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Fort Nelson is close to the Peace River in the northeast corner of British Columbia, around 70 miles from the northern border, 90 from the eastern border, and 80 miles east of the Rockies. The wartime construction of the Alaska Highway actually started from Fort Nelson, as there was already a road from Fort St John (which is close to Dawson Creek) north to Fort Nelson. The airfield was part of this construction effort and after the wartime ferrying of planes to Russia it was used by the US Army Air Force and then by the Canadian Air Force. Fort Nelson flourished with the oil and gas exploration of the 1950's and the following years, and this continued to grow until the collapse of the oil price in 2014.
The town of Fort Nelson became the capital of the Northern Rockies Regional District when it was founded in 2009, and as a result the official name of the Fort Nelson airport is the Northern Rockies Regional Airport. The date for this scenery is around 2016, by which time the economic fortunes of the town were in decline. Five times per day flights by Central Mountain Air were starting to be reduced in number to the current (in 2022) one per day and none on Sunday; in the AI included here there are two flights per day. The main resident users of the airport are four helicopter companies, the helicopters presumably used for maintenance trips to whatever parts of the oil and gas fields that are still in use in the surrounding area.
There are two runways, the main one is aligned 03-21, 6,400 feet long and 200 feet wide, with ILS at the southern end and PAPI at the northern. The second runway (a narrower rebuild on a previously existing runway) is aligned 07-25 and 77 feet wide, and is without any lights. These are the alignments as per the original build of FS9 and not as per the approximate 2016 date of the buildings; I had a problem at a very late stage in making this scenery which prevented me from continuing with some final details.
On YouTube there is a series of posts by Angle of Attack showing the preparation and then the flight of an old Cessna 172 from Homer to Oshkosh for the installation of modern instruments. Interesting for me as they visit or fly over airfields I have made (Homer, Merrill, Tok Junction, Burwash, Silver City, Haines Junction, Watson Lake, Fort Nelson, and Grande Prairie) but in the winter so it all looks very different.
| Filename: | Fort_Nelson_CYYE_in_British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 23rd January 2022, 20:11:18 |
| Downloads: | 187 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 28.35 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Bauchi, Nigeria - Bauchi State Airport - DNBC |
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Bauchi is missing in FS2004. The DNBA is the old airport is closed by now. New airport DNBC that I created new scenery.
| Filename: | Bauchi_Nigeria__Bauchi_State_Airport__DNBC.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 23rd July 2021, 01:31:35 |
| Downloads: | 164 |
| Author: | Stuart John John Gilbert II |
| Size: | 2.95 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Willmar, Minnesota - Willmar Municipal Airport - KBDH *UPDATED* |
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I was checking my stuff scenery and noticed that missing polygon at that airport. Sorry about that. I just added the VTPP polygon for KBDH hope you like this improved visual landing or approach to the airport.
| Filename: | Willmar_Minnesota__Willmar_Municipal_Airport__KBDH.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 25th July 2021, 16:21:12 |
| Downloads: | 70 |
| Author: | Stuart John Gilbert II |
| Size: | 1.46 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Dhahran Airport (OEDR), Saudi Arabia, 1954 |
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Dhahran Airport (OEDR)Saudi Arabia, 1954. With custom terminal buildings by Dan French and a military traffic file which recreates the U.S. military traffic of the period. Intended primarily for use in the California Classics world created by Tom Gibson and the CalClassics Community.
| Filename: | Dhahran_Airport_OEDR_Saudi_Arabia_1954.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 27th July 2021, 14:35:22 |
| Downloads: | 118 |
| Author: | Ken Lawson and Al Von Pingel |
| Size: | 12.61 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Seldovia PASO in Alaska US |
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Seldovia is a small airfield across the Kachemak Bay from Homer, 15 miles to the south. The runway is gravel and without lighting; the runway edges and the apron edges are marked by cones. The runway in real life is aligned 16-34 and is just over 1,800 feet, increased here to 2,200 feet to accomodate FS9 AI plane capabilities. The video is one of a series that are well worth watching and this one demonstrates the technique of short field landing and take off.
There is AI, with flights between Homer and Seldovia. I should mention here that the I can only make scenery to fit into my version of FS9, and probably your version is not exactly the same. Also, you may not have the planes that I have used for AI. Unfortunately I cannot cater for something I do not have myself. Homer PAHO will follow on from this post. If you find an error email me please, and note that my email address has been changed to rogwens at Gmail dot com.
| Filename: | Seldovia_PASO_in_Alaska_US.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 28th July 2021, 03:30:16 |
| Downloads: | 77 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 9.66 MB |
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