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| 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 | |
| CZFM - Fort McPherson - Northwest Territories, Canada |
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This is the first of a series of airfields that follow (approximately) that early access route to the Canadian northern shore, the Mackenzie River. At the far northern end of the river and on the eastern side of the delta there is Tuktoyaktuk, then 80 miles south is Inuvik (both already posted). 70 miles south of Inuvik is Fort McPherson, on the east bank of the Peel River, 20 miles west of the junction with the Mackenzie and on the Dempster Highway. The town has a population of around 830, and (as usual in the north!) was the site of a Hudson Bay trading post, the main post for the Mackenzie delta area for over 50 years. The airport is less than 2 miles to the south of the town, and has 3,500 feet of gravel runway. AI is two ga flights and a Buffalo Airways delivery trip that hops north and south from field to field; this will change with further posts. There is no fuel available.
| Filename: | CZFM__Fort_McPherson__Northwest_Territories_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 4th July 2014, 05:33:03 |
| Downloads: | 289 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2.3 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Shepherd Bay CWSB in Nunavut, Canada |
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This was a DEW line Auxiliary Station on the western shore of the lower reaches of the Boothia Peninsula, 50 miles south of Taloyoak and 60 miles east of Gjoa Haven. The station was closed in 1989 but is almost intact except for a diesel tank or two. There are also other buildings nearby, and others on the beach landing area. A NWS automated station was opened in the same year as the Dew station was closed. The runway is also still there and is around 4,500 feet of gravel 100' wide, aligned 027T/207T. There are no lights, signage, or windsock, but the usual large hangar which was built at all Auxiliary Stations still survives. This is one of the more interesting DEW line stations to visit and walk around.
| Filename: | Shepherd_Bay_CWSB_in_Nunavut_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 22nd November 2012, 16:28:45 |
| Downloads: | 223 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Simpson Lake CWSL in Nunavut, Canada |
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This was a DEW line I Station in the lower reaches of the Boothia Peninsula, 80 miles south of Taloyoak and 40 miles east of Shepherd Bay. The station was closed in 1963 and the buldings and other items have been removed apart from the garage and some diesel tanks. A NWS automated station was opened there in 1991. The runway is still there and is just over 3,500 feet of gravel 100' wide, aligned 044T/224T, and at 790 feet ASL. There are no lights, signage, or windsock. This is one of the less interesting DEW line stations to visit and walk around.
| Filename: | Simpson_Lake_CWSL_in_Nunavut_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 24th November 2012, 02:53:06 |
| Downloads: | 209 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 929.41 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| CYCE - James T. Field Memorial at Centralia, Ontario, Canada V1 updated |
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This is an updated version of the original post, revising and adding to AI, parking, rear fences, paths from apron to hangar doors, etc. The Lockheed Constellation was downloaded from the web site California Classics, and with the knowledge and permission of Tom Gibson the modified plane is included here complete with its Air Alaska textures and a modified .cfg file so that it will imitate a lightly loaded plane and squeeze the landing run to suit the runway length of 10-28. The airfield is in southern Ontario, 55 miles west of Kitchener and 25 miles northwest of London, close to the shore of Lake Huron. The airfield is ex-military and was previously listed as Huron Airpark before being officially named the James T. Field Memorial; for me it will always be Huron Airpark. The field is owned by Goderich Aircraft Inc, a company that fits out aircraft with new interiors including instrumentation, seating, and paint schemes. Their main customers are business jet owners, which is why the AI here is oriented towards Lear etc. There are now two runways in use, the third being closed and marked as such (though still listed in the AI for you to select one to land on). The main runway is 10-28 and just over 5,000 feet. The second runway is 16-34 and 4,400 feet, with only identification numbers and centreline markings. There appear to be no apron lights, taxiway lights or runway signage currently installed. There is a small club hangar (and club room) adjacent to the main apron at the southern end, with GA parking, and there are two large hangars (one new) used by Goderich at the northern end. The remainder of the original large hangars are now in use as light industrial units unrelated to aviation, the most obvious of which is a garbage collection company with numerous parked garbage trucks. One of the hangars adjacent to the apron does incorporate what appears to be a new set of hangar doors (the red one) but it is unclear if this is actually in use for a plane. The control tower is no longer in use, and there is only limited snow clearance in the winter by Goderich; presumably they only clear it when they need to use it themselves.
| Filename: | CYCE__James_T_Field_Memorial_at_Centralia_Ontario_.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 24th November 2016, 22:20:37 |
| Downloads: | 325 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 13.92 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Teslin CYZW in the Yukon, Canada |
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Teslin is a village on the Alaska Highway around 85 miles east of Whitehorse, on the banks of the very long Teslin Lake and where there is a sizeable bridge across an offshoot of the lake. The Hudson Bay trading company established a post there in 1903. The current population is a rather meagre 120 or so and the only reason I am making this scenery is that I know one of the 120. This scenery, in addition to the terrain, village, bridge, and airport items also modifies the Alaska Highway. The AI includes a school excursion trip on a chartered Air North Hawker Siddeley 748 on Saturday. There are no scheduled flights to the field. The runway is now around 5,600 feet of gravel aligned 08-26 and with VASI at both ends. It is lit with runway lighting on the tops of traffic cones, and you will need to download the lighting library from my earlier postings of either Allakaket Lights or Anaktuvuk Lights earlier this week. A note here about my scenery making. There will not be many more to follow this as I am almost at the end of the photos I either took or found for scenery purposes, plus I expect to move on from FS9 at some point during next year.
| Filename: | Teslin_CYZW_in_the_Yukon_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 5th December 2019, 18:37:13 |
| Downloads: | 128 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 6.87 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| CYXN - Whale Cove - Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada, Version v2 modified 1 July 2014 |
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This revised version deletes stock FS9 taxiway lights and replaces them. It also modifies and corrects the PAPI positioning, and removes a visible hold short that should have been invisible on the gravel. This is a complete version and does not require you to have installed the old version. Whale Cove is a small village with 300 or so inhabitants at N62 W92 on the west shore of Hudson Bay, 40 miles south of the large airport at Rankin Inlet. The runway is just under 4,000 feet and aligned 330T-150T, these being true and not magnetic bearings. The AI is included with the post of Chesterfield Inlet V1 and the earlier version is omitted from this post to avoid confusion.
| Filename: | CYXN__Whale_Cove__Hudson_Bay_Nunavut_Canada_Versio.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 23rd August 2014, 11:24:44 |
| Downloads: | 274 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 1.73 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Georgian Bay Airfields CYEM & CNR4 in Ontario, Canada |
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These are two airfields in Ontario around Georgian Bay, which is off the east side of Lake Huron in the Great Lakes. Manitoulin East Muni CYEM is at the northern end of the Bay in an area of coves and lakes, on what is actually an island that is almost but not quite connected to the mainland in several places. There is no immediately adjacent town and the field serves the county area. The runway is 3,500 feet of asphalt aligned 02-20 with PAPI at both ends. The second airfield is Tobermory CNR4, which is just south of the small town and ferry terminal of the same name on the northern end of the peninsula that forms Georgian Bay. The runway is 3,180 feet long and aligned 12-30; there is no longer a 450 feet displacement to the 30 threshold.
| Filename: | Georgian_Bay_Airfields_CYEM__CNR4_in_Ontario_Canad.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 12th August 2018, 19:31:18 |
| Downloads: | 139 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 17.45 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Twin Lakes Airstrips in British Columbia Canada |
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There are three grass airstrips within sight of each other from the air at Twin Lakes in BC, which is between the close junction of Elkin Lake and Vedan Lake. The two lakes are similarly shaped and sized and in the same narrow valley between high ground that runs north-south; hence the name. Elkin is to the north, and Vedan is to the south. Twin Lakes CAG4 is on the strip of land between the two lakes and it is unclear to me who it belongs to etc. It is not in the Nav Canada copy that I have with me which is from 2010, and the online version does not cover grass strips. It is probably owned by whoever lives in the house next to the red hangar. The runway is 3,600 feet of grass aligned 14-32 at 3,945 feet ASL. Chaunigan Lake Lodge CF83 is over to the northwest from Twin Lakes by around 2 miles or so and as the name suggests it services the Lodge of that name, which is on the northeast corner of Chaunigan Lake. The runway is 2,600 feet of grass aligned 02-20 at 4,900 feet ASL. You might want to read about altitude power reductions for the take off. Elkin Creek Guest Ranch CBL9 is at the southern end of Vedan Lake and serves the ranch. This appears to be another high-budget operation and the runway is 3,670 feet of grass aligned 36-18 at 3,999 feet ASL. I have posted this as three separate airstrips, but I suggest that you add these to your "BC airfields" folder as previously suggested. Up to you. If you find a defect, email me. Ignore the post of Chilanko Lodge posted today. I requested Avsim to delete it but it seems they didn't read the email. It was originally posted as a correction for the original post of the three posted here.
| Filename: | Twin_Lakes_Airstrips_in_British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 21st November 2020, 23:29:09 |
| Downloads: | 126 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 25.39 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Smithers CYYD in British Columbia, Canada, Updated |
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Made in December 2018 as an update of the original post of 2014, to correct the apron markings, revise the AI, increase the number of GA parking spots, and most importantly to correct the runway lighting by adding the missing approach lights. This scenery is complete and can be installed as-is without first installing the 2014 version. Smithers is in northwest BC, 60 miles east and a bit north of Terrace, and directly east of the southern border of Alaska. The town has a population of 5,500 and is set in a north-south valley between mountains, the most impressive of which is Hudson Bay Mountain to the west. The airport is to the north of the town and has a single runway of 7,544 feet, aligned 33-15. The main user is Central Mountain Air, who are headquartered in Smithers and have a large maintenance hangar there next to the terminal building. The airport has scheduled flights by Central Mountain Air, Jazz, and Hawk Air, which are in the AI. The AI provided here is a new CYYD traffic bgl; in total the AI also includes a Dawson Creek traffic bgl (recently revised and posted) plus a Terrace traffic bgl (which will shortly be revised and posted). An Electra of Conair (who are the largest operator of fire fighting planes in BC, and have re-fill tanks in Smithers) is included and also a HS 748 of Air North.
| Filename: | Smithers_CYYD_in_British_Columbia_Canada_Updated.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 4th January 2019, 18:08:03 |
| Downloads: | 217 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 14.22 MB |