Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
PABR - Barrow - Alaska, USA

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File Description:
The town of Barrow is in the far north of Alaska, and is best known in flying circles as the place where Wiley Post crashed his floatplane on takeoff and killed himself and Will Rogers. The crash was some 15 miles south of Barrow and was "assisted" by the mismatched fuselage, wings, and floats that had been assembled to create the floatplane. The Barrow population is largely Inupiat and totals some 4,400. The downtown area of Barrow is immediately north of the airport. The second and largest part of Barrow is further north past a string of lagoons and is locally called Browerville. To the northeast along the coast is the smallest part around what used to be the Naval Arctic Research Lab, and is now a college. To the east of this are the DEW buildings, plus two large navy hangars and the gravel runway that was used to serve the DEW station. The PABR runway is aligned 06-24 in FS9 and is 7,100 feet long and 150 feet wide, built on top of a gravel base and surround that copes with the underlying permafrost. There is PAPI at both ends and an ILS and approach lights on 06; 06 circuits are to the right. The airport notes include a warning that the apron is not a standard width and that large planes that are enroute to the far end of the runway will not be able to taxi past a plane parked at the gate and should use the runway as a taxiway, then turn and takeoff. FS9 AI cannot cope with that, so the apron here is wider. There are, in real life and the AI, daily flights by Air Alaska (three at least) and Era (several, and which is now called Ravn, hence the new hangar door motif) and air cargo flights by Northern Air Cargo and Everts, plus GA. The buildings have been made with photographic textures or textures made from reference photos. I decided that while 500+ scenery objects was probably ok for most people the required 900+ to "make" the town of Barrow would likely not be. The auto-generated FS9 town objects could not be left as Barrow with trees would not look at all like reality; I have "faded" the density of the town buildings into the distance from the airport.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
PAMR (Merrill Field, Anchorage), 5HO (Hope), 9Z9 (Lawing) - Alaska, USA

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File Description:
This stand-alone combined V2 version of Merrill Field 2016 includes: windsocks, a parked Fedex 727 that was recently donated to the University of Alaska, some missing taxiway lights, and small corrections to the apron layout. It also includes Hope 5HO and Lawing 9Z9. The 2016 version of Merrill Field PAMR dealt with a spectacular malfunction reported by one recent downloader; see the two screenshots. Merrill Field is in Anchorage Alaska, between Anchorage International to the southwest and and Elmendorf Air Force Base to the north. It caters for general aviation and is the land equivalent of the Lake Hood float plane base, with fuel and numerous maintenance facilities, and several hundred parking spots for small planes. There are three runways, and the longest is 4,000 feet of 100 feet wide asphalt, the second 2,635 feet of asphalt 75 feet wide, and the third 2,000 feet of 60 feet wide gravel. The first two have runway lights. It is a controlled airfield with a relatively new control tower to cater for the numerous flights and to coordinate with Elmensdorf and Anchorage International, the latter also controlling flights from Lake Hood and the adjacent gravel strip Z41 (see my Lake Hood scenery). The gravel runway at Merrill Field is not connected with active taxiways to the rest of the airfield; this avoids you being ordered to land on it when flying a plane too large to do so. The enclosed layout shows the runways and the taxiways complete with their assigned letters to help you find your way around, but note that this shows the current gravel runway with its wandering magnetic headings, not the ones prevailing when I made Merrill. The signage on the airfield is not total. The main taxiways are signed and each entry to a runway has a runway sign, but intermediate taxiways to or from a runway are not; if you have turned off the runway at the first possible exit you could then whether it is R or T is, I suppose, irrelevant. Try not to turn onto Merrill Field Drive at an intersection, this is a road that runs through the field. There are almost 50 buildings on the field and threequarters of them have been modelled from photographs specifically for this scenery; some of them were modelled from photos that were of not very good quality, but when the photos were taken I wasn't thinking that I would ever model the field. Which explains why there are buildings I had no photos of at all, of any sort of quality.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AFCAD Files
***AFCAD SMOOTH for Major Airports! Vienna Schwechat ( LOWW / VIE )***

File Description:
AFCAD SMOOTH is a normal AFCAD File for Major Airports such as Frankfurt, London LHR or Paris CDG but all the taxiways have been totally reworked in order to get the most smoothest AI Traffic on ground you will ever have. To achive this all the new created taxiways have nothing in common with the original one for an airport. The new taxiways have been created in a way to allow the smoothest traffic on ground, without traffic jam, conflict alerts and also without planes staying almost 5 minutes at one point due to heavy traffic and finnaly disappear. All this has been resolved. In addition to this the parking positions have been created in a very very orderly way with as much positions as possible. The gates are almost the same as in reality only with minor changes. I also added missing ILS to airports like LIMC (RWY 17R) This File is only recommended for virtual pilots who can call a huge amount of AI Traffic their own and who prefer smooth traffic instead an accurate taxiway system compared to the real airports one. In addition I recommend you AI Seperation (available at avsim), one of the best freeware AI Traffic Management Tools for traffic on ground and in the air as well.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
3 Northern Ontario Airports: Kenora (CYQK), Wawa (CYXZ) and Marathon (CYSP) - CanUk Scenery

File Description:
Kenora, Wawa and Marathon airports offer destinations in Northern Ontario and are intended to be used with Flight Ontario's Thunder Bay2 and Toronto sceneries. Ultimate Terrain compatible. Zip file includes 3 separate scenery folders so you can choose which of the sceneries you would like to install. Created in GMAX, these sceneries are fairly accurate representations of their real world counterparts. Custom landclass, automated hanger doors, photoreal buildings, 3-D taxiway lights, custom AFCAD2 and static vehicles included. Please see ReadMe for proper installation.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Aasiaat BGAA on the west coast of Greenland

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I wrote that Qikiqtarjuaq, on the east coast of Baffin Island, was the jumping off airfield for ferry flights for small planes from Canada to Europe via Greenland. Aasiaat is the airfield in Greenland that they jump to, 300 miles across the Davis Strait. The airfield is on the northern coast of Aasiaat Island, and the town of the same name is just two miles to the west. The runway is 2,600 feet of asphalt almost 100 feet wide and lit, at 74 feet ASL, aligned 12/30, with the apron and terminal building at the western end. Air Greenland run regular flights with a Dash-7 or 8, & Twin Otters, and the markings for the taxiway and parking spot in front of the terminal are exactly as they were six years ago. I have seen video since then that has further taxiway and parking spot markings added in, but I like the simplicity of the original. Unfortunately, given the limitations of FS and the single runway and simple taxiway routing there was no way to replicate both the parking facing away from the terminal AND the "through" taxiing to complete the circle back to the runway; after parking correctly the AI Air Greenland Dash-8 will reverse before heading out to take off. There is both JetA and 100LL fuel available. The surrounding area is rocky, and there is no grass around the runway; the airfield has compacted gravel instead.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Abu Dhabi AFCAD Revision and Signage Update

File Description:
This small update adds new taxiway designations (apron 4) and routing at Matthew Ministry's Abu Dhabi scenery, and updates the taxiway signage to include the north runway. The readme includes an important update to the Ts and Cs for the main airport scenery.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AFCAD Files
Abu Dhabi International Airport, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. (AUH/OMAA)

File Description:
Default Flight Simulator 2004 Abu Dhabi International Airport, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. (AUH/OMAA) AFCAD 2 file, accurate runways and taxiway proportions, with detailed surfaces and markings. Further information in Readme file upon download. Do not reproduce this AFCAD in any manner without my previous consent.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files
Active ILS - LEBL (El Prat - Barcelona Airport)

File Description:
As most know initiating the ILS at certain airports for AI Traffic or the User Aircraft is not a function at this time when using AFCAD2. If you add a new ILS runway to an airport such as LEBL (El Prat/Barcelona 7R/25L) only the user aircraft can use this runway (without ATC commands) when visibility falls below 3 miles. ATC will no longer use this runway for AI Traffic because FS9 sees it as a visual runway. This will cause ATC to vector all your AI Traffic back to runway 7/25 old numbers, 7L/25R new numbers which is also a Terminal departure runway. This ILS bgl file adds all NAVAIDS for making 7R/25L a Precision Instrument Runway by adding all the radar fixes for both the ILS approach portion and the missed approach procedures, altitudes and intersections as per current published plates. All AI Aircraft/User Planes will now continue to use the new 7R/25L runway when Airport weather conditions are less than 3 miles. ATC will also use the right naming/numbers of the runways. The DME/VOR approaches have also been written using the new BCN/PRA VOR's for runways 7L/25R and 02. Many different default FS9 scenery GUID's added including Taxiway Signs *** FS2004 Default Scenery AFCAD2 included with the new 7R/25L runway ***

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files
Active ILS - LEBL Simwings/New Spanish Airports (El Prat - Barcelona Airport)

File Description:
This file is made for Barcelona LEBL Aerosoft/Simwings FS9's New Spanish Airports. As most know initiating the ILS at certain airports for AI Traffic or the User Aircraft is not a function at this time when using AFCAD2. If you add a new ILS runway to an airport such as LEBL (El Prat/Barcelona 7R/25L) only the user aircraft can use this runway (without ATC commands) when visibility falls below 3 miles. ATC will no longer use this runway for AI Traffic because FS9 sees it as a visual runway. This will cause ATC to vector all your AI Traffic back to runway 7/25 old numbers, 7L/25R new numbers which is also a Terminal departure runway. This ILS bgl file adds all NAVAIDS for making 7R/25L a Precision Instrument Runway by adding all the radar fixes for both the ILS approach portion and the missed approach procedures, altitudes and intersections as per current published plates. All AI Aircraft/User Planes will now continue to use the new 7R/25L runway when Airport weather conditions are less than 3 miles. ATC will also use the right naming/numbers of the runways. The DME/VOR approaches have also been written using the new BCN/PRA VOR's for runways 7L/25R and 02. Many different default FS9 scenery GUID's added including Taxiway Signs. *** FS2004 Simwings Barcelona Scenery AFCAD2 included with the new 7R/25L runway ***

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AFCAD Files
AFCAD for FMEE (Saint Denis Gillot) and FMEP (Saint Pierre Pierrefonds) - La Reunion (France VFR scenery)

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New AFCADs for the Reunion airports: FMEE (Saint Denis Gillot) and FMEP (Saint Pierre Pierrefonds) for wonderful "La Reunion" payware by FranceVFR. Might be default scenery compatible as well. Not tested in FSX. The major changes are introduced to FMEP, including correct runway length (2100m) and width (45m), PAPI lights on both runway sides, added new apron B and taxiway B. Now you can land with your Airbus A3xx or Boeing 737 (these types land at FMEP in the real world). The changes introduced to FMEE include some minor corrections to parking positions and added runway's asphalt edge. Modifications are based on the Google Earth and AIP France.