Where Flight Simulation Enthusiasts Gather from Around the World!
AVSIM Library - Search Results
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Elvington |
|
File Description:
The station was originally a grass airfield within No. 4 Group. In the early 1940s the airfield was entirely reconstructed with three hardened runways replacing the grass. It re-opened in October 1942 as a station for 77 Squadron RAF and along with RAF Melbourne and RAF Pocklington was known as No "42 Base". The squadron had a strength of approximately 20 aircraft and initially used the twin engined Armstrong Whitworth Whitley medium bomber although this was quickly replaced by the Handley Page Halifax four engined heavy bomber which was being introduced. No 77 Squadron suffered heavy losses during its time at Elvington with over 500 aircrew killed, missing or taken prisoner and almost 80 Halifaxes lost as it played a major part in the Battle of the Ruhr and the bombing of Berlin.
In May 1944 No 77 Squadron posted to the newly opened nearby RAF Full Sutton and was replaced at Elvington by two French squadrons, numbers 346 "Guyenne" and 347 "Tunisie" who both played a leading part in the bombing of Germany. Elvington was the only airfield in the United Kingdom used by the remainder of the Free French Forces, they also flew Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers until they moved to Bordeaux in October 1945 where they became the basis for the new air force of liberated France. In September 1957 a memorial was unveiled in Elvington village dedicated to the two French squadrons. While they were at RAF Elvington nearly half of the squadrons' members were killed.
After the war the 400-acre (1.6 km2) airfield was transferred to No 40 Group under the control of Maintenance Command until 1952 when it was greatly enlarged and extended for use by the United States Air Force.
United States Air Force use
The United States Air Force (USAF) built a new 3,094 m (10,151 ft) runway, which was the longest in the north of England, and a huge 19.8 hectares (49 acres) rectangular hardstanding apron as well as a new control tower to turn Elvington into a "Basic Operation Platform" which would have operated as a Strategic Air Command (SAC) dispersal airfield. After spending £4 million the airfield never became operational as a SAC base and was abandoned by the US Air Force in 1958.
Other uses
In the early 1960s the Blackburn Aircraft Company, now part of British Aerospace used the runway for test flights of the Blackburn Buccaneer. Elvington retained its status as an RAF relief landing ground and was used by the RAF flying training schools at RAF Church Fenton and RAF Linton-on-Ouse until the airfield was finally closed in March 1992.
Present day
The airfield is now owned by Elvington Park Ltd. The adjacent buildings and control tower have been restored, and serve as the Yorkshire Air Museum which has many varied and rare aircraft and exhibits, including a complete Halifax bomber. Elvington is also a popular motorsports venue for motorcycle racing.
Source:Wikipedia
| Filename: | RAF_Elvington.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 10th April 2017, 22:08:13 |
| Downloads: | 167 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 220.79 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF North Creake |
|
File Description:
RAF North Creake is a former Royal Air Force station located 3.3 miles (5.3 km) southwest of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk and 5.7 miles (9.2 km) northwest of Fakenham, Norfolk, England.
Originally used in 1941 as a decoy site for RAF Docking, construction of this Class A airfield began in October 1942, with the station being provided with accommodation for 2,951 male and 411 female staff. The airfield had 36 loop type hardstandings, two T2 hangars and one B1 hangar.
By December 1943 the airfield had passed to 100 Group, although it did not immediately become operational as consideration was given to upgrading the airfield to Very Heavy Bomber Standard. In the event, this did not take place, with RAF Sculthorpe being selected for upgrade.
Short Stirling III's from 199 Squadron arrived in May 1944 to complete Window and Mandrel operations against enemy radar tracking of Bomber Command raids, however, in March 1945 these were changed to Handley Page Halifax III's. In September 1944, No. 199's 'C' Flight was used to re-form 171 Squadron, who contributed to 100 Group's radio counter-measures activities with Halifaxes.
The RAF relinquished the station in 1947, and the area is now used for agriculture, though some evidence of runways, buildings and facilities remains. Seventeen aircraft were lost from the airfield, eight Stirling's and nine Halifax's.
The control tower survives, and has been converted into a house, offering bed and breakfast.
Source: Wikipedia
| Filename: | RAF_North_Creake.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 13th February 2016, 12:50:51 |
| Downloads: | 237 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 1.73 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files | |
| Active Approach - LOWI (Innsbruck, Austria) |
|
File Description:
As most know the Approach and Final (VMC) for AI Traffic in FS9 is a straight in type landing and does not always consider high terrain at airports. This is do to the way that the coding is written in FS9 and it puts limits on IFR arriving aircraft. If you open runways at certain airports the AI Traffic will fly directly through a mountain once it is established on Final for a runway. What you will see with my file is a different type approach used for the way I control AI Traffic in FS9. No longer do the AI Planes use a straight in approach when landing at LOWI. My new AI Aircraft Approach coding for FS9 now uses a base leg approach so AI Traffic does not fly through the mountains. The Innsbruck Control Tower will clear all AI Traffic (IFR FP) landing either on 08 and 26 as a straight in landing even though the offset to final is 30 degrees from the runway center line. My testing shows excellent behavior of the FS9 default models, PAI models and the Aardvark planes of all sizes to execute this new type of visual approach. Read the text file for all the default enhancements added to LOWI along with a full understanding of how the new Approaches work *** Full set of Approach Charts included plus a FS2004 Default Scenery AFCAD ***
| Filename: | Active_Approach__LOWI_Innsbruck_Austria.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 10th April 2005, 05:16:39 |
| Downloads: | 9,146 |
| Author: | Jim Vile |
| Size: | 800.49 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AFCAD Files | |
| RFS New improved and realistic Afcads for TNCM,TFFJ, and SABA/TNCS |
|
File Description:
Make the three FlyTampas airports even more realistic. These Files are for Flight simulator enthusiasts, who prefer realism. These Afcads are optimized for AI Traffic. FlyTampas FlyMarten is very realistic yet, but these files even optimize this very good scenery addon.
These files are improved afcads for the three FlyTampa FlyMarten airports St. Marten (TNCM), St. Barthélemy (TFFJ) and Saba (SABA/TNCS). They are on the basis of the three original afcads from Flytampa, but there are a few differences between the old and the new version: 1. AI Traffic does not make the u-turns in the grass, but they make the u-turns on the provided u-turn areas at the ends of the runways 9 in TNCM, 10 in TFFJ and 12 und 30 SABA. 2. Landing and Takeoff on runway 27 in TNCM and Takeoff on runway 28 in TFFJ is forbidden; it is not possible to prohibit landing, but allow takeoff. So I compound, that all flight movements in TNCM will be performed on RWY 9. 3. At all of the three airports tower frequencies replace AFT, e. g. "Saba Traffic". 4. In SABA and TFFJ I removed few gates, because the pushbacking aircrafts taxied into each other when using the old file. Important: These Files are functional only if FlyTampa-Marten is installed on your computer. There are also the original files in the backup folder.
RFS Real Flight Simulation
| Filename: | RFS_New_improved_and_realistic_Afcads_for_TNCMTFFJ.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 13th August 2008, 19:39:19 |
| Downloads: | 1,801 |
| Author: | Ernst Kamuschke |
| Size: | 1.8 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AFCAD Files | |
| La Guardia |
|
File Description:
A high quality AFCAD2 file the New York La Guardia (KLGA) scenery by Shehryar Ansari. This file features assigned gates for all airlines that currently serve LGA. In order to ensure only 'mainline' aircraft use the jetbridges, a new 'Express' apron for Dash 8 and RJ size aircraft is provided near the Central Terminal and also adjacent to the US Air and Delta Terminals. An extensive GA parking area has also been added to the west side of the airport and includes 4 Helipads. A tower view is provided for the airport and both runways are also in use to maximize traffic flow. The Marine Terminal (Delta Shuttle) and US Airways (Shuttle) areas now have seperate parking codes. The txt for these codes is included in this zip, to add to your 'ParkingSpecs' document. Every available space at this airport has been used to provide a total of 140 parking positions, comprising 42 gates for regional jets, 59 gates for mainline aircraft, 4 Cargo Ramps and 35 GA ramps. A very easy to use tutorial explaining how to make AI Delta Shuttle aircraft use only the Marine Terminal and US Air Shuttle aircraft only use the US Shuttle Terminal is included. This package also includes screenshots showing the effects that this file has on your AI traffic. Requires the excellent scenery addon LGA2004.zip by Shehryar Ansari. This file is not recommended to be used with the default FS airport.
| Filename: | La_Guardia.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 1st February 2005, 04:51:36 |
| Downloads: | 8,783 |
| Author: | Lee Brompton |
| Size: | 4.2 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Graskop Airfield, South Africa |
|
Images related to this file:
File Description:
Graskop Airfield does not appear in the default FS2004, neither is the town included which is a pity as the airfield lies right on the edge of a gorge where bungee jumping and even a Gorge-lift (elevator) or a slide across the gorge can be enjoyed by the adrenaline junkies. Added to this, the airfield (and town of Graskop) is merely 10km from the world famous God's Window (also featured in the film, "The Gods must be Crazy").
This package will add a custom (Gmax & Sketchup) made Graskop Airfield, Mpumalanga, South Africa with photoreal textures and ground textures. The included Landclass file will also add the town.
The small airfield has been recreated with custom true to life models and photoreal textures. While being a very small airfield with only one hangar and a large antenna tower, the importance of the airfield far outweighs its size. The airfield plays a vital role in the fight against wildfires as there are water bombers based at the airfield during critical times. In real life the runway is quite challenging, being sloped quite significantly and very narrow, with a one-way-in one-way-out landing and takeoff procedure. Due to the limits within flightsim, the slope could not be replicated but all the other challenges are there.
The asphalt runway is aligned 15/33 and only 800m long by 8.5m wide and sits at an elevation of 4 854ft.
| Filename: | Graskop_Airfield_South_Africa.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 3rd September 2021, 00:55:30 |
| Downloads: | 158 |
| Author: | Kobus van Wyk & Morne van Wyk |
| Size: | 4.13 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Maurice Bishop TGPY on Grenada in the Caribbean |
|
Images related to this file:
File Description:
Grenada island is 17 miles south of the southernmost island of the Grenadines, Carriacou; there are some smaller islands between the two. Grenada is 18 miles long and around 8 miles wide, has an estimated population of 110,000, and produces a very large part of the world's annual nutmeg harvest. The capital, St Georges, is by far the largest town and is at the southern end of the island, with the airport close by.
The airport is now called Maurice Bishop, but for some years was called Point Salines. The runway is just over 9,000 feet long and oriented 10/28. Point Salines replaced Pearl Airport, which is on the east coast 12 miles northeast of St Georges and was difficult to expand as the runway had mountains at one end and the sea at the other. Pearl is now closed; it is included here but only as a visual landmark with "closed" markings. There are regular international flights from North America and Europe, some of which are seasonal only (Air Canada for instance) and local connecting flights by LIAT and SVG. I retained the default control tower as it is some distance away. In real life it is also some distance away and on a hill northwest of the terminal. Which is why I did not take photos from which I would have made the real one. The hill does not feature in FS9.
| Filename: | Maurice_Bishop_TGPY_on_Grenada_in_the_Caribbean.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 11th June 2013, 23:28:17 |
| Downloads: | 824 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 7.38 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AFCAD Files | |
| LIPZ - Venezia Tessera Intl. Airport "Marco Polo" - v2.0 |
|
Images related to this file:
File Description:
Afcad of LIPZ (Venice Tessera "Marco Polo") airport for FS9 default scenery.
In order to make the scenery as close as possible to the real airport the layout is based on the newest Jeppesen parking chart of LIPZ, on the Aeronautical Information Publication Italy and on photos of the real airport.
The previous version was v1.4; instead of naming this version v1.5, I named it v2.0 because the entire airport had been redesigned from the begining in order to achieve a new level of realism. When I decided to redesign the entire airport, the idea that I had in mind was to make it more like a full scenery as real as it gets using FS stock buildings and objects than only a plain afcad.
Main features that have been added since v1.4 (released on April 19th, 2007):
- since October 2009 a new tower is operative on LIPZ to better manage the ground traffic on the apron, I added it trying to make the environment look as close as possible to the real one;
- more than 95% of the buildings of the real world airport have their place in the scenery using FS stock buildings;
- static objects and vehicles have been added;
- pole lights and antenas have been added;
- parking gates and ramps have been adjusted;
- airline parking codes have been updated.
For more afcads made by me visit my website www.skycolors.com.
| Filename: | LIPZ__Venezia_Tessera_Intl_Airport_Marco_Polo__v20.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 6th March 2010, 23:05:28 |
| Downloads: | 1,042 |
| Author: | Claudio Adriano Dobre / SKYCOLORS.com |
| Size: | 206.9 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| Kopaida Airfield, Greece |
|
Images related to this file:
File Description:
"Kopaida" airfield is a grass private strip, 105km NW of Athens located in the Kopaida drained lake plains between the towns of Aliartos, Kastro and Orchomenos and west of Yliki lake. It is a pure general aviation field and a hub of activity for numerous sport planes, gliders and motor gliders. The field includes a small tower and canteen and several owners of GA aircraft house them in the roomy hangar and also keep a mobile home or RV in the premises. The scenery includes a region and landclass bgl that will force a large area of the Kopaida plains around the airport to display US field textures. This was done because the US fields textures are rectangular and aligned N-E and W-E, in a similar way as the actual fields around the airport. A small photo background is used for the airfield itself. The photo background includes seasonal variations with slight colour variances as well as some autogen trees and shrubs. Custom GA traffic is also included. There is one trike doing circuits and TnGs and a Turbo Porter flying the circuit, simulating a skydiving sortie. The Turbo Porter used is the great freeware one created by Tim (Piglet) Conrad. I have also included a repaint for the F-GHVH, the Porter used by the GFFC, which sports a flashy "Alien" graffiti scheme.
*For FSX SP2 / Acceleration / P3D v1.00*
| Filename: | Kopaida_Airfield_Greece.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 3rd June 2014, 21:23:30 |
| Downloads: | 1,472 |
| Author: | Vassilios Dimoulas |
| Size: | 25.01 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| CYVP - Kuujjuaq - Quebec, Canada |
|
Images related to this file:
File Description:
Kuujjuaq is in northern Quebec at the southern end of Ungava Bay, and 30 miles up the Koksoak River. Kuujjuaq has a population of around 2,400; it was previously called Fort Chimo and in 1830 there was a Hudson Bay trading post established close by, but on the other bank of the river. A nursing station and a school were established in 1948 and the Hudson Bay post moved across the river to the current location. The airport is to the south of the town and, unusally for northern airfields, has two runways. The asphalt runway is 6,000 feet long and aligned 07/25, and the gravel runway is 5,000 feet long and aligned 13/31; 07 has ILS. There is fuel available, both 100LL and JetA, but the 100LL will be in drums and you are required to have your own pump. There are numerous flights that stop at Kuujjuaq; the AI included here has Air Creebec, First Air, Wasaya Airways, and Air Inuit (Kuujjuaq is a maintenance centre for Air Inuit) plus private flights by various aircraft. There is also a flight by my poor representation of a Helicopter Transport Services chopper. There is a float base on the nearby Stewart Lake during the summer months. The base is within the Kuujjuaq control zone, and normally you would talk to the tower and inform them of your intentions, but in FS9 this cannot be replicated.
| Filename: | CYVP__Kuujjuaq__Quebec_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 11th February 2013, 06:22:50 |
| Downloads: | 812 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 5.92 MB |
© 2001-2026 AVSIM Online
All Rights Reserved
Privacy Policy |