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| Port Hardy CAW5 in British Columbia, Canada |
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This is the sixth in a series of new and renovated float bases in BC. Port Hardy CAW5 is in a sheltered inlet on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, close to the town and just 6 miles northwest of the Port Hardy airport. There is fuel (both JetA and 100LL) and also oil available, and the base acts as a refuelling centre for the other float bases in the neighbourhood. The dock is one-sided as the northern side borders a shallow area that is in fact exposed at low tide, as is most of the inlet to the south of BC Packers (adjacent to the float base, to the south). The parking along the dock is maximised by backing up each plane by hand so that it is close to the one behind it; this is not possible to replicate with AI in FS9 (watch the video). Watch out for the log boom on the other side of the inlet, it is there to protect fish farm "pools". The AI involves several Beavers and Otters, as listed in the AI folder. At Port Hardy all the AI works for both landing and takeoff for all of the planes, no matter what is the wind direction. There is a pic of the Supplement Port Hardy page, showing the two take-off and landing areas plus the third area that is to be used for take-off before 7am. All of these float bases can be installed together in the same folders, with a saving in duplicate textures. So a series called BC Floats (or whatever you want to call it) or individually installed float bases; your choice. The next in the series was suposed to be Sullivan Bay, another floating marina, but I digressed to Port Hardy and Port McNeill (next to be posted). The two hotels by the nearby marina are included. One of them gave me weird problems and I gave up on achieving the correct shape.
| Filename: | Port_Hardy_CAW5_in_British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 19th January 2017, 15:01:45 |
| Downloads: | 201 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 8.27 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Pemberton CYPS in British Columbia Canada |
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Pemberton is a small village in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, with a permanent population of under 3,000 and reliant on logging and increasing tourism. It is around 40 miles north of Squamish and 15 miles north of Whistler and the flight north is best described as scenic. The Nairn Falls, a scenic attraction for tourists, are close by. The runway is 3,920 feet of asphalt aligned 06-24, between and close to the join of the Lillooet River and the Green River. The airfield buildings are to the north of the runway, and at the eastern end is a Fire Base for the expected summer forest fires. To the south and west is the Pemberton Golf Course. All the buildings are replicated, and once again this is not an airport, it is an airfield without any lighting and typical of my future posts which are updated versions of airfield scenery made some time ago and not posted. This one is probably more intricate than most that will follow. The lack of lighting is actually very sensible as landing in the mountains in the dark..... Gun Lake is included here, but not for regular use as it is a deserted dirt strip 40 miles to the north that was once used for fire fighting and there is nothing to see. Just a part of the scenery in this area of BC. If you want to follow this trip on Google Earth the next stop is Cache Creek. If you find a defect, email me. Do not email me about the strange doors to the front of the Blackcomb hangar. I was surprised when I saw it and then discovered that the "doors" are actually flexible curtains that are rolled up and down and if rolled down too far...
I have the ok to use the Bell 212 CCG helicopter as a scenery object, but not to post the entire object library of the Red Deer CYQF scenery; if you have the scenery it should show up here.
| Filename: | Pemberton_CYPS_in_British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 17th November 2020, 17:29:13 |
| Downloads: | 112 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 16.18 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Dawson Creek CYDQ in British Columbia, Canada |
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Dawson Creek is at 2,148 feet asl just east of the Rocky Mountains, less than 10 miles west of the BC/Alberta border. The Peace River, 25 miles north of Dawson Creek, links the two sides of the Rockies, winding through peaks that reach up almost to 8,000 feet. The population grew when the Northern Alberta Railway was extended to Dawsons Creek in 1932, and grew even more more when the Alaska Highway was built in 1942 and Dawsons Creek was where it started from. The airport is just to the east of the town. The runway is 5,000 feet of wide asphalt (150 feet) aligned 06/24, lit, and with PAPI and approach lights. There is a water runway to the north of the main runway with the same alignment, separately designated as Dawson Creek CBD3. The two operate as one; traffic for both use the mandatory frequency of 122.2 and talk to one controller in one control tower. However, in FS9 the ATC for two separately designated airfields operates as if they are nowhere near each other and near misses are the result. I have put them both in un-manned tower mode so you will announce your position and intentions and select your own parking spots etc. There is in reality a lack of apron markings but I have marked the positions of both gates. The apron is not large so there is only one other apron parking spot (see the traffic cone) and most parking is either next to one of the hangars or on the grass. The aprons vary from asphalt, to concrete, onwards to gravel, and then further onwards to some gravel amid the bare dirt; I have replicated this variation as far as FS9 permits. The buildings are bespoke from photos. The AI includes Central Mountain Air with two daily scheduled flights and Northern Cariboo as one of the airlines that occasionally runs charter flights in CYDQ. There are also private GA flights, and float plane flights into and out of CBD3.
| Filename: | Dawson_Creek_CYDQ_in_British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 22nd November 2013, 23:31:40 |
| Downloads: | 654 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 16.65 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| 8AK7 - Bullen Point - Alaska North Slope 7 |
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The town of Barrow is in the far north of Alaska, and these are coastal villages or radar installations to the west, south, and now east of Barrow. There will be further additions. Bullen Point is a DEW station Air Force base 240 miles east of Barrow and 75 miles east of Oliktok. The runway is just under 4,000 feet of gravel and aligned 05-23; this is approximately at right angles to the default FS9 alignment and how that came about is something I doubt Bill Gates could explain. Most of the DEW buildings have now been removed (including the large hangar, which is unusual) but as I had a layout I made the whole site as it was originally, way back in the days when the north slope was still a wilderness. The AI is one day a C-130, on another a Cessna, and on a third a DC3. When I started this North Slope series it was my intention to create the full monty and make all the oil and gas installations and Deadhorse airport etc. I have come to realise that the oil side is impossible to make. There is so much of it and each bit is as time consuming as Heathrow while the actual airfields are more like Rockcliffe CYRO, so a lot of effort for what is just background to an adjoining airfield. But at the same time, if I make the new airstrips it is impossible NOT to make the oil installations as they are the dominating feature. So no new airstrips, and this is going to be just the 1960's or 1970's, when the oil business was only exploratory and the airfields were for villages or DEW stations, and Harmon Helmerick had his dirt strip on the Colville River estuary and was guiding hunters and fishermen and had just started to help out Sinclair Oil with oil exploration in 1966. Read his book. Download my previous post of his field.
| Filename: | 8AK7__Bullen_Point__Alaska_North_Slope_7.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 15th July 2016, 17:46:54 |
| Downloads: | 280 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2.5 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Airstrips of the Falkland Islands |
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Inspired by Jim Keir's Falkland Islands mesh, coastlines and landclass, herewith a couple of dozen little strips from around the area, to give the opportunity to generate a bit of GA AI (and possibly a few scheduled flights) in an otherwise relatively ignored area in the South Atlantic. Please do note, other than Stanley, most of these airstrips are just that, a cleared strip of land in an otherwise empty landscape, (just as they are in real life), simply to provide a variety of destinations for the occasional aircraft to or from Stanley.
Most of the airfield locations are listed on WikiPedia and the layout confirmed using on-line satellite imagery. Other than the two main airports, none of these airstrips seem to have "official" ICAO codes, so I've generated a selection of alpha-numeric codes in the SF0* configuration, (as Stanley Airport has the ICAO code of SFAL), so the FS9 AI engine has some codes to work with and the airfields can be found on the map. Hopefully these pseudo-codes won't clash with anything else.
As with my other sceneries, the files for each airstrip can be easily identified by the ICAO code, even if the airfield names vary slightly, so you can pick and choose and mix and match to suit any sceneries you already have, should you so wish. There is no requirement for any other download. Each airstrip will exist as a stand-alone entity should you only want a few of them.
Having said that, Paul Denton's AFCAD and scenery for EGYP Mount Pleasant (available on AVSIM and possibly elsewhere) might be considered a worthwhile addition, especially if you want to see the twice-weekly scheduled RAF flights from Brize Norton (via Ascension Island), and the Saturday LATAM flight from Chile. Suitable AFCADs for EGVN Brize Norton and SCCI Punta Arenas may also be required. Appropriate traffic files and aircraft/texture suggestions are provided.
Please read the remainder of this "blurb" in the included text file, there may be a couple of details of interest.
| Filename: | Airstrips_of_the_Falkland_Islands.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 30th March 2025, 18:55:33 |
| Downloads: | 92 |
| Author: | Chris Eve |
| Size: | 295.87 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Bella Coola CYBD in British Columbia, Canada |
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Bella Coola is in one of the deep east-west fjords amid the Coastal Range on the coast of BC, approximately mid way between Vancouver and the Alaskan border and some 70 miles inland from the open ocean. The town of Bella Coola has a small population of around 150, while the population of the whole Bella Coola Valley is around 2,000. The valley is warmer in both summer and winter than the surrounding area, and tourism flourishes along with forestry, fishing, and local government administration. Although there is road access, the ferry service is the main connection to larger coastal towns or cities such as Vancouver. The airport, 7 miles east of the town, is connected by daily Pacific Coastal flights to Vancouver and Anahim Lake (to the east). The asphalt runway is 4,200 feet long and aligned 04-22 in FS9 (by 2010 this had changed to 05-23 in reality) and is without lighting of any sort, so it is restricted to daylight hours only. At the eastern end is the terminal building and in the middle the West Coast Helicopter hangar, which has a large fenced paddock-like enclosure in front of it. The helicopters hop over the three feet high fence as they "taxi" to the apron in front of the hanger (but not in FS9!). Between the two there are four other company hangars spread out along the roadway beside the fence. I have never seen the airfield in Summer, and I have not attempted to replicate the apron as it now shows in Google Earth. The screenshots show the main and overwhelming feature of Bella Coola, the large valley amid the steep mountains. This terrain has an inevitable effect on the ai, in that you will never see a plane land as it hits solid rock before it makes it to the runway. You will, however, see them take off. Pacific Coastal currently flies Beechcraft 1900's to Bella Coola; I have used the Saab 340 which I have seen there some years ago and which I prefer.
| Filename: | Bella_Coola_CYBD_in_British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 25th October 2018, 17:57:06 |
| Downloads: | 286 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 14.57 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Whati CEM3 in the Northwest Territories, Canada |
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Whati is a village at the southern end of Lac La Martre, a smaller lake (only by Canadian standards, at over 40 miles long) halfway between the Great Slave Lake and the Great Bear Lake and around 100 miles north of Yellowknife. The North West Company established a trading post there in 1793, and this was the centre for local trading in the area for 100 years until a post was opened by the Hudson Bay Company on the Great Slave Lake. The current population is in the region of 520. There is no graded road access and access is by boat or air. The main local economy revolves around hunting and fishing, with efforts being made to increase tourism amid the wilderness and the wildlife. The airfield is just over a mile east of the village, with a runway of around 3,400 feet of gravel aligned 09-27 as of 2010, with PAPI at both ends and lit. There are scheduled flights from Yellowknife by Air Tindi, included in the AI, and some GA. The terminal building is similar to that of Lutselk'e, but with a different colour scheme and with solar panels on the roof. It appears that they repaint the sign on the front of the building with a different wording every time; the one I have used is one of three that have existed in the last few years. The photos I had originally were taken in the winter, with snow. Seeing it in the summer I discovered that my version of the building is not at the right level above the ground by about a foot, or 30cm. I was too lazy to make it again, which was the only way to get it right and still have it throw a shadow on the ground. This scenery modifies the lake shore, corrects levels for land and lake, and adds the village and a connecting road in addition to the airport. 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: | Whati_CEM3_in_the_Northwest_Territories_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 15th December 2019, 19:18:29 |
| Downloads: | 150 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 4.25 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Anticosti Island in Quebec Canada |
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Anticosti Island is in the Gulf of St Lawrence, around 25 miles off the Quebec mainland coast. It is some 40 miles wide and 130 miles long on an east west axis. There are few urban areas and only one that can be described as a small town, namely Port Menier at the western end of the southern coast, with a population of under 1,000. There is a ferry service to the harbour.
The airport, Port Menier CYPN, is around 3 miles northeast of the town, with an asphalt runway aligned 11-28, 4,875 feet long and 150 feet wide with PAPI at each end. In 2010 (the approximate date of this scenery) a gravel runway was still visible at the eastern end of the field. This was no longer in use by 2010, except perhaps by small planes on skis in the winter.
The island, with its small population, small urban area, and no industry other than logging, has as a result a mainly undisturbed wildlife population. This has made deer hunting and fishing the main tourist activities, with one company (called Safari) having an exclusive licence to exploit large areas of mountains and rivers. Planeloads of hunters and fishermen are flown in on chartered Nolinor Aviation planes, landing at CYPN. There are a further two airfields in the eastern end of the island, and in 2010 Rivere-Aux-Saumons CTH7 had a 5,500 feet gravel runway, linked by road to a lodge area at the mouth of the river. This is the only lodge area that I have been able to locate, but there are others. To the south Riviere Bell CRB5 had at that time a gravel runway that was 3,000 feet long. This has been lengthened since then and both runways were recently (2021) asphalted.
If you find an error email me please, and note that my email address has been changed to rogwens at Gmail dot com. The reason I am posting this now is that I discovered that my original post ended up in MSFS Original Aircraft instead of in FS2004 Scenery. Ooops!
| Filename: | Anticosti_Island_in_Quebec_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 28th January 2022, 17:39:46 |
| Downloads: | 121 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 11.78 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| 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 | |
| Ría de Vigo (Bay of Vigo) |
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Comprehensive revision of the area surroinding the Bay of Vigo, near the Vigo Airport (LEVX, aprox. at 42º18'N 8º38'W), in Galicia, Spain, including a more accurate coastline, from the Ría de Aldán until Toralla Island, plus the San Simon Island and other minor islands, detailed piers in Vigo and Cangas, several beaches, and a lot of 3D VFR references (more than 180 macros added), such as buildings (the City Hall, the Hospital Xeral, the Balaídos Stadium, the Castro stronghold...), working lighthouses, several monuments and statues, some main streets redrawn, a new version of my Rande Bridge, now with collision detection and landable surface, and a handfull of eye-candies I can't even remember! -
Completa revisión da costa da Ría de Vigo, dende a Ría de Aldán ata pasada a Illa de Toralla, incluíndo, por suposto, á Illa de San Simón e outros pequenos illotes, praias (Samil, Nerga...), os peiraos de Cangas e de Vigo, dende o Areal ata Bouzas, unha morea de novas referencias visuais (máis de 180 macros), con edificios (o Concello, o Hospital Xeral, o estadio de Balaídos, o castelo do Castro, o lazareto de San Simón...), faros (nas Cíes e na costa...), algún que outro monumento, unha revisión do trazado dalgunhas das vías principais, unha nova versión da miña Ponte de Rande, con detección de colisións e superficie "aterrable", e moitas cousas máis que xa nin eu mesmo lembro. -
Completa revisión de la costa de la Ría de Vigo (Galicia, España, aprox. en 42º18'N 8º38'O), desde la Ría de Aldán hasta pasada la Isla de Toralla, incluyendo la Isla de San Simón y otros pequeños islotes, playas (Samil, Nerga...), los muelles de Cangas y de Vigo, desde el Areal hasta Bouzas, un montón de nuevas referencias visuales (más de 180 macros), con edificios (el Ayuntamiento, el Hospital Xeral, el estadio de Balaídos, el castillo del Castro, el lazareto de San Simón...), faros (en las Cíes y en la costa...), algún que otro monumento, una revisión del trazado de algunas de las vías principales, una nueva versión de mi Puente de Rande, con detección de colisiones y superficie "aterrizable", y muchas cosas más de las que ni yo mismo me acuerdo.
| Filename: | Ra_de_Vigo_Bay_of_Vigo.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 16th May 2004, 23:48:38 |
| Downloads: | 4,478 |
| Author: | Rubén Castiñeiras |
| Size: | 366.85 KB |
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