Interesting airfields
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:40 amHere's a collection of posts by people on the theme of "Interesting Airfields and Flights", they're FSX but probably also apply to FS2004, and we can add more in this thread..
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7V1- Central Colorado Regional Airport in Buena Vista, Colorado. Just twenty miles north of 0V2, I have worked several times at this airport doing ARFF protection for several helicopter companies like QinetiQ, Agusta-Westland, Boeing and Agusta-Bell while they were doing high-altitude testing.
The EH-101 Merlin (RAF and RN versions), A109, AB-139, and AH-64 Apache have all been tested here.
The FSX version of 7V1 is better than the FS9 version because the roads around the airport are corrected, but still lacking correct location of buildings.
The nearby town of Buena Vista has never been included in any FS version.
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KLXV- Leadville, Colorado. The highest (9,927') airport in North America. It is also used for helicopter testing.
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SABA- Saba Island, Netherland Antillles. The strip is only 1300' long with a dropoff to water on both ends.
The default FSX scenery is okay, but there are several addon sceneries that are really good.
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YLHI- Lord Howe Island, Australia. Located midway between Australia and New Zealand, the default scenery is lacking, but addons are available for improvement.
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LHD- Lake Hood Seaplane Base, Anchorage, Alaska. If you like floatplanes, the busiest seaplane base in the world is located right next to PANC Anchorage International.
Watch out for the 747's taking off nearby when you are landing your Beaver!
At the real airport, cars can share the roads with airplanes. Airplanes have the right-of-way. I had to stop at a stop sign in my car to let an Otter taxi by.
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EKVG- Vagar, The Faroes Islands. Default scenery is okay but there is a great addon available.
Vagar is a great stopover for trans-Atlantic flights, but watch the fog!
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KPWT - Bremerton, WA
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Stevens Anchorage Int. (Sth central Alaska) (PANC) One of my favorite FSX flights is to grab my best bush plane and head North East up the Matanuaska River.
Just follow that as far as you want. Along the way you'll run into a bunch of little gravel and grass strips that you can do some touch and goes on.
The best two along that trip are Sheep Mountain (PASP) at 2270ft and at the end, Tazlina (Z14) at 900ft.
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0V2- Salida, Colorado. My home town airport. Unfortunately MS never updated it after the runway was extended ten years ago. 0V2 is surrounded by 12,000'-14,000' mountains.
The Collegiate Peaks mountains to the west are the highest range of mountains in the contiguous United States (Shameless tourism plug)
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Catalina Island (KAVX). It sits on top of a high peak with fairly steep drop offs on both ends. I have the FSGenisis mesh, so it might not look that way with default scenery.
They have an old DC3 that still delivers cargo there from Long Beach (KLGB) on a regular basis and if you try the same 30 mile trip in the default DC3 it can be challenging to get it stopped.
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Milford Sound NZMF. It's at the end of a fjord, surrounded by 8000ft cliffs. You need a special licence to fly there RW. Speaking of which, there are the French altiports
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7V1- Central Colorado Regional Airport in Buena Vista, Colorado. Just twenty miles north of 0V2, I have worked several times at this airport doing ARFF protection for several helicopter companies like QinetiQ, Agusta-Westland, Boeing and Agusta-Bell while they were doing high-altitude testing.
The EH-101 Merlin (RAF and RN versions), A109, AB-139, and AH-64 Apache have all been tested here.
The FSX version of 7V1 is better than the FS9 version because the roads around the airport are corrected, but still lacking correct location of buildings.
The nearby town of Buena Vista has never been included in any FS version.
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KLXV- Leadville, Colorado. The highest (9,927') airport in North America. It is also used for helicopter testing.
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SABA- Saba Island, Netherland Antillles. The strip is only 1300' long with a dropoff to water on both ends.
The default FSX scenery is okay, but there are several addon sceneries that are really good.
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YLHI- Lord Howe Island, Australia. Located midway between Australia and New Zealand, the default scenery is lacking, but addons are available for improvement.
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LHD- Lake Hood Seaplane Base, Anchorage, Alaska. If you like floatplanes, the busiest seaplane base in the world is located right next to PANC Anchorage International.
Watch out for the 747's taking off nearby when you are landing your Beaver!
At the real airport, cars can share the roads with airplanes. Airplanes have the right-of-way. I had to stop at a stop sign in my car to let an Otter taxi by.
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EKVG- Vagar, The Faroes Islands. Default scenery is okay but there is a great addon available.
Vagar is a great stopover for trans-Atlantic flights, but watch the fog!
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KPWT - Bremerton, WA
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Stevens Anchorage Int. (Sth central Alaska) (PANC) One of my favorite FSX flights is to grab my best bush plane and head North East up the Matanuaska River.
Just follow that as far as you want. Along the way you'll run into a bunch of little gravel and grass strips that you can do some touch and goes on.
The best two along that trip are Sheep Mountain (PASP) at 2270ft and at the end, Tazlina (Z14) at 900ft.
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0V2- Salida, Colorado. My home town airport. Unfortunately MS never updated it after the runway was extended ten years ago. 0V2 is surrounded by 12,000'-14,000' mountains.
The Collegiate Peaks mountains to the west are the highest range of mountains in the contiguous United States (Shameless tourism plug)
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Catalina Island (KAVX). It sits on top of a high peak with fairly steep drop offs on both ends. I have the FSGenisis mesh, so it might not look that way with default scenery.
They have an old DC3 that still delivers cargo there from Long Beach (KLGB) on a regular basis and if you try the same 30 mile trip in the default DC3 it can be challenging to get it stopped.
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Milford Sound NZMF. It's at the end of a fjord, surrounded by 8000ft cliffs. You need a special licence to fly there RW. Speaking of which, there are the French altiports
...Even the lakes are missing from the (UT) scenery!