My New STOLport

[RollerBall]

Here's AI Aurigny Trislander G-XTOR departing my new STOLport for Charleroi.



It's not a real airport. It's called Brentwood. For those who know the area in the UK, it's located just inside the M25 in Essex, north of the Dartford Crossing. It could actually go there in real life because there is the space for it.



It has a 1620 metre runway 04-22 with LOC/DME/GS and an NDB on the field.



Also a small terminal with 2 Medium gates so aircraft up to Airbus/737 size can get in and out. The rest of the parking is open. And there are 2 helipads. Oh, and there's a small motel with pool close by.



The whole thing is created in pure XML using all default library objects so the file is tiny.



It was a scenery experiment but I like it so I'm keeping it. I'm in the process of creating stacks of AI, including CRJ, ATR, 146, 737, Airbus, Dornier 228, EMB 145, Fokker 100, Cessna 310, Trislander and Seneca. Not a single default one amongst em!

Let me know if anyone's interested and I'll upload it all.

[ozzy72]

Nice work Roger, not sure I'd fly into an airport in Essex though, having met some of the natives

[lemoncat]

it looks really good..start uploading rollerball

[jordonj]

Upload...by all means!

[RollerBall]

OK fellas

Coupla days so I can just finish it off with all the little bits and pieces I want to add. I'm just doing taxiway signs and stuff and I want to put some small warehouse and buildings on the field. Also a bit more stuff in the surrounding area.

As it's not that far away, I'm thinking about adding the Woolwich Ferry with ferries going back and forward - but I'll probably do that as a little separate project  ;)

[jordonj]

Have I said how glad we are to have you back?

[RollerBall]

Have I said how glad we are to have you back?

You have and I thank you lots.

I'm very glad to be here as well  ;)

An episode best to learn from and forget I think

[Ben_M_K]

Great scenery there Roger(I think thats what they call you). Totally, upload it. It looks reeaallyy sweet.

[Travis]

Again you prove to be one of great assets, Roger.  It looks great, and I will deffinitely download when it hits the books!

[JW49]

Great shots and scenery Roger!  :)

[scott-bansheerider]

Nice shots.

Will the AI work with project AI? and will it be for flights from all over the UK or just this airport?

[RollerBall]

No the AI will only be to populate this airport. I'm doing flights to and from various UK and near-continent destinations. As I've got an Alitalia ATR the farthest destination will be somewhere like Milan I guess. But I've also got Air France and Swiss 146s, Mike Stone's ATR is also Cimber and Eurowings and I'm playing with Airbuses (eg Iberia A320) and 737-300s as well.

I love doing AI when you've got so many liveries to play with and I'm making em quick turnover on the ground as well so they change a lot. As you can see, quite a bit is Mike Stone stuff which I love as it's got good detail and is still FR friendly.

BTW I've just flown IFR Southampton - Brentwood at 7500ft in a Mike Stone Buzz 146. With full PAI and default AI installed (only default GA) it's good. Quite a bit of traffic and radio work but a great ILS approach into 22 over the M25. The 04 approach is nice because I've left power cables on the approach - far enough out but if you're flying manually you have to watch em. Nice touch eh ?  ;)

[Hagar]

Very nice work indeed Roger.  ;)

Don't let Mr. 2 Jags see that or he might actually build it.

PS. Oh I don't know though. Looks a lot better than some of their crazy ideas.

[RollerBall]

Will the AI work with project AI? and will it be for flights from all over the UK or just this airport?

Ah Scott, I've just realised what you mean.

Yep, all you do is add the new airport line (which I'll provide) at the right place in your airport.txt file, add the aircraft detail (which I'll provide and give advice on about substituting any planes you don't have) by pasting into your aircraft.txt file, and paste the flightplan info onto the end of your existing flightplans.txt file.

Then you recompile with TTools and run FS.

So all of your existing flightplans, PAI, default etc will still be there plus you will have the new ones.

What is so clever about FS9 (and FS2002 for that matter) is how it just incorporates your plans without blinking an eyelid including all the correct radio calls (Approach, London Centre etc etc). When you understand what's happening it's really very impressive I think and taken for granted by lots of people.

Sorry Doug,

Just spotted your post.

Nah - no chance of it ever being built here. This is low-lying marshy ground in reality - so Two Jags will have it ear-marked for about 5 million council homes as part of his scheme to concrete over the south of England

[scott-bansheerider]

Cool, that will be interesting. I'd like to see alot of holiday flights out of Edinburgh as so far I've only got Easy jet, BA, My travel, Aer lingus and DHL and it feels a bit empty at times.