Post by CoolP on Oct 8th, 2012 at 8:20am
I've looked up some more locations on our thrilling actions theme. What I've found was this.
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_County_Regional_Airport.
Now I've looked up the default airport (which was a mess when it comes to the details) and also went for the well known freeware lists to come up with the Eagle County Regional Airport KEGE files. No luck. :(
So I took the step and edited the default airport to, hopefully, show some current layout and navaids setup. Means one now can fly to the airport and use the LDA approach in conjunction with current charts. http://www.airnav.com/airport/KEGE
Here's the real approach on an older pic and when looking for the go-around or takeoff path, you see what makes the departure a problem. :o Somebody has placed a mountain in front of the place!
The sim version isn't that nice, but I took some shots with the 737 (from an earlier stage of my editing) and with a nice GA plane (final stage). The shots are done with UTX USA, GEX USA and FSGlobal mesh.
You are coming down with a so called LDA approach (localizer type directional aid) which, in this case, is an offset localizer and a steeper GS (3.80) degrees. Also, you can read the DME. All of those things were either wrong or not there in the default airport, hence my work.
Here's an earlier version of it with the 737. Keep in mind that one should allow some gusts and winds in the weather program. By this, one can at least guesstimate the work it takes to fly into Eagle County as the sim would otherwise render it a 'on rails' experience.
The departure needs some turns and climb rate. With small or fast planes, this isn't that easy. The airport may fit planes up to the 757 I think.
Find the download here. http://www.sendspace.com/file/i3axoe [edit]Updated link. Bugfix. :-[/edit]Now this is my first airport, so please report back if there was any trouble. I have another one (KRIL) in the making.
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| The History Channel rated Eagle County Regional Airport as #8 on its list of Most Extreme Airports in July 2010 due to the altitude, weather variability, an approach through mountainous terrain and challenging departure procedures. |
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_County_Regional_Airport.
Now I've looked up the default airport (which was a mess when it comes to the details) and also went for the well known freeware lists to come up with the Eagle County Regional Airport KEGE files. No luck. :(
So I took the step and edited the default airport to, hopefully, show some current layout and navaids setup. Means one now can fly to the airport and use the LDA approach in conjunction with current charts. http://www.airnav.com/airport/KEGE
Here's the real approach on an older pic and when looking for the go-around or takeoff path, you see what makes the departure a problem. :o Somebody has placed a mountain in front of the place!
The sim version isn't that nice, but I took some shots with the 737 (from an earlier stage of my editing) and with a nice GA plane (final stage). The shots are done with UTX USA, GEX USA and FSGlobal mesh.
You are coming down with a so called LDA approach (localizer type directional aid) which, in this case, is an offset localizer and a steeper GS (3.80) degrees. Also, you can read the DME. All of those things were either wrong or not there in the default airport, hence my work.
Here's an earlier version of it with the 737. Keep in mind that one should allow some gusts and winds in the weather program. By this, one can at least guesstimate the work it takes to fly into Eagle County as the sim would otherwise render it a 'on rails' experience.
The departure needs some turns and climb rate. With small or fast planes, this isn't that easy. The airport may fit planes up to the 757 I think.
Find the download here. http://www.sendspace.com/file/i3axoe [edit]Updated link. Bugfix. :-[/edit]Now this is my first airport, so please report back if there was any trouble. I have another one (KRIL) in the making.