LONDON AREA AIRPORT (EGLA), FILE: LONAREAA.ZIP FS98 By Ronald Pokatiloff 2661 Sheridan Rd. Zion Ill 60099 USA e-mail: ronpokatiloff@hotmail.com Date:8-2-01 Hello again, if you have tried my past scenery. This is another in my series of advanced airport design projects. This one is a very nice two-runway setup. Having two runways operating as one is only justified if the airport has a high traffic flow. I must point out that the main problem with my earlier designs will not exist with this layout: you DON'T need a lot of land. For the people new to my design concepts, here is a description: Two runways, facing in the same direction and not parallel, working as a single unit. One is used for takeoff, only from the center. The other is used for landing, only from the outer. This eliminates the need for all, or most taxiways. (London Area has no taxiways!) With this design, traffic flow is fast, and terminal access time is cut down to nothing, or almost nothing. This is a very safe airport, with the ability to move a large number of planes. There are many more benefits, and I know you can think of many as you check out and use my layouts. Runways are kept as short as possible, and the landing roll must be at a great pace: to quickly exit at, or near the far end. (My big airport does have HIGH SPEED turnoffs.) In summary, what makes this system work is that you DON'T land AND take off on the same runway. This is a new idea that should greatly change the aviation field. LONDON AREA AIRPORT SPECS Two runways: LENGTH: 6000 by 150 ft LOCATION: west of London in UK: N 51 23.45 W 001 02.05 0 ELEVATION DIRECTION: 270/90 degrees 27R used for landing, 27L used for takeoff WEST 09R used for landing, 09L used for takeoff EAST ILS: 27R 109.00 09R 109.10 DEPARTURE/APPROACH 119.50 TOWER 118.50 CLEARANCE 120.50 LAYOUT DETAILS: The runways overlap 3000 ft, with the ramp located between the two strips. At each end is a terminal building, with four parking spaces for the aircraft. Try to time your landing roll so you go off the runway near your assigned terminal. If you land to the west, use the east terminal. If you land to the east, use the west terminal. There are no taxiways, so stay on the runway until you get to the ramp (past the ramp sign). There is a stop sign at the end of each runway. The ramp ends at the stop sign. See the TOP VIEW bitmap. I don't use a ground controller, to speed things up, when I program PROFLIGHT 98. When using PROFLIGHT, enter runways 27R and 09R under a certain airport name: FOR ARRIVALS. Enter 27L and 09L under a different name: for DEPARTURES. If you don't do this, PROFLIGHT may assign you the wrong runway for takeoff or landing: remember that we land and take off on different runways. TO INSTALL AIRPORT SCENERY Unzip the file, using folder names, into the scenery directory of FS. You should have the following: LONAREA: EAST (for British Midlands landing/takeoff to the east) LA-E-DY.BGL LA-E-DY.DK$ SCENERY LA-E-DY.BGL (from above) LA-E-DY.DK$ (from above) LONAREA.BGL (main scenery file) LON-HANG.BGL (stores info on the moving plane) TEXTURE (aircraft textures) (Put UK design team's concrete texture here. It should have the same name as the default:CONCRETE.R8) WEST (for British Midlands landing/takeoff to the west) LA-DY-W.BGL LA-DY-W.DK$ BMA737 (info on the British Midlands plane) FILE ID LATILE.BGL (use this to set ground texture if you are not using UK ground seeds. If you don't, then the runways will not be correct.) LA-TOP.BMP (overhead view of the airport) README (this file) Besides the above infomation, do the following: If you want the moving plane to land and takeoff to the east, COPY the two files in the EAST folder to the SCENERY folder. Do the same for the WEST folder. If you want to change, make sure you delete the two files already in the SCENERY folder before you copy. BE CAREFULL! Make certain that you COPY the files, and not move them, or you will delete the original files in the EAST/WEST folders. If you are not using UK, or other scenery with 0 elevation, you must COPY the LATILE file to the SCENERY folder. This sets the ground texture at the airport elevation of zero. (UK DESIGN TEAM'S SE scenery will give this airport the proper gound texture, unique for the UK scenery.) Of course, you must activate the scenery in FS, and I would give it a level 1 layer. See your FS documentation if you don't already know how to install scenery. I would suggest that you use the UK DESIGN TEAM'S reddish concrete texture. This file must have the same name as the default file. See the UK DESIGN TEAM web site, listed later in this text. Put this concrete file in your texture folder, or, if you install it in the FS general texture folder, it will make all your FS scenery reddish (unless the scenery has its own concrete texture file). Scenery density for most of the objects is set for the lowest level. There are some dense, and maybe very dense items, so set the density to the highest resolution. The dynamic scenery--only the moving plane-- is set for dense. The plane will land on one runway, park at the terminal, and then take off on the other runway. Finally, you need the textures for AIRPORT scenery designer and VOD. Put them in FS main texture folder. CREDITS, AND OTHER LISTINGS VISUAL OBJECT DESIGNER V 3--Rafael Garcia Sanchez AIRPORT 2.05f --Pascal Meziat SCASM -- Manfred Moldenhauer DYNKIT HANGAR AND PATCH V2.03 --Konstantin Kukoshkin FS ACTION SCENERY V1 --Louis Sinclair, published by Abacus BRITISH MIDLANDS 737-200 -- Brett Caltabiano, original by Brian Quayle UK DESIGN TEAM http://www.magrathea.clara.net/ (great freeware stuff!) OVERHEAD VIEW --ground textures are from UK DESIGN TEAM (picture only) LEGAL This scenery for non-commercial use only, unless you get the permission of all parties involved. As far as my contribution is concerned, I don't care if you use it in a commercial package. But include the original zip file. I give no warranty on the software. Use it at your own risk. This is freeware, so pass it around and upload it to the sites that don't have it. OTHER SCENERY BY RONALD POKATILOFF (FS98): WAUK99.ZIP Waukegan Regional Airport TWA2000.ZIP and TWADY.ZIP Texas World Airport (eight runways!) UKINAPT.ZIP UK International Airport (four runway system) END 8-5-01 RON HAVE FUN WITH MY AIRPORTS!