Vadsø Airport serves the 6,000 inhabitants of Vadsø and its neighbouring villages. It is a STOL airport operated by Widerøe DHC-8s, and is often visited by GA and air ambulance King Air B200s. Ceilings here are frequently low, with easterly winds in summer, and south by westerly winds with overcast weather in winter. As with the rest of the Varanger peninsula the climate here is very dry. The 970 meter runway features a challenging 1.5% slope; a 30-40 meter cliff before the 07 threshold; and 4.5 and 4.6 degree glide slopes with localizer for STOL operations.
Airport diagrams freely available at Avinor.no.
This upload completes the Varanger Peninsula collection of airports! If you are interested in STOL airports featuring localizers, VORs, NDBs, and detailed runways, check out some of my other uploads.
V 1.3 Features
- Fix for hills on approach path.
- 100% accurate STOL CALVERT lights.
- Corrected runway slope.
- 4.5 and 4.6 deg PLASI.
- Improved airport markings, parkings, terrain, buildings.
- Improved terrain in the vicinity (deforestation).
Known issues
- Area beyond 1nm of airport has very poor height mapping.
- No satellite imagery.
- Unwanted apron crew and variable fuel station size. Summer 2022 update: Working on it.
- RWY AHEAD shows through snow.
- Couldn't delete enough forests.
Untested with AI.
Thank you to Augustin Winther for help and airport markings. Thank you also to O M Øverland of Cartographica for the WF maps. Thank you to T Mongun for his B350 air ambulance repaint.
A big thanks for any Paypal donations. <3
3 months ago
3 months ago
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Cosmic_Ray
Nice Airport. Is it normal that the runway has no lights at night? Or is this a bug in msfs because i took a flight at 14:00Z but in winter in the north there is no sun so it is dark.
1 years ago
Hi! I see runway lights just fine through 10:00z to 19:00z, maybe you can try reloading/restarting the flight once you have started at the airport? I've seen some light bugs elsewhere that are fixed by loading twice. Other than that I am not sure what could be going on... Thank you for letting me know!
1 years ago
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vanlueckn
SU8 Compatible 😊 ? I did use it previously, a great airport rendition 😊
2 years ago
BostonElf
thank you from France
2 years ago
PAPYDANIEL66
Well done! Skypark has started a tour of the country. This is the second stop. Definitely a nice addition to add to the tour. 5 stars to boost it over the 4 star mark =)
3 years ago
Thank you so much! What is Skypark?
3 years ago
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Bumblewoot
I don't find the total absence of trees that distracting as the bushes that surround the area is well below two meters from my recollect.
I'm thinking I took a pic looking out of the terminal as well when I was there. Should be fun to compare.
Anyhoo, absolutely awesome work. Love it!
3 years ago
3 years ago
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Thirtywinter
3 years ago
Freddy
4 years ago
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LiveFlyGuy