Canada_BC_CYQZ 1.0.0

Since X-Plane ver 11.20, this scenery has been included. There is no need to download it unless there has been an update.
You may now remove it from your Custom Scenery folder.

 

Quesnel Airport, (IATA: YQZ, ICAO: CYQZ), is located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) north of Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada.

Airlines and destination

Carson Air   Destination Vancouver
Central Mountain Air Destination Vancouver

 

Quesnel /kw?'n?l/ is a small city that is part of the Cariboo District of British Columbia, Canada. Located nearly evenly between the cities of Prince George and Williams Lake, it is on the main route to northern British Columbia and Yukon. Quesnel is located at the confluence of the Fraser and Quesnel Rivers. The Rocky Mountaineer train also travels through and stops overnight in Quesnel.

 

Reference:

Wikipedia 2017

 

Personal Comments

 

Do not be misled by the tiny size (Less than 50 kb) of these files. This is a LEGO-BRICK scenery and uses the megabytes of art assets  already included in your installation of X-Plane. It will compare favourably, at times better, to other (much larger sized) sceneries of this area and will probably exceed your expectations. I believe that in order to enjoy a flight simulator you shouldn’t need to fill up your computer with gigabytes of data or rely on many third party libraries unless of course you fly exclusively in one small area.

Installation:

 

Put unzipped folder, Canada_BC_CYQZ in X-Plane, Custom Scenery folder. Restart X-Plane. If scenery does not show up, make sure that it is above Global airports in the scenery_packs.ini file.

 

Important Note:

 

Even though there is no tower at this airport and all traffic is CTAF (Common traffic advisory frequency), I did put in a tower in order to animate AI aircraft. Without it there would be no traffic. In all other details and placement of buildings etc. I have tried to keep this as realistic as possible, artistic license notwithstanding.

I am trying to create  smaller, often neglected Canadian airports that do not get much TLC in X-Plane (or in any other flight Simulations). I like to be as realistic as possible with the limited library I work with. I do not have the tools to recreate the details that make an airport look as it looks in  "real life", for example, the discarded fast food container stuck in the fence; the puddle of oil; the crack in a hut window; the bald patches of grass and a myriad other details that you would see in real life. The photos I download and the satellite maps I use as reference are not always up to date and even if I wanted to painstakingly recreate every actual structure, this is impossible to do with the library I use and still keeping it a LEGO_BRICK airport which I want to do so that it is included in future releases of X-Plane. Therefore, in order to keep my airports as appealing and interesting as possible, I do include trees, where no trees may be at the moment; the odd store and gas station or fuel supply.
Of course, it takes away a little from  reality but (strangely enough), this actually adds to the realism in a scenery.

 

Equally Important

 

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Thank You and  Enjoy the scenery!

 

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