About This File
Grand Forks Airport, (IATA: ZGF, ICAO: CZGF), is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south southeast of Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada.
Grand Forks, population 4,049, is a city in the Boundary Country of the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Granby River and Kettle River, a tributary of the Columbia. The city is just north of the US-Canada border, approximately 500 km from Vancouver, British Columbia and 200 km from Kelowna, British Columbia and 220 km from Spokane, Washington and 23 km west of the resort area of Christina Lake by road.
Grand Forks, population 4,049, is a city in the Boundary Country of the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Granby River and Kettle River, a tributary of the Columbia. The city is just north of the US-Canada border, approximately 500 km from Vancouver, British Columbia and 200 km from Kelowna, British Columbia and 220 km from Spokane, Washington and 23 km west of the resort area of Christina Lake by road.
Reference:
Wikipedia 2017
Wikipedia 2017
Personal Comments:
The scenery also features the Industrial center just North of town. Apologies for the purists but I did try my best.
This is #24 of the Canada_BC series, making it an even two dozen. X-Plane ver. 11.10 is now official and with it came a few (disappointingly almost nothing I could use for small airfields) art assets. If you receive an error message while loading the scenery, it is because I inadvertently used one of those new assets (I don't think I have) and it would also be because you did not yet update X-Plane to this version, which does contain some exciting features.
Just at the US border, Grand Forks airport (Single Runway 4311 ft.) is only a 3 hour drive to Spokane if a Canadian wanted to visit our American cousins. Less, if the traffic was light and US custom lines short. In this case however you should grab a twin engine, fly high over the mountains and be there in less than an hour. If you are in the mood for some sight seeing however, go East towards Christina Lake and follow the meandering valley, then the river South at Kettle Falls. Go East to Spokane at Deer Meadows. It may be faster by car than going this route but not as pretty.
If you want to remain in Canada, take off from Salmon Arm, CZAM and follow the picturesque Okanagan Valley, through Vernon, (CYVK), Kelowna (CYLW) and Penticton (CYYF). It's a pleasant trip and one that I made by car, many times in the summer. At Osoyoos head East for a few minutes and land on Runway 07, if the wind is right, at CZGF (this scenery).
Installation:
Of course, it takes away a little from reality but (strangely enough), this actually adds to the realism in a scenery.
Thank You and Enjoy the scenery!
Installation:
Put unzipped folder, Canada_BC_CZGF 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. Remember to disable other sceneries of the same airport. I use the excellent freewareware xOrganizer for this. If the scenery does not look like the pictures, then you must have picked up another scenery in your Custom Scenery folder.
Note
If you notice trees growing where they shouldn't or other autogen incursions, try disabling your Mesh to see if this is the problem. Please write to me if this happens.
Do not be misled by the tiny size (Less than 50 kB)of the file. 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.
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
Please take the time to rate and leave a short comment or constructive criticism so that I'd know I am on the right track with these sceneries. Also, please report any bugs that you may come across.
Thank You and Enjoy the scenery!
MSF ( Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières )
Like yourself, this organization flies all over the world and they do tremendously good work. If you like this scenery, please consider giving a small donation to MSF.
Like yourself, this organization flies all over the world and they do tremendously good work. If you like this scenery, please consider giving a small donation to MSF.
What's New in Version 1.0.1 See changelog
Released
Removed trees on East side of Runway
Updated Terminal and other buildings.
