Canada_BC_CYZY 1.0.1

 

Mackenzie Airport, (ICAO: CYZY), is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) north of Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada

Mackenzie is a district municipality within the Fraser-Fort George Regional District in central British Columbia, Canada. The community is located at the south end of Williston Lake. Mackenzie is a destination for outdoor sports enthusiasts. In the winter, Mackenzie hosts dog sled racing, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling competitions. Morfee Mountain overlooks Mackenzie and is a popular destination for local hiking and an off-road vehicle destination. Mackenzie has a swimming pool, indoor and outdoor skating rinks, a curling rink, and two developed beaches on Morfee Lake; First Beach is used primarily for recreational swimming, and Second Beach includes a boat launch. Mackenzie has a ski hill just east of the main town and is 45 minutes away from Powder King ski resort as well as Little Mac a small hill in town. Several lakes that are great for fishing spots.

Reference:
Wikipedia 2017

 

Personal comments:

 

This is a small airport with few structures but seems to be very functional. It's on the East bank and towards the South side of Williston Lake and services a small but thriving community. Again, it is one of those airports in BC which would tend to be forgotten in a flight simulator. This would be a shame because of the truly awesome scenery by which it is surrounded.

 

WARNING: I have used several art assets, objects that have been introduced in the LR library since version 11.10. If you haven't updated your X-Plane version since 11.05 (or before) you will receive various error messages when loading the scenery. Although these airports could definitely benefit from the excellent third party libraries out there, I am committed to creating Lego-Brick airports using only the rather limited (for small airports) LR library so that these airports can replace the default 2D or present hurriedly made 3D airports, in future updates.

 

The nearest airport in this series is Quesnel, CYQZ about 260 km to the South, followed close by further South with Williams Lake, CYWL and 108 Mile Ranch Airport, CZML. Between Mackenzie  airport, CYZY (this scenery) and about 160 km directly South is the large city of Prince George, CYXS with a population of around 75,000 which makes it the largest city in Northern British Columbia. So you may wish to stop there and see the sites. If this scenery isn't North enough for you, you may wish to head directly North to Fort Nelson, CYYE, almost 400 nm over some really spectacular mountains.

 

Enjoy your flight.

Installation:

 

Put unzipped folder, Canada_BC_CYZY 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 freeware 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.
If you receive any error messages during loading, please update X-Plane to the latest version.

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 30 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 or problems you come across while using this particular scenery.

Thank You and  Enjoy the scenery!

 

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