Canada_AB_CFB6 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.

 

Edmonton/Josephburg Aerodrome, (TC LID: CFB6), is located 0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km; 0.81 mi) north of Josephburg in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada.

Josephburg is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County. It is located on Highway 830, 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) east of Fort Saskatchewan. It is near Alberta's Industrial Heartland, home to petrochemical industries.

 

Reference:
Wikipedia 2017

Personal comments:

 

It is important for these little airports around Alberta's capital be developed in X-Plane for those who enjoy VFR flying around Edmonton. Fortunately, through the work of several other artists, most of these smaller airports are well represented but some, like Josephburg remain mere landing strips, the geographical position, length and heading occasionally incorrect since they were automatically put there in X-Plane years ago and not recently updated.

In the immediate area of Josephburg is of course Edmonton , CYEG, 62 km to the SW and Villeneuve, CZVL even closer directly West. Camrose, CEQ3 is well under 100 km due South. From this series but further out are Lac La Biche, CYLB to the North and the cities of Rocky Mountain House (CYRM), Ponoka (CEH3) and Red Deer (CYQF) to the South.

Runway 08-26 at CFB6 is 4560 ft (1390 m) so take that into consideration if you are taking off from Calgary in a 747!

 

Enjoy your flight.

Installation:

 

Put unzipped folder, Canada_AB_CFB6 in X-Plane, Custom Scenery folder. Restart X-Plane. In X-Plane's Location, type "Josephburg" or "FB6" (Not CFB6).  If scenery does not show up, make sure that it is above Global airports and any Mesh Scenery you may be using,  in the scenery_packs.ini file. Remember to disable other sceneries of the same airport, if you have any. 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.

 

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. Note: The version I have submitted for future releases of X-Plane on the Gateway site will only have CTAF frequency but in all other respects, the scenery is identical.

 

I am trying to recreate  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. I understand that one normally doesn't return to the download page after you've installed the scenery but try anyway. Comments do motivate scenery designers!

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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