About This File
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.
You may now remove it from your Custom Scenery folder.
Okotoks Air Park, (TC LID: CFX2), is located 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) south of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The aerodrome is open as of April 30, 2017.
Okotoks is a town in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is situated on the Sheep River, approximately 18 km (11 mi) south of the City of Calgary. The town is a member of the Calgary Regional Partnership, a cooperative of municipalities within the Calgary Region. Okotoks has emerged as a bedroom community of Calgary. According to the 2016 Census, the town has a population of 28,881,making it the largest town in Alberta.
The aerodrome is open as of April 30, 2017
Reference:
Wikipedia 2017
Wikipedia 2017
On April 18, 2016, Okotoks Air Ranch Airport (CFX2) voluntarily surrendered its operating certificate to Transport Canada officials. Since then airport management has worked with Transport Canada to identify and complete the necessary steps to maintain public and aviation safety and to meet Transport Canada operating standards. This ensures compliance to the various regulations that govern any certified airport.
The skies around the Ranchers’ Rise community in the NE corner of Okotoks will get busy again as the Okotoks Air Ranch Airport re-opens to aircraft operations on May 6th, 2017.
Personal comments:
If you are looking to fly in the Calgary region, Okotoks Air Park is just 40 km South of CYYC. It seems there have been recent improvements to the Air Park which enabled it to reopen after having been shut down in 2016. It is a certified airport and prior permission is required but go ahead and land there anyway in X-Plane.
There are few structures at the Air Park and it seems to be swallowed by encroaching housing areas which unfortunately are not modelled in X-Plane but may be at a later date.
Because of its close proximity to Calgary, I thought it was important that CFX2 be properly represented in the simulation.
There are few structures at the Air Park and it seems to be swallowed by encroaching housing areas which unfortunately are not modelled in X-Plane but may be at a later date.
Because of its close proximity to Calgary, I thought it was important that CFX2 be properly represented in the simulation.
The area at an elevation of 3,601 ft (1,098 m) is quite flat and with not many outstanding features but you can easily see the Rocky Mountains rising up less than 50 miles to the West. Sunset view as you head away West from the Air Park is very pretty.
You may wish to fly West into beautiful British Columbia where the nearest (small) airports would be those of Grand Forks, CZGF, Trail CAD4 and Castlegar, CYCG about 350 km (215 miles) away. If you are remaining in Alberta, head North to Red Deer, CYQF, Ponoka, CEH3 or Rocky Mountain House, CYRM, all under 200 km North.
The Runway, 16/34 at Okotooks is 3,025 ft or 922m long.
The Runway, 16/34 at Okotooks is 3,025 ft or 922m long.
Enjoy your flight.
Installation:
Put unzipped folder, Canada_AB_CFX2 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 20 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
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Thank You and Enjoy the scenery!
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