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Welcome to SKPV, by agrisson & Skylark2992 (February 2018)

Welcome to El Embrujo airport (SKPV), serving Providencia Island of Colombia. The old adage says that "a picture speaks a thousand words", so I shall let you discover the scenery at your own leisure! :) But suffice it to say, this airport is a beautiful gem tucked away in the south-western corner of the Caribbean Sea. The following information is also included in this scenery's readme file. You can find more information plus navaid details here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Embrujo_Airport

https://skyvector.com/airport/SKPV/Providencia-Airport

I emphasize that this scenery is a joint effort between myself, Skylark2992, and @agrisson, whose original work inspired me to enhance it. This scenery features more eye-candy (e.g., tree lines, ramp details, grasses, people and the like) and was reworked to fit higher-resolution orthos with clouds manually removed, which can be obtained by following the install instructions below. There are now also some helipads scattered across the island.

I am hugely grateful for @agrisson's kind permission to allow me to expand on his original and wonderful design; he has created a work of art in my opinion, on whose foundations I have built this newer scenery. I have also used grasses adapted from @chris k / ISDG group; all permissions are available on request (if in doubt, please do ask - I won't be offended). I have also made use of  @andyw248's excellent weathered shoulders, freely available here and for scenery designers to include in their sceneries.

I have taken some artistic license and embellished Providencia in my own way (look out for people practicing Yoga and some rather unfortunate air balloon enthusiasts!), whilst trying to strike the best possible balance between a scenery rich in objects and good performance. At the airport and on short final, I achieve about 40fps with 25sm visibility and no clouds (about 35fps with scattered clouds and 25sm visibility), tested on a 64-bit system with a 4.4GHz (not overclocked) Intel i7-4790K, 16GB RAM and 4GB VRAM (Radeon R9 380).

I have also added an ATIS at 128.50 so island-hoppers can check ahead. The runway is approx. 4200ft short with displaced thresholds - best advice is, don't bring anything bigger or heavier than a small business jet, and don't try to land early or you will become forever entwined with the island's topography!

This scenery was created using WED, ApplyDecals and Ortho4XP, excellent tools without which X-Plane would not be the same. I have tested this scenery using X-Plane 10 (v10.51rc2) 64-bit; however, I have minimized use of X-Plane 10 library objects so I hope that it works for X-Plane 11 too. Please do let me know if it doesn't work with X-Plane 11 and how I could correct this; however, it may be necessary for X-Plane 11 users to do this themselves since I don't run X-Plane 11. If that were necessary, then I'd gladly let someone make changes, send me the file then upload a compatible version that way. :)

Without further delay, here's how to install the scenery:

Installation instructions

1) First, download and install the following libraries which are also listed in the Master Library list here: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/90776-master-list-of-libraries/


2) Download the scenery and unzip its resulting folder to your X-Plane\Custom scenery folder.

3) Follow the instructions in the included readme file for ortho instructions.

Feedback, comments or questions?

Please do let me know via the forum whether I can improve anything, or if you have any questions. You can reach me via PM or in the comments section of this scenery on the forum. I'm always open to suggestions, comments and constructive criticisms.

¡Buen vuelo! :)

What's New in Version 1.0   See changelog

Released

Terminal flags corrected.
List of required libraries updated in readme to include FJS library, JB library, OpenSceneryX, Sea life library and XAirportScenery library; scenery remains unchanged.
Release date corrected; scenery remains unchanged.

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ajwebb

ajwebb 4,042

   2 of 2 members found this review helpful 2 / 2 members

This is one of the best island sceneries I have. Thank you for this great piece of art.

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monoblau

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I love it! Thanks for this island

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cyl8

cyl8 1,801

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I've only spent an hour hovering around in helicopter and made stops to marvel the details everywhere on the island, and yet i've only covered 1/4 of the island coast! There are people! lots of them! either in line for boarding the plane, or getting sun tan on the beach, or beach volleyballs. There are many ships on water, from small tour boats to full size cruise ships in the area. In the air it is filled with hot balloons! This is a very nice virtual vacation spot for slow crafts to fly low and enjoy the sceneries in details, but i think it's a little heaven for the hover crafts to really explore the place. Thanks guys for the lovely island!

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David Erard

David Erard 2,675

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Very nice. Thank you. Very well done with the water and the island colors. 

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rcrober

rcrober 475

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I like this, but some of the textures have unreal colors or other appearance that detracts somewhat from the overall scenery. Still, a good effort, but would be perfect with better colors and particularly the texture of the surrounding hills.

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anjinsanX

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just updated Naps/handy objects and 1 or 2 others -then installed this and its 100% perfect:
thx so much 10stars 4 you! excellent!-xplane 10! user:

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Thegamerpro0094

Thegamerpro0094 16

  

ES:  Hola me gustaría saber si con el escenario podría incluir los paquetes que necesiten, porque es muy horrible buscar uno a uno y tener errores en la instalación, yo me los instale todos, y aun así tengo errores, aun así con los escenarios default del juego por culpa de los paquetes esos, que uno no sabe ni cual instalar, tengo dos pantallas, y aun así se me hace difícil mirar cual necesito, y hay otros paquetes que no encuentro en las listas.

EN:  Hello, I would like to know if with the scenario I could include the packages that you need, because it is very horrible to search one by one and have errors in the installation, I installed them all, and even so I have errors, even with the default scenarios of the game Because of those packages, which one does not even know which to install, I have two screens, and even so it is difficult for me to see which one I need, and there are other packages that I cannot find in the lists.

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agrisson

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Very beautiful, congratulations! I already communicated with the Brazilian community.

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