About This File
Rosetown Airport, (TC LID: CJX4), is located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) northeast of Rosetown, Saskatchewan, Canada. The airport is owned and operated by the town and contains several hangars, a small terminal building and maintenance facilities operated by Provincial Airways.
Rosetown is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, at the junction of provincial Highway 7 and Highway 4, approximately 115 km southwest of Saskatoon.
The town's motto, "The Heart of the Wheat Belt" reflects its history of being a farming community. It is the largest town located in the Rural Municipality St. Andrew's 287, Saskatchewan.
The town's motto, "The Heart of the Wheat Belt" reflects its history of being a farming community. It is the largest town located in the Rural Municipality St. Andrew's 287, Saskatchewan.
Reference:
Wikipedia 2018
Wikipedia 2018
More information about this Prairie town here
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Personal comments:
While the awesome beauty of Canada's British Columbia cannot be disputed and flying in this region is an unforgettable experience, the prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba hold their own. Looking down from a few hundred feet in the air over the Canadian prairies, one is struck by a breathtaking realization of the vastness of this country and the sparseness of its population; by the practicality of welcoming thousands of war torn migrants and refugees. Calling Saskatchewan the breadbasket of Canada is not a superlative when one realizes that the wheat alone grown in these three provinces can feed most of the world's starving population if politics weren't an issue.
This airport has a single short asphalt runway, 2,575 ft 785m in length running 07/25 and at an elevation of 1,920 ft / 585 m. It lies in the heart of wheat country and like most of the other airports in mid and south regions of Saskatchewan is situated in an in-relentlessly flat terrain. I have modelled two nearby grain storage facilities and there are several trains that roll by the airport and presumably pick up the grain from these elevators. The region is well represented in X-Plane and flying low at dawn or sunset with an unlimited vista of vast fields in all directions is a pleasant experience. Knowing when to land before being hypnotized is a skill to be cultivated however.
While Regina International, CYQR is around 260 km to the SE, Saskatoon International, CYXE is only 100 km to the NE, if you are looking for some city excitement. The closest airport in this series is North Battleford, CYQW at around 130 km directly North. At the Southeastern corner of the province are 4 other airports in the series, CJS4, CYQV,CYEN and CJQ3 . Flight plans to these is also provided in the separate download.
New:
In a separate download you will find FMS flight plans to some other airports in the Saskatchewan series, all originating from this airport. Put these plans in your X-Plane 11\Output\FMS plans folder.
Enjoy your flight.
Installation:
Put unzipped folder, Canada_SK_CJX4 in X-Plane, Custom Scenery folder. Restart X-Plane. 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.
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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