About This File
Wynyard/W. B. Needham Field Aerodrome, (IATA: None, ICAO: CYYO), also known as Wynyard Memorial Airport, is located 2.2 nautical miles (4.1 km; 2.5 mi) north of Wynyard, Saskatchewan, Canada
Wynyard is a town in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada, 132 km west of Yorkton and 190 km east of Saskatoon. Wynyard is in but not part of the rural municipality of Big Quill No. 308. It is located on the Yellowhead Highway just south of Big Quill Lake.
Reference:
Wikipedia 2018
Wikipedia 2018
Personal comments:
Not to be mistaken with another airport of similar name in Tasmania, Wynyard airport is a very humble affair. I was considering giving it a pass as there is hardly much to model except 4 structures to which time might not have been very kind, if I can judge from the fuzzy Google map satellite picture. However, this airport does stand right besides two large lakes called the Quill Lakes. "Quill Lakes is one of the key breeding ground areas for North American populations of waterfowl and other migratory birds and shorebirds. The area is a major shorebird staging area in the spring and fall with numbers ranging from 60 000 to 155 000 birds." according to this article.
There are a number of similar small airfields in this region
Wadena Airport (CKS7)
Quill Lake Airport (CKE2)
Kelvington Airport (CKV2)
Lanigan Airport (CKC6)
Naicam Airport (CJR9)
Humboldt Airport (CJU4)
Watrous Airport (CKU7)
Ituna Airport (CJM2)
Imperial Airport (CKU5)
Wadena Airport (CKS7)
Quill Lake Airport (CKE2)
Kelvington Airport (CKV2)
Lanigan Airport (CKC6)
Naicam Airport (CJR9)
Humboldt Airport (CJU4)
Watrous Airport (CKU7)
Ituna Airport (CJM2)
Imperial Airport (CKU5)
Unfortunately these seem to be destined to remain simply hard to find (from the air) grass and dirt strips in X-Plane because in reality that is what most are. Unless there is a demand for any of these, I may pass them by as well.
Wynyard airport is at an elevation of 1,746 ft / 532 m and the single asphalt runway , 09/27 is just over 3000 ft, 915 m. There are several modelled airports in this region, including, Corman air Park, CJN5 on the outskirts of Saskatoon, Yorkton, CYQV to the SE and close to the Manitoba border, Rosetown, CJX4 about 260 km due west and a few others in the Saskatchewan series. I would suggest flying NW to CJN5 and into more interesting terrain to North Battleford, CYQW for a lovely afternoon flight in the Canadian prairies.
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_CYYO 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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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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