Humboldt Airport, (TC LID: CJU4), is located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Humboldt is a city in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 113 km east of Saskatoon at the junction of Highway 5 and Highway 20
On April 6, 2018, the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team was involved in a serious bus crash. The bus was carrying the team to a playoff game in Nipawin, Saskatchewan when it collided with a tractor trailer loaded with peat moss at an intersection known as Armley Corner, near Nipawin. Sixteen of the 29 people on board the bus died. Two days after the crash, a vigil was held at the Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, which was attended by over 5,000 people and televised nationally. Attendees included the Prime Minister, Premier of Saskatchewan, and popular Canadian sports personalities.
Reference:
Wikipedia 2018
Personal comments:
This is a humble little airport that serves the needs of the community of Humboldt adequately. It lies between Humboldt lake, about 3 km to the South and the larger Waldsea and Deadmoose Lakes 10 km to the North. The tragedy that gripped this small Saskatchewan town this April was felt nationally here in Canada. This scenery is a tiny memorial of that event and dedicated to the people of Humboldt.
This airport has an asphalt runway, 2,506 ft 764m in length running 10/28 and at an elevation of 1,859 ft / 567 m. There is also a slightly larger grass runway 17/35 which is 2,552 ft or 778m and which is not serviced during the winter.
While Regina International, CYQR is just over 200 km to the SE, Saskatoon International, CYXE is half that distance directly West if you are looking for some city excitement. The closest airport in this series is Wynyard, CYYO at around 70 km to the SE. On the outskirts of Saskatoon is CJN5, Corman air park; further down from there to the SW is CJX4, Rosetown.
I would suggest a circular route from CJU4-CYQW-CJX4-CJN5-CYYO-CJU4.
Enjoy your flight.
Installation:
Put unzipped folder, Canada_AB_CJU4 in X-Plane, Custom Scenery folder. Restart X-Plane. If scenery does not show up, make sure that it is above Global airports in the scenery_packs.ini file. Remember to disable other sceneries of the same airport. I use the excellent freeware xOrganizer for this. 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:
I am trying to create 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.
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