About This File
Thompson Municipal Airport (IATA: YTH, ICAO: CYTH) is an airport located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) north of Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. It is the third-busiest airport in Manitoba after Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport and Winnipeg/St. Andrews Airport.
Thompson is a city in northern Manitoba. As the "Hub of the North" it serves as the regional trade and service centre of northern Manitoba. Thompson is located along the Burntwood River, 830 km (520 mi) north of the Canada–United States border, 739 km (459 mi) north of the provincial capital of Winnipeg, and 396 km (246 mi) northeast of Flin Flon. As of 2016, it has a population of 13,123 residents.
Reference:
Wikipedia 2018
City of Thompson
Thompson Airport Official site
Personal comments:
This airport was already represented in X-Plane but I decided to redo the entire scenery in order to include more detail and accuracy. It's in an interesting area scarred by mining and logging which may ultimately be as graphically apparent in X-Plane as it is in Google Earth. It certainly would be with the appropriate ortho of the area and one can see the devastation, needed or not, that industry inflicts on the planet. The irregular terrain and the surrounding rivers, if you head to the NE and away from the destruction has its own scenic beauty.
Thompson airport is at an elevation of 735 ft / 224 m and the single asphalt runway , 06/24 is 5,800 or 1,768 m. Runway 15/33 is a gravel one measuring 5,079ft or 1,548m. Winnipeg International Airport lies almost 700 km due South. Being the third largest airport in the province, you can easy grab a jet for this flight and enjoy the view of Lake Winnipeg in the sunset from a decent height.
Enjoy your flight.
Installation:
Put unzipped folder, Canada_SK_CYTH 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:
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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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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