About This File
Brampton-Caledon Airport, (TC LID: CNC3), is a privately owned general aviation airport in Caledon, near Brampton, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto.
The club and airport was established in 1946 and occupies 240 acres (0.97 km2) of land. The airport consists of two paved runways, a flight school building, terminal building, aircraft service and maintenance facilities and 25 storage hangars. It is the busiest uncontrolled airport in Canada by number of flights.
Reference:
Wikipedia 2018
The Brampton Flight Centre is owned and operated by the Brampton Flying Club. The BFC is an innovative, thriving, member-owned organization that strives for excellence in the products and services offered. Top priority is safety and security. Our mission is aviation education. The high quality flight training programs taught by our Transport Canada licenced flight instructors have provided our pilots the skills and knowledge to enable them to achieve their flying goals.
Brampton Flight Centre official page.
Personal comments:
I don't often model privately owned airfields but the importance of this particular airport for pilot training purposes cannot be denied and I am willing to bet that there are many x-plane users who either trained at CNC3 or are training at the moment to get their licenses or ratings. These may be grateful for this version which in the default X-plane scenery was still two lonely runways surrounded by lots of greenery. This particular airport presented a few challenges but I am not unhappy with the results and will welcome comments regarding inaccuracies or omissions from X-plane users who are personally familiar with this airport.
Brampton-Caledon Airport is at an elevation of 936 ft / 285 m and has two relatively short asphalt runways: 15/33 at 3,500 feet (1,067 m) and a shorter 08/26 at 2,502 ft (762 m). There is a lot of parking space but since this is a private airport, maybe you should first get permission before flying in there. You're less than a 5 minute flight to Toronto's Pearson International, CYYZ so Brampton may be well placed in practicing different approaches into Pearson. In the immediate area, you will find most of my Ontario sceneries in this series.
Enjoy your flight.
Installation:
Put unzipped folder, Canada_ON_CNC3 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. 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 all 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 may occasionally sacrifice a small amount of geographical accuracy.
Of course, it takes away a little from reality but (strangely enough), this actually adds to the realism in a scenery.
New
More on this, if you are interested, you can check my October 2018 interview with Flightsim.com.
Equally Important
Please take the time to rate and leave a short comment or constructive criticism so that I'd know I am on the right track with these sceneries. I understand that one normally doesn't return to the download page after you've installed the scenery but try anyway. Comments do motivate scenery designers!
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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