About This File
Pembroke Airport, (IATA: YTA, ICAO: CYTA), is located 5.2 nautical miles (9.6 km; 6.0 mi) northwest of the city of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada.
Pem-Air operated regularly scheduled air service between Pembroke Airport and Toronto for 31 years; ending its scheduled operation in December, 2000
Pem-Air operated regularly scheduled air service between Pembroke Airport and Toronto for 31 years; ending its scheduled operation in December, 2000
Reference:
Wikipedia 2017
We are a certified airport located in Petawawa, Ontario, 90 minutes west of Ottawa. Our location has us in close proximity to restaurants, accommodations and attractions in the region. We have full terminal facilities.
The airport has a 5,000-foot x 100-foot asphalt runway as well as a full-length paved taxiway and full service terminal building with ramp for parking. The Pembroke and Area Airport is publicly owned by six member municipalities.
We are the only certified airport between Carp and North Bay.
The airport has a 5,000-foot x 100-foot asphalt runway as well as a full-length paved taxiway and full service terminal building with ramp for parking. The Pembroke and Area Airport is publicly owned by six member municipalities.
We are the only certified airport between Carp and North Bay.
Personal comments:
X-Plane already had a 3D representation of this airport but since this was made several years ago, I decided to completely redo the scenery and make it a little more accurate. I hope I have succeeded. Pembroke Airport is rather spread out, somewhat, humble in its structures but with its 5,000 ft runway it appears very functional and undoubtedly serves the needs of the surrounding communities.
CYTA is at an elevation of 532 ft / 162 m and has a single asphalt runway: 17/35 at 5,000 feet (1,524 m) in length. If you keep the Laurentian Hills at your back and follow the winding Ottawa River you will eventually come across Canada's capital, Ottawa, around 150 miles to the East, depending on how faithfully you followed the course of the river.
If you fly straight East, CYOW (Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport) is around 130 km away but if you want to avoid the hassle of a large airport you can stop at Rockcliffe's CYRO which is on the outskirts of Ottawa. If you are coming into CYTA in a B737, be prepared to brake hard because even though the runway's width is 100 ft, 5,000 ft length is not optimal for jets. Just make sure it isn't raining that day.
Enjoy your flight.
Installation:
Put unzipped folder, Canada_ON_CYTA 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.
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 50 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.
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.
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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More on this, if you are interested, you can check my October 2018 interview with Flightsim.com,
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Thank You and Enjoy the scenery!
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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