About This File
Stephenville Airport (IATA: YJT, ICAO: CYJT) is an airport located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south southeast of Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was built by the United States Air Force and operated as Ernest Harmon Air Force Base from 1941-1966.
Stephenville Airport provides scheduled and charter air service to a catchment population of approximately 100,000 people, from the city of Corner Brook 65 km (40 mi) to the north to the town of Port aux Basques 120 km (75 mi) to the south.
Stephenville (Canada 2016 Census population 6,623 is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland.
The town functions as a local service centre for the southwestern part of the island, serving a direct population of 35,000 people from surrounding areas and over 100,000 people along the entire southwestern coast of the island.
Reference:
Wikipedia 2018
Stephenville Airport
Town of Stephenville
Personal comments:
As you can see from Google Satellite maps or from this scenery, this airport has a lot of space where it can expand. Modelling it was a bit of a chore and for some reason that I still don't understand, I didn't enjoy doing this particular scenery as much as some others. Maybe I didn't find it interesting enough or I was struck by the large swaths of desolate tarmacked areas. However, with its impressive 200 foot wide, 10,011 foot long runway, you can almost land the Space Shuttle there. There seems to be another runway, of less impressive length and girth ( 4,000 x 150) but even though I modelled it in this scenery, it appears not to be used at all and there is no mention of it in the charts.
CYJT is at an elevation of 81 ft / 25 m. There is a functional asphalt runway, 09/27 at 10,011 feet (3,051 m). At under 270 km from St. Pierre and Miquelon, Stephenville Airport is probably the closest flight to a foreign country (France) that you can make in a Cessna and still have the afternoon off.
Enjoy your flight.
Installation:
Put unzipped folder, Canada_NL_CYJT 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.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- I upload these sceneries to this site even though they are normally approved and later included in future versions of X-Plane so that users will have a jump start on these airports until they are in fact included in the default X-Plane version. Also, I occasionally update these sceneries and unless the update is big, then I only submit the update on this site. So, if you download any of my Canada_XX_XXXX sceneries and find that they are not different from the default, it is because this scenery has already been approved and included in X-Plane. If you receive any error messages during loading, please update X-Plane to the latest version.
- If you notice trees growing where they shouldn't or other autogen incursions, try disabling your Mesh to see if this is the problem. Please write to me if this happens. This scenery like all the others (I've updated quite a few) should be compatible with HD Mesh V4.
- 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.
- 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.
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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