| EKVG - Vagar airport in the Faroe Islands.
A very cool video trailer here courtesy of Finite Flying - https://youtu.be/v1or42XikGY
A fine place to stop off for your transatlantic hopping. After an eternity this is officially in the sim so this is now an upgrade of the existing site.
All ground textures disposed of. New ground markings added. Fencing all over. Light applied where it counts. Detail aplenty thrown down.
This has a new taxi system. There are two helicopter parking spots - 100 and 101. There is also a hangar start inside the Atlantic Airways hangar which is space number 6.
On the main apron spaces 3-5 are large GA with a full set of ground services. There's also all the fuel you can scoff.
You may thank Simon Nordendal of Azurafiles for very generously granting permission to use the Vagar custom buildings he made for his payware versions for FSX and P3D. These definitely tie the joint together.
He also supplied a mountain of reference photos to improve this version.
If you want to do more flying, or rather landing, around the islands I've done basic versions of all the Faroes heliports here - https://flightsim.to/file/12170/faroe-islands-heliports
A helicopter would be useful for these.
V 2.4
Re adds runway smoothing that must've been deleted by mistake in the mists of time.
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Uh oh.... i'm back!
I'm afraid i might have found a pretty strange issue. I initially thought this was a fenix thing, but now i have seen it in the PMDG 738 also. When loaded up at the gate, im getting this weird graphical glitch in rainy conditions, where the misty rain effects seem to get masked out by something. Some buildings/hangers seems to masked fully out and therefore stand out alot. Pictures showing what im trying to convey: https://imgur.com/a/94Kw8oT
Haven't seen this before, so perhaps some weird bug going on here with the scenery somehow 🤔
superspud 7 day(s) ago
It's from a weather exclusion box added to certain buildings. It somehow clashes with aeroplane windshield materials, or they highlight each other for some reason.
You'd think they would've sorted it out by now. I'll give it one more sim update and if it isn't gone by then the building occupants will just have to get wet instead.
dustninja 7 day(s) ago
Aha this makes a lot of sense now! Fair enough, lets cross fingers they did address it. Thank you as always for a quick response!
Quassel89
Great airport.
Works perfectly, looks great
and is a great upgrade for the MSFS.
I particularly like the many small details.
It is compatible with SU11,
thanks for that
narvik1a
Thank you very much for this enhancement for a very challenging airport! Excellent work!
One question: is it normal or a non standard feature of this airport that the first 1/3 of the runway lights (not the approach lights) to RWY12 are not visable until reaching a certain pitch angle or does it have to do with way the simulator handles the runway slope angle?
superspud 2 month(s) ago
The runway lights blaze constantly for miles 24/7, much to the annoyance of some developers, so that will be to do with the profile of the runway affecting their visibility.
dustninja 7 day(s) ago
Have to add to this and say i've noticed the papis and start of the runway lights wont render until im basically near the threshold, only for RWY12.
I went and fiddled with the dev camera, i found that to combat this, you have to go to the airport in drone cam, let it load the papis along with some runway lights and then they wont pop in on final. (if you are within the max render distance when you do this) The render distance seems to be around where mykennes starts - to rwy 12. Does asobo let you play with these things, since i think it didn't always used to be like this, perhaps they changed something?
dustninja
Not sure if a fluke on my end, but after the recent update to this addon im getting some bumps on the runway i haven't felt before. Anyone else?
Regardless of that, great job on the update, looks really good.
superspud 2 month(s) ago
Hmm. I did go down it once post-update and it did seem lumpier than before.
I haven't changed any of the terraforming so that's mysterious. I'd better check when I'm at an install again.
dustninja 2 month(s) ago
Lightning fast response! Sounds good, thank you for looking into it! Great to hear im not alone 😀
superspud 2 month(s) ago
Yup. Looks like I deleted the rectangle that smooths the runway and it's just DEM bending it now. I'll tweak a couple of other things and update tomorrow.
You get 71,429 points for highlighting this. I don't know what the points do, or who issues them.
dustninja 2 month(s) ago
Ah excellent, glad i was able to be of help!
fedar
Great Job!
BtcSimmer
Excellent work! Thanks for this one! Had some fun coming back here with Vatsim and FSEconomy from Stornoway I even take a short walk around after landing have a look if you want https://youtu.be/ppPvizlrF9s annnd Thanks again!!!
superspud 2 month(s) ago
Great vid. It is always fun to see these things in the wild.
blanco71
Beautiful airport! Well modelled - sets the bar for all us who might dabble in airport creation.
WernerAir
Definitely one of the best freeware sceneries available!
Chak991
One of the best freeware Airports ! High Level, great Work !
JakeFlight
Super job! A great looking airport. Nice to have such a swell place to land while hopping across the pond.
Lokapix
Incredible work. Payware quality!
andy19882000
Great airport! However one small this is the gates are too small for AIG to assign AI aircraft. Any chance of increasing the gate radius at all?
superspud 12 month(s) ago
Because the apron is so small I reduced the parking space radius to 14 or 15 metres to stop huge airliners appearing and overlapping each other.
They are still large GA spaces but you only see medium AI planes. I will experiment and see what it looks like.
dresoccer4
Love this scenery and the Islands! Q: is there any way to get this amazing airport to work with some of the great DEMs?
superspud 1 year(s) ago
The DEM in this file should overpower all the other DEMS out there which means it should work fine with them.
You can give terraforming a priority which will override any other information so I made my own DEM with a very high priority which should kill off the airport area in other DEM files.
I was in contact with some of the DEM developers and we just couldn't get the airport to work with their elevations. Runways create all sorts of strange behaviour and they have no control over that.
I don't remember testing it though so maybe it won't. Give it a try. If it doesn't then I don't think there's anything else I can do.
Yourakk
The new hangar is top notch, it fits like a glove tight and nice ! 😏
superspud 1 year(s) ago
Cool photo. All we need now are virtual maintenance crews.
scandinavian941
You are a true artist, Sir...and a pro ! of all the small handmade international airports existing in freeware; this is ma favourite ALL time !! That sloped rwy, with one end appearing slowly while accelerating gives such a depth and realism to the scenery...Breathtaking!
And when landing, the rwy comes faster due to that curved parabolic shape of it. One has to flare a bit earlier, not mentionning the loc offset by 14°. Add to that the extreme, almost dramatic North Atlantic weather and you have a even challenging airport as Lukla or Madeira!
BTW....Flamingos on the rwy ?!? these could seriously damage an A20N !!!!!!
superspud 1 year(s) ago
Did I leave a flamingo? This is bad. I was measuring heights with it because it's a very practical bird.
Edit. Flamingo gone. Try a redownload.
scandinavian941 1 year(s) ago
aaaw, that explains the flamingos LOL....just redownloade your scenery jewel. I'll give it a try in a moment. To be honest, I've seen wayyyy worse or more annoying "mistakes" than this one. At least it was "funnily unexpected", and didn't crash the plane because recognised as a solid foreign object; as i had with trees along the taxiways in LFPG, due to the last world update, that added excessively many trees arround and at airports !
scandinavian941 1 year(s) ago
Affirmative, Flamingos are gone ! you ROCK ! Thanks a mill for that outstandingly breathtaking scenery
Henhei
Thanks a lot for this wonderful scenery! However, the runway seems to be quite bumby, so the take off roll is very shaky. Can anyone confirm this?
superspud 1 year(s) ago
Terraforming is very imprecise and I had to spend many extra hours cleaning up the DEM. No doubt there'll be some bumps left over.
When you adjust one thing, something else breaks elsewhere. The main problem has always been where the runway meets the taxiway and that can't really be improved.
I'll have another try now and see if I can refine it further.
Henhei 1 year(s) ago
Ok, thank you for the quick reply. Keep up the great work!
Uppern
Has anyone tried this after SU7?
superspud 1 year(s) ago
Works fine for me. As far as I remember no scenery has ever been broken by a sim update for me so I don't get why these signs are all over them.
It's world updates that are the real murderers.
Uppern 1 year(s) ago
Great. Thanks for replying 👍
eli.aviation
how is this not payware
b52
In my opinon this is so much better than the paywear one. :]
foxtrotostrich
absolutely fantasic as usual!