Jacksonville International Airport
KJAX
By
John B. Loney, Jr.
May 23,2004
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ABOUT THE AIRPORT:
Jacksonville International Airport is located about 18 miles north of downtown Jacksonville and services northeast Florida and southeast Georgia. It is conveniently located about one mile west of Interstate 95, at exit 127-B. The airport was opened in 1968 and serves around 5 million passengers a year.
Airport Operational Statistics:
Aircraft based on the field: 74
Single engine airplanes: 7
Multi engine airplanes: 3
Jet airplanes: 21
Helicopters: 31
Military aircraft: 12
Aircraft operations: avg 330/day
Commercial 46%
Transient general aviation 21%
Air Taxi 20%
Military 11%
Local general aviation 2%
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ABOUT THE SCENERY:
This scenery almost didn't make it to publishing. After a massive computer crash which destroyed most of the source files for this scenery, I finally got it together. I have done the city where I lived most of my life and now I thought I'd do the one where I began life.
Ironically, I've flown into Jacksonville only once. Most of my visits to the city of my birth was made either by train,(which is an adventure in itself), or by car. The scenery if fairly straight forward. The usual textures are employed, so if you are new to my sceneries, you can download the textures from my web site. You'll need ASDv2.1, Nova, Nova Gold, NovaSim and my own custom textures. Also, you definitely need Lee Swordy's Traffic Tools and AFCAD2. Go to SurClaro and look under the Must Have Files section of the main menu.
For those who have the Lago program, FSE, there are some stuff in the scenery for you too. Below, you'll find a list of aircraft I used in the scenery for AI and startup aircraft. You can download them or any comparable model and install them into FS. Create your AI list in Traffic Tools per Lee's tutorial. I have included the source file for the flight plans to tie into your traffic tools. As usual, you can contact me with any comments or questions about the scenery. See below for the contact information.
There are some known problems inherent in my sceneries which I am working on to correct. 1. you may crash into an invisible building. To avoid this turn your crash detect off. 2. Even though you are not touching anything, if you are parked close to an object and try to go to where you are parked while already in the spot plane view, you will get a message saying that you are too close to the object and FS will not load that scene. Go to that scene in the tower view and then once in the scene you can cycle to the spot plane view. Hope you enjoy this. Happy landings.
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AIRCRAFT:
Startup aircraft: Boeing 217-200 AirTran b717atrn.zip
AI Aircraft for the traffic:
AC# Type/Livery Zip File
134 Bombardier CRJ-200/Comair oscrjdcc.zip
159 Boeing 727-200/Delta search SurClaro
61 Boeing 757-200/Delta aia752da.zip
95 Douglas DC-10/Northwest search SurClaro
122 Douglas DC-9/Northwest aiadc95nw.zip
229 Lockheed L1011/TWA adsl1011.zip and textwa.zip
230 Boeing 737-400/Midway ml737.zip
65 Boeing 757-200/United ua7572.zip
116 Boeing 7370300/United search SurClaro
60 Boeing 737-400/US Airways aia734us.zip
231 Boeing 737-200/Metrojet yeometro.zip
115 Boeing 737-500/Southwest search SurClaro
123 Embraer ERJ-145/American acerj145.zip and erj145aw.zip
67 Boeing 757-200/American 757retro.zip
68 Boeing 757-200/Continental ca7522ks.zip
80 Embraer ERJ-145/Continental serj1452.zip and conx145.zip
170 Boeing 217-200/Air Tran b217atrn.zip (see startup aircraft)
63 Douglas DC-9/Air Tran aiadc9at.zip
44 Learjet 45 default
45 Learjet 45 default
175 Beechcraft Beechjet 400A bj404.zip
228 Hawker 800XP h8xp04.zip
72 Boeing 747-400/Fedex fdx747v2.zip
73 Boeing 747-400/UPS ups74glo.zip
160 Boeing 767-200/Airborne search SurClaro
223 Boeing 727-200/Emery Worldwide ffxbt72c.zip and emery722.zip
154 Boeing 757-200/DHL search SurClaro
214 Antonov AN-225/Aeroflot an225-04.zip
The "search SurClaro" designation is because I do not know the zip file where that particular model came from. Any model of the same type will do.
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THANKS TO:
All of you who have made this hobby possible and fun.
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INSTALLATION:
AFTER UNZIPPING THE FILE KJAX_V1.ZIP TO A TEMPORARY FOLDER, HOPEFULLY, YOU ARE READING THIS README FILE.
If you don't have them already, download Lee Swordy's Traffic Tools v2x and AFCAD2x. Follow the instructions from the files and install them onto your system. While you're at it, download the texture files necessary for this scenery and put them into the main FS texture folder. They are: ASDv2.1, Nova, Nova Gold and NovaSim textures. Also my own custom textures. All are available at my website, www.lfssd.net. (That "l" is an L not a one) Using the folders switch, unzip the file kjax_scen.zip to the drive where you have your FS. Using your file manager (Windows Explorer) check to make sure that all the files are in their proper folder.
C:\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files should have FL - Jacksonville International FLT and WX files
Drive:\FS2004\Addon Scenery\scenery should have AF2_KJAX.bgl
Drive:\FS2004\Scenery\World\scenery should have TrafficJax.bgl
Drive:\fs2k4_scenery\KJAX\scenery should have the *.bgl scenery files
Drive:\FS2004\Texture should have the following textures:
Signs Comair, Delta, Northwest, United, Midway, Southwest, TWA, US Airways, Metrojet, American, ontinental, AirTran, Signature, Signature_red and Flight School.
If you have Lago's FSE 2004, then check the following:
Drive:\FS2004\Lago\FSE\Data\should have Jax.SE2
Start FS and select settings to add the scenery in the usual manner.
You should be ready to fly. Happy landings!
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Legal stuff. Copyright and Distribution
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This scenery is freeware. Copyright John B. Loney, Jr. Feel free to add or change this scenery. Especially if you know a more accurate placement of items. You do not have my permission to make any monetary gain from this scenery. It started out as freeware and it shall remain freeware.
- The author's rights and wishes concerning this archive must be
respected.
Copyright 2004 by John B. Loney, Jr. All Rights Reserved.
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Disclaimer
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I do not accept any responsibility for any damage to any system as a result of running this scenery.
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Contact:
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As usual, I welcome any comments. I will try to answer as many as I can.
