The Charlo Regional Airport(CYCL) is located in North Eastern New Brunswick, Canada. This is a major upgrade to the scenery produced for Fs2000 some years ago and it is compatible with both Fs2004 and Fs2002. It was develop using Fs2004 with limited testing done with Fs2002. This upgrade was made with Airport Version 3.0, Build 188 using an aerial picture of the airport in the background and digital pictures used to produce the textures for the terminal building, hangars, and other 3D objects. The Fs2004 version is compatible with Gilles Gauthier's terrain mesh and new scenes for the provinces of Quebec and Maritimes. The region around the Charlo airport was redone and it is now very close to reality. Gilles Gauthier's latest mesh and scenes are available from AVSIM's library(qc09_2k4a.zip to qc09_2k4d.zip and scenes_du_quebec_2k4.zip).
This upgrade is a fairly accurate representation of the actual airport as the author lives nearby and is very familiar with the site. The digital pictures and all pertinent details used were obtained by the author at the airport. Besides, the author has been very active with flight simulation for the past ten years.
The navigation data for the Runway 13-31, navaids, NDBs, ILS, DME, etc. were obtained from the Canada Flight Supplement, the Canada Air Pilot Instrument Procedures and from the personnel at the airport. This simulation of the airport does not have a VOR but it has a good ILS system with glide slope on R13 and BC for R31, and NDB's at each end of the runway located along the axis of the runway. The localizer and DME operate on 109.5 Mhz. The NDB frequencies are 207(CL) for R13 and 281(L) for R31. In real life, the ILS has been inactive for the past year but it is currently being reactivated. The ILS data is available in Canadian flight manuals published up to 2003.
Installation:
Install Gilles Gauthier's files first in Fs2004. But note that this upgrade will work without these files but the scenery of the region around the airport will not be as close to reality. And also note that these have not been tested in Fs2002 with the Charlo airport and cannot be used in this program.
Unzip the file in a temporary folder. This should result in the following folders: CharloAirportFs2004 and CharloAirportFs2002, two screenshots taken with Fs2004 and a Readme file.
The CharloAirportFs2004 and CharloAirportFs2002 folders each contain a subfolder named Charlo. The Charlo subfolders each contain two subfolders, Scenery and Texture. The Scenery file contain the bgl files and Texture the bmp and other files required.
Copy the entire subfolder Charlo to the Addon Scenery of your preferred Fs program. The folder structure should then be Addon Scenery\Charlo\Scenery & Texture.
Start your Fs program and activate the Charlo scenery in the Library file. It should be straight forward with Fs2004. If there is a problem with Fs2002, check the Scenery.cfg file to make sure that Charlo is present and structured like the other scenery files. It may be necessary to make changes or type this file entirely. Save as *.txt file.
Credits:
The following programs were used to generate this scenery and I would like to credit the authors for their contribution to flight simulation:
Manfred Moldenhauer for SCASM without which none of this would be possible;
Pascal Meziat, Brian McWilliams and Tom Hiscox for Airport 2.60/3.0 and a constant stream of innovations;
Matthias Bruckner for Easy Object Designer which allowed me to create the buildings and 3D objects;
Martin Wright for the BMP2000 program which allowed me to convert the textures;
Lars Hoyer for his nice cars from file Extra Objects V1.0;
Martin Strong's people from my-peeps which added a human element to the scenery;
Gilles Gauthier for his terrain mesh qc09 and correction of the land scenery in the region of the airport.
Copyright and Distribution:
This scenery is released as Freeware and can be distributed freely. The data provided in the scenery must not be used for actual flights at the Charlo Regional Airport(CYCL).
You can contact the author at the following email address:
Maurice Laviolette
Charlo
1 July 2004
mlaviole@nbnet.nb.ca
