Overview - This updates Malabo Intl the airport serving the capital of the
nation of Equatorial Guinea for AI traffic - specifically the
World of AI packages.
Location - FGSL is located a few miles west of the city of Malabo. The city
and airport are located on Biko Island - a 70km x 32km island in the Gulf of
Biafra - approx 130 nm northwest from the mainland portion of the nation. The
airport is located on the northwest corner of the island.
The nation has become an important source of oil in recent years, increasing
private and commercial air traffic.
FSX - Biko Island is the home to approx 124,000 people - however FSX
land class has only the capital city of Malabo on the north end of the island.
The rest of the island is forest and various other non-populated land class.
Depending upon your mesh - the island will have a near 9,000 ft volcanic
peak. The FSGenesis World Terrain Mesh has a very nice volcano crater on the
south end of the island.
Airport changes - Google Earth imagery is April 2004 - about 1 year older
than the FSX default data. The aerial images show the runway and main aprons
to be concrete, however there is much older stained concrete ramp areas and
taxiways on the airport, which cannot be duplicated with default FSX
scenery textures.
Recently a photo showing extensive new construction at the airport
was posted on airliners.net. I did not attempt to create the south
taxiway extension to full length of the runway. The new terminal and ramps
on the south east end of the airport. The new ramp (govt? military? cargo?
oil company?) on the south west side of the runway nor the cross runway
taxiway.
1. Updated runway, taxiway and apron side pavement.
2. Updated main airport apron layout.
3. Updated parking at terminal and GA area.
4. Narrowed the too large airport background polygon.
5. Added airport road and perimeter fence.
6. Added fuel trucks (3) and vehicle pathways.
7. Updated parking.
8. Extended autogen exclusion past the runway ends to ensure proper approach
will not contact the trees.
I have not attempted to replicate the various damaged and scrapped aircraft
on different parts of the airport.
Parking Codes:
No parking codes are used for the main terminal. The two CEL ATR aircraft
will park near the terminal. One between the jetways in Gate 5 and one just
north of the terminal in Gate 3 - both of which are 14.1M in size.
All visiting jets will park at the terminal in Gate 4 and then Gate 6 with
jetways. Gate 4 is set for 18.1M and will capture the B722, B734, A319 and
A320-200 aircraft. Gate 6 is set for 31.1M and will capture the IBE A333
or a second other smaller passenger jet should Gate 4 be filled when it
arrives.
Gate 1 and Gate 2 to the north are overflow parking set to 36.1M and 15.1M
respectively.
There are 7 GA Small (7.3M), 7 GA Medium (9.3M) and 6 GA Large (12.3M)
parking spots on the main apron. There are also two very large GA spots -
RAMP_GA 15.3M in size. On the southeast corner of the ramp is one 18.3M
RAMP_GA spot coded BBJ0 for the government BBJ to park.
AI Aircraft
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Locally based airlines
Cieba Intercontinental - 2 ATR-43 aircraft
woacelv1.zip on FlightSim and Avsim
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Other WoA airline packages visiting this airport (as of Nov 1, 2009)
Aerocontractors of Nigeria - 2 per week B734 - FOOL-FGSL-DNMM & DMNN-FGSL-FOOL
Air France - 6 per week A319 "Dedicate" - LFPG-FGSL-LFPG
Associated Aviation - 1 per week B722 - FTTJ-FGSL-DNMM
Iberia - 5 per week A319 - LEMD-FGSL-LEMD
Lufthansa - 6 per week A333 - EDDF-FGSL-DNAA-FGSL-EDDF
Spanair - 1 per week A320-200 - LEMD-FGSL-LEMD
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WoA GA packages visiting this airport
Ultimate GA Boeing Business Jet - 2 per week -
.................................a BBJ owned by the nation's government
Ultimate GA Cessna Citation - 1 per week
Ultimate GA Cessna 402 - 1 locally based 3C-DWY - 7x per week
Ultimate GA Gulfstream III - 3 per week
Ultimate GA Learjet 45 - 1 per week
WoA Smugglers Package - 3 per week
Other GA
Default FSX GA - one Mooney based at FGSL - 3C-XQY on a 6 hour schedule
FGSL-DNPO departing FGSL at 05:21, 11:21, 17:21, 23:21 UTC each day.
HTAI Cessna Single-Engine Props Package - payware but very cheap
- http://www.htaimodels.com/
129 per week - mostly to / from DNPO, FKKD, FKYS, FOOL
After I complete work on a few other airports in the country and region,
I will be uploading a GA supplement file to add more GA aircraft and
flights.
