This small Airport is now run by Thistle Aviation who intend to increase the length of the runway and build more hangars.
Fife Airport was opened in 1982 near the new town of Glenrothes The road system surrounding the Airport forms a convenient visual marker for the approach used by the local pilots as does the Fife Constabulary Complex and the Golf Clubhouse. The ‘Tipsy Nipper Restaurant’ is a well-known watering hole and eating place in the Kingdom of Fife. Both the Airport and surrounding terrain are quite hilly. Due to the limitations of Flight Simulator, I have flattened the former. The contours of the surrounding hills are improved by the addition of a suitable mesh, the only drawback being the presence of 'cliffs' at some edges of the flattened area.
As Fife Airport is not, to my knowledge, operational after dark, I have not included night textures in this scenery, although the diners, the golfers and the police will still be busy.
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Grateful thanks are due to the following people who have contributed to the creation of this scenery: Tom Hiscox and his collaborators for keeping Pascal Meziat's 'Airport for Windows' version 2.6, up to date: Iain Gallacher for his continuous help and encouragement: Matthius Brueckner for his 'Easy Object Designer' used for making the Macros: Masakazu Irie for his 'Easy Mountain Builder' program: Peter Leadbetter of Air-Pierre for his help with the windsock macro: Gerrish Gray for his wonderful trees library: Michael Duncan for taking the many digital photographs on which this interpretation of the airport and its surroundings is based: Iain Murray of the University of Dundee for his static aircraft: Dana McGee for permission to use one of his aircraft: the Manager and Staff of Fife Airport for their courtesy and unfailing help: Police Sergeant Paterson for his help when the photographs were taken: the Architect for providing overhead photographs of the Fife Police Headquarters.
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Installation. Extract the file 'Fife_FS9.zip' to your FS2004/addon scenery directory. The folder 'Fife_FS9' and its subfolders 'scenery' and 'texture' will be created. There is no need for any Flatten or Exclude commands for this scenery as these have been incorporated in the bgl files. Ensure that you have included the VOD30 and Airport supplementary texture files (not supplied) in your main Texture directory. I have not included the necessary Gerrish Gray's trees_v3.zip, which must be downloaded separately.
The scenery is,of course,compatible with 'Scotflight'published by VisualFlight, the only proviso being that,when activated in the Settings_Scenery Library section, the Fife scenery is placed higher up than the 'Scotflight' scenery.
Lastly, because of the photographic detail incorporated in this scenery, a modern (fastish) computer is required to keep framerates up.
22_03_2005 Alasdair B. Duncan
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The Author may be contacted at the following address: alasdair@duncan228.freeserve.co.uk
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This scenery is Freeware and the copyright of Alasdair B. Duncan.
