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Massawa International (HHMS) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (Fs9).
Massawa, Eritrea
Built in the early 2000's and opened in '03, this airport missed inclusion in Fs9; the old unpaved airport was used. This field can accept the Heavies if needed, so you can take anything in or out of it.
In Google Earth, the old runway is still visible to the Southeast, though the town has built over it. You can even see the hulk of a Russian transport plane damaged during a landing and left there (it's now a cafe or coffee shop, I think). Eritrea is a rather young country (having won independence from Ethiopia in '93), and it's people are trying to promote tourism and commerce so their country can prosper. I wish them the best, and would love to drop in for a visit some day. Massawa was the location of a pivotal battle in Eritrea's War for Independence; in the town is an elaborate monument displaying 3 tanks that played an important part in the battle.
This airport is as accurate as I could make it with the information at hand; Google Earth aerial shots, and a Jepp diagram. I could find no photos of the outside of the buildings, so I grabbed some Sidney Schwartz buildings that looked close, and adjusted the sizes to fit. The layout & dimensions are fairly close to those of the actual airport, as is the location and Localizer freq. As I could not remove the existing NDB (which IRL was moved to the new airport), I changed the NDB ID from MS to MA, and the freq from 230.0 to 231.0 at the new location. This was so you wouldn't have two NDBs of the same name/frequency 6 miles apart.
Rwy 07 ILS; 110.5
NDB; MA. Freq; 231.0
This is only the second airport I've done, and my first-ever public release, so comments/criticism/suggestions are quite welcome. Email me, Stephen Plumb, at pro3zac@yahoo.com, and let me know if anything needs changed and I'll see what I can do.
Installation;
1) Extract the files to a temporary location.
2) Install the contents of the "HHMS" folder in Fs9's "Addon Scenery/Scenery" folder
3) You'll need to install 3 of Sidney Schwartz's excellent object libraries (if you haven't already) in order to view the scenery;
E-Z Terminals SS,
GA Hangars SS V3,
Lights SS V2.
All are available at www.SurClaro or www.avsim.net
4) You don't absolutely have to remove the old airport, but if you don't, you won't be able to start out at the new one, and you'll have 2 airports 6 miles apart with the same name. To fix this;
In the Fs9 main folder;
a) locate and open the main "Scenery" folder; inside are more folders. Locate the folder "Afri". Open it.
b) Inside "Afri" are 3 folders. Locate and open "Scenery".
c) Inside the "Scenery" folder is a large number of .BGL files. Locate "AP958260" (the search function is handy for this). You'll be removing this; it is a ,BGL file with four airports on it (including HHMS); in Step 5, you'll replace the other three.
d) Copy it to where you keep backup files, and delete the original; this is how to get rid of the default airport. This .bgl file has a total of four airports; HHMS, HAAX, HHAS, and Z1OY. Replacements for the other fields are included in this scenery package, so you won't have empty holes in your landscape where airports used to be.
5) In the "Other Airfield .BGLs" folder, you'll find replacement .BGL files for three airports that were also on the file that you removed in Step 4. Copy/paste to Fs9's "addon Scenery/Scenery" folder.
******************* In the "Default HHMS" folder is a replacement for the .BGL file you removed in Step 4 (AP958260). Just in case... ***************
Start Fs9 and enjoy!
This Fs9 Scenery is released as freeware. Copyright Stephen Plumb. Enjoy as-is, or change it if you can make it more accurate. You do not have permission to use this product for monetary gain, period.
--- The rights and wishes of the author must be respected.
Copyright 2011 by Stephen B. Plumb. All rights reserved.
Thanks;
Sidney Schwartz for his outstanding object libraries,
