Gary Gale Seaplane Base (0FL8) For FSX
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My home airport is Ocala Intl (KOCF) and enjoy flying Seaplanes/Float Planes in FSX. The problem I find is that FSX is lacking some good scenery objects for many of the seaplane bases. I decided to try my hand at adding some scenery objects to the default FSX seaplane bases beginning in my home state of Florida. I have also added ADF to this seaplane base to make it easier to find, since their are so many lakes and water areas in Florida, you can easily miss the actual base when trying to land.


Gary Gale Seaplane Base (0FL8) is a private seaplane base located in Florida, County: Duval, City: Jacksonville, GPS (Degrees): Lat: 30° 11' 38'', Lng: -81° 40' 55'', GPS (Seconds): Lat: 30.193889, Lng: -81.681944, GPS determination method: Estimated, Distance from central business district: 8 mi (SW). It is classfied as a seaplane base and as such only available to approved aircraft.

General Information:

Type: Seaplane Base, Status: Operational, Acivation Date: 04/01/1999, Runways: 1, Ownership: Privately owned, Facility Use: Private, Site Number: 03250.13*C, Location ID: 0FL8, Region: Southern, District Office: ORL, Aeronautical sectional chart: Jacksonville, Tie-In FSS ID: GNV, Tie-In FSS Name: Gainesville, Tie-In FSS Toll-Free Number: 1-800-WX-BRIEF, Elevation: 0 ft, Elevation determination method: Estimated, Air traffic control tower: No, Boundary ARTCC (FAA) computer ID: ZCJ, Boundary ARTCC ID: ZJX, Boundary ARTCC Name: Jacksonville, Airspace Determination: Conditional, Inspection Group: Owner, Inspection Method: 5010-2 Private use mail out program

Owner/Manager:

Gary Lemerand, 8436 Malaga Avenue, Orange Park, Fl 32073

Operations Data:

Seaplane Base Use: Private Use
Activation Date: April 1999
Status: Operational
Control Tower: No
Seg-Circle: No
Beacon: None

A.R.T.C.C.: JACKSONVILLE
F.S.S.: GAINESVILLE
Sectional Chart: JACKSONVILLE
AirspaceAnalysis: CONDITIONAL
PRVDD VFR, PVT USE, INTER INTO & MAINTAIN LETTER OF AGREEMENT WITH JACKSONVILLE NAS GOVERNING OPERATING PROCEDURES, CTC LCDR REGGIE GUTSHALL AT 904-772-2838 OR 2516.
Attendance: Unattended

Scenery Details

The scenery was made with ADE 1.50 and is in the correct position according to satellite views. I added Seaplane docks, static seaplanes and a medium and small marina to make landing here more attractive. The real Seaplane base does not have docking for seaplanes/float planes.

Frequencies:

ADF/NDB: Frequency: 339.00 Range: 40 NM

INSTALLATION:

The file 0FL8_ADEX_BB.BGL is located in the zip file. After unzipping the download zip file copy the 0FL8_ADEX_BB.BGL file to the Addon Scenery/Scenery folder......That's it.....enjoy


Comments or Remarks are welcome:

I'd like to thank Jon Masterson for ADE (Airport Design Editor) which was used to make this scenery. Also, all of the real information on this Seaplane Base was obtained from http://skyvector.com/


I hope you enjoy this scenery.
Bruce Bouley
Ocala, Florida
bbouley48@hotmail.com