Skiathos
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Skiathos is in the northwest of the Sporadhes group of islands in the Aegean and has ab area of 47 sq.Kilometres and around 5000 permanent inhabitants.The island is mostly mountainous but also has a numberof fertile plains.To the north and northeast a steep and rocky coastline forms small coves, while the southern and western sides feature large bays with wide sandy beaches sheltered from the strong predominant northerly winds.
This airport is built on a narrow flat area at the northeast end of the island. It is laid between the easternly located Vroutsato hill (136m) and the westernly located main island mountain whose foothill are adjacent to the airport. Both runway ends are a few yards away from the sea. Runway is heading northeast (runway 02) 16 degrees, or southwest (runway 20) 196 degrees respectively. At the northern end there is Ksanemo beach while to the left and to the right there are the Capes Kefala and Myrties laying, with hills of 50m height each. To the southern end, between runway and Vroutsato hill there is a lake. Northeast winds always prevail at Skiathos a fact that literally forces all take offs and landings to runway 02. South approach follows a way over the islets which are blocking port entrance, while Skiathos city is visible to the left, ending to the runway between the surrounding hills. Airport traffic is relatively low especially during winter but there is a major peak during the warm, summer months with dense t/o's and landings during all day. Regular, charter and private aircraft flights all populate Skiathos terminal during summer.
Prasus lantern
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With no special touristic or aviation value, this little islet with its lighthouse is located at the port entrance. It's current name is Daskalio. Actually, old name happened to be my mother's nickname, when she used to ply restlessly around the lighthouse at her younger age, like a tomboy...:-)).!! This Scenery is dedicated to her.
Skiathos.zip...............Includes Skiathos scenery and texture, ready to be put in your Scenery FS2000 folder
FSTexture.zip..............Includes the original FS bmp file, concerning conrete runways, which is revamped in order to have a better visual fit with the skidmarks
Info.txt...................Greek Version of Readme
Readme.txt.................English Version of Readme
Installation
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1. Unzip Skiathos.zip directly in your Scenery folder.
2. Unzip FSTexture.zip in your main Texture FS folder.
3. Load FS and go to Scenery Library. Add this new area called Skiathos.
4. Exit FS and go to your Scenery.cfg file located in your main FS folder.
5. Find Skiathos area and COPY-PASTE EXACTLY the following commands:
Exclude=N39 17.38,E23 2.64,N38 56.60,E23 37.45,all
Flatten.0=50,N39 14.19,E23 19.21,N39 14.05,E23 36.64,N39 5.59,E23 36.63,N39 5.59,E23 18.65
6. Save and close file.
That's it!
Enjoy your take offs and landings over Skiathos beaches.
Requirements
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Scenery maded with Pentium III 550, 256 mb Ram, Ge Force 256 32 mb...
You can get 10-14 f/sec and for full representation in FS2000 Display Settings->Image quality all features have to be extremly dense.
Credits
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Many thank's to Kyprianos Biris for his help in scenery design he provided me, as well to George Matsarides about translating that document.
Legal Notice
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This scenery is a freeware. Scenery and texture files are COPYRIGHT to their owner. Author's permission is mandatory for any partial or total use in a freeware, shareware or commercial package.
