This updated version contains the previously released Coolangatta scenery plus a new photorealistic airport terminal building replacing the rather dull microsoft terminal and other revisions and additions.
For those not living in Australia Coolangatta is the airport for arrival at Queensland's Gold Coast. It is situated 90 kilometres south of Brisbane and 900 kilometres north of Sydney. As well as being a domestic terminal servicing capital cities and regional centres with flights operated mainly by QANTAS and VirginBlue it also increasingly used internationally by carriers such as Freedom Air linking the Gold Coast with New Zealand.
The main aim of this freeware scenery is to make the 134 degree approach to the airport actually look like landing at Coolangatta and capture the many changes which have occurred to the terminal since Gold Coast Airport Ltd have taken over the running of the airport.
These scenery files adds detail to the Currumbin Beach and Tugun approach to the airport. Also some brief detail to make Coolangatta, Burleigh and Surfers appear more realistic.
Anyone who knows Currumbin will recognise many of the houses and shops. Included are the Nokia building, Rocks resort, the newsagent, Real Estate agent, Surf life saving club and other shops and houses. All have been modelled to be as accurate as possible.
Some modification has been made to the creek area to make it look like Currumbin Creek. This includes the Pacific Highway Bridge and the Pacific Highway has also been made to resemble the actual route of the highway past the airport.
This scenery contains all necessary textures which may add to you download times but ensures no missing blanks when you install the files.
INSTALLATION
If you have previously downloaded the earlier version remove this from you system.
1. Unzip Coolangattav2.zip to a temporary folder. Be sure to tick "use folder names".
This will create a folder called Coolangatta International. It will contain the scenery and
texture folders. Place this into the folder you use for added scenery or the FS2002 added scenery folder.
2. Start FS2002 and open the world/scenery library.
Click on "add area" and browse to you new Coolangatta scenery folder.
Single click on the folder name and fill in the scenery area title box naming it whatever you wish.
Note if you choose to copy the texture files to your main texture folder you will be asked wether you wish to overwrite some of the textures with the ones contained here. It should be safe to answer "yes to all" to that question.
To go to the airport click on World/Go To Airport and select coolangatta YYCG.
When landing at the airport the normal approach is from the north with the wind usually from the south. Therefore downwind leg is approx. 2 km off shore heading 340 then turn onto a base leg of 240 aiming for the two apartment blocks on the creek. Turn over the creek to head 134 for the runway. Heavy jets, usually B737 or 717 miss the top of the hill by only a few hundred feet and I have seen one actually bend the top branches of a tree!!
NAVIGATION
ILS is on runway 14 frequencies 110.10
NBD frequency 278
VOR/DME frequency 110.30
ATIS frequency 134.50
As always let me know what you would like to see in future releases of the scenery and what you like/do not like. If you would like to improve the scenery yourself let me know and I will provide the necessary .apt files.
Future releases will include more detail in Coolangatta and Surfers plus changes to the airport to include a new realistic car park and more hangars and static planes. I will release that as an add on to this scenery bearing in mind the frame rate may already be decreasing for people without computers running over 1.0 Ghz and a good video card.
Please note this is freeware and distributed under condition no person uses this to make money or include it with any other package without the knowledge of the author.
My thanks to the writers of Airport 2.9, VOD and SCASM without who this scenery and more like it would not be possible.
Although not necessary for this scenery the addition of Mesh landclass scenery for NSW and Queensland does add something and can be found at www.oceaniasim.com.
