ASPEN/PITKIN COUNTY AIRPORT
KASE
cOLORADO
BY
JOHN B. LONEY, JR.
FEBRUARY 29, 2004
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ABOUT THE AIRPORT:
Aspen-Pitkin Co/sardy Field Airport serves Aspen and Pitkin County and is owned by Pitkin County. The paved runway extends for 7004 feet. The facility is at an elevation of 7815 feet at a distance of about 3 miles from Aspen.
Walter Paepcke and John Spachner founded the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport as a privately owned, public use gravel landing strip in 1946. The primary user of the airport at the time was the Aspen Institute, the forerunner to Aspen Airways. The original facility consisted of a log cabin terminal building and a gravel runway. In 1956, Aspen Airport Corporation officially deeded the Airport to Pitkin County making it a publicly owned public use airport, one of the requirements for federal participation in airport development.
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ABOUT THE SCENERY:
Ok, I just did Telluride (KTEX), and as long as I was in ski country, I thought why not do the most famous one. So, here's Aspen. There were some decent photos of the ABO(Aspen Base Operations) and the terminal on the internet. The ABO turned out ok, but though I got the right shape of the terminal, I gave it a generic texturing for lack of better textures in my arsenal. I left the default tower intact. I thought MS did a pretty decent job on that.
Ok, so spring is almost here, but for those die-hard fly-in skiers, HAPPY FLYING and watch out for those trees on the slopes!
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NON-DEFAULT AI AND STARTUP AIRCRAFT:
The Startup and one of the AI aircraft for this scenery is the Beechcraft King Air B200 By Chuck Dome. Download it from SurClaro and search fir zip file kab2004. It's AC#174 on the AI aircraft list. The rest of the aircraft used as AI traffic are:
AC# Type Livery Zip File
79 Saab 340B Northwest Airlines sf34nwai.zip
84 Jetstream 41 United Airlines js41a2k2.zip
117 Embraer EMB120 United Airlines search SurClaro
124 BAe RJ85 Northwest Airlines srj851.zip
128 Cessna Citation X ctnx04.zip
175 Beechjet 400A bj404.zip
176 BAe RJ85 United Airlines search SurClaro
177 DeHavilland Dash8 America West d8_awe24.zip
Please keep in mind that you may have to adjust the AC#'s to be in sequence with your own.
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INSTALLATION:
AFTER UNZIPPING THE FILE KASE_V1.ZIP TO A TEMPORARY FOLDER, HOPEFULLY, YOU ARE READING THIS README FILE.
Download Lee Swordy's Traffic Tools v2x and AFCAD2. Follow the instructions from the files and install them onto your system.
Using the folders switch, unzip the file kase_scen.zip to the drive where you have your FS. Using your file manager (Windows Explorer) check to make sure that all the files are in their proper folder.
C:\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files should have CO - Aspen-Pitkin County FLT and WX files
Drive:\FS2004\Addon Scenery\scenery should have AF2_KASE.bgl
Drive:\FS2004\Scenery\World\scenery should have TrafficAspen.bgl
Drive:\fs2k4_scenery\KASE\scenery should have the *.bgl scenery files
You should be ready to fly. Happy landings!
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THANKS TO:
This is getting to sound routine, but I don't think you could ever wear out the word "Thanks". Especially to all the people that make this endeaver what it is. Pure joy! So thanks to everyone who has helped me to develope to the point I am at now, thanks to those who have encouraged me to continue and thanks to those who just plain support the hobby.
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Legal stuff. Copyright and Distribution
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This scenery is freeware. Copyright John B. Loney, Jr. Feel free to add or change this scenery. Especially if you know a more accurate placement of items. You do not have my permission to make any monetary gain from this scenery. It started out as freeware and it shall remain freeware.
- The author's rights and wishes concerning this archive must be
respected.
Copyright 2004 by John B. Loney, Jr. All Rights Reserved.
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Disclaimer
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I do not accept any responsibility for any damage to any system as a result of running this scenery.
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Contact:
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As usual, I welcome any comments. I will try to answer as many as I can.
