Westchester County Airport (KHPN)
By
John B. Loney, Jr.
April, 24, 2004
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ABOUT THE AIRPORT:
Westchester County Airport (KHPN) was originally constructed in 1942 on 700 acres in lower Westchester County, the airport was intended as an Army Air Force base to be used in the protection of New York City during World War II. In 1947 the airport and surrounding property were handed over to the County of Westchester for commercial and civil aviation use, and re-named Westchester County Airport (HPN). Although there has been some argument about this, the 3 letter code is from Harrison-Purchase-North Castle...(3 towns bordering the airport).
Airport Operational Statistics
Aircraft based on the field: 386
Single engine airplanes: 240
Multi engine airplanes: 50
Jet airplanes: 82
Helicopters: 14
Aircraft operations: avg 506/day
Local general aviation 42%
Transient general aviation 35%
Commuters 18%
Air Carriers 5%
Military <1%
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ABOUT THE SCENERY:
I have relatives all over the place and Westchester County is of course on the way to visiting some of them. However, whenever I pass there, I never have my camera with me. So all of the research comes from the internet. I was able to find information on where the FBO's are situated on the field. The main terminal building is from a picture I found at the airport's web site. There are lots of parking spaces and you have an opportunity to fill in some flights because I did not create flight plans for all. That was by design. I thought it would be fun for you to do some of your own flights. However, there are a considerable number of flights with the scenery, both commercial and general aviation. I have included the source flight plans file in case you want to work from that. For those of you who have Lago's FSE, there is a file included that enhances the scenery further. I've also included some custom textures for the FBO signs and the airport sign on the main terminal. The rest of the textures are the normal ones I usually incorporate into the sceneries I design. If you don't have them, you can download them from SurClaro and fsnova.com. They are ASDv2.1, Nova and Nova Gold textures from SurClaro and Novasim testures (nstext.zip) from fsnova.com. Two known problems still under investigation are Crashing into an invisible object during taxiing and crashing into a building while parked at a gate or on a ramp, even though you are not physically in contact with anything, when you first go to the airport via the "Go to Airport" menu. The solutions are, for the first one, turn off the crash detect in FS and for the second one, Go to the airport while in the tower view only. Have fun and enjoy.
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AIRCRAFT:
The startup aircraft I used is the Bombardier CRJ-200 Comair (Delta Connection) oscrjdcc.zip. This one is also used as an AI aircraft in the flight plans. The AC# is 134 (see below).
The AI aircraft used are:
AC# Type/Livery/Parking Designation Zip File
82 BAe Jetstream 41 American Eagle AALX js41a2k2.zip
123 Embraer ERJ-145 American Eagle AALX acerj145.zip and erj145aw.zip
76 DeHavilland Dash 8-300 Air Canada JZA d83jazai.zip*
89 Airbus A319 Air Canada ACA ac_a319.zip
69 Boeing 727-200 Delta DAL da727_v2.zip
134 Bombardier CRJ-200 Comair(Delta Connection) COM oscrjdcc.zip
79 Saab 340B Northwest NWAX sf34nwai.zip
122 Douglas DC-9 Northwest NWA aiad95nw.zip
84 BAe Jetstream 41 United UALX js41a2k2.zip
118 Bombardier CRJ-200 United UALX ualcrj.zip
83 BAe Jetstream 41 US Airways USAX js41a2k2.zip
60 Boeing 737-400 US Airways USA aia737us.zip
80 Embraer ERJ-145 Continental COAX serj1452.zip and conx145.zip
175 Beechcraft Beechjet 400A BJ40 bj404.zip
128 Cessna Citation X CC10 cntx04.zip
186 Cessna Citation Mustang MUST cesmust4.zip
213 Gulfstream GS100 GS1 g100moz4.zip
178 Beechcraft KingAir C90B C90B kac90b.zip
174 Beechcraft KingAir B200 KAB2 kab2004.zip
180 Beechcraft Starship STAR sstarshp.zip and starfix.zip
179 Beechcraft Beech 18 B18 b18g2k2.zip and b18gfix.zip
208 Beechcraft Bonanza V35B V35B bv35v04.zip
145 Dehavilland Dash 7 US Airways USA dash7v1.zip and usae.zip
*=This aircraft, though not fully compatible with FS9 will work in FS9 as an AI aircraft. You just will not see the props. So if you chose to use this aircraft and the warning comes up, do not disable anything. Let it run. I have had no problems with it so far.
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THANKS TO:
My thanks goes out to all who have advised and encouraged me and to those who have used my sceneries. I appreciate all of your kind words and suggestions. Thank you.
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INSTALLATION:
AFTER UNZIPPING THE FILE KHPN_V1.ZIP TO A TEMPORARY FOLDER, HOPEFULLY, YOU ARE READING THIS README FILE.
If you don't have them already, download Lee Swordy's Traffic Tools v2x and AFCAD2x. Follow the instructions from the files and install them onto your system. While you're at it, download the texture files necessary for this scenery and put them into the main FS texture folder. They are: ASDv2.1, Nova, Nova Gold and NovaSim textures. All are available for free at SurClaro except NovaSim. You can get NovaSim textures for free at www.fsnova.com.
Using the folders switch, unzip the file khpn_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 NY - Westchester County FLT and WX files
Drive:\FS2004\Addon Scenery\scenery should have AF2_KHPN.bgl
Drive:\FS2004\Scenery\World\scenery should have TrafficWestchester.bgl
Drive:\fs2k4_scenery\KHPN\scenery should have the *.bgl scenery files
Drive:\FS2004\Texture should have the following textures:
Avitat Jet Systems, Panorama Flight Service, Signature Flight Support, Skyport, Westair Aviation and Westchester_Airport_Sign
If you have Lago's FSE 2004, then check the following:
Drive:\FS2004\Lago\FSE\Data\should have WestchesterCounty.SE2
Start FS and select settings to add the scenery in the usual manner.
You should be ready to fly. Happy landings!
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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.
