Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
(Lovell Field KCHA)
By
John B. Loney, Jr.
June 19, 2004
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ABOUT THE AIRPORT:
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport(Lovell Field) (KCHA) serves Chattanooga and Hamilton County and is owned by Chattanooga Metro Arpt Auth. The airport has more than one runway. The longest is a paved runway extending 7401 feet. The facility is at an elevation of 682 feet at a distance of about 5 miles from Chattanooga.
Airport Operational Statistics
Aircraft based on the field: 111
Single engine airplanes: 31
Multi engine airplanes: 31
Jet airplanes: 48
Helicopters: 1
Aircraft operations: avg 266/day
Transient general aviation 43%
Air Taxi 20%
Local general aviation 19%
Military 14%
Commercial 5%
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ABOUT THE SCENERY:
How did I come the do Chattanooga? Well, I've never been to the facility at all. All I did was to take off from Greenville Downtown SC, turn to 270 degrees and landed at the first blue facility indicated on the gps scope. It happened to be Chattanooga Metro Airport, better known as Lovell Field. I found the facility interesting and from what info I was able to come up with from the internet, I decided to go ahead with the design. The airlines and the fbo are real, I just don't know where they are located on the field. Using a diagram of the field with black marks to indecate where buildings are located, I placed the signed buildings where I thought they would most likely go.
Known characteristics in this scenery are: Crashing into invisible "building" and being too close to an object when changing to the scenery in any view other than the tower view. The work around is to TURN OFF THE CRASH DETECT in FS and always go to the scenery while already in the tower view. Once at the scenery, you can go to any other view.
The information for these problems came too late to incorporate into this scenery, however, my next venture will have what is hopefully a permanant fix for the situation. Enjoy!
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ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT:
The aircraft used in the scenery startup is the Bombardier CRJ-200ER Delta Connection - Comair. This aircraft is also represented in the flight plans as AC#134. Download it from SurClaro search oscrjdcc.zip
AC# Type/Livery Zip File
82 Jetstream 41/American Eagle js41a2k2.zip
164 Boeing 737-400/American (Real Chrome) search SurClaro
123 Embraer ERJ-145/American Eagle acerj145.zip and erj145aw.zip
69 Boeing 727-200/Delta da727_v2.zip
61 Boeing 757-200/Delta aia752da.zip
221 Bombardier CRJ-700ER/Delta Connection ASA crj7asa2.zip
134 Bombardier CRJ-200ER/Delta Connection Comair oscrjdcc.zip (Startup aircraft)
122 Douglas DC-9-50/Northwest aiad95nw.zip
126 Airbus A319/Northwest fa319nwa.zip
60 Boeing 737-400/US Airways aia734us.zip
146 DeHavilland Dash 7/Tyrolean dash7v1.zip(Used as Dash7 in flight plans)
228 Hawker 800XP h8xp04.zip
175 Beechcraft Beechjet 400A bj404.zip
186 Cessna Citation Mustang cesmust4.zip
44 Bombardier Learjet 45 default
21 Cessna Grand Caravan default
1 Beechcraft Baron 58 default
There is a copy of the flight plans source file included with this download.
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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 KCHA_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, plus my own custom textures. All are available for free at my website, www.lfssd.net (the "l" is an L, not a one).
Using the folders switch, unzip the file kcha_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 TN - Chattanooga Metro FLT and WX files
Drive:\FS2004\Addon Scenery\scenery should have AF2_KCHA.bgl
Drive:\FS2004\Scenery\World\scenery should have TrafficChattanooga.bgl
Drive:\fs2k4_scenery\KCHA\scenery should have the kcha_*.bgl scenery files
Drive:\FS2004\Texture should have the following textures:
Sigh_American, Sign_Delta, Sign_Comair, Sign_Northwest, Sign_USAirways, Letters, Sign_TACAir, Sign_Chattanooga, Sign_Airborne Express, Sign_BAX Global, Sign_Emery Worldwide, Sign_Fedex, Sign_UPS
If you have Lago's FSE 2004, then check the following:
Drive:\FS2004\Lago\FSE\Data\should have Chattanooga.SE2
Start FS and select settings to add the scenery in the usual manner. Re-start FS and select Select a Flight. Scroll to TN - Chattanooga Metro and click.
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.
