University of Mississippi's University-Oxford Airport KUOX
By John B. Loney, Jr.
January 11,2006
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ABOUT THE AIRPORT:
University-Oxford Airport serves Oxford and Lafayette County and is owned by University Of Mississippi. The paved runway extends for 4700 feet. The facility is at an elevation of 451 feet at a distance of about 2 miles from Oxford.
Airport Operational Statistics:
Aircraft based on the field: 31
Single engine airplanes: 16
Multi engine airplanes: 11
Jet airplanes: 4
Aircraft operations: avg 180/day
Local general aviation 62%
Transient general aviation 28%
Air Taxi 9%
Military 2%
Commercial <1%
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ABOUT THE SCENERY:
This is first facility in a state I have not visited in FS before. I have some friendsa who attended the University of Mississippi and I thought that would be a nice facitily to do for the Flight Sim World. This is one of, I believe, 9 airports own by a university. The majority of this scenery was done using EZ Scenery, incorporating objects from Rwy12 libraries. I managed to place 31 parking spaces on the field as it is in real life. I did not create AI traffic to fill all of the spaces, therefore, you can add more AI traffic if you wish. You have a choice of two variants of this scenery. Both uses modified AFCAD2 files. I added a mobile tower, ATC and an added taxiway to the active to the facility. By default, the scenery will install with these additions . In real life the airport is an uncontrolled facility with a unicom frequency. If you wish to run the scenery with the unicom instead of the ATC, there is another AFCAD2 file you can use in place of the one with the ATC.
To run the scenery with the mobile tower, ATC and an added taxiway to the active, unzip and install the items from the kuoxscen.zip file. The tower frequency is 134.10 and the ground frequency is 128,70.
To run the scenery as it is in real life, which is with the unicom only, then after installing the items from the kouxscen.zip file, replace the AFCAD2 file with the one in the koux_unicom.zip file and remove the kuox_R12_University-Oxford Mobile control.bgl file.
Enjoy this interesting scenery.
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ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT:
The aircraft used for the scenery startup is the Cessna Titan 404.***** titanv1.exe
The aircraft used in the flight plans are listed below:
***** This is an aircraft I created with FSDS2. You can download it from my website listed below. The aircraft is not available anywhere else.
Of course, you can exchange the aircraft for ones you like. There is a copy of the flight plans source file included.
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THANKS TO:
Abacus for EZ Scenery, Rwy12 team and contributors
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INSTALLATION:
Author's Note:
After receiving many emails, I find that I am a little off the beaten path. My FS file structure is not the default setup. So as you read these instructions, keep in mind that most of the files will work from anywhere as long as FS knows where they are. If your file structure is C:\Programs Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\ it's ok. Just place or check to verify that certain files are in certain folders. I will refer to the above structure as the DEFAULT FILE STRUCTURE, and the following file structure as MY FILE STRUCTURE. Which is: D:\fs2004\ and my scenery files are in D:\fs2k4_scenery\.
I have it this way because I've also done scenery for fs2002 and I didn't want to get the two versions mixed up. (Bet'cha can't guess what the folder name for the fs2002 scenery is). So in explaining where the files go, I'll try not to confuse anyone, but if I do, please contact me for clarification.
AFTER UNZIPPING THE FILE kuox_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). You also should download Rwy12 objects/textures. You don't need the complete Rwy12 program. (See the Rwy12 open letter on SurClaro or SurClaro.com search file rwy12_-_open_letter.zip). As mentioned above, you can get the EZ Scenery libraries/textures from Abacus' website at http://www.abacuspub.com/pub/AbacusEZLibraries.exe.
Using the folders switch, unzip the file kuoxscen.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 the .FLT and .WX files (This is for the Windows XP users.) For all other OS the .FLT and .WX files are under the main FS folder. (I think)
Drive:\FS9 folder\Addon Scenery\scenery should have AF2_*.bgl (Refer to Default file structure if different)
Drive:\FS9 folder\Scenery\World\scenery should have TrafficUniversityOxford.bgl
Drive:\fs2k4_scenery or Addon Scenery folder\KUOX\scenery should have the kuox_*.bgl scenery files (The KUOX folder can also go under the Addon Scenery folder if you wish)
If you have Lago's FSE 2004, then check the following:
Drive:\FS9 folder\Lago\FSE\Data\should have UniversityOxford.SE2 for Static scenery and
Drive:\FS9 folder\Lago\Common\Tracks\should have UniversityOxford.OSC For dynamic scenery
Drive:\FS9 folder\KUOX\xml\contains the Rwy12 xml files for those who need the source files for the Rwy12 objects. If you do not wish to change any of the Rwy12 objects, you can delete these files.
Activating the scenery in FS9:
1. Start FS
2. At the Menu, select Settings
3. Then select Scenery Library
4. Select Add Area
5. Go to where you have the scenery folder in the file structure and just open the scenery name folder ie; (KUOX) Then click OK
6. Set the priority using the "D" Key or the Move Down button or the "U" Key or the Move Up Button
7. Click OK
8. Close FS and re-start
9. At the menu select "Select a Flight"
10. Scroll down to your flight, hightlight and click FLY NOW
You're at the airport of your choice. Go fly.
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 2006 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.
