CRAIG MUNICIPAL AIRPORT (KCRG) v1.5 Jacksonville, FL
April 29, 2007
By John B. Loney, Jr.
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ABOUT THE AIRPORT:
Craig Municipal Airport (IATA: CRG, ICAO: KCRG) is a mid-sized facility for personal aircraft and small commuter planes located 8 mi (12.9 km) east of Jacksonville, Florida, United States. The entrance is located along St. Johns Bluff Road north of Atlantic Boulevard, although it also borders Atlantic Blvd. to the south.
The airport has a control tower and handles 400-500 aircraft operations daily.
Craig Municipal Airport serves Jacksonville and Duval County and is owned by Jacksonville Port Auth. The airport has more than one runway. The longest is a paved runway extending 4007 feet. The facility is at an elevation of 42 feet at a distance of about 8 miles from Jacksonville.
Airport Operational Statistics
Aircraft based on the field: 319
Single engine airplanes: 182
Multi engine airplanes: 85
Jet airplanes: 12
Helicopters: 22
Military aircraft: 18
Aircraft operations: avg 435/day *
Transient general aviation 50%
Local general aviation 35%
Military 9%
Air Taxi 5%
* for 12-month period ending 20 October 1999
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ABOUT THE SCENERY:
This download is version 1.5. A couple of errrors came up and in an effort to reduce any confusion, I am releasing an updated version to include the error fixes.
This scenery came about by a request from a flight simmer. Now here is the kicker! I am sorry to say that I don't remember his name to give him that credit. Check the email you say? Normally I would but that computer crashed and burned and I lost all that data. So I am starting from scratch now.
Jacksonville is my birth city and I have designed Jacksonville International back in June 2004. As it was pointed out by the flight simmer who requested this scenery, I was long overdo for another design for my birth city. I agreed and here it is.
I have a concern for the frame rates this scenery may impact. I think I had a pretty good feel for that happy medium with my old computer and I think most users had decent frame rates with my sceneries. However, the new computer is much , much faster than the old one. I felt that I needed to make the files in such a way that would give the user more latitude in what they see in the scenery and how their frame rates are effected. Therefore, below you will find some recommendations on what to remove from the scenery folder in order to get the frame rates to an acceptable level should this be neccessary.
Each object in each FBO scetion has it's own .bgl file. You will be able to move certain items out of the scenery in order to get a good frame rate.
There is a flight plan file that uses only default ai aircraft. I have included the usual ground traffic tracks via FSE. EZ Scenery was the only object placement tool used but you should still have all the libraries from Rwy12 installed as EZ uses those objects too. Below, you will also find the libraries I used in this scenery as well as a list of most libraries you could download.
The parking has been divided as such: For Craig Air Center, select N Parking; for ATP select Parking; for Sky Harbor Aviation, select S Parking.
I hope you enjoy this rendering of Craig Municipal Airport. Happy Landings!
FYI - My website is in tact and working, however it has not been updated since the crash because the source files I had to download from the server are out of whack to say the least. I am working on getting the source files straightened out and in order then I can upload the updates. In the meanwhile, if you need anything from the site such as textures, you can still go online and download them from my website.
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LIBRARY OBJECTS USE IN THIS SCENERY:
Scenery Libraries:
Here is a list of the libraries I used for this scenery. However, I recommend you look at the list following this one and download the libraries you do not have.
There is 1 object file I was unclear as to where they come from. The .bgl file is:
Harkins_Theater.bgl. However I've been informed that the file was included in the Harkins Library by Kevin Burns and was included in his Prescott, Arizona package - prescottphoto.zip at Avsim.
NOTE: Those zip files that are more than 8 characters long can be downloaded from SurClaro.com. SurClaro restricts the zip names to 8 characters.
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LIBRARY OBJECTS:
Ray Lunning and John Loney EZ Scenery Objects List
by Abacus - Go to http://www.abacuspub.com Click product support. Click EZ Scenery. About the third or fourth question down has the link for the following file:
AbacusEZScenery_MissingTextures.zip
by Scot Ingram
abw_ver23.zip
abw_alphanumericlibrary.zip
abw_alphanumericlibrary3.zip
abw_alphanumericlibraryfinal.zip
abw_signs.zip
by John Loney
lobjects_1.zip
lobjects_2.zip
lobjects_3.zip
lobjects_4.zip
lobjects_5.zip
lobjects_6.zip
lobjects_7.zip
lobjects_8.zip
lobjects_9.zip
lbldg.zip
lsigns.zip
lmisc.zip
by Al Wheeler
thangars.zip
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PLEASE NOTE HERE... There also is a large set of objects availible for RWY12.. I have many installed as part of the Rwy12 Object Placer utility.. They are installed in the Addon Scenery\Static Objects Library..
RWY12 Static Objects Library Files
This is a list of the rwy12 object files needed to install the Static Object Library. These files are generated by the Zip files below.. They can be found at Flightsim.. esdg*rwy12.zip and fedextrucks.zip can be found at AVSIM..
RW12PG12.zip, RW12L112.zip, RW12L212.zip RW12L312.zip and
esdg_ramplight_rwy12.zip, fedextrucks.zip
Disclaimer... Use at your own risk... Have to say this !
Ray Lunning John B. Loney,Jr.
rlunning@cox.net jbloney@comcast.net
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ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT:
The AI aircraft in this scenery are default aircraft. When you start the scenery, set the time at 18:40:00 GMT.
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THANKS TO:
All flight simmers and developers both payware and freeware. Keeping the blue skies blue.
Also to the flight simmer who suggested this scenery. Please excuse my major senior moment.
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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 KCRGv15.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.(See Scenery Libraries above for specific library files)
Using the folders switch, unzip the file kcrgscn15.zip to a temporary folder.
You should have the following:
fs2k4_scenery\KCRG
FS2004\LAGO\FSE\Data\xxx.se2
\Common\Tracks\xxx.osc
From the main zip file (KCRGv15.zip) you should have the following: lbldg_2.zip and lsigns_2.zip. These are the updated ez scenery objects I created to include in this scenery. Unzip these to the Addon Scenery folder in your FS9 (Don't forget to use the folders switch so the files will automatically go to the proper sub folders.)
Now:
1. move the KCRG folder (and the subfolders) to wherever you keep your addon scenery.
2. For you Lago users, move the xxx.se2 and xxx.osc files to their proper folder under the LAGO main folder.
If your frame rates are low, I reccommend you remove the following files from the scenery folder. You can place them in the KCRG main folder.
The kcrg_atp humans.bgl and/or kcrg_atp vehicles.bgl files until you have a satisfactory F/R. You can also try kcrg_craig air center people.bgl and/or kcrg_craig air center vehicles.bgl. In fact, you can remove any of the humans and/or vehicles .bgl that are in the scenery folder.
If you are a LAGO FSE user, and the frame rates are still low, you might want to consider removing the CraigMunicipal.SE2 and .OSC files from the Lago folders.
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 and just open the folder ie; (KCRG) 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 a flight, hightlight and click FLY NOW
11. Go to the World drop down menu at the top of the screen (If you are in the Windows setting) and click. If you are in the Full Screen setting, press the ALT key for the drop down menu bar. Then click on World. Next click on Go To Airport. Select United States, Florida, Craig Mun and the parking space, (I recommend N Parking 8) then click OK.
12. Select the aircraft you want to fly.
13. Change the time of day (GMT) to the time mentioned above in the "About the Aircraft" section and save the flight.
Now go 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 2007 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.
