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Welcome to Georgetown!
Georgetown is an unincorporated native village in the Alaskan Southwest region. It sits right on the banks of the Kuskokwim River, where George River meets the Kuskokwim.
It's located approx. 85nm south of McGrath, 135nm northeast of Bethel and 224nm west of Anchorage.
Georgetown is actually split in two by the Kuskokwim River, with parts of the settlement on both sides.
The US Census states the population of Georgetown at 2 in the year of 2010.
Besides some buildings, the rivers and endless wilderness,
Georgetown features two uncharted airstrips on either side of the river serving the settlement and cabins in the area.
Both runway are unpaved turf/gravel runways with no lighting and no maintenance. Windsocks are available on both.
Georgetown Airstrip north, PGTN
Elevation: approx. 175'
Runway: Turf/Gravel
Length: approx. 1400'
Windsock: Available
Lighting: N/A
Compatibility
Compatible
Orbx Alaska Mesh
Incompatible
Enhanced Forest Mod
Possibly other vegetation/season addons/mods (Can't test those since I don't have them)
Dependencies
Bush & Backcountry Library
Ethnicfs Vehicle Library
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Georgetown Airstrip North, PGTN, Alaska
Georgetown is an unincorporated native village in the Alaskan Southwest region. It sits right on the banks of the Kuskokwim River, where George River meets the Kuskokwim. It's located approx. 85nm south of McGrath, 135nm northeast of Bethel and 224nm west of Anchorage. Georgetown is actually split in two by the Kuskokwim River, with parts of the settlement on both sides.
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Version History
1.1.0 Added -Various small vegetation Fixed/Improved -Adjusted scale of dead trees and moved some of them -Moved cabin closer to docks -Removed trees in front of small cabin -Moved parking outside of hangar to better fit larger aircraft there -Adjusted parking types to suppress workers and equipment from spawning (I would encourage people to disable the spawning behavior in the respective aircraft.cfg files to globally disable the feature)
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about 2 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWwc_rWKbQ
almost 2 years ago
Thanks for letting me know about the video! Nice to see people using and enjoying my airstrips.
about 2 years ago
over 2 years ago
Many Thx,
Captain Moonlight
almost 3 years ago
almost 3 years ago
Wookie has been hard at work, it's a good day when you can get 3 more great Wookie airstrips! Thanks Wookie!
almost 3 years ago
Haha! Thank you. I hope you enjoy!
almost 3 years ago
Terrific as usual, I have no idea if these remote parts of Alaska actually look like this but they should. I love searching these airstrips out without using GPS - it can take a while but its worth the effort, thank you!
almost 3 years ago
Thank you! Well, I hope it somewhat resembles what's there in reality and how it looks. It's a nice challenge to fly visual only in the Alaskan backcountry. Definitely, my preferred way of flying and navigating.
about 3 years ago
Well it's look like beautifull as usual, but I just can't take off, I'm always "dying" because I'm hitting something invisible on the track (and one time even before).
I don't understand what's happened ! I would use the wilga 80X but crash every time T_T
about 3 years ago
Where on the strip does it happen?
Sounds a bit weird. I'll check if I can reproduce it. Don't have the Wilga though, so have to do it with another aircraft.
about 3 years ago
I checked in the WB-Sim Cessna 172 and I can't reproduce any crash, neither on take-off nor landing. I had all crashes/damages turned on, took off and landed in both directions. Have you tried with another aircraft? Have you checked if there is any terrain tearing on your end? What happens when you disable the crashes/damages in the assistance options? Are you maybe clipping something with a wing? Just some ideas to check.
about 3 years ago
Yo, well I tried to reproduce this today : I never hit something (yet my landing were terrible), I tried it with both the wilga and the kitfox, no problem. Could it be some sort of bad meshes loading ? Anyway, that perfectly fine now.
An by the way, the areas where I had problem were :
The little bush (I think) at the right of the taxi way perpendicular to the tracksomewhere in the very middle of the track, on the north side.At the west extremity of the track, wilga had strange bounces when I tried to turn over.But again, I went on the same area and that not happen anymore, there is no more trouble now.
And I can see how the great job you done on this ^^
Thanks for your reactivity !
about 3 years ago
Glad that it worked out. It may indeed be some random ground mesh tear due to bad loading, but it's hard to tell. If you run into more consistent problems let me know and I'll see what I can do.
almost 3 years ago
Same situation for me yesterday. Cessna 170 and PC6 Pilatus. In the mid runway, some invisible object that crush the plane. I will disable the damage setting and check if this work and what happens. thanks Wookie for your work!
almost 3 years ago
If you can reproduce that more consistently I may have a look again, however, I couldn't reproduce it on my end until now, so it's hard to fix.