Description
Lake Chelan Airport (FAA LID: S10), formerly known as Chelan Municipal Airport, is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Chelan, a city in Chelan County, Washington, United States.
Former FS2004 and FSX users might know the area because Chelan was featured in a Georender series scenario by Richard Goldstein, same goes for Skykomish State (S88) and Wenatchee Lake (27W).
The airport is a few miles out of Chelan Lake and sits right next to the Columbia River.
I overhauled a bit the stock representation (which was already very good) and added missing hangars and many details in and around the airport.
To enjoy a full VFR experience you can takeoff from W28 Sequim (see suggested downloads), Friday Harbor (included in MSFS), KORS (payware and freeware available) or many other surrounding airport like 1S2 Darrington, 3W5 Concrete, etc.
A few minutes flight will take you to Spokane to the East.
To the West we have the Wenatchee National Forest, Glacier Peak and to the North we can enjoy the North Cascades National Park.
So you can depart from Sequim W28, explore the Olympic Range, head over to the San Juan Islands and then to the North Cascades and finally head SE to the Wenatchee National Park and finally E to Chelan lake. This makes for an astonishing sightseeing trip and the perfect excuse to use the wonderful Turbo Bonanza by Rob Young (see suggested downloads)
Cove Resort, Wenatchee Lake
Cove resort facility in Wenatchee Lake has been enhanced and is now a worthy place to visit. I did not add any POI or fictional ICAO but it can be easily found overflying the lake.
In alternative, you can add the following coordinates to your flight plan:
47.829189, -120.713788
As a bonus I'm including an overhaul of the following airstrips in the area in this same package:
* River View Airpark (WT03), a perfect strip to practice challenging short takeoffs and landings and it sits less than 5nm out of S10 Chelan. Caution the winds.
* Wenatchee State Airport (27W) sits right next to Wenatchee lake and is a beautiful dirt airstrip where even twin pistons can land comfortably.
* Skykomish State Airport (88W) is a small airstrip deeply tuck in the mountains around Skykomish and makes for challenging approaches and interesting weather conditions.
Suggested Downloads
* https://flightsim.to/file/5657/sequim-valley-airport-w28-wa-us
* https://github.com/roblenvic/Bonanza-Turbo
Reference (interesting reads)
* https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?526-Georender-Chelan-Muni
* https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?1613-Wenatchee-Skykomish-Georender-Scenery
Happy landings.
CREDITS - IMPORTANT NOTE - READ CAREFULLY
In order for this scenario to work correctly you need to have installed
* Dave's 3D People Library by BadMed (https://flightsim.to/file/5452/dave-s-3d-people-library)
* Dave's Seaplane base object library by BadMed (https://flightsim.to/file/5806/fisherman-dave-s-seaplane-base-object-library)
Many thanks to BadMed for this precious library.
Source Code (GPL)
https://gitlab.com/quelcertoleo/chelan
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over 3 years ago
Nice! But how to find the lake's scenery?
over 3 years ago
You just need to explore the south shore of the lake and you will find it.
almost 4 years ago
Great work. Is it fully compatible with the new data of World Update 10? There are quite a lot of changes in the US.
over 4 years ago
WT03's runway is on a platform.
over 4 years ago
check your installation, some addon is creating incompatibilities.
over 4 years ago
Hello,
The scenery is awesome! Thank you for bringing my favourite airport to MSFS! However, there is a small snag. There is a light that is misplaced near the runway 20 holding point. Can you, please, correct this?
Here is an image: https://ibb.co/Z6Tr0n8
over 4 years ago
thank you, glad you enjoy it.
unfortunately, those misplaced lights are a very well known bug of asobugs and the only way to fix will be to redo the airport taxiways and painted lines from scratch instead of using the stock one.
for now there is not such a plan.
almost 5 years ago
This and your other scenery, Stehekin State, are excellent. The bush trip I was working on uses Chelan Municipal as a starting and ending location. I was delighted to see that not only this airport, but also Stehekin already beautiful freeware scenery that would enhance the experience on the bush trip. Thank you for your hard work on this scenery!
almost 5 years ago
Great little airport in a fantastic area. Is it possible to correct the parking though? Spawned aircraft are facing opposite the parking T's on the ramp. You can see it in one of the preview images above.
almost 5 years ago
Glad you enjoy it. The wrong T lines are, as usual, an asobo bug. In order to fix the T I would have to reimplement all airport lines, for now there is not such a plan.
about 5 years ago
Nice job! I just got back from visiting Stehekin today (via boat), so I decided to fly the route from 6S9 to S10, and had your airports installed. The scenery was very close to reality (except of course MSFS didn't acknowledge the areas where forest fires had wiped out the trees), and S10 was a nice a recreation of the airport, which we drove up to the other day. Thanks for adding better airports to this beautiful area!
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Lake Chelan (S10), WA, US
Discover the scenic Lake Chelan Airport (S10) in Chelan, WA, USA with this add-on. Enhancements include detailed hangars and surrounding areas, offering a realistic VFR experience. Explore nearby attractions such as Cove Resort in Wenatchee Lake and additional overhauled airstrips in the region for a complete sightseeing adventure.
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- fixed missing runway on S10 Chelan airport, sorry.
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