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    RAF Portreath - EXPR

    This is a hand crafted recreation of RAF Portreath which officially closed as an active airfield in 1950, and has been used as a chemical weapons centre, and is now an air defence radar station operated by the Royal Air Force. It has a coastal location at Nancekuke Common, approximately 1.25 kilometres (0.78 mi) north east of the village of Portreath in Cornwall, England.

    Its radar (housed in a fibre glass or golf ball protective dome) provides long-range coverage of the south western approaches to the United Kingdom.

    More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRH_Portreath

    Update 1.1 - ICAO code changed from EGPR to EXPR to avoid clash with Barra addon airport.

    Please note the ICAO code is fictional as this is not an active airfield today.

    Includes:
    · Runways (1 active, 3 inactive)
    · Taxiways with lighting
    · 5 parking spots
    · Working ATC (fictional frequencies)
    · Working ILS (Runway 24 - Frequency 111.4) - I haven't figured out creating Approaches yet, so you'll have to manually intercept the ILS.
    · Custom model and texture for the radar dome
    · 'Base' static scenery for all other buildings, etc
    · Terraformed coastline around the airport (can still be a little glitchy as MSFS was designed for cliffs it seems!)
    · Night lighting

    Installation:
    Extract the "gobby-expr-raf-portreath" folder to your Community folder.

    Updating from 1.0:
    Delete "gobby-egpr-raf-portreath" folder from your Community folder.
    Extract the "gobby-expr-raf-portreath" folder to your Community folder.

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    about 3 years ago

    Looks good and a welcome addition. There are some raised taxi lights in the middle of the taxiway that aircraft wheels would hit. Are they meant to be in the middle? Also there are no PAPI's. Perhaps by design, but it would be useful to have them unless they are deliberately not there.

    over 4 years ago

    is this working with SU5?

    about 5 years ago

    I've noticed that this mod now only works when I'm directly over the radar station. It doesn't pop into view until I literally fly directly over it. Once I've done that it seems to stay there. Is there anything I can do in my settings to fix that? I have terrain and object LOD's set to 100. It's a striking VFR asset when flying along the coast so love to have it show up properly.

    about 5 years ago

    A small addon, but very nicely done. I really enjoyed this. One question, when I googled it in real life, the ball is military camouflaged green, but I did find a single picture of it white as you have it too. do they change the dome from time to time and do you know what colour it is now?
    S

    over 5 years ago

    It´s very impressive when take off and you reach the cliffs, privilege location. Very nice one! I like the radar stuff near the runway :) cheers

    over 5 years ago

    Hi
    This airfield isn't showing up for me in the menu.
    After installing it and refreshing my LittleNavMap database, the ICAO is showing up as EGPR which clashes with Barra.

    You can see from this screenshot it's showing up as EGPR - https://imgur.com/a/gGqNIwb

    And for some reason, when you fly over the airfield, the runway texturing isn't showing up in the simulator, you can see from this screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Jq1NUXQ

    Hoping you can look at these things, thanks.

    GobbyAuthor

    over 5 years ago

    Thanks for the heads up - version 1.1 should now be available with the updated ICAO code.
    Apologies for the inconvenience!

    Delete the original egpr folder, and extract the new expr folder

    over 5 years ago

    Brilliant, it loads in perfectly this time and all the runways have the correct textures, thanks for fixing it.

    I've enhanced the scenery for RAF Fairford which you can find here - https://flightsim.to/file/706/egva-raf-fairford-uk

    I'm currently working on RAF Machrihanish (EGEC) on the west coast of Scotland, I've restored its 10,003ft runway to it's former glory and replaced many of the default auto generated buildings. I will upload it in a few days. I do need to try and get my head around the taxiways, the default auto generated taxiway textures look awful.

    over 5 years ago

    love old military bases

    over 5 years ago

    Looks great. Anything in the SW is a nice bonus. Unfortunately it's not showing up on the map for me. I presume this is because you're sharing the ICAO with Barra which is EGPR too which is a mod I have installed and may turn up in the sim properly some day. Removing the mod doesn't seem to make it show up either. I usually add a Z to the start of fictional or dead airport ICAOs. Edit - worked after a couple of restarts.
    GobbyAuthor

    over 5 years ago

    Thanks for the feedback!
    I've updated the ICAO code in version 1.1 to avoid any clash.
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    RAF Portreath - EXPR

    Explore a detailed recreation of RAF Portreath, a former airfield turned air defence radar station in Cornwall, England. This add-on includes runways, taxiways, parking spots, ATC, ILS for Runway 24, custom radar dome model, and terraformed coastline. Upgrade to version 1.1 to experience this unique location with enhanced features and improved ICAO code.

    Downloads2K
    Version1.1
    File Size217.89 KB
    Published5 years ago
    Updated5 years ago

    User Reviews

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    MSFS2020
    CategoryAirports
    Sub-CategoryIntl. Airports
    ICAOEGPR

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