| EKVG - Vagar airport in the Faroe Islands.
A very cool video trailer here courtesy of Finite Flying - https://youtu.be/v1or42XikGY
A fine place to stop off for your transatlantic hopping. After an eternity this is officially in the sim so this is now an upgrade of the existing site.
All ground textures disposed of. New ground markings added. Fencing all over. Light applied where it counts. Detail aplenty thrown down.
This has a new taxi system. There are two helicopter parking spots - 100 and 101. There is also a hangar start inside the Atlantic Airways hangar which is space number 6.
On the main apron spaces 3-5 are large GA with a full set of ground services. There's also all the fuel you can scoff.
You may thank Simon Nordendal of Azurafiles for very generously granting permission to use the Vagar custom buildings he made for his payware versions for FSX and P3D. These definitely tie the joint together.
He also supplied a mountain of reference photos to improve this version.
If you want to do more flying, or rather landing, around the islands I've done basic versions of all the Faroes heliports here - https://flightsim.to/file/12170/faroe-islands-heliports
A helicopter would be useful for these.
V 2.4
Re adds runway smoothing that must've been deleted by mistake in the mists of time.
narvik1a
Thank you very much for this enhancement for a very challenging airport! Excellent work!
One question: is it normal or a non standard feature of this airport that the first 1/3 of the runway lights (not the approach lights) to RWY12 are not visable until reaching a certain pitch angle or does it have to do with way the simulator handles the runway slope angle?
superspud 4 day(s) ago
The runway lights blaze constantly for miles 24/7, much to the annoyance of some developers, so that will be to do with the profile of the runway affecting their visibility.
dustninja
Not sure if a fluke on my end, but after the recent update to this addon im getting some bumps on the runway i haven't felt before. Anyone else?
Regardless of that, great job on the update, looks really good.
superspud 5 day(s) ago
Hmm. I did go down it once post-update and it did seem lumpier than before.
I haven't changed any of the terraforming so that's mysterious. I'd better check when I'm at an install again.
dustninja 5 day(s) ago
Lightning fast response! Sounds good, thank you for looking into it! Great to hear im not alone 😀
superspud 5 day(s) ago
Yup. Looks like I deleted the rectangle that smooths the runway and it's just DEM bending it now. I'll tweak a couple of other things and update tomorrow.
You get 71,429 points for highlighting this. I don't know what the points do, or who issues them.
dustninja 3 day(s) ago
Ah excellent, glad i was able to be of help!
fedar
Great Job!
BtcSimmer
Excellent work! Thanks for this one! Had some fun coming back here with Vatsim and FSEconomy from Stornoway I even take a short walk around after landing have a look if you want https://youtu.be/ppPvizlrF9s annnd Thanks again!!!
superspud 19 day(s) ago
Great vid. It is always fun to see these things in the wild.
blanco71
Beautiful airport! Well modelled - sets the bar for all us who might dabble in airport creation.
WernerAir
Definitely one of the best freeware sceneries available!
Chak991
One of the best freeware Airports ! High Level, great Work !
JakeFlight
Super job! A great looking airport. Nice to have such a swell place to land while hopping across the pond.
Lokapix
Incredible work. Payware quality!
andy19882000
Great airport! However one small this is the gates are too small for AIG to assign AI aircraft. Any chance of increasing the gate radius at all?
superspud 10 month(s) ago
Because the apron is so small I reduced the parking space radius to 14 or 15 metres to stop huge airliners appearing and overlapping each other.
They are still large GA spaces but you only see medium AI planes. I will experiment and see what it looks like.
dresoccer4
Love this scenery and the Islands! Q: is there any way to get this amazing airport to work with some of the great DEMs?
superspud 11 month(s) ago
The DEM in this file should overpower all the other DEMS out there which means it should work fine with them.
You can give terraforming a priority which will override any other information so I made my own DEM with a very high priority which should kill off the airport area in other DEM files.
I was in contact with some of the DEM developers and we just couldn't get the airport to work with their elevations. Runways create all sorts of strange behaviour and they have no control over that.
I don't remember testing it though so maybe it won't. Give it a try. If it doesn't then I don't think there's anything else I can do.
Yourakk
The new hangar is top notch, it fits like a glove tight and nice ! 😏
superspud 12 month(s) ago
Cool photo. All we need now are virtual maintenance crews.
scandinavian941
You are a true artist, Sir...and a pro ! of all the small handmade international airports existing in freeware; this is ma favourite ALL time !! That sloped rwy, with one end appearing slowly while accelerating gives such a depth and realism to the scenery...Breathtaking!
And when landing, the rwy comes faster due to that curved parabolic shape of it. One has to flare a bit earlier, not mentionning the loc offset by 14°. Add to that the extreme, almost dramatic North Atlantic weather and you have a even challenging airport as Lukla or Madeira!
BTW....Flamingos on the rwy ?!? these could seriously damage an A20N !!!!!!
superspud 12 month(s) ago
Did I leave a flamingo? This is bad. I was measuring heights with it because it's a very practical bird.
Edit. Flamingo gone. Try a redownload.
scandinavian941 12 month(s) ago
aaaw, that explains the flamingos LOL....just redownloade your scenery jewel. I'll give it a try in a moment. To be honest, I've seen wayyyy worse or more annoying "mistakes" than this one. At least it was "funnily unexpected", and didn't crash the plane because recognised as a solid foreign object; as i had with trees along the taxiways in LFPG, due to the last world update, that added excessively many trees arround and at airports !
scandinavian941 12 month(s) ago
Affirmative, Flamingos are gone ! you ROCK ! Thanks a mill for that outstandingly breathtaking scenery
Henhei
Thanks a lot for this wonderful scenery! However, the runway seems to be quite bumby, so the take off roll is very shaky. Can anyone confirm this?
superspud 12 month(s) ago
Terraforming is very imprecise and I had to spend many extra hours cleaning up the DEM. No doubt there'll be some bumps left over.
When you adjust one thing, something else breaks elsewhere. The main problem has always been where the runway meets the taxiway and that can't really be improved.
I'll have another try now and see if I can refine it further.
Henhei 12 month(s) ago
Ok, thank you for the quick reply. Keep up the great work!
Uppern
Has anyone tried this after SU7?
superspud 12 month(s) ago
Works fine for me. As far as I remember no scenery has ever been broken by a sim update for me so I don't get why these signs are all over them.
It's world updates that are the real murderers.
Uppern 12 month(s) ago
Great. Thanks for replying 👍
eli.aviation
how is this not payware
b52
In my opinon this is so much better than the paywear one. :]
foxtrotostrich
absolutely fantasic as usual!
DC6Pilot
Can you believe there is a payware competing with you?
superspud 1 year(s) ago
I cannot believe the cheek of these people. I also believe it's now illegal in several jurisdictions.
Durseytu 1 year(s) ago
Darn and I only went and purchased the payware one without realising. Note to self - next time I'm about to purchase an airport check superspud on flightsim.to first!
legoaviation12
Wonderful airport addon! Would rate it more then 5 stars! Must download! Looks extremely good, but for some reason I can't contact ground services. I only have "EKVG Traffic" com on the ATC menu in game. There isn't a problem if you have the A32NX tablet though, since you can contact them via the tablet. But there aren't any ground services com. It isn't the developers problem of the airport btw! (:
superspud 1 year(s) ago
When this airport wasn't in the sim I gave it all of the radio channels. When it became an official airport they only included one channel and must have deleted my other ones.
I didn't check that and only noticed a couple of days ago myself. I should fly there more often. I'll update this very soon with the extra radio options again.