KLOT - Lewis University Airport - Romeoville, IL USA (V2.0)
Lewis University Airport is a small general aviation airport in the growing town of Romeoville, IL. Located about thirty-five minutes southwest of downtown Chicago, LOT is an ideal airport for business jets and privately owned aircraft. It's two runways, 27-9 and 20-2 provide plenty of distance to operate most modern commercial aircraft. If you have not gathered from the name, this airport is also part of a nationally recognized university. Students at Lewis study anything from Nursing to Computer Science to, of course, Flight Management. Lewis is home to a prestigious flight school and operates a sizeable fleet of training aircraft comprised mainly of Cessna 172s. Most days, flight students are taking to the skies either doing laps in the pattern or going out to one of three designated practice areas. LOT is also located near the Joliet Speedway. Every summer NASCAR teams utilize the airport. The event draws so many corporate aircraft that a temporary control tower is established to ensure safe operations. As the traffic at LOT increases, the demand for a control tower has increased and the Port District that operates the airport hopes to fund the construction of a permanent tower in the near future. Until then, this airport is uncontrolled. Those wishing to practice at a controlled airport can take the short flight over to KARR (Aurora Municipal) or KDPA (DuPage). The University portion of the airport is located on the west side. Aviation Maintenance is also a popular field of study. At one point a B737-200 painted in Lewis University colors was stationed outside the large maintenance hangar. Recently, that B737-200 has been replaced by a retired American Airlines MD80. Unfortunately, neither the B737-200 or MD80 are yet available for MSFS2020 so the A320 NEO has been added in the MD80s place.
I decided to remaster the default airport after seeing how poorly it is depicted by the default airport. The airport holds a special place in my love for aviation as it is where I completed my private pilot training. I also hold an Aviation Management degree from Lewis. It only seemed fitting that I remake this airport to bring it closer to the real thing. Hopefully, current flight students will see this and utilize it for more accuracy. As a side note, if you are familiar with this airport and notice inaccuracies in signage, please feel free to message or comment. I did my best to label taxiway signs as logically as I could using satellite imagery.
Install: place both "pilotguy121a-airport-klot-lewis" and "pilotguy121a-klotlines" in your Community folder.
***If you have this mod already installed, delete it from your Community folder and then add Version 2.0***
- Matched runway, taxiway, and apron textures to satellite images
- Added appropriately sized hangars and buildings
- Fixed default parking spots
- Added additional parking spots/start points
- Corrected runway lighting as accurately as possible
- Hand placed taxiway lights based off satellite imagery
- Removed buildings/trees that were incorrectly generated
- Extensive taxiway paths for AI Traffic
- All taxiways are labeled based
- Added night lighting around hangars and parking lots
- Static aircraft in various parking areas
- Added or removed trees where appropriate
- Fixed a random elevation glitch present about four miles north of the airport
- Cleaned up ground textures were appropriate
Version 1.1
- Corrected taxiway light issue from latest update (16th February 2021 Update/World Update 3)
- Added black background to all holdshort markings
- Improved the runway 20/02, 9/27 intersection
Version 1.2
- Sim Update 5 Compatible
- Fixed duplicate A320NEO
- Modified terrain on approach end of Runway 27
Version 2.0
- Redrew all taxiways adding in finer details and wear based off aerial imagery
- Fixed overlapping runway issue, 2-20 is now accurately displayed over 9-27
- Added custom taxiway line textures were appropriate (yellow with black outline)
- Drew FBO parking lot details
- Enhanced parking lots with cars
- Added additional airport fencing, primarily around FBO and hangars
- Updated night lighting in some areas
- Added runway centerline outlines
- Increased width of runway centerlines
- Outlined runway numbers
- Outlined runway touchdown zone markers
- Updated parking spot sizes so more appropriate AI traffic spawns
- Fixed some AI traffic paths
- Fixed some building errors
- Fixed a quarry that was not displaying the true depth of the quarry
- Added 50+ water storage tanks for visual reference when approaching KLOT and on arrival end of 27
- Various other minor teaks, enhancements, fixes
Please note:
- The photos uploaded, the top is default and the bottom is this modification with the exception of the one denoting the parking spots and highlighting the A320
- No frequencies were altered or changed
- No approaches were altered or changed
- Occasionally inappropriate aircraft spawn at the Large GA ramp position
- Ground vehicles and personnel are generated by the simulator and currently there is no easy way to remove them with the SDK
If you have any questions, comments, or issues, please feel free to post below!
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Hey, current Lewis pilot here, could you see if this scenery works with the new update. It seemed like it didn't work because when I loaded in it didn't look as good before updates so I had to uninstall. Otherwise thanks for making this scenery!
2 years ago
Sorry this took so long to see and respond to. I loaded it up and didn't have any issues on my end. Can you snap a few screenshots and message them to me? It seems like back on SU5, the sim never quite looked the same in my opinion. Almost like they de-tuned it for Xbox. You may want to try clearing your scenery cache as well, see if that helps.
2 years ago
pilotguy121a
rk20
Planning on going there for college but not sure since it is expensive
3 years ago
4TECHGAMERYT
3 years ago
Bill2910