A representation of Tomosiga airstrip (WXQ4), as accurate as I was able to make it. This is a one-way, sloping, curving, undulating, ridgetop no-go-around mountain strip in Papua; featuring a narrow chokepoint center section. The strip is showcased in this video of real life flying there:
https://youtu.be/6h4a3rfpt3I
Every effort was made to capture the unique topography of the strip. Additionally, regional-correct buildings make up the village, and much hand-placed vegetation brings it to life. I've also removed the "river climbing the side of the mountain" textures for a more natural look in the area.
There are butterflies! For them to appear, your sim date must be set to April - June, and there must not be any rain in the area. They like to hang out near the flowers at the top of the strip ;).
INSTALLATION:
1. Download and unzip.
2. You will have two scenery folders: "crowley-tomosiga-bijans", and "crowley-tomosiga-defaulttrees". Place ONE of these in your sim Community folder, depending on whether you're using Bijan's trees or the default sim trees. (Rex tree users, it seems to work decently either way so choose your favorite.)
DEPENDENCIES:
1. World Update XIII Oceania.
2. The Emerald Object Library: https://flightsim.to/file/8824/emerald-object-library
HUGE THANKS to the creators of the Emerald Object Library for the use of their fantastic objects in freeware. Their website is here:
https://emeraldscenerydesign.com/products/eolib-msfs/
7 months ago
7 months ago
Stearmandriver
Bernd1151
I had watched that video a few weeks ago, sadly I couldn't find the strip in MSFS. So glad that you made this!!
10 months ago
Bernd1151
Thanks for this package and others.
Any idea why this palm shows up without textures? WUXIII and the other library are installed. https://i.postimg.cc/15BJ4XxB/wxq4.jpg
10 months ago
:blink:... How could you have the model without the textures? Haha sorry but I DON'T have any idea. Let me take a look at where it comes from and we'll see if we can figure it out.
10 months ago
Stearmandriver
GreySkies
Super little strip - many thanks!
10 months ago
AdamskiNZ
great, saw them butterflies, nice sounds of the jungle!
My problem:
the runway is blocked on the western end by a big crane from some other (VFR_xxx?) package.
Can you increase the "exclusion zone" to bring it down?
appreciated
RF (Papua Flyer)
10 months ago
Interesting! You're the second person to get this, right near the approach end, right on centerline? I would have thought the runway rectangle was an exclude by default, but I'll get an explicit one there and re-up in a day or two, sorry. Thanks for the report.
10 months ago
Stearmandriver
RegentFalke
whats the airport code, where to find this?
10 months ago
WXQ4, installed under the name Tomosiga 👍.
10 months ago
Stearmandriver
ponny2oo2