George Best Belfast City Airport (ICAO: EGAC) is a single-runway airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is adjacent to the Port of Belfast and is 3 miles (5 km) from Belfast City Centre. It shares the site with the Short Brothers/Bombardier aircraft manufacturing facility. The airport began commercial operations in 1983, and was known as "Belfast City Airport" until it was renamed in 2006 in memory of George Best, the legendary professional footballer.
I started this project in 2019, sometime after uploading my Eglinton FSX scenery, and have been working on it, at times, since then. Custom building models, models, textures and materials created by me, Jerome Logue. I have used the excellent Asobo Jetway for Belfast City Airport's Gate 4, and a few sparse sections of Asobo fence. I used ScruffyDuck Software's excellent ADE, to help properly adjust the Airport layout in MSFS Developer Mode. I had created several tall Belfast building models, athough have decided to leave them out, as there seems to be some great freeware Belfast City Scenery available on this site, which I haven't had a chance to download/try out yet, so this release is designed to be used with the default MSFS scenery.
Hopefully you will enjoy this freeware rendition of George Best Belfast City Airport.
Installation: Place the folder (jeromelogue-airport-egac-belfast) contained within the PackagesContent folder within the zip, into your MSFS Community folder.
(edit: there is now and excellent payware version of Belfast City Airport, so not sure how much will be added/updated to this project. I started this before the days of Google Street View and had always intended to update the other side of the airport, although doubt this will happen now, as I kept starting other projects anyway :-). I'll probably do my best to update for Sim Update compatibility in the future though)...
v1.01 corrects the apron that looked stripey in certain lighting conditions and also corrects the night-time illumination of some of the airport gate signs....
v1.02 corrects airport ground services not working properly, and has a slightly improved floodlight model.
v1.03 allows connection of airstairs (Ramp Connection) at Gates 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and has been compiled with latest version of SDK.
v1.04 makes airstairs less likely to behave erratically.
v1.05 is compiled with the latest version of the MSFS SDK, for compatibilty with MSFS Sim Update 5 Hotfix 1.18.15.0
v1.06 floodlights fixed and an erroneous very tall default autogen building removed from Belfast Harbour area
v1.07 removes duplicated PAPI lights!
PAPI lights should now appear in the correct real world locations.
v1.08 a few minor improvements to various buildings. (also hotfix to previous v1.08 just uploaded - strange Bombardier texture adjusted).
1.08 Hotfix2 Bombardier textures now corrected, as intended peviously.
v1.09 fixes an ILS and G/S capture issue - ILS and G/S capture now works correctly again.
v1.10 compiled with the latest SDK for Sim Update 6 compatibility
v1.11 compiled with the latest SDK for Sim Update 7 compatibility
v1.12 partially restores functionality and availability of airport ground vehicles...still work in progress...(edit: ground vehciles now present...functionality still be to be implemented...using default Asobo vehicles..trying to get them to work the way they used to....another update incoming soon-ish)...
v1.13 Asobo's excellent default airport ground services now available again
v1.14 compiled with the latest SDK for Sim Update 8 compatibility
v1.15 compiled with the latest SDK for Sim Update 9 compatibility
v1.16 improves the way AI traffic operates at the airport...still working on this...
v1.17 another small update to AI traffic taxipaths - (this version has been re-updated to correct v1,17)
v1.18 compiled with the latest SDK for Sim Update 10 compatibility
v1.19 recompiled with latest SDK for Sim Update 11 (40th Anniversary edition) compatibility (includes small change to Airport Services config that was conflicting with Glider training missions)
v1.20 recompiled with latest SDK for Sim Update 12...new custom smoke and vapour effects added...still work in progress
v1.21 recompiled with latest SDK for Sim Update 13
I will be working on improving the models in this scenery, probably after I've further completed a few other MSFS freeware projects.
14 days ago
FS2020Paul
2 months ago
Snoopy7412
Nice work.
9 months ago
Elwood26
Sorry to bring you bad news, but unfortunately your airport now has a confliction in su11 and the gliders. if this airport is installed, gliders cannot and will not be able to use the waggle rudders feature to start the towplane.. everything else works great. and the scenery is top notch.
1 years ago
Probably best uninstall it, until I've recompiled and tested the next version for SU11 compatibilty. Not sure when that will be - there is now a payware Belfast available.
1 years ago
jeromelogue
choonzy
PERFECT! THANK YOU!!
1 years ago
laszlobarki
Hi, like many other I have been using this scenery since you released it. Thank you.
I would like to suggest you maybe team up with the other developer making EGAC as well. They have modelled in the surrounding airport parking etc which does add another level of detail. I know I should not but I run both airports together to try get the best of both but its not great. I wont mention the other developer here.
1 years ago
I agree. Hope you find a way.
1 years ago
FlySaab340B
stestavros
Top quality! THanks
1 years ago
PilotalexYYZ
love this scenery, but version 1.13 not working for me when trying to inject using Addons Linker? version 1.12 is fine and have reverted to this one for now.
2 years ago
hi there - am unfamiliar with the addon linker program...you could, perhaps, try a manual install, by placing the jeromelogue-airport-egac-belfast folder into your community folder....
2 years ago
jeromelogue
DancingTango
Excellent work Jerome, been using this for a long time and had to leave a review. Making flights to and from the North even better. Great work.
2 years ago
Jodydoc
Excellent work on the ground vehicles, thank you
2 years ago
thanks for the feedback!...still working on various aspects of this project! Thanks again!
2 years ago
jeromelogue
StephenEllis
Love it, great job!
2 years ago
HypePerformanceGroup
Does anybody happen to know if this version of EGAC is compatible with the Belfast city photogrammetry addon (https://flightsim.to/file/6600/belfast )?
2 years ago
unfortunately, I haven't been able to test it, as my PC isn't the greatest! Plus I need to sort of work from the default scenery to ensure sim update compatibility. Maybe someone else can try it though(?)!
2 years ago
jeromelogue
SmokeSwitch
Amazing work but would it be possible to update from Bombardier to Spirt aero systems. Their logo is now on the buildings once owned by Bombardier.
2 years ago
yeah - I must check that out and get it changed...thanks for the feedback!
2 years ago
jeromelogue
rob1071
Nice work, just a minor thing but there seems to be two sets of PAPIs on the 04 side of the runway. Is there meant to be two? I found it quite confusing on approach
2 years ago
ah - thanks for that feedback! The most worrying thing is I've been flying runway 04 appproaches in the sim loads recently in the past few days and hadn't even noticed that the PAPI lights there were duplicated! It's fixed now, in the latest version v1.07. Thanks again for noticing and pointing that out! Much appreciated!
2 years ago
jeromelogue
bobonions
so is this working now with SU5?
2 years ago
yes - has been compiled using latest SDK, and I haven't noticed any anomalies during recent testing. There's a few things that still need slight adjustment, (like the floodlights), although the process of updating all my projects is still ongoing.
2 years ago
jeromelogue
knich