Stornoway Airport (EGPO) lies 2.3 miles (3.7 km or 2 NM) east of the town of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Association with the Royal Air Force goes back to 1928 when a flying boat landed in Stornoway harbour, long before there was landing ground for wheeled aircraft. Grass runways were completed in 1937 and the airport was taken under military control in 1941. During the period 1986 to 1993, the airport was used as a NATO Forward Operating Base for Air Defence aircraft protecting the fleet, being taken over by the military for six weeks a year.
Now operated by Highlands and Islands Airports (HIA), the airport provides domestic passenger services (over 125,000 passengers a year) as well as hosting the HM Coastguard helicopter search and rescue and private aircraft flights. It is the gateway to the Western Isles of Scotland.
The Stornoway Airport download from Sim720 has been created as a replica of the real airport. All the buildings within the airport boundary have been hand modelled and textured, and placed with extreme accuracy, while the runways and taxiways are also exact matches to the real world surfaces. The Stornoway package also includes custom auto-generated buildings outside the boundary for further added realism, and airport clutter objects and custom made static aircraft provide an authentic real world atmosphere.
This add-on includes a separate configurator tool which enables you to configure settings such as AI traffic and scenery compatibility. This tool can be accessed in the Steam client under the Library/Tools menu.
Stornoway Airport (EGPO) lies 2.3 miles (3.7 km or 2 NM) east of the town of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Association with the Royal Air Force goes back to 1928 when a flying boat landed in Stornoway harbour, long before there was landing ground for wheeled aircraft. Grass runways were completed in 1937 and the airport was taken under military control in 1941. During the period 1986 to 1993, the airport was used as a NATO Forward Operating Base for Air Defence aircraft protecting the fleet, being taken over by the military for six weeks a year.
Now operated by Highlands and Islands Airports (HIA), the airport provides domestic passenger services (over 125,000 passengers a year) as well as hosting the HM Coastguard helicopter search and rescue and private aircraft flights. It is the gateway to the Western Isles of Scotland.
The Stornoway Airport download from Sim720 has been created as a replica of the real airport. All the buildings within the airport boundary have been hand modelled and textured, and placed with extreme accuracy, while the runways and taxiways are also exact matches to the real world surfaces. The Stornoway package also includes custom auto-generated buildings outside the boundary for further added realism, and airport clutter objects and custom made static aircraft provide an authentic real world atmosphere.
This add-on includes a separate configurator tool which enables you to configure settings such as AI traffic and scenery compatibility. This tool can be accessed in the Steam client under the Library/Tools menu.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - DTG_Martin
Join Dovetail Games at 8pm BST on the 25th June 2015 live on Twitch.
Your hosts Martin and Aimee will be taking a look at some exciting new content coming soon to FSX Steam Edition and answering your question live on air. Got a question you would like us to answer? Let us know in the comments below.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - DTG_Martin
Join Dovetail Games at 8pm BST on the 25th June 2015 live on Twitch.
Your hosts Martin and Aimee will be taking a look at some exciting new content coming soon to FSX Steam Edition and answering your question live on air. Got a question you would like us to answer? Let us know in the comments below.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - DTG_Martin
Here at Dovetail Games, we are always keen to hear your views about Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition, and how we can improve the game and content to suit your needs better. We would be grateful if you could spare a few moments of your time to complete our survey below - it should take no more than five minutes - and anyone who owns any version of Microsoft Flight Simulator X (boxed and Steam edition) can complete the survey.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - DTG_Martin
Here at Dovetail Games, we are always keen to hear your views about Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition, and how we can improve the game and content to suit your needs better. We would be grateful if you could spare a few moments of your time to complete our survey below - it should take no more than five minutes - and anyone who owns any version of Microsoft Flight Simulator X (boxed and Steam edition) can complete the survey.
In return for five minutes of your time, we will enter all received surveys into a prize draw to win one of three one-year subscriptions to leading flight simulation magazine PC Pilot.
From Lionheart Creations studios comes the Piper Pacer 180, an elegant American classic. This add-on includes four different flight models, three different variations of interiors and instrument panel types, and a large assortment of unique paint schemes including original show condition paint schemes and weathered-bush plane schemes complete with mud, bugs, chips and scratches for a realistic, hard-flown look.
In addition, this pack also includes scenery upgrades to several airports in and around Hope Alaska as well as small lake ports, remote cabin locations in forests and on lakes, camp sites on glaciers, and a crashed UFO site!
From Lionheart Creations studios comes the Piper Pacer 180, an elegant American classic. This add-on includes four different flight models, three different variations of interiors and instrument panel types, and a large assortment of unique paint schemes including original show condition paint schemes and weathered-bush plane schemes complete with mud, bugs, chips and scratches for a realistic, hard-flown look.
In addition, this pack also includes scenery upgrades to several airports in and around Hope Alaska as well as small lake ports, remote cabin locations in forests and on lakes, camp sites on glaciers, and a crashed UFO site!