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by admin last modified 2006-04-15 22:53

Overview

Scotflight Scenery features not only 37 airports/airfields (two disused), but also a staggering set of other features. See the sections below for more details:

Special mention must be made of the detailed rendition of Edinburgh City Centre, plus unique features such as the fully-working Falkirk Wheel.

Details

Airfields
  • Aberdeen (Dyce)
  • Aboyne - Deeside Flying Club
  • Balado - disused arifield near Kinross
  • Barra
  • Broadford (Isle of Skye)
  • Campbeltown (Machrahanish)
  • Carlisle
  • Crail Airfield, Fife - Former RAF & RNAS base
  • Cumbernauld
  • Dornoch
  • Dundee
  • East Fortune
  • Eday - Orkney
  • Errol airfield (SW of Dundee)
  • Fife (Glenrothes)
  • Gigha airstrip
  • Glenforsa
  • Insch - Aberdeenshire
  • Inverness
  • Islay
  • Jura airstrip
  • Kirknewton
  • Lamb Holm Island - Orkney
  • North Ronaldsay (FS2004 only)
  • Oban, (North Connel)
  • Papa Westray (FS2004 only)
  • Plockton
  • Portmoak, Kinross - Scottish Gliding Centre
  • Sanday - Orkney
  • Scone (Perth)
  • Strathallan - Perthshire
  • Stronsay - Orkney
  • Tealing - disused airfield near Dundee
  • Turnberry
  • Westray - Orkney
  • West Freugh
  • Wick
AFCAD/AI Traffic
  • AFCAD2 Files for all active airports (FS2004 only).
  • Customised AI Traffic file (FS2004 only).

Note: FS2002 users wanting AI traffic should download freeware AFCAD files by David Fidler from file libraries on avsim.com or flightsim.com.

Towns and cities

Edinburgh City Centre

  • Edinburgh Castle, Ramsey Gardens, C.of S. Assembly Rooms and St Giles Cathedral 
  • Princes Street and Gardens, Scott Monument, National Galleries, Bank of Scotland Headquarters (The Mound), Waverley Station and Market, Balmoral Hotel
  • St Andrews Square, New Registry House, New St Andrews House, Old St Andrews House
  • Calton Hill with City Observatory, National Monument, Nelson's Monument and Old High School
  • Hibernian FC Stadium (Easter Road) and Meadowbank Sports Centre
  • New Scottish Parliament, Holyrood Palace, Dynamic Earth and Arthur's Seat
  • George Heriot's School, College of Art and Argyll House
  • MacEwan Hall, Appleton Tower and David Hume Tower
  • Usher Hall, Royal Lyceum Theatre
  • Festival Square, Sheraton Hotel, Standard Life Headquarters, Sun Alliance headquarters and Caledonian Hotel
  • International Conference Centre, Scottish Widows Headquarters
  • Murrayfield Stadium and Hearts FC Stadium (Tynecastle)
  • Charlotte Square, Old Registry House, St Mary's Cathedral, Moray Place, Queen Street and Royal Circus
  • Fettes College and Playing Fields

Around Edinburgh

  • Royal Observatory - Blackford Hill
  • Masts on Corstorphine and Braid's Hills
  • Hillend Dry Ski Slope ( floodlight at night )
  • Leith Docks - corrected dock entrance and added dockside flats plus re-textured Scottish Executive and Ocean Terminal Buildings
  • Granton Harbour and retextured Granton Gasometers
  • Hi-flats in various areas - West Pilton, Sighthill, Little France and Leith
  • Various sports Grounds - Heriots, Stewarts Melville, Watsonians and Boroughmuir
  • Most golf courses & parkland areas

Dundee

  • Photo-realistic buildings throughout city
  • Mills Observatory
  • SCRI
  • Glamis Castle
  • Ninewells Hospital
  • Sensation
  • Discovery Point

River Clyde/Glasgow

  • St Enoch Centre
  • Meadowside Granary
  • Daily Record Building
  • BAE Systems
  • Govan Shipyard
  • Lancefield Quay Flats
  • Kingston Quay Flats
  • Shipbuilding cranes (various locations)

Firth of Forth

  • Cramond Island & Cramond Foreshore
  • Inchcolm Island with Inchcolm Abbey
  • Moored oilrig off Kirkcaldy
  • Coastline - whole Firth of Forth from Torness in the South to Crail in the North
Special features

Falkirk Wheel

  • The Falkirk Wheel. Fully working canal boat lift. (Animation best viewed in 'slew mode' at 8x simulation rate)
Landmark features

Windfarms

  • Bowbeat Windfarm - N of Peebles - 24 Turbines
  • Crystal Rig Windfarm - East Lothian - 20 Turbines
  • Dun Law Windfarm - East Lothian - 26 Turbines
  • Cruach Mhor Windfarm - Glendaurel, Argyll - 35 Turbines
  • Novar Windfarm - Sutherland - 34 Turbines
  • Beinn Ghlas - North Argyll - 14 Turbines
  • Busbie Muir Windfarm - Ardrossan, N Ayrshire - 12 Turbines

Power Stations

  • Torness (East Lothian) with adjacent small caravan park.
  • Cockenzie (Firth of Forth)
  • Hunterston ( Firth of clyde)
  • Longannet (Firth of Forth)
  • Chapelcross (near Carlisle Airport)
  • Inverkip

TV Masts

  • Craigowl Hill communications mast (Dundee)
  • Communications mast on hill south of Tay Road Bridge (Dundee)
  • Communications masts on hill South West of Perth.
  • Rosemarkie (near Inverness Airport)
  • Mount Eagle (near Inverness Airport)
  • Craigkelly (Fife)
  • Blackhill (Central Scotland)
  • Kirk O' Shotts (Central Scotland)
  • Durris (Grampian)
  • Meldrum (Grampian)
  • Darvel (Ayrshire)
  • Rosneath
  • Westernglen (x4)
  • Selkirk (x2)
  • Angus
  • Forfar
  • Inverurie
  • Anthorn (Radio mast at Great Orton, nr. Carlisle)
  • Burghead Radio Mast

Petrochemical Works

  • Grangemouth
  • Mossmorran (near Fife Airport)
  • Dalmeny Oiltank Farm (within sight of Forth Bridges)

Docks and ferry terminals

  • Troon Docks  (approach to Prestwick Airport)
  • Grangemouth West of Chemical Works
  • Leith with many buildings and Royal Yacht Brittania
  • Hound Point (Firth of Forth) with oil tankers
  • Braehead Terminal (Firth of Forth) with gas tanker
  • Invergordon Cruise Terminal with cruise ship
  • Stranraer Ferry Terminal with Stena HSS
  • Cairnryan Ferry Terminal with Car Ferry

Lighthouses

  • Girdle Ness (Aberdeen )
  • Barns Ness (East Lothian Coast)
  • Isle of May (Firth of Forth) -  Island redrawn.
  • Inchkeith (Firth of Forth) -  Island added also.
  • Lady Isle (Firth of Clyde)
  • Bass Rock (Firth of Forth) -  Island added also.
  • Rubha nan Gall (Isle of Mull).
  • Mull of Galloway
  • Crammag Head
  • Killantringan
  • Corsewall Point
  • Loch Ryan
  • Ailsa Craig
  • Sanda
  • Turnberry
  • Pladda
  • Holy Isle
  • Cloch
  • Leith (Dock Entrance)
  • Lismore
  • Channory
  • Cromarty
  • Tarbet Ness
  • Fife Ness Lighthouse & Coastguard Station
  • Skerries Lighthouse (near Lossiemouth)

Bridges and Piers

  • Skye Bridge
  • Ballachulish Bridge
  • Forth Road Bridge
  • Forth Rail Bridge
  • Kincardine Bridge
  • Cromarty Firth Bridge
  • Dornoch Firth Bridge
  • Kessock Bridge and approaches
  • Connel Bridge (Oban) with approaches
  • Tay Road Bridge
  • Tay Rail Bridge
  • Rosyth pier
  • South Queensferry pier
  • Crombie pier
  • Braefoot pier

Castles

  • Castle Stalker (North Argyll)
  • Fort George on approach to Inverness
  • Duart & Moy Castles (Isle of Mull)
  • Kissimul Castle (Castlebay Isle of Barra)
  • Barnbougle Castle (Firth of Forth)
  • Urquhart Castle (with special feature)
  • Glamis Castle (Dundee)
  • Broughty Ferry Castle (Dundee)
  • Castle Stuart near Inverness Airport
  • Dunstaffanage Castle on approach to Oban

Other Landmarks

  • Glasgow River Clyde.
  • Braehead Centre.
  • BAESystems Scotstoun.
  • Added dockyard cranes, quays,sheds, ships and carparks and riverside walkways around Glasgow Science Centre.
  • More hi-flats around River Clyde area.
  • Seaton Sands Caravan Park (Adjacent Cockenzie Power Station)
  • Town Of Castlebay (Isle of Barra)
  • Town of Tobermory (Isle  of Mull)
  • Aberdeen - revised shoreline and harbour breakwaters.
  • Turnberry Hotel & Golf Courses with airstrip
  • Works with chimney on approach to Inverness
  • High flats (Glasgow, Greenock, Irvine, Kincardine Bridge and Ayr)
  • Hopetoun House
  • Lowther Hills Tracking Station (N Dumfriesshire)
  • Great Dun Tracking Station (Cumbria)
  • Wallace Monument
  • McCaig's Tower (Oban)
  • Scone Palace (Perth)
  • Kinnoul Hill tower (Perth)
  • Windfarm at Great Orton (Carlisle Area)
  • Stirling University campus
  • Kinross House
  • Raigmore Hospital

Electricity Pylons

  • Longannet
  • Mossmoran
  • Hunterston
  • Inverkip
  • Chapelcross

Ships, Boats & Yachts

  • Firth of Clyde (several locations)
  • Moray Firth
  • Around Oban & North Connel
  • Firth of Forth
  • Plockton
  • Wig Bay, Loch Ryan
  • Stena HSS off Corsewall Point
  • P & O Jetliner near Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde
  • Yacht near Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde
  • Container ship near Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde
  • Small yachts around Castlebay, Tobermory and Duart Castle.

Oilrigs

  • Seven redundant oilrigs in Cromarty Firth
Coastlines, roads and landclass

Coastline

  • Revised Aberdeen shoreline. 
  • Revised shoreline in Skye Bridge area.
  • Kinross - revised shoreline for Loch Leven and islands. 
  • 'Real water' and detailed coastline at Leith, Grangemouth and 20 miles of the River Clyde from Erskine Bridge to the city centre.
  • Errol, Dundee, Perth, Inverness and Connel
  • Dundee, Perth, Inverness, Connel and the Forth.
  • Headland at N Queensferry added to meet Forth Rail Bridge.

Sandy Beaches

  • Machrahanish
  • Oban, North Connel
  • Glenforsa
  • Dornoch

Roads

  • Revised roads, particularly where required to tie in with default scenery or to align with other Scotflight Scenery features

Landclass

  • Custom landclass for many areas particularly round airfields, towns, cities and landmarks.
Other features
  • All textures optimised for FS2002/FS2004
  • All Scotflight Scenery airfields can now be accessed from the World Menu in FS2004 
  • Orkney airfields feature actual fields and woodland in surrounding area plus local roads
Installer
  • Easy-to-use installer autodetects FS2002/FS2004
  • Choose which version to install for
  • Detects correct FS locations no matter where installed
  • Allows FS and install locations to be customised
  • Allows installation of scenery onto separate disk to FS
  • Automatically configures Scenery Library
  • Integrates into Windows Add/Remove Programs
  • All changes made by installer fully documented and viewable prior to installation

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