Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2014 14:26:00 GMT -5
While adding some ships to San Francisco Bay I came across some informations about Crissy Airfield, in neighbourhood of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The website "Abandoned & Little-Knwon Airfields" relates following:
"In the years after WW2, the 6th Army Flight Detachment operated light airplanes & helicopters from the paved runway that replaced the grass landing field. By this time, Crissy Field traffic consisted primarily of liaison flights.The headquarters for the California Wing of the CAP was at Crissy Field, and they flew out of there also.They had a couple of L-17s, L-5s, and at least one L-16; as well as a Beaver & 310.
Crissy Field was finally closed to fixed-wing aircraft in 1974, although some helicopter operations continued after that point."
(Source: www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm)
With FS9 this airfield looks like that - more or less ...
BTW, default height of San Francisco Bay is 2.8 ft., less than the usual sea Level of 3.8 ft. Therefore it isn't possible to add wakes to static ships there. Only a small area just beneath the Golden Gate Bridge has normal height and allowes to add wakes. There are some similar areas elsewhere, like Rotterdam or Amsterdam.
Bernard
The website "Abandoned & Little-Knwon Airfields" relates following:
"In the years after WW2, the 6th Army Flight Detachment operated light airplanes & helicopters from the paved runway that replaced the grass landing field. By this time, Crissy Field traffic consisted primarily of liaison flights.The headquarters for the California Wing of the CAP was at Crissy Field, and they flew out of there also.They had a couple of L-17s, L-5s, and at least one L-16; as well as a Beaver & 310.
Crissy Field was finally closed to fixed-wing aircraft in 1974, although some helicopter operations continued after that point."
(Source: www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm)
With FS9 this airfield looks like that - more or less ...
BTW, default height of San Francisco Bay is 2.8 ft., less than the usual sea Level of 3.8 ft. Therefore it isn't possible to add wakes to static ships there. Only a small area just beneath the Golden Gate Bridge has normal height and allowes to add wakes. There are some similar areas elsewhere, like Rotterdam or Amsterdam.
Bernard
