Iceland 1962 Scenery Now Available

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi all,

Mike Stevens has created new Reykjavik and Keflavik airports for 1962! In this era Loftleidir and Icelandic used Reykjavik, while Pan Am used Keflavik. Keflavik was a US Naval Air Station, and it appears you needed to be bused in and out of the base.

First, here is the Reykjavik terminal for Icelandair:



And the Loftleidir terminal:



Moving on to Keflavik, here is the main Navy hangar with an ASW P-2 Neptune parked outside, with the terminal in the background:



And the terminal itself:



And finally another large hangar, with a radar picket WV-2 parked outside:



To get the Neptunes at Keflavik you will also need to download and install the updated traffic BGL files from the AI MATS package.

Mike has also included optional Editvoicepack files to improve the pronunciation of these airports.

You can download this scenery from my Scenery page.

Enjoy,

[Dennis the menace]

Hi,

Hope you all enjoy the scenery. If anyone wants to do the minor domestic airports in Iceland, please feel free to contact me about putting them into this file, if they so desire.

cheers,
Mike

[jwh]

A great and very welcome scenery for early trans-Atlantic flying.

John

[Deleted]

Great Stuff it will be interesting to see how this gets with ORBX's Iceland-Demo not anticipating any issues all the other CC scenery and airports has worked fine in ORBX dedicated areas. Done quite a few hours in Milton's DHC-7 in this area, guess I will have to find something more appropriate to operate locally and I have some appropriate piston stuff for Icelandic Air for the international stuff.

[Dennis the menace]

Hi,

I painted a Loftleidair DC-6B a couple of years ago. It’s available at Flightsim.

[Stromer]

Great news
Many thanks

[Deleted]

Denis lovely work and very much appreciated. Installed into FSX ok. For those interested I have installed the ORBX Iceland Demo for FSX which is a freebie but provides very nicely rendered scenery for most of Iceland. They had of course done most of the airports in Iceland including BIRK Reykjavik and BIKF Keflavik airports. I was able to get your Classic scenery to display without any major problems excepting some object display issues and clashes (Cherokees and Beech King Airs on the apron etc.). I disabled the ORBX airport files by renaming them but it seemed ORBX was still going to put some objects about those airports. Now that was not a show stopper at all but my observation was this, your scenery is remarkably accurate and it is amazing how little those airports have changed in essence since 1962 to now. Orbx objects were to a different scale so their tower building at Reykjavik sat over yours and similarly for a couple of the hangars. I resolved this issue only by shifting the Classic Scenery to above the ORBX scenery in the Scenery config priority list and the problem went away. So your airports are nicely compatible with ORBX Iceland. So now I have the best of both worlds. Great stuff. Like it a lot.

[warbaby]

More scenery, excellent!

[jagdflieger]

Thanks! I was just there last year.

[aerofoto]

"THANKS" Mike .... with the creation of this/these I might be tempted to try'n Atlantic crossing using to COMET 4 .... when, and if (if ever), my other FS workload ever subsides

Never bee a big user of sceneries .... except in regard to mesh terrain, but, my COMET 1 trip from the UK to Jo'burg mid year last year (reported/presented here on this forum at the time) has really prompted me to invest in these "period airport sceneries" more'n'more .... and I glad I've been persuaded, by yours and Toms scenery work, to do so.

It's one thing to try'n recreate the actual flight .... but .... it's another thing entirely to try'n recreate the ambiance/appearance of various places along any historic route .... and uniting these together (the flight, the route, the geographic scenery .... and with the appropriate period airport scenery too) results in a far more pleasing re-enactment as well as a far more satisfying sense accomplishment at the conclusion of the exercise

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[Tom/CalClassic]

Oddly enough, in the classic era Iceland was not typically used as a fuel stop. Reykjavik's runways were too short for most jets, and only Pan Am was allowed to land at Keflavik (and passengers had to be bused in from Reykjavik). Gander (and Goose Bay) and Shannon (and Prestwick) were the most commonly used fuel stops.

But don't let that stop you using Mike's very nice scenery.

[aerofoto]

That's interesting .... because I "thought" I'd previously read that Reykjavik and/or Keflavik were both used by BOAC COMET 4's .... alternatively Shannon and/or Gandar too .... "depending on operational and meteorological circumstances".

As I said .... "interesting"

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[Tom/CalClassic]

I know Reykjavik was too short for 707s, but maybe a Comet could slip in. Keflavik could be used for refueling with permission, but probably no passengers would have been allowed to leave the plane (so no smoking while refueling), or perhaps they would have been segregated in the terminal.

[Erik]

Two beautiful new scenery packages at once, what a treat. Thanks a lot Mike and Tom!

Erik

[Defender]

Tom,

Despite the lack of scheduled traffic (not even sure why Pan American could justify a scheduled service), in Flight Global and elsewhere on the web there are many accounts of Keflavik being used in the 50's as a refuelling stop or as an alternate by various airlines and by ferry flights, Viscounts etc. on the way to North America. So seems there was no great problem getting permission to use it provided , as you say, the aircraft and passengers were transiting only. Presumably Goose had the same restrictions?

At times Kef would have been a useful place to top up the tanks westbound when there were strong headwinds further south and/or the Gander/Goose weather was below limits or marginal.


Many thanks to you, Mike and John for the lovely detailed  work on these. 


Bill