TERRANCE B. LETTSOME INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT UPDATED SCENERY PROJECT
[WORK IN PROGRESS]
DESCRIPTION:
This is a custom scenery update to the small airport on the island known as Beef Island, which is located East of the larger main Island: Tortola, located in the British Virgin isands (North-East of St.Thomas [US Virgin Islands], South-West of Virgin Gorda.
Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. The approach to the airport runway on 07 was and still is a tricky one due to the main island's hilly terrain close to Runway. In the past, the runway was much shorter, which made it even more challenging when lining up to land larger aircrafts like the Dash-8 or ATR-72 turbo props. Now it has an extended runway which made it a bit easier for also private small jets to land. There have been talks also to extend it even further sometime in the future. Despite having runway lights, It is advised not to land at night nor take off at Runway 25, due to the terrain close to Runway 07 and also the small hill near Runway 25.
This airport, despite being small, was challenging because of the details within and also the surrounding the area. A couple of parking lots including the main one which is the largest IRL is beautifully designed judging from pics and videos i've seen off the internet. I will up date it in time until completed. The airport is also near a beach with many MANY boats IRL.
Warning: Possible framerate drop for lower-end PC users due to the amount of boats, ships and yachts of different sizes I scattered around the area. If this affects any of you, let me know and i'll try to make some adjustments.
INSTALLATION:
Open and extract ''lexpro-Tortola_Beef Island_updated_scenery_project_v1.0'' (or the version name you choose to download) to your prefered location on your PC, then unZip and open the folder and copy "Terrance_B_Lettsome_Updated_Scenery_Project" folder into where your Community folder is located, then start the sim and go to TUPJ Terrance B. Lettsome International. That's it!
Each time I upload an updated version here, just replace the same "Terrance_B_Lettsome_Updated_Scenery_Project" folder in your Community folder to update the scenery. Make back ups to the old folders if necessary.
DETAILED UPDATED FEATURES TO DEFAULT SCENERY (V1.0) - TUPJ:
- - Started from scratch and deleted everything except the default terminal building and a few surrounding buildings.
- - Stratigically placed very specific scenery objects from the sim library around the default building to try match the design structure IRL.
- - Made some corrections to the surrounding terrain and elevation of the Airport, especially at the end of Runway 07 which was challening to get right. By default, that area was completly flat.
- - Added runway/lights, PAPI lights, aprons, taxi lights [despite the fact that by default they were already there, editing the elevation made them dissapear, so I had to replace them again :\ ], taxi ways, taxiway signs, ''wear n' tear'' textures, ground markings and different painted color lines exactly like IRL.
- - Edited airport taxiway data so ATC properly directs you to and from your parking location [Something I just learned to do. Some parking location names may not be too accurate due to editor limitations but are very close to real life]
- - Corrected location of Windsocks
- - Added a light above the Windsocks
- -Added a small circular stone structure design around the base of each windsock like IRL
- - Added the control tower with a beacon light and added two small red lights on top the antennas. [The stucture of the tower is different IRL]
- -Added red beacon lights on top each airport light.
- - Added a small building next to the control tower with a small parking lot and a center peice design with cars etc.
- - Added Airport lights around the airport.
- - Added extra lighting under the Airport terminal roofing that was added. Also added lighting to any surrounding buildings in the area including the firestation building which I replaced with a generic building. Also lighting on a few boats.
- - Added static aircraft\service vehicles with some animated Marshalls\Workers surrounding them.
- - Randomly placed Marshalls/Workers and other animated people around the Airport in general.
- - Added barbwire fencing around entire Airport. Also added additional fencing in certain areas within the airport.
- - Added many vehicles in the area including the main parking lot [work in progress], and 3 other parking lots in the area. Also added some animated vehicles on the road.
- - Added and placed a lot of stones to simulate the stone structure design in front of Runway 25 like IRL.
- - corrected and added a few beach sand areas surrounding the airport.
- - Added many more trees/plants/grass, auto-gen trees in general areas close to and surrounding the Airport.
- -Added some large underground pipes that simulate the drainage system under the airport. [Have to look real closely to see these hidden in the some of the bushes along side some of the taxiways and the runway]
- - Added MANY boats, yachts and ferries in the surrounding area like IRL. [Possible framerate drop for low-end PC users. Let me know if it affects anyone]
- - Added small white poles to replicate the yachts' sails. [let me know if you can't see these]
- - Added 2 animated flags where actual flags are supposed to be behind the concrete wall sign stucture.
- - Added a concrete wall structure to replicate where the airport sign is located and added spot lights shining on it.
- - Added a small red and white barrier around each airport light like IRL
- - Added many other scattered scenery objects around the airport in general.
Thats all for now. More to come in every version update. Do enjoy this on going project which takes a great deal of time and effort. Feel free to leave any comments after you've flown around. Have fun flying and see you in the Sim world :)
Elwood26
Very scenic, thank you.
BoeingDriver
Really well done! I'm going there in January. It was fun to do a tour with this as a starting point.
edpatino
Looks like the scenery has not be compiled with the latest SDK, as it still contains a shape file. Could you pls comment or re-compile it?
lexuz2020 author
I think its safe to say you can ignore the shape file as I compiled the update in the same folder from when I first did it. All it was doing was updating the bgl file. Newer scenery from me will be using the latest SDK with just the bgl file only. Thanks for your feed back :)
2 years ago
moun
5 stars really not enough for this amazing work.
narvik1a
My absolute absolute favorite airport. Fantastic work. Thank you so so much. Please continue to develop other Caribbean airports as well!
lexuz2020 author
Thanks man and you're welcome. Unfortunately, since update 5 and 6, developing and loading scenery objects into the Sim has been broken for me. So until they finally fix my Sim in some way, I can't create or update any airports.
...That's since July. :/
3 years ago
BostonElf
This scenery is too good not to get recompiled for SU5/WU6 ! One Thousand Thanks in advance, I hope it comes soon but I will still try it ! 😊
MrMo
Thanks for sharing your work! 😊
lexuz2020 author
You're welcome!
3 years ago
CFIJose
OMG! Thank you SO much for this one. Very grateful!. 10 STARS!
lexuz2020 author
Lol wow...you're welcome and thanks for the extra 5 stars! :D
3 years ago
betterDay
Great scenery - thanks for sharing it here for free !
lexuz2020 author
You're very welcome!
3 years ago
Dillon
Good effort but there's way too many cargo ships in the water around the airport. Found one ship dug into a mountain on my left on approach to runway 07.
lexuz2020 author
Ok cool no problem. I'll subtract the cargo ships in the next update.
Thanks for telling me about stranded ship in the mountain lol. It was a copy and paste I did in that area and thought I checked for errors like that. Clearly I missed that one lol.
3 years ago
JV8R
excellent as always just need a TBPB now
lexuz2020 author
Lol....in time. Definitely. Recharging my batteries a bit until the next Caribbean airport. That Airport is a bit larger than the previous ones I've done so it will take way more time and effort to do. It won't be ignored though. :)
3 years ago
fuzz1
Outstanding work. This is one of the best freeware Caribbean airports currently available (I have them all) and is not to be missed. Thank you very much for sharing and I hope you do others. Incredible what can be done with the default objects...if you have the skill.
lexuz2020 author
Lol you have all freeware versions of the Caribbean for fs2020 or just in general? Thanks man. I appreciate the love for the sceneries. I do try to be as accurate as I can be. I have mostly a few payware on mines and some of the inspiration came from how some are done. Especially attention to detail, which I'm a fan of doing. Sometimes I even feel like i put too much 😄.
3 years ago
caribstar
Great job. Amazing what you did with basically default objects. Looking forward to more from you. Thanks for your hard work.
lexuz2020 author
Thanks man. Much appreciated. Glad you liked it. 🙂
3 years ago
ElliottGibson
Absolutely amazing. This is my home airport and it is so similar. Great work.
lexuz2020 author
You're most welcome. I tried to be as accurate as possible.
3 years ago