CYUW Dewar Lakes, Nunavut, Canada scenery modification for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
VERSION 1.0
FREE AND EXCLUSIVE TO FLIGHTSIM.TO (If you find this file elsewhere, let me know).
In the default scenery, the Dewar Lakes airstrip is missing, represented by a grass texture and not a gravel airstrip. This scenery adds the abandoned Dewar Lakes airstrip using information from the Canadian Flight Supplement (expired editions), the internet and personal memory. Only default MSFS SDK scenery elements are used.
Scenery includes:
* 4010 x 125 feet gravel airstrip at 580 feet elevation
- Low intensity runway lighting (deactivated in reality)
- Threshold end lighting (deactivated in reality)
- Windsocks at each end of the runway (not maintained in reality)
- Apron
- Refueler (not functional in reality)
* Vehicles at various locations on the roads around the site.
* Removal of most trees from the area. (There are none in reality on Baffin Island).
Improvements to come:
* Improved runway markers.
* Replacing upper site buildings with better representations.
* Adding the currently active upper site helipad.
* Changing textures to better represent the high arctic tundra vegetation of the area.
* removal of more trees on the surround landscape.
* addition of Points of Interest (POIs) identifying nearby features.
Location details of the airstrip:
* ICAO: CYUW
* IATA: YUW
History:
Dewar Lakes is located in central Baffin Island. It was a Distant Early Warning (DEW) line radar station known as FOX-3 built in 1957. It was also known as Site 35. The DEW Line site was closed in 1989 when the North Warning System (NWS) Long Range Radar site became operational.
Installation:
Place the folder in your community folder and enjoy - the airstrip is starred and located in central Baffin Island.
I hope you enjoy the updated area!
August 2021
Are you planning on an update?
1 years ago
Yes, I am with some improvements to the buildings. However this site is lower on my list as I try to get some other sites done and an update to CYGK Kingston soon.
1 years ago
ARH64CDN
perohijo
Thank you for your continuing efforts to bring us Canadian airports, they are very much appreciated. 😊
3 years ago
Thank you - I am still using ONLY SDK default items in the scenery but may start adding some library items available from content creators here on Flightsim.to. I would like to replace a lot of the default buildings in the arctic with better representations of the real ones. So it is all a work in progress. There are many more in the queue, but time is limited. I hope to put more up as time permits, hopefully at a more rapid pace in the autumn.
3 years ago
ARH64CDN
MarkusG