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In 1981 the airport was visited by a [[Concorde]]. During the various operations in the Balcans area, for its obvious favourable position, it has been used by military forces with Apaches, UH-60, tankers, A-10, Harriers, and heavy cargos like C-17, C-5, An-124. | In 1981 the airport was visited by a [[Concorde]]. During the various operations in the Balcans area, for its obvious favourable position, it has been used by military forces with Apaches, UH-60, tankers, A-10, Harriers, and heavy cargos like C-17, C-5, An-124. | ||
A peculiarity of this airport is that | A peculiarity of this airport is that 1 km north of it, right on the coast, there is a refinery that can't be overflown. | ||
=== Structure === | === Structure === | ||
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No operations area is present for civil helicopters, that need to take off and land on the runway. | No operations area is present for civil helicopters, that need to take off and land on the runway. | ||
=== | === ATC and navigational aids === | ||
LIPY is in a class D airspace up to FL115, class G outside CTR zone "1" below 2000 ft. There are APP, TWR and ATIS frequencies. | |||
Navigational aids include VOR-DME and NDB in Ancona, and in Falconara TACAN, DME, locator and ILS. | |||
=== Traffic === | === Traffic === | ||
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=== Aeroclub === | === Aeroclub === | ||
Falconara Airport is base of Aeroclub Ancona, which is a Flight Training Organization and owns one [[C172]] SP with [[Garmin G1000]], one [[C152]], one [[PA28]]RT-201 Turbo Arrow IV (with retractable gear) and one [[P92]]-JS. | Falconara Airport is base of Aeroclub Ancona,<ref> | ||
[http://www.aeroclubancona.com/ Aeroclub Ancona] | |||
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which is a [[Flight Training Organization]] and owns one [[C172]] SP with [[Garmin G1000]], one [[C152]], one [[PA28]]RT-201 Turbo Arrow IV (with retractable gear) and one [[P92]]-JS. | |||
== Scenery project == | == Scenery project == | ||
Since April 2014 user bigstones<ref> | |||
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has been interested in improving the airport. Models would be provided by a generous MSFS user who made a wonderful scenery no more than few months before, with bigstones trying to convert this very detailed scenery while keeping it usable on not-so-powerful machines. The tool used for conversion is [[ModelConverterX]]. | |||
=== Project status === | |||
(latest update: --[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 22:13, 22 April 2014 (UTC)) | |||
The scenery is not yet publicly available, not as an overlay, not in TerraSync. Actually, for inclusion in official scenery I still need an official authorization from the author. | |||
* The 850 airport layout is ready and has already been sent to Robin from X-Plane. However it needs some polish and I'll probably resend it [...a third time. I hope he won't get upset --[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]])] | |||
* Static objects have all been converted and placed but might need some optimization. Some still have no "bottoms" and have incorrect shadows with [[Project Rembrandt|Rembrandt]]. | |||
* LOD adjustment is active but seems to have no impact on framerate -- needs community feedback | |||
* Some alpha textures need the alpha color to be fixed, to prevent the "black edges" effect. | |||
=== Agenda === | |||
* Publish an alpha version, get some feedback and decide on optimizations | |||
* Lightmaps | |||
* Try and make terminals glass transparent in Rembrandt | |||
* Rembrandt lights | |||
* Animated PAPI and IBN | |||
* Taxi and runway lights (that would need an n-th layout version without default lighting...) | |||
* Groundnet, traffic and other XMLs | |||
* '''Some better looking oil refinery buildings would really be welcome''' | |||
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NOTE: THIS SHOULD STAY COMMENTED OUT UNTIL THE SCENERY IS NOT PUBLICLY AVAILABLE | |||
== Scenery credits == | |||
The team to which the creator of the original scenery belongs is called '''Phoenix Team'''<ref> | |||
[http://www.gianlucag78.altervista.org/index.htm Phoenix Team site] | |||
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and is focused on improving italian military traffic and scenery for MSFS. If you're interested in seeing what '''a year's worth''' of volunteer work can lead to, you'd better check out the original scenery<ref> | |||
[http://www.gianlucag78.altervista.org/Scenari.htm Phoenix Team Sceneries download] | |||
</ref> if you have Flight Simulator, or just check out some screenshots from a forum thread that followed his development<ref> | |||
[http://www.flightportal.it/forum/viewtopic.php?f=255&t=57811 Ancona Falconara LIPY - Flightportal.it] | |||
</ref>. In fact the original one uses a photoreal ground improved by '''Gianluca''' 's painstaking hand and includes a very good looking refinery (contribution from a team mate). Other people deserve credits for the scenery<ref>see the readme from the original scenery package, where you'll also find info on how to donate to the team if you like its work.</ref>, but we'd specially like to remember '''Bruno''', who provided Gianluca with the pictures of buildings and vehicles that, wisely adapted, are texturing the airport objects. | |||
A "thank you" goes also to the creator and maintainer of MCX, Arno.<ref> | |||
[http://www.scenerydesign.org/modelconverterx/ ModelConverterX official site] | |||
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NOTE: THIS SHOULD STAY COMMENTED OUT UNTIL THE SCENERY IS NOT PUBLICLY AVAILABLE | |||
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== Notes == | |||
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