BGBW Narsarsuaq Greenland v1.0
This is a stock attempt at Narsarsuaq. It’s a pretty important airport for transatlantic crossing in small aircraft, and if you get into FSEconomy you will probably end up here at some point moving a GA plane from Europe to North America or back.
-added the airport, apron, harbour.
-replaced the autogen hangars with ones closer to photos, the terminal is made of stock parts. 🙁
-terraformed the area around the hangars and terminal, the ramp was at 45 degrees
-flattened the closest floating lakes along the cliffs of the fjords you navigate through on the approach, I got all the ones I could see within about 30nm.
-cleaned up near the town of Narsaq which is on the coast as you enter the fjord toward the airport.
-gave the runway its precise 1.68% slope, the threshold of 06 is at 11ft and its 112ft at 24, that was the biggest deal beyond the airport not existing, also added the double papi-4 for 06 and the runway matches perfectly with foreflight and other moving map solutions.
-couldn’t figure out how to connect the taxiway to the runway, so I don’t think it’ll work with AI
-gave the airport a star so its easy to find
things to do?
make terminal building
get better satellite scenery underneath
import the GPS approaches
TO INSTALL
drop the narsarsuaq-airport folder into your community folder
Thanks for adding this airport! I was kinda shocked that Asobo failed to include it with the OEM airports in MSFS. My interest in Narsarsuaq is that I had a co-worker about 20 years ago, who, in his youth in the 1950’s, was a USAF pilot flying the Grumman HU-16 Albatross in a SAR configuration out of Narsarsuaq. The primary mission of that squadron was to attempt to pick up downed USAF pilots who were ferrying fighters back and forth between St. Johns, Newfoundland, and Reykjavik, Iceland. The distance was 1,400 NM, which was just barely within range using the largest drop tanks the planes could carry. The flight distance from Narsarsuaq to the point of closest approach of the great circle route that the ferry pilots were taking, was about 250 NM. My co-worker was assigned to Narsarsuaq for 30 months, and did a lot of training flights, but never had to do a ditched-pilot resque for real. Probably for the best, because the water off southern Greenland was rarely warmer than 35°F, and the seas could be up to 20 feet in even “mild” weather, which is rare in the North Atlantic. I always wondered why the Air Force would risk planes and pilots on such a long overwater flight instead of moving them by surface ship, and my co-worker told me “That’s too slow. The Air Force isn’t the Navy, and this was the height of the Cold War. When they’re moving a squadron, they want the move accomplished fast, in no more than 3 days, or even faster if possible.” I asked him, “Could you really water-land an Albatross on 25 foot waves?”. He took a long moment to think that one over, and he said, “In theory, we were supposed to attempt it in seas up to 30 feet, if we were sure the downed pilot was still alive. But in reality, even if we got the plane safely down on the water, we would then need to maneuver it to the pick-up point, then get a freezing cold and possibly injured pilot aboard, then get the Albatross pointed into the wind, and back in the air…chances of success, before the waves sank the plane, or damaged it beyond any possibility of taking it off again, probably very poor. Much less than 50/50 in any sea conditions with waves higher than 8 feet. Plus, we rarely landed the planes on the water just for training, so as to minimize exposure of the electrical systems and engines to the salt water.”