AD Laguna Redonda (SCIO), Candelario Mancilla – Aysén v1.0
Introduction:
Laguna Redonda Aerodrome is the southernmost air terminal in the Aysén Region in Chile, located approximately: 10 km south of the small settlement of Candelario Mancilla, 60 km southwest of Villa O’Higgins and 3 km north of the border with Argentina. It is also located in the middle of the Villa O’Higgins – El Chaltén tourist route, where more and more people cross from Chile to Argentina by land and water, crossing Lake O’Higgins (also known as San Martín) and the Laguna del Desierto, usually with the objective of reaching the foot of Mount Fitz Roy in Argentina.
This aerodrome is located in the middle of a montainous and narrow valle, which is commonly accompained by strong crosswinds and low clouds, often being a challenge for landing and manouvering. Its runway (04/22) of dimensions 700m x 18m has a slight slope (2.1°) and is made of gravel, as well as the small parking spot that exists for 1 airplane. As markers, the track has small red and white barriers every 100 m approximately, in addition to the ocassional one in the vicinity that was blown away by the wind. It is an airport for day operations given the lack of lights of any kind.
In MSFS, SCIO is part of the 10th and 11th leg of the Los Cerros to Cochrane Bush Trip.
Description of the content:
This is the first airport I have made in MSFS with SDK and it was the first one I did in FSX with ADE, so I am open to suggestions and constructive criticism for improvement.
Included in Version 1.0:
New runway closer to reality (made of gravel instead of asphalt and with dimensions according to satellite map and DGAC). In addition, the boundaries described in the introduction were added.
A gravel parking space (apron) is also added, as well as a fence around the entire perimeter of the airfield.
The two corresponding winsocks were added each to one end of the runway.
The two default bridges that expanded over the Obstáculo River were removed given that they were too large and poorly located. They were replaced only by the new road segment that was added in the vicinity of the airport.
The water was erased from one of the tributary streams of the Obstáculo River to the north of the runway as it was excessively wide and it distorted the forest.
Water was added to a 122 Chilean and Argentinean lagoons/ponds and lakes not well represented originally in the vicinity of the aerodrome (including the mountain range) and edges of Lake O’Higgins.
Forest was added to the west slope of the valley since it was missing more than half of it.
Small tweaks in terms of land, boats and buildings in Calendario Mancilla and around the Laguna del Desierto.
A yellow car was added near runway 04 as it was present in Bing Maps.
Improvements to the Obstáculo River were made in the vicinity of the aerodrome, narrowing the channel and correcting the terrain and adjacent forest.
GPS Coordinates: -48.933528, -72.800209
