Channel Islands Overhaul – Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney + Airports v1.0
This is a complete reworking of the Channel Islands in the English Channel.
Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Herm, Jethou and Brecqhou have all been dragged from the sea upwards and also the three main airports in the islands have been modified to work with the scenery files, plus a new airport created too.
The first flight I took in this sim was from Exeter to Guernsey. Something seemed strange when I approached and I realised all of these islands are totally flat in the sim. This is definitely not true in reality. Despite this EGJB Guernsey and EGJJ Jersey airports have major levelling problems in the sim too.
I’ve raised all of the islands from sea level to somewhere near their correct altitudes, creating hills, cliff and valleys. The available terrain tools are painfully crude and this will be obvious in many places – odd transitions, flat plateaus, strange ridges and sections where I’ve clearly said ‘bleurgh, that’ll do.’
This is down to having to juggle differing altitudes and terrain falloff whilst also stopping the sea from being pulled upwards, and one area breaking fatally the moment I repaired another area. Alderney in particular looks like someone has been using it for origami practice and then gave it a chew. I’m going to restart that from scratch.
I tried to raise docks and rocks from zero metres above sea level but it’s simply not possible without creating huge glitches. A few might have escaped. You’ll know them if you see them.
EGJB Guernsey, EGJJ Jersey and EGJA Alderney airports have all been tweaked and are included in the folder. All of the original functionality is untouched, I added extra details and cured their landscape problems. Alderney airport seems to be a little glitchy with unknown runway surfaces and a tree that appears and disappears but it works. At present they’re all a bit blank but I’ll refine them over time.
Brecqhou has had a 150m grass airstrip fitted for you – ZEGBQ – to irritate its evil owners by landing on their lawn.
I haven’t terminated all of the silliest buildings, there isn’t much to replace them. And as ever there are trees everywhere that I should remove but for once they’re extremely handy for covering up my brutality.
I’ll return to this and try to do better in plenty of areas. Let me know if anything’s broken. I THINK it all works together well enough.
This is six files (sorry), one for each airport. One scenery file has Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Herm, Brecqhou and Jethou in it. The other has Jersey. I didn’t realise I was doing this in a separate file until it was too late and I couldn’t be arsed to restart it.
