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Aerosoft is pleased to offer you, on behalf of Org developer "Aerospace" Telluride Regional Airport version 1.0.
Telluride Regional Airport covers 542 acres and has one runway, 9/27, 6,911 by 100 feet (2,106 by 30 m). The runway is on a plateau and dips slightly in the center. It can be a challengingapproach for pilots. During winter months, about 20% of the scheduled commuter airline flights end up diverting to other airports because of abruptly adverse landing conditions. This is similar to other mountain airports like Sun Valley which have similar statistics. When flying to the Telluride Regional Airport, pilots must be aware of situations surrounding the airfield including high terrain exceeding 14,000 feet (4,300 m), as well as the airport's location on a plateau with a thousand-foot (300 m) drop to the San Miguel River below.
In the year ending April 30, 2007 the airport had 26,709 aircraft operations, average 73 per day: 53% air taxi, 35% general aviation and 12% scheduled commercial. 42 aircraft were then based at this airport: 60% single-engine, 21% multi-engine, 7% jet, 2% helicopter and 10% glider.
In the 1990s the airport had winter nonstop passenger flights to Los Angeles and Phoenix. SkyWest Airlines Embraer EMB-120s flew nonstop to Los Angeles as United Express while Mesa Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-8s flew nonstop to Phoenix as US Airways Express. StatesWest Airlines Beechcraft 1900Cs flew nonstop to Laughlin, NV/Bullhead City, AZ continuing to Los Angeles. The only scheduled flights now are Great Lakes Airlines Beechcraft 1900Ds nonstop to Denver. The airport has never had scheduled airline jets, though business jets do land at Telluride (Courtesy of Wikipedia).
Mostly accurate representation using available X-Plane and OpenSceneryX assets. Just unzip the included file into your Custom Scenery folder and enjoy!