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USA FLORIDA KVPS EGLIN AFB / NorthWest Florida Beaches Airport

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Aerosoft is pleased to offer you on behalf of Freddy De Pues from NAPS, EGLIN AFB / NorthWest Florida Beaches Airport (KVPS). A comprehensive review can be found at ASN.

The NAPS team consist of:

- Freddy De Pues (frede), USA, apt.dat, dsf, traffic, orthos.

- Hans H Gindra (Wheelie), Germany, customized buildings.

- Marc Leydecker, Library.

- Cami De Bellis, Library.

- Brian Godwin, ATC.

- Fabrice Kauffmann, static aircraft.

The airport comes with the following features:

- Customized buildings + OpenScenery

- USGS orthoimagery with gritting textures, polygons follow airport boundaries

- Optimized polys and objects for better FPS.

- Airport integrated in existing scenery & road network, detailed roadways, taxiways, centerlines, pavement signage, signage, equipment, sim's integration, landscaping, lights, etc.

- Autogate

- ATC traffic

- Ground Traffic

Sections included:

- NorthWest Florida Regional Airport, civil facility

- Eglin AFB, West

- Eglin AFB, East

- Helos Training Area (fictive)

- Hot Cargo Area

- Fuel Areas

- Armament Museum

Recommendations when it comes to hardware:

- For high end computers.

What else?

This scenery uses RUscenery, CDB library and will only work in XP 10. Make sure you only have this instance of KVPS running at this time.

If something goes wrong, read the log.text file in your X-Plane 10 folder and try to find anything pertaining to KVPS. You might find something like : KVPS could not find X in Y library, get the recommended library, that's it. If you have the library and something is still missing, do some homework. Ignore AGtrees error reports.

Background information Northwest Florida Regional Airport:

(IATA: VPS, ICAO: KVPS, FAA LID: VPS) is an airport within Eglin Air Force Base, near Valparaiso and Fort Walton Beach in Okaloosa County, Florida. No private aircraft are allowed, so Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport is used for non-commercial operations. The airport was called Okaloosa Regional Airport until September 2008.

Northwest Florida Regional Airport is served by the regional airline affiliates of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and US Airways which fly nonstop regional jets to hubs in the southern and eastern United States. Delta Air Lines mainline jets also fly to its hub in Atlanta. In 2008 the FAA recorded over 373,808 enplanements at the airport.

Northwest Florida Regional Airport and Eglin AFB share two runways: 12/30 is 12,005 x 300 ft (3,659 x 91 m) asphalt/concrete and 1/19 is 10,012 x 300 ft (3,052 x 91 m) asphalt. In the year ending March 31, 2006 the airport had 126,060 aircraft operations, average 345 per day: 71% military, 19% airline, 8% general aviation and 2% air taxi.

The airport has a 110,000 ft² passenger terminal with three second-level gates with passenger jet ways and three ground-level commuter gates with regional jet boarding bridges

The terminal is a two-level, 107,000 square foot facility opened in November 2004. The old terminal building was demolished soon after. The terminal has areas for ticketing and baggage claim and upper and lower courses with gates. The first level has Gates A1, A2, and A3 and waiting areas and concessions. The second-level concourse has Gates B1, B2, and B3 and a restaurant and concession areas. The terminal was designed to allow future expansion. The Northwest Florida Regional Airport Master Plan Update says a project to extend the concourse 120 feet and add three gates is under consideration (2010).

Access to the terminal is off of State Road 85. Parking facilities are to the left, the terminal or loop is straight ahead and rental car return is to the right. The airport loop road has two pass-through lanes on the left and three arrival-departure lanes in front of the terminal. The loop road is a two-lane asphalt roadway about ¾ mile long. Short-term and long-term parking facilities are available. The parking facilities were improved in the early 2000s as part of the new terminal expansion. These were designed with the Transportation Security Administration's "300-foot rule" in mind, and satisfy the 300-foot distance between parked vehicles and the terminal building.

Okaloosa County owns and operates the airport terminal, which is on 131 acres of Eglin AFB property that is lease from the U.S. Department of the Air Force. The property is leased until 2031 and limits aircraft operations at 80 per day. It is unique in that the county staffs the airport, yet it leases the property from the USAF. Okaloosa County Commission serves as a policy board and hires the airport staff.

Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: VPS, ICAO: KVPS, FAA LID: VPS) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 3 miles (5 kilometers) southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County.

The host unit at Eglin is the 96th Test Wing (formerly the 96th Air Base Wing).[citation needed] The 96 TW is the test and evaluation center for Air Force air-delivered weapons, navigation and guidance systems, Command and Control systems, and Air Force Special Operations Command systems.

Eglin AFB was established in 1935 as the Valparaiso Bombing and Gunnery Base. It is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick I. Eglin (1891–1937), who was killed in a crash of his Northrop A-17 pursuit aircraft on a flight from Langley to Maxwell Field, Alabama.

Eglin is an Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) base serving as the focal point for all Air Force armaments. Eglin is responsible for the development, acquisition, testing, deployment and sustainment of all air-delivered non-nuclear weapons. The base plans, directs and conducts test and evaluation of U.S. and allied air armament, navigation and guidance systems, and command and control systems. Severe weather testing of aircraft and other equipment is carried out here at the McKinley Climatic Laboratory.

The residential portion of the base is a census-designated place; its population was 8,082 at the 2000 census. Eglin Air Force Base has 2,359 military family housing units. Unmarried junior enlisted members generally live in one of Eglin's seven dormitories located near the dining hall, chapel, base gym, Enlisted Club and bus lines on base. Each individual unit generally handles dormitory assignments. Bachelor Officer Quarters are not available. Several units and one dormitory are currently being renovated in 2011. The base covers 463,128 acres (1,874.2 km²). (Courtesy of Wikipedia)

About the modelled airport EGLIN AFB:

This airport is made for at least very high resolution, gazillions of objects, roads, and forests. This is one of the most detailed airports in the history of XP10, you will see your mother at the kiss-and-go.

Acknowledgements:

- Autogate, Marginal

- Marc Leydecker's Library

- Flags of the World, Real Flag II, Mr3D

- OpenScenery, Ground Traffic, Marginal

- Follow Me Truck, Cami De Bellis

- Mow My X-Plane, by Simon W

- USAF vehicles, David Austin

- Static Mil Aircraft, ThePrivateer

- Concrete Barrier (Military Fortifications), Michael Hoge

- Palm Trees, Dieter Rozenkrans (Mallorca 8.0)

- F-35B ai, Fabrice Kaufman

- Helipad Dolly, by AH-1ZVIPER

- UH-60, hypersonic test pilot

- People, Altair43

- RUscenery, X-Air.ru

- WED 1.2, Ben Supnik, Christiano Maggi

- XPL TaxiSign Generator & Viewer, X-Design CSD

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