FS2004 AFCAD2 File For RIAT Fairford

AFCAD2 file for RIAT Fairford Scenery, UK. Uses only the runway, taxiways and parking available with the RIAT scenery. Features turn-around parking such that all aircraft face the taxiway when parked. All parking codes are of military type with specific codes for certain aircraft. By George Davison.

It uses the runway, taxiways and parking available when the display scenery is present. It uses the "Plumbing" (taxi-through) method for taxiways, ie. there are two afcad taxiways for each physical taxiway. This means that there is a taxiway from each parking space to the runway entry and a separate (overlaid) taxiway from the runway to each parking space. Because of this, it is important to schedule AI traffic such that arriving and departing aircraft do not meet on a particular taxiway. If this happens, they will 'ghost' through each other.

There are three groups of parking namely:

• Gate F, to the centre-north of the runway, with four parking spaces.
• Gate B, to the north-east of the runway, with ten parking spaces.
• Gate A, to the south-east of the runway, with nine parking spaces.

(They have been specified as gates since I think it silly for ATC to direct military aircraft to taxi to General Aviation parking.)

The parking spaces have general military parking codes together with specific codes for particular aircraft.

More information is given in the README.DOC file.

Installation:

I would recommend putting AF2_EVGA.BGL in the same folder as the RIAT Fairford scenery. This means it will be active/inactive at the same time as the scenery itself. If you do not wish to put it there, it can be placed in the FS9\Addon Scenery\scenery folder in which case it will always be available.

Known limitation:

If an aircraft departs the runway 'exactly' at the centerline of the western most exit of the runway, it will taxi back to its parking space via the 'taxi-out' taxiway and will park facing away from the taxiway rather than the more usual 'facing the taxiway'. It will then push-back on taxi-out.

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