FSX / P3D scenery

FSX Placencia Municipal Airport Scenery

Placencia Municipal Airport scenery brings Belize’s Placencia peninsula into FSX with an updated short, narrow runway set amid mangrove swamps, a safety dam corridor, and carefully placed vegetation clearances on approach. The package adds the custom MZ56 designator and accurate field layout for realistic daily commuter operations in a challenging coastal setting.

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Belize

Flight Simulator X Prepar3D

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A small single-runway airport sits beside a shoreline, surrounded by scattered trees, buildings, and water on multiple sides.

Placencia Municipal Airport, Belize. By Alf B. Meier.

Placencia Municipal Airport Scenery.

Introduction:

Even in the anarchic application of international conventions in Belize, this airport is one of the minority that do not have an IATA nor ICAO registration, despite being serviced by several daily flights.

This airport is on the Placencia peninsula surrounded by mangrove swamps and has been refurbished in the last few years, where the landing strip was enlarged (from about 300 yards to over 500) and some of the bushes and trees in the landing path have been removed. A dam was placed over one of the swamps to give a safety corridor in case of a botched landing. That does not mean that it would be wise to get off the landing strip and/or dam, because there are still swamps at either side of it.And one should constantly remember that both dam and landing strip are only 12 yards wide.

MZ56 is a designator I have given this airstrip because one cannot have unassigned airports in FSX.

Installation:

Simply unzip the *.bgl files into the Addon Scenery/scenery folder.

Uninstallation:

Remove the files from the Addon Scenery/scenery folder.

Acknowledgments:

These files have been partially generated by SbuilderX and Airport Design Editor and the coordinates are generated from Google Earth.

Have fun.

Alf B. Meier

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File information

Filename

mz56xabm.zip

File size

122.23 KB

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Content rating

Everyone

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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D scenery

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Place scenery in Addon Scenery

Create a folder under FSX\Addon Scenery\ containing scenery and texture sub-folders.
Activate in Scenery Library

In FSX, go to Settings → Scenery Library → Add Area. Higher priority means it overrides lower entries for the same location.
Always read the included readme

Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.

Finding the scenery

Use these coordinates to fly directly to this location once the mod is installed.

FSX / Prepar3D coordinates (or generate a flight plan)

16.53620000,-88.36180000

Decimal degrees

16.536200°, -88.361800°

Degrees, minutes, seconds

16° 32' 10.320" N 88° 21' 42.480" W

Launch FSX or Prepar3D and use Flights → Load to open the downloaded .pln file. Your aircraft will be positioned at this location.

What’s inside this archive

The archive mz56xabm.zip has 8 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

This list displays the first 500 files in the package. If the package has more, you will need to download it to view them.

Filename/Directory	File Date	File Size
CVX_Placencia.BGL	12.31.07	2.36 kB
MZ56_ADE_ABM.BGL	12.31.07	1.70 kB
Placencia_OBX.BGL	12.31.07	284 B
MZ56.jpg	12.31.07	119.99 kB
README.txt	12.31.07	1.99 kB
File ID.DIZ.txt	12.31.07	62 B
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B