FSX / P3D scenery

FSX Wilkins Aerodrome Scenery

Wilkins Aerodrome (YWKS) scenery brings Antarctica’s remote ice runway to life for scientific and cargo operations, offering accurate placement and approaches for a challenging polar arrival. Built for Microsoft Flight Simulator X, it adds airport and helipad start options so bush flights, airliners, and helicopters can serve the station without a long boat journey.

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Antarctica

Flight Simulator X Prepar3D

Images & Screenshots

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A commercial jet stands on a flat, gray surface near several construction vehicles and equipment, with distant buildings in the background.

A white twin-engine passenger jet is parked on a concrete surface near several yellow airport service and construction vehicles.

Wilkins Aerodrome (YWKS), Antarctica. Wilkins Airport is mainly for arrivals for transportation for sceintists to avoid the extremely long journey by boat.

Wilkins Aerodrome Scenery.

Thank you for downloading and Installing the Scenery for Wilkins Aerodrome (YWKS) in Antarctica.

Wilkins Airport is an airport mainly for Arrivals for transportation for Sceintists to avoid the extremely long journey by boat. This scenery depicts the Real YWKS in many ways but there are many constraints.

KNOWN PROBLEMS:
The altitude of the airport is 2600'. The real life one is 2300 - 2550. This was changed due to the FSX default ground elevation.
There will be a mountain about a 7NM final for rwy 09. That is where the scenery started. I didn't know how to get rid of this so please bare with it.
This scenery does NOT work on FS9. IF you can get it to work on FS9, please email me and it will be apprecaited.
There is no Ramp, only helipad startups and Runway startups. This is because of a BGL Error that occursed. Feel free to spawn the planes onto the helipad areas. It won't make a difference.

INSTALLATION:
Simply unzip the "YWKS.BGL" and "YWKS_CVX.BGL" and place in your ".../Microsoft Flight Simulator X/Addon Scener/Scenery" Folder.

Then open up FS, and type in YWKS in the ICAO code or Wilkins in the Go TO Airport section. Fly and enjoy.

THINGS TO REMEMBER:
Brakes don't work in the ICE (FSX exaggerates this. Brakes don't work at all.) So you have to use the reversers.
In real life, the A319 normally flies this route inbound from Hobart (YMHB). It's mainly for Sceintific and cargo transport.
There are also many helicopter that fly into here.

Once again, this is just a simple scenery to have an airport there. It is better than not having anything.

Enjoy.

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Filename

ywks-1.zip

File size

149.36 KB

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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)

-66.68610000,111.52670000

Decimal degrees

-66.686100°, 111.526700°

Degrees, minutes, seconds

66° 41' 09.960" S 111° 31' 36.120" E

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 ywks-1.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
readme.txt	09.06.09	1.90 kB
YWKS.BGL	09.05.09	3.12 kB
YWKS.JPG	09.06.09	123.81 kB
ywkssml.JPG	09.06.09	25.71 kB
YWKS_CVX.bgl	09.05.09	581 B
YWKS	09.06.09	0 B
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B