FSX / P3D scenery

FSX McMurdo Station Scenery

McMurdo Station (NZIR) scenery brings Antarctica’s busiest research hub to life in Flight Simulator X with a custom AFCAD, expanded apron, added parking stands, control tower, and detailed station objects on Ross Island. The layout supports realistic cargo and personnel operations for flights staging to and from the South Pole.

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Antarctica

Flight Simulator X Prepar3D

Images & Screenshots

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A small two-story control building stands on a snowy airfield with a parked utility vehicle, American flag, and a helicopter in the background.

A twin-engine propeller aircraft with skis flies low over a snowy landscape beside dark water under a clear blue sky.

McMurdo Station. This is a scenery (including AFCAD and scenery) for McMurdo Station (NZIR), Antarctica. It adds an apron, parking spaces, a tower and other objects. McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island.

Screenshot of McMurdo Station Scenery.

McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National Science Foundation. The station is the largest community in Antarctica, capable of supporting up to 1,258 residents, and serves as the United States Antarctic science facility. All personnel and cargo going to or coming from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station first passes through McMurdo.

Put the files, they are in the folder scenery in C:/program files/Microsoft Games/Flight Simulator X/Addon Scenery/Scenery.

Start FSX.

Go to Antarctica/McMurdo Station (or search the ICAO-Code NZIR).

will load and you will see the scenery.

Screenshot of McMurdo Station Scenery.

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File information

Filename

mcmurdo_station.zip

File size

364.52 KB

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Clean (scanned with ClamAV)

Access

Freeware

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)

-77.84600000,166.66800000

Decimal degrees

-77.846000°, 166.668000°

Degrees, minutes, seconds

77° 50' 45.600" S 166° 40' 04.800" 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 mcmurdo_station.zip has 13 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
McMurdu Station - NZIR	07.23.11	0 B
FILE_ID.diz	07.23.11	729 B
installation.txt	07.23.11	259 B
readme.txt	07.23.11	1.10 kB
scenery	07.23.11	0 B
AFX_NZIR.bgl	07.23.11	4.76 kB
Objects_NZIR.bgl	07.23.11	764 B
Visit my website for more freeware!.URL	05.14.11	55 B
screens	07.23.11	0 B
2011-7-23_18-48-42-578.JPG	07.23.11	343.87 kB
2011-7-23_18-51-25-312.JPG	07.23.11	34.42 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B