NEWS! - Scenery Released : PASI - Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport, Alaska by NorthernSkyStudio

[Stephen]

NEWS! - Scenery Released : PASI - Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport, Alaska by NorthernSkyStudio   

 

 

Here is another classic Alaskan airport in PASI - Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport, which has now been updated to X-Plane 12 by NorthernSky Studios.

 

Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport is a state-owned, public-use airport located west of the central business district of Sitka, a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

The airport is named after Sitka's former mayor Rocky Gutierrez. It features a single terminal with a jetway with air service operated year-round by Alaska Airlines and also seasonally by Delta Air Lines regional affiliate Delta Connection operated by SkyWest Airlines. There is a single paved runway located on a causeway that juts off Japonski Island. Deceased tuberculosis patients from the nearby SEARHC/Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital were buried on airport grounds and had to be relocated during construction. That section of the airport is still unofficially called The Mausoleum.

 

Northern Sky do some pretty great sceneries, not only externally, but they come with the best internal modeling as well, in fact they were the leaders in this environment...  and they all come with a very low value price.

 

Features:

• The most detailed replica of airport buildings and vehicles
• High-resolution ground textures / Custom runway textures
• High-resolution building textures
• Compatible with all X-Plane 12 features:
  • - weather effects
  • - native jetways
  • - PBR materials
  • - new lights
  • - 3D vegetation
• Ortho4XP tile (link in the manual):
  • - X-Plane 12 bathymetry
  • - X-Plane 12 DSF sound
  • - high resolution elevation
  • - edited orthophotos
  • - edited coastline and water bodies
• All materials created for full PBR
• Shading and occlusion effects on all airport buildings
• Custom orthophoto for the airport and surrounding areas
• World Traffic 3 compatible
• Compatible with Ortho4XP and default mesh

 

 

Alaska Airlines has served Sitka for about fifty years. In 1967, Alaska Air was operating Boeing 727-100 jet service into the facility on a round trip from Seattle to Kotzebue and was also operating flights with Convair 240 propliner service nonstop to Juneau. By 1969, Alaska Air had added a few stops on the route between Seattle and Alaska. It was operating a Boeing 727-100 jetliner on a round trip routing from Seattle to Sitka and the final destination at Kotzebue in addition to working Convair 240 service on a round trip routing of Annette Island Airport - Wrangell - Petersburg - Sitka - Juneau. Over the years, Alaska Air also operated Boeing 727-200 and 737-200 jets into the airport before switching to later model Boeing 737 jetliners. In 1986, Anchorage-based AirPac was working jet service into SIT with a British Aerospace BAe 146-100 aircraft that was flying a round trip routing of Seattle - Sitka - Anchorage.

 

A custom Ortho4XP tile is available for download to include with this scenery. The link in the manual. This is an X-Plane 12 scenery only.

 

Images are courtesy of NorthernSky Studios

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PASI - Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport by NorthernSkyStudio is available from the X-Plane.Org Store here:

 

PASI - Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport

Price is US$15.00

 

Requirements

X-Plane 12 (Not for XP11)

Windows, Mac or Linux

8 GB+ VRAM Recommended

Download Size: 2.2 GB

Current version : 1.0 (September 2nd 2024)

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News by Stephen Dutton

3rd September 2024

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