A day at the seaside for FSX released at FS.com!

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A day at the seaside for FSX released at FS.com!

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FSX - FSX Scenery
FSX Scenery--A Day At The Seaside

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Name: seaside.zip Size: 804,270 Date: 01-08-2010 Downloads: 21
FSX Scenery--A Day At The Seaside for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Horizon VFR Photographic Scenery Generation X (Vol. 1). This scenery contains two fun (but virtually unknown) UK seaside airfields in West Sussex, EGKC at Bognor Regis with a tarmac runway capable of taking GA twins and a small grass airstrip at Bracklesham Bay for light GA and micro-light traffic only. Set the season to summer, the weather to sunny and head for the coast! Includes autogen trees and other local scenery objects, additional downloads are required. By Trevor Clark
LEC airfield in Bognor Regis, complete with the next door industrial estate (where I was working in 2004-6!) and which used to be home to the Piper Aztec (nice tarmac runway ;) ) of LEC refrigeration Ltd, who's factory can be seen in the background. The ex F1 driver David Purley GM (son of LEC's founder and chairman) kept his Pitts Special here, before his fatal accident off the Bognor coast. I actually saw the SAR helicopter attempting the rescue.
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Bracklesham Bay airfield is a tiny (I did not know about it until the other day, thanks Pete!!) micro-light field very close the sea. It was also home to a banner towing aircraft (Cessna 172) until a fatal accident in 2005. It is thought that this accident may have meant the airfield's closure.

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Make sure you set your season to summer and the weather to sunny before you start!!! Don't be put off by two fatal accidents either, that's another good thing about MSFS

They should be out within the week!! PS, I know about that blue Transit, it's got a flat tyre!! Bought it cheap from a friend of 'Rodney' !!
ATB Trev

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ah now that's looking good!

Happy new year Trev

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Re: WIP...A day at the seaside for FSX!

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Indeed looking good! Just wish I had a system to run 'X' on!
Btw, re-reading the accident report, there's no hint of the Bracklesham Bay strip being declared 'unsafe'; root causes were mooted as pilot fatigue
(been at work since 05.00, and flown 6 flights prior to accident) and possible rudder jam due to the banner towing hook fouling the rudder.

Oh and there's another 'lost' airfield at Wilmington (closed for WWII and never re-opened) alongside the A27
here ----> http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=50.82620 ... =0&src=msl
background reading here -------> http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviat ... ton-n.html
and here ----> http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/

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There was some talk of the famous Tiger Club moving and re-opening the Wilmington airfield around a decade a go...but the Nimby's got them!!! I lived in a nearby village and was looking forward to the prospect - but my Dad was a member and I am biased!!

Somewhere I had an image of a pre-war airshow there. i doubt I have it now but will have a look and try and scan it...

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Re: A day at the seaside for FSX released at FS.com!

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As you can see from the edited post, this is now available!
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