## Description

_British Airports: Central England_ is the fourth volume in a series of
scenery add-on products for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002. This series of
products introduces accurate airport buildings and corrects the flight
simulator defaults for specified UK airports to makes them more accurate, for
example;

* The flight simulator’s default width of runways is 40 meters whereas UK runways are generally 15 or 18 meters wide though some of the larger airports have a few 25 meter wide runways.
* The default lights for runways is blue edge-lighting, in practice most airports have a green centre-line with blue edge lights only used on sharp corners.

Some airports feature additional static aircraft whose livery can be modified.

This volume gives the player the detailed graphics for the following airports;
Birmingham, Brize Norton, Bruntingthorpe, Connington, Cottesmore, Coventry,
Cranfield, Deenthorpe, East Midlands, Enstone, Fairford, Finmere, Halton,
Kembie, Kidlington (Oxford), Leicester, Langar, Little Gransden, Little
Staughton, Nottingham, Oaksey Park, Saltby, Shotteswell, Sibson, Sywell,
Thame, Turweston, Wellesbourne Mountford, and Wittering. Manchester airport is
included as a bonus.

When enabled this product shows as two entries in the player’s add-on scenery
list. The airports in the main list above show in a group labelled Br.Arprt –
Midlands. Eighty eight airports are found within this group, this is not
because the list above is incomplete, it is because all but the smallest
airports have multiple runways, taxiways etc. Manchester shows as a group on
its own and it has nine active locations.

Manchester, Birmingham and East Midlands airports have ‘Active Stands’, i.e.
specified gates have interactive items like air gates, docking boards, air
stairs and catering trucks.

All the airfields are mapped accurately from real photographs with the
exception of RAF Wittering which was undergoing significant change when this
product was being developed. As the airfields are accurately mapped and the
product manual alleges that the roads supplied in Microsoft Flight Simulator
2002 are not as accurately positioned, some roads which are part of the flight
simulators default scenery may disappear or be partially covered when the
airport scenery is installed.

British Airports: Central England