## Description

_British Airports: Northern England (Part 1)_ is the sixth volume in a series
of scenery add-on products for the Microsoft Flight Simulators. Whereas the
earlier products in the series were developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator
2002, this volume was developed for both Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.

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;
RAF Barkston Heath, Barrow, Beverley, Blackpool, Breighton, Brough, Burn, RAF
Church Fenton, Coal Aston, RAF Conningsby, RAF Cranwell, Elvington, Full
Sutton, Gamston, Hucknall, Huddersfield, Humberside, Isle of Man, Jurby,
Leeds, Netherthorpe, RAF Newton, North Coates, Rufford, Sandtoft, RAF
Scampton, Sheffield, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Skegness, Sturgate, RAF Syerston, RAF
Waddington, Warton, Wickenby, and RAF Woodvale.

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.Arpt –
Nr.England. Ninety-seven airports are contained 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.

Isle of Man, Leeds, Blackpool and Humberside 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 and the product
manual alleges that the roads supplied in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 are
not as accurately positioned, consequently some roads which are part of the
flight simulator’s default scenery may disappear or be partially covered when
the airport scenery is installed.

British Airports: Northern England (Part 1)