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FS2004 Scenery--Peace River (CYPE) in Alberta, Canada. The Peace River flows east from the Rockies, joining up with the Slave River to empty into Great Slave Lake. The town is on both banks close to a bend where the Peace turns to the north, 245 miles northwest of Edmonton. The population is 7000 and the surrounding area is either farmland or forest and used for winter sports; Peace River hosted the 2004 Alberta Winter Games. The airport is just over 3 miles west of the town. The runway is 5000 feet of wide asphalt (150 feet) aligned 04/22, lit, and with PAPI, and there is a second runway to the south, 1900 feet of grass and aligned 08/26. The apron is to the north of the runway and is large; there is a purpose-built terminal building, plus other hangar buildings along taxiway C that extends westward from the apron. The airport gives the impression that it is under-used; there are no long lines of parked planes waiting for the weekend and few scheduled flights, which are mainly (totally?) by Sunwest Home Aviation. The AI should include Sunwest, but unfortunately nobody has made the textures for Sunwest and my talents do not run in that direction so there are believable substitutions. By Roger Wensley.