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FS2004 Scenery--North Shore Alaska PALU and PPIZ. The town of Barrow is in the far north of Alaska (AK), USA, and these are coastal villages or radar installations to the west of Barrow. Cape Lisburne is a gravel runway right next to the coast with radar gear and accomodation buildings close by, and what was called "Top Camp" at the end of a long and steep road to the top of a nearby mountain. The runway is lit, as are most of them in this area of long dark winter nights. Barrow is 270 miles to the northeast. Point Lay PPIZ used to have a radar installation as well as a village, but the old buildings have now been removed and the gravel runway lengthened to 5,000 feet to serve the village throughout the year. The population is around 270, living mostly traditionally and with an annual beluga whale hunt. Barrow is 180 miles to the northeast. The village has been "represented" as opposed to "replicated". The texture folder includes the missing car textures for Barrow PABR, and the AI is modified PABR to include passenger flights by ERA (now called Ravn) and cargo flights by Northern Air Transport, plus limited GA. There are no flattened grassed areas at these airfields; they are runways and taxiways and aprons on a bed of gravel on permafrost. The next one will be Wainwright, some 80 miles southwest of Barrow. By Roger Wensley.