About This File
FS2004 Scenery--Grande Prairie CYQU in Alberta, Canada, Updated. This is a new 2018 version of the original post from March 2014. It was made mainly to provide some missing textures, but also adds parked trucks and floodlights to the de-icing area (the floodlights are inoperative as they will not be on when there is no de-icing in progress) and also street and car parking lighting, a few more parked planes, and some further objects on the terminal apron area. The runway approach lighting was also amended. Moving the airport so that the ILS on 29 did not coincide with the roads would have been nice, but meant too many complications at this stage. The scenery is complete in itself and can be installed as-is if you do not have the original post. Grande Prairie is at 2,195 feet asl, 65 miles southeast of Dawsons Creek, 90 miles southwest of Peace River (both already posted on FlightSim.Com) and around 60 miles east of the Rockies. The town has a population of around 55,000 and growing. The name comes from the wide expanse of prairies all around the town, and there is also a large forested area to the southwest leading up to the Rockies which supplies raw material for industries in the town. The airport is just to the west of the town. It was originally a military base, built during WW2. The two runways are 07-25 and 11-29 and 6,200 and 6,500 feet respectively, both 200 feet wide. When one is the active runway then the other is used as a taxiway, and AI aircraft will use taxiway A and whichever runway is inactive to feed to and from both ends of the active runway. AI will not use taxiway B, the narrow one, but you may use it if you are in a small plane. Taxiway A is very wide with a repaired central section marked out for use. There may now be more hangars, as my information is old. The industrial area to the southeast is now larger than I have made it, but I kept it to this minimum size to keep frame rates down. All the buildings are modeled specifically for CYQU. The vertical red tanks are for de-icing fluid, carried out before take-off in the winter. The AI includes Westjet, Air Canada Jazz, and others as listed. The GA AI uses only FS2004 standard aircraft. By Roger Wensley.