Sumburgh Airport - Shetlands v2

Welcome to Sumburgh Airport

Sumburgh Airport (IATA: LSI, ICAO: EGPB) is the main airport serving Shetland in Scotland. It is located on the southern tip of the mainland, 17 NM (31 km; 20 mi) south of Lerwick.[1] The airport is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) and served by Loganair (under franchise to FlyBe) as well as sometimes seasonally by Atlantic Airways.

The airport is unusual in that it has a 550 m (1,804 ft) helicopter runway as opposed to usual helipad. The western end of runway 09 crosses the A970 road between Sumburgh and the northern mainland; access is controlled by a level crossing with barriers lowered whenever a flight is taking off or landing.

Sumburgh Links was surveyed and the grass strips laid out by Capt. E. E. Fresson in 1936: the Airport was opened on June 3 of that year with the inaugural flight from Aberdeen (Kintore) by the De Havilland Dragon Rapide G-ACPN piloted by Fresson himself. It was also one of the first airfields to have RDF facilities due to the frequency of low cloud and fog coupled with the proximity of Sumburgh Head. The building of runways was at the instigation of Capt. Fresson who had proved to the Navy at Hatson that to maintain all round landing facilities over the winter months runways were essential. This was taken up by the RAF after the obvious success of the Hatson (Orkney) experiment.

The former RAF Sumburgh airfield had two runways, the longest being 800 yd (730 m), and the shorter running a length of 600 yd (550 m) from shore-line to shore-line. No. 404 Squadron operated Beaufighter Mark VI and X aircraft from this station on coastal raids against Axis shipping off the coast of Norway and in the North Sea.

On 1 April 1995, ownership of the Company transferred from the UK Civil Aviation Authority to the Secretary of State for Scotland and subsequently to the Scottish Ministers.

Shetland is the home of otters, puffins & Shetland ponies.

Sumburgh airport is the main airport serving Shetland and is situated approximately 25 miles south from the main town/port of Lerwick. The airport provides air links to Scotland's major cities, Orkney and Norway.

Shetland is known for its distinctiveness and culture which is unlike that of anywhere else. Its roots lie deep in Viking with islands littered with Old Norse names and remains. It is a haven for birds being home to more than one million during the seasons. The Islands are also famous for great walking, cycling and touring, whale watching - Shetland Ponies and Fair Isle Knitwear to name but a few!

Opening Hours

Monday to Friday

06.30 - 20.30

Saturday

07.15 - 16.30

Sunday

10.15 - 20.30

Ok - So why did I give you the opening times - well because I search fairly extensively for night flight landings and found none, but then I realised that Shetland gets dark very early in winter - so next time you fly into Sumburgh in the dark - make a video!

I need to thank some people

Marginal - as ever I would be lost without your overlay editor, and other invaluable tools.

I started with World Editor, so thanks to Ben at the org for allowing us to use this package.

The Baron will always get a mention - he was my inspiration and got me back into designing, so thanks to him.

VERY IMPORTANTLY - a huge thanks to Iain Murray of Scotflight. He allowed me to use his Sumburgh terminal obj, with lit textures. The guy was so helpful he even offered to make me a mini Sumburgh scenery. FSX designers are great people.

Lastly - my wife whose patience knows no limits, supplier of tea and sympathy!

YOU WILL NEED

opensceneryx latest version.

turn up our airport detail settings to extreme for best results

not tried it in v8 but am almost sure it won't work there.

ALL MY OWN WORK - apart from the terminal obj.