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At the moment Auckland Intl has a temporarily displaced threshold on Runway 23L of around 1100m, due to maintenance (ref NZAIP Vol 4 - NZAA AD2 51.1Y). So Ive created an AFCAD to reflect this. The AI doesnt recognise the change but Ive altered the lights and displaced the threshold visually, have a look and tell me what you think as I was contemplating releasing it to Avsim.

Normal Threshold of 23L


X's along the closed portion of the runway


The temporary threshold


Night




The Approach lights at the moment (Ive also turned the Papi's off although I was playing with them in this shot)


As apposed to the normal (this is 5R although the approach lights are the same)


~ZK-KAG~

there are no extra markings on the runway so no yellow arrows and crosses etc just the displaced tresh-hold papis which are on the south side and right up nearly abeam the tower - there are a set of wingbar threshold lights as well.

the temp displaced threshold is 'day only' so the night lighting can stay as close to normal as MS allows. When we do have a displaced THR that goes overnight - all the edge lights in the closed portion of runway get physically covered up and there is no centerline lighting available for the full runway length, the diplaced thr lighting is the wingbars only and does not extend right across the runway. You are correct in that the approach lighting is disabled.

You could remove virtually ALL blue lighting at AA altogether as there are only about 3 places on the airport that have any and those are only 2 or 3 lights total anyway - this is not just for displaced thr ops but ALL the time.

while I think of it - the runway edge lights are not actually on the edge - when they did the runway upgrade work over the last few years they added strips (about 12.5m) along each side so the lights are well in from the side - or should I say the sides are now well out from the lights!? this was done due to requirements for the wingspan of the A380 and FOD protection.

hope this helps
cheers

there are no extra markings on the runway so no yellow arrows and crosses

Used a bit of creative imagination there, but they are gone now

lighting is the wingbars only and does not extend right across the runway. You are correct in that the approach lighting is disabled,

Yep, Taken those out. What I did for the lighting and white line is add a runway, that is real narrow and the length is long enough to cover the real runway. This is so I could get the white line across the r/w.

You could remove virtually ALL blue lighting at AA altogether as there are only about 3 places on the airport that have any and those are only 2 or 3 lights total anyway

This is what Ive got in the blue lighting area. If only you could get a floodlight effect on AFCAD...

while I think of it - the runway edge lights are not actually on the edge - when they did the runway upgrade work over the last few years they added strips (about 12.5m) along each side so the lights are well in from the side - or should I say the sides are now well out from the lights!? this was done due to requirements for the wingspan of the A380 and FOD protection.

Yeah, Ive been meaning to ammend this for awhile... this is what it looks like now, what do you think?



Cheers!
~ZK-KAG~

I Had an interesting visitor this morning too...

are you going to upload this afcad anywere? Is it to fit in with the "akl2005" airport? Such a fps killer..

It looks prety neat, didn't know ppl put so much detail into the afcads, awsome work

James

yep looks a bit better - I will try to find out the actual position of the edge lighting (blues) - there are still a few spurious buildings in there and I dont think (?) that that area is stressed to carry heavies - I think it is B737 and below? will have to check.

Hey Jimmy,

Yeah I wasnt going to upload it as I dont think that many people would want it, but if you want a copy im happy to email you one. Thanks for the comments, Ive put a lot of effort into it, and it fits really nicely with the AKL2005 scenery. I cant wait for the new REALNZ stuff, but its gonna be a whole lotta work for me hehe.

Thanks for that TG, Im trying to make it as realistic as possible so any feedback or tips would be appreciated

~ZK-KAG~

that looks good, great to have up to the miniute afcads for R/W opperations, keep up the good work

yeah checked it out and the "tennis courts" as we refer to them are B737/A320 and below for parking.