Malibu Scenery area for
MS Flight Simulator 2004

Introduction
For those who are new to our sceneries, this is the third version of the Malibu scenery area since it's original release in 2001. It includes two separate airports near eastern Malibu in California. In 2003 the second version was released introducing the second airport on the beach. Malibu's original airport, called Flight Center 2 (identifier AFC2) is currently the main civilian flight test airport for Aeroworks Technologies and all our creations. The second airport, a "Recreational Airpark" which we call Malibu MotorSports (identifier CA 99) could be more accurately described as a vehicular playground than an airport, is where we build, modify and test high performance sport aviation aircraft such as the ARX-5 and ARX-6 series, as well as floatplanes and speedboats, yachts, and various other things.

If you are new to our sceneries, review the airport information below at your leisure and have fun. If you have any suggestions, comments or problems please email the author.

If you have had previous versions of this scenery, a list of changes is listed below for those who are interested.

Airport Information

Malibu Common Traffic Advisory Frequency: 122.80

AFC2 (elevation 1444 ft.)
Runway 30L/12R: 4000 ft. x 150 ft. (asphalt)
Runway 30R/12L: 1700 ft. x 60 ft. (grass)
Airport Diagram

CA99 (elevation 2ft.)
Runway 29/11: 2000 ft. x 100 ft. (asphalt)
Runway 26/8: 10000 ft. x 300 ft. (water, marked with buoys)
Airport Diagram

What's New?
A list of improvements and changes over version 2

Hilltop airport (AFC2)
The first thing returning simmers are likely to notice is the updated runway numbers and the addition of a small grass strip as well as a new taxiway and runup areas. AFC2 has always been able to support aircraft such as a 737, but the largest aircraft we regularly fly in and out of here is the default DeHavilland Dash-8. Along with taxiways, we've added taxiway signs courtesy of Luis Sá's excellent Scenery Builder 2.05 and it was also used to rework the Land Water Masks, and Vector Textured Polygon roads, as well as and many other things you're liable to see here and there (yes, of course we still hide many easter eggs in our sceneries). All the ground textures have been updated, taxiways, and even palm trees finally have new life, no longer requiring the Airport/VOD scenery textures. The original HQ building has been scrapped and a totally new one rebuilt with night textures and a landable rooftop helipad. Unfortunately, all of the static aircraft that used to be parked in the main hangar are gone. Since I am personally planning on reworking alot of them, the old ones just didn't fit in.

On the Beach (CA99)
There weren't many major things added to the beachfront airport itself, mostly little things which you will see, but the major things we're reorganized and retextured. As mentioned above, all older static aircraft have been removed, so the helicopter is gone from the yacht and it's helipad on the rear deck is now landable. The new airport identifier for the beachfront airport is CA99. In version 2 it was also listed as AFC2 which led to some confusion in the airport menu. All parking spots have been reorganized and all taxiways restriped and appropriate signs added. The airport aside, the seashore environment has changed drastically! The entire eastern section of Malibu was totally left out of flightsim by Microsoft, so I went in with Scenery Builder and added a new urban land class that is a bit more realistic to the way Malibu really is, so now there are village communities around and the whole area looks much better, especially at night!

Credits

Scenery design and custom macros
Jason L. Terry
webmaster@aeroworks-technologies.com

Low Flying Aircraft sign's and pool macro
Josh Nyhus

Beta Testers
Mike Vivaldi
Josh Nyhus
Brady Duros

Thanks to the makers of the following programs:
Flight Simulator Scenery Creator 1.5.7 - Derek Leung
Flight Simulator Design Studio 2.24 - Abacus
Abacus EZ Scenery - Konstantin Kukushkin
AFCAD 2.21 - Lee Swordy
Scenery Builder 2.05 - Luis Sá & PTSim

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