Lelystad Airport - EHLE/LEY
Version 1.0
Location: Lelystad, the Netherlands
Elevation: -4m/-12ft
Runway: 2700m Asphalt
Welcome to the first official release!
I started this project more than a year ago, specifically to add the missing air traffic control tower to the scenery. The project grew and grew and 13-or-so months later it's time for version 1.0! I intend to keep tweaking various parts and I'll be supporting the Sim updates as they roll out, so the project isn't finished. It's been long enough, however, and it's time to get this show on the road!
Scenery Features
- (Almost) all of the buildings are custom handcrafted models with up-to-date textures.
- Custom taxiway signs and taxiway lines
- Aviodrome museum with static aircraft displays.
- Background satellite imagery up to date (March 2020).
- Runway lengthened to 2700 metres with corresponding taxiways.
- Details around the airfield including visual reference points.
- Radio navigation aids/frequencies correspond to the AIP.
- The new terminal with several parking spots
Installation
Download the airport scenery file and copy that to your Community folder. I suggest first removing the old version to avoid potential conflicts, but it should work properly if you overwrite the files when prompted.
The aerial scenery is highly recommended but not mandatory. If you want to have the aerial background, download the aerial imagery (separate scenery: https://flightsim.to/file/15675/lelystad-airport-aerial-background or the other file you can download from this page) and unzip that file ("aerialehle") to your Community folder. The scenery ("airport-ehle-lelystad") should be unzipped seperately, so you should now have 2 files in your folder.
Planned work
- Detail work (small objects like benches, trees, vehicles, etc.)
- A few buildings need minor tweaks.
- Upgrade the aircraft models and textures.
- Add parking spaces.
- Work out more LODs.
Issues
- There's a lot of issues I'm hoping Asobo will finally fix with the upcoming update, including exclude polygons, vegetation, textures, LODs, crashes, etc. Some things might not work completely optimally until then.
- Several buildings need minor tweaking, see above.
Acknowledgements
A very special thanks to users Garfield and Vlammetje for providing textures and/or assests I've used in this rendition! Garfield has really added an extra dimension with his texturing skills, and I'm forever grateful to Vlammetje for facilitating a real-world tour of the airport. Flight Simulator Forums user PoorlyMaple (aka Emile) provided me with base textures for two Aviodrome aircraft, so a big thanks to him as well!
Garfield has really done a great job on the buildings around the F-Apron and others:
- Wings over Holland
- Nimbus
- Rotors and Wings
- KLM Aeroclub
- HeliCentre (East)
- Vliegclub Flevo
- Dura Vermeer/JetSupport
- AIS Flight Academy
- HeliCenter
First and foremost: thank you to the various people who have helped me and are helping me with models, textures, information, or other things essential to this project! Especially the user Garfield, the user Vlammetje, my father (whom I won't name for privacy reasons), PoorlyMaple/Emile, and I'm sure I'm forgetting someone but my sincere and heartfelt thanks to all of you! Of course, I read all the comments and I appreciate the encouragement and support from the community very much! Thanks for your patience!
Thanks to Sansemiano for the video!
The various static aircraft models you see in my scenery come from various sources and authors. As my English teachers drilled into me: not providing sources is plagiarism, so I want to quickly list my sources. Note that the liveries are my own textures, though some textures such as gear and inner components are those that are included with the model.
F104 Starfighter: https://bit.ly/3nbO52g
Boeing 747: https://bit.ly/3atubL2
Eurocopter Dauphin: https://bit.ly/3enP4sn
Gloster Meteor: https://bit.ly/2QOHHBY
Fokker 50: https://bit.ly/2RYMYaL
Fokker 28: https://bit.ly/3xjIAmM
Fokker 100: https://bit.ly/2RRmY0N
Piper PA28: https://bit.ly/3xgn7ew
Lockheed Neptune: https://bit.ly/3dMyRxT
Spitfire: https://bit.ly/3epoQWj
Saab Viggen: https://bit.ly/3yarKrc
Mig 21: https://bit.ly/2RPqnNS
Support
You can reach me on the Flight Simulator forums: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/u/pilotfg12
SU5 Statement
As many of you know, the latest SU5 has resulted in performance improvements, at the cost of quite a few (sometimes showstopping) bugs. I have experienced a lot of the same bugs that others have, including CTD's, texture issues, etc. I cannot absolutely guarantee you will not run into issues with SU5 and this scenery. My simulator is at the moment too unstable to properly test everything and even attempting to address some issues (specifically, projected meshes - the taxiway markings) results in a CTD/BSOD on my end. I am confident that my scenery will not somehow incinerate your computer, but it is very possible that there are some issues in this version.
I have tried to make some things in a landscape, but it didn't work out well for me. I would like to hear from you if this is possible. And of course; if you still want to make an effort for the flightsimmers and perhaps add it to your EHLE creation.
We would be very grateful to you.
2 months ago
22 days ago
Vingilot
PilotLely
4 months ago
Vingilot
Problem is, i suspect this helipad is marked as Parking spot instead as Helipad in the scenery, so most of the time i want to land there, a GA-plane is parked on the spot.
Is there a way i could change this in one of the files so it is seen as a Helipad?
Thanks for the nice Airport.
6 months ago
LeoSchoonbroodt
[edit] fixed by removing older version from the community folder first.
btw: impressed with the Pioneer hangar. I used to have a plane there. Colors and textures are basically same as IRL. 😊
9 months ago
jingle
Heb een GSX Profile tav de Airliner Gates toegevoegd voor deze noeste arbeid van FrankGPilot. Have fun!
https://flightsim.to/file/52885/gsx-profile-for-lelystad-airport-ehle
/Sansemiano
12 months ago
Sansemiano
Like the add-on it really adds a lot to VFR flying.
Could you perhaps add the extra planned parking spaces? I'd really like a parking spot behind the KLM Aeroclub (facing east, so no pushback maneuver is needed).
Also, the White/Red Container at Yankee is very small (I think the overal dimensions are a little bigger, it also pops in very late) could you perhaps fix that?
The added scenery file under downloads crashes the sim in the latest SU 10 BETA version. However, the separate link to the other scenery download does work.
2 years ago
WokkelP
Bedankt Frank voor de tijd die je in EHLE hebt gestoken.
Ik kan bevestigen dat deze werkt op SU10 (beta 1.27.16.0)
2 years ago
GhostlyFriend
Hello Frank.
Although I don't often fly in America, I installed WU 10 (America) today. Then I chose your EHLE as the starting point again and it loads as it should.
So it is also WU 10 compatible.
2 years ago
PilotLely
Hopelijk werk je hier nog aan want na de laatste sim update 9 wil ie niet meer laden vanaf lelystad het laad process blijft hangen dus hopelijk kom je snel met een update
2 years ago
To Fungaming44:
Even after sim update 9, EHLE worked fine for me. So perhaps there is something else going on with your configuration.
I placed some images in the user gallery on this page to show it still works well.
Some tips:
You probably have other downloaded airports or some other files in your Community folder that are interfering.
It is best to empty your entire Community folder. The easiest way is to create a folder for yourself with the name: "temporarily parked Community files". There you drag all files from your community folder and if you want to have one or more back in your Community folder, you can easily drag that file back to your Community folder.
Than first place your EHLE files back in your Community folder.
PLEASE NOTE: AFTER CHANGES TO YOUR COMMUNITY FOLDER, YOU MUST EXIT FS2020 AND RESTART.
If you're still having problems after that, clear the FS2020 cache via General Options > Data and restart FS2020 after shutting it down first.
2 years ago
PilotLely
Fungaming44
prima echt schiterend
2 years ago
ronmeg
Ik geniet nog dagelijks van je fantastische werk. Circuits vliegen op EHLE is echt fantastisch. Ik ben benieuwd naar je verdere werk. Ligt het project nu stil of ben je ondertussen gestaag bezig met een doorontwikkeling?
2 years ago
Hetisjoost
Hello Frank. After WU6 the windows of the new arrival hall were grey. Now after WU7 the windows of the hall have been restored. You can now see through the glass again. It's a little blurry from the inside out. Looking from the outside in is also possible again. So I think it must have been due to update WU6 that the glass no longer looked good. But now it's good again. After all, this was peanuts of course, given your enormous work that you have done to make EHLE as realistic as it is now.
2 years ago
It still works fine in WU8. I fly there very often and have already made several very realistic films of landings and ground handling at Lelystad Airport.
2 years ago
PilotLely
PilotLely
Problems after SU7. Pink surfaces along the runway and in front of runway 23.
2 years ago
In winter, the colors in nature are always slightly different. Try setting your weather settings to August, for example. You see completely different colors then.
2 years ago
PilotLely
Sansemiano
Ziet er allemaal geweldig uit, maar ik mis heel veel texturen. De grap is dat na installatie van de oude versie de helft van de texturen wel zichtbaar is. Maar heb nog steeds een behoorlijk aantal roze geblokte delen. Gebruik overigens de laatse update SU6.
2 years ago
Oei dat is niet de bedoeling! Kun je me via PM even wat Screenshots sturen? Dan ga ik er achteraan.
2 years ago
FrankGPilot
Kamiklaasie
Geweldig resultaat. Ook binnen onze flightsimulator club FsFan Voorschoten alleen maar complimenten. Maar om nu toch een stukje nitpicking te doen zag een van onze leden dat je op de grond onder het horizontal stabilo van de 747 bij het Aviodrome nog steeds de oude texture ziet van waarschijnlijk de oude fotoscenery. Net of er nog steeds een afdruk van een 747 op de grond ligt.
Maar verder een genoegen om steeds weer op Lelystad te komen met jou scenery in volle bloei. Klasse
Groet Emile
2 years ago
Emile