The Airport at Queen's Point

[PT 0]

This, this is the Queen's Point area. Known for its beautifully formed mountain, fresh mountain air, and the highway bridge over the "Big Dig" crater. The bridge was completed in 1990, and had cost over a 100.000 Simdollar. The construction of the highway killed 4 construction workers, and everyday, a lot of people use this dangerous road to travel from suburb, to work. The local government knew that problems concerning traffic congestion could occur in the following years. Plans for building new roads would only be a temporary solution. They knew radical changes had to be made.

Therefore, the Department of Transport came up with an ambitious plan. An airport, with air services between the suburbs and downtown. The plan was approved by the authorities, and construction began in 1995. Construction was finalized 3 years later. This is the result:



Queen's Point Regional Airport. This airport has lots of room available for expansion, and the airport is already beign used at 80% of its capacity. As you can see, there are no hangers, no parking space, and barely enough runway length. Expansion is needed, and this will be done in phases.


And therefore this City Journal. Construstion will begin very soon!

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Now some info about this whole project:

 - I will be using a money cheat, otherwise this can't be done!

 - The region is one I made myself

I would like to give credit to the following parties and people for providing custom content:

 - NAM team - Custom transit puzzle pieces
 - Pilotdaryl - Plane textures (Jets Of The Sky, Westjet Avro RJ85)
 - Acebovenopdeberg - Terminals and Jets, series 1 and 2
 - Voltaire - RMIP runways, ramps and aprons
 - SFBT Team - Euro Road Textures, Rural power supply
 - Tonyhotrod64 - Road Divider Parking Lots
 - Simtropiaproductions - Light replacement mod highways
 - Brtim2 - Communications Tower
 - mike_oxlong - Boeing 737 plane props
 - Tabi - Plane props
 - Kumba - Plane props

It's very likely that this list will become larger as the airport expands...

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That's it for now, update follow soon.

Greetz,
PT

[Superchan 23]

looks coo, has the city tried to build a better and safer road? or bypass the mountain area?

[luker91 0]

just to be fair, this isn't the first airport cj. however i'm looking forward to see what you do with this. good luck!

[PT 0]

@superchad: Building another road would only be a temporary solution, with this airport, the problem will be solved for many years.

@luker91: Oops! Didn't notice. It sounded like a good title to me, but I'll change it.

[fern244 1]

Cool, ive never seen an Airport CJ before.

[Cobra_nVidia 30]

Oooo I've never seen an airport CJ before it looks nice!

I'm confused about the airport's story though. Is the airport connected to the suburbs or the downtown?

[jacqulina 162]

great start and intro my friend huge mountain and great airport.

[Deionn 137]

Quintuplet post.... The first I ever seen. Try to only press the button once. Simtropolis may take a bit slow to post. Just relax and have patience.

[PT 0]

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For those who don't really get the story, don't mind it too much. The idea behind this CJ is to show how a Regional Airport grows into a large International Airport. I just thought the lil'story made things look pretty... 

Anyway, the airport is connected to the suburbs, so commuters can fly to downtown. This is a solution to the busy and dangerous highway in the mountains.

Sorry for beign a bit unclear there

PT 

[feliwi 4]

yes, quite nice so far. I love airports!

[Ntq€310 1]

hmm, it been a long time since ive seen another Aj, i look forward to updates

[Schulmanator 5,787]

I am looking forward to your new airport!

[nottheboss 1]

Great looking airport cj

[PT 0]

The first update. Here's what's new:

 - Runway is extended

 - More gates available

 - Terminal complex expanded

 - More parking facilities

 - New runway exit built

Here are the pictures of the work done already:

The runway under construction (it's finished now though). Aiming points were added to the runway, making it easier for pilots to land.

Overview of Terminal 1 (the only terminal around however... ^^), new parking facilities, and 2 new gates.

The gates for the business jets, with one new gate available. On the runway you can see an airplane mysteriously disappearing... ^^

With the new gates available, the airport is full of activity. This Avro RJ85 came by at a very high speed, I could hardly capture it on the camera...

And an overview of the current situation. 

Same shot, but now at night.

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That's it for now. The next step is building hangars and landinglights (and more of course).

Cya,

PT

 

[vinvin du 13 0]

good airport,well done

[PT 0]

Small update:

Today, a new part was completed. Parking (for airplanes, of course...), and 5 Hangers were built. Here's a picture:

Cya,

PT

[Superchan 23]

looks sweet, why dont you just build a road at the base of the mountain instead of high up in it, and i would build the airport more to the right, so that you could have a crosswind runway. can we also have a regional shot so we can see the situation that demands the airport.

[PT 0]

@superchad

Well, building the airport more to the right is going to be difficult at this point. Anyway, just wait for the story to develop. All will become clear later on.

[penguin007 27]

Nice start here cant wait to see what you do next to the airport. Is it serving any major city?

Will

[dfnva 34]

That's a big mountain bridge. It looks like some of the controversial ones being built over top the high mountains in West Virginia along "Corridor H" (AKA WV-55/Future US-55). A lot of the locals complain they ruin the look of the area with the huge embankments which hold up the bridges.

Dan

[Goldfish4209 9]

Looks interesting. Can we see what's on the other side of the mountain?

[pilotdaryl 25]

Very realistic!  I'm looking forward to progress!!!  Airport journals are not very common nowadays; I had an airport journal myself, a long time ago.  Now, I spend my days BATting planes that I hope to see in your airport soon.

[underwearman2007 0]

good show old chap.

[PT 0]

Hey, you're new around here, aren't you?

Yup, the first 2 Boeing 737 landed at Queen's Point Regional Airport. The became possible due to the placing of ALS lighting systems and larger terminals. Continetal Airlines has set up a connection between the other big cities in the country. And Westjet takes care of regional/domestic flights. Here's what's more:

More business jets can come to Queen's point because of the new gates available.

The new ALS system, and brand new sequenced flashing lights as well.

And the whole airport, which is become bigger and bigger...

Cya,

PT

P.S. Thanks for all your replies!!

 

[Rictiovarus 1]

Hehehe, cool concept! Are you going to add some more runways now?

[PT 0]

And here I am again! In the days that have passed, the government has had a meeting about these numbers concerning Queen's Point Regional Airport. Believe me, these numbers really are a reason to be concerned about:





This is concerning, and the problem is, more runways are needed to cope with the growing amount of passengers. The CEO of Queen's Point Regional Inc. noticed that more and more people from foreign countries use Queen's Point Regional to visit Downtown Queen's Point. Therefore, the CEO decided that Queen's Point Regional has to be turned into an INTERNATIONAL Airport, capable of handling 30.000.000 passengers per year. To do this, new runways, terminals and other facilities have to be built. Again this will be done in phases. Here is a summary of the phases the airport will be expanded in:

 - Phase 1: Runways
 - Phase 2: Terminals and gates - medium aircraft
 - Phase 3: Terminals and gates - Long distance aircraft/heavy jetliners
 - Phase 4: Parking facilites/ hangers
 - Phase 5: Improvement of infrastructure (highway and train connections)

"A great and magnificent plan", the secretary of transport said. The expansion will cost an estimated 7.000.000§. The government already stated that "money ain't no problem". Construction will begin as soon as the President (Me!) has signed the all the necessary paperwork.

Cya,
PT 

 

 

[Patricius Maximus 236]

An airport CJ -- what an unusual and nice idea. Now why haven't I've been here before

Anyway, nice to see a new CJ out, and something different.

I'll be looking forward to the expansion updates.

[Ntq€310 1]

hmm sounds like a good plan, cant wait to see the pictures.

[jacqulina 162]

great looking airport my friend i like the step by step building pics great work there

[Charles Rodulfo 0]

I like airports and I'm liking this CJ. I'll check this. Nice graphs btw.