KCKC - Grand Marais/Cook County Airport - Grand Marais, MN
0G5 - Grand Marais/Cook County Seaplane Base
These airports are neighbors in the Arrowhead of Minnesota near the north shore of Lake Superior. KCKC is now located further up the hill from the lake from it's old location next to the seaplane base which is on Devil Track Lake a couple miles inland of Lake Superior. This area of MN is interesting to me as I have always looked at making a camping trip to Isle Royale NP (bucket list item!) which is an island in Lake Superior. To get to the island, you either have two options, one being a boat and the other is sea plane. From MN, both options depart from Grand Marais which caused me to take a look at this airport as it is the departure point for the seaplane company that will fly you out there. So far I haven't made it up the north shore this far but I hope to some day! As far as the default sim goes, when I looked at both the hard surface airport and the seaplane base all that was there in earnest was the main runway for each (with a handful of AI buildings at KCKC). It needed help.
Version 1.1 update:
Cook Co. has been updated to reflect the updated Bing Maps imagery. This showed that my estimation in version 1.0 on where the runway was after the extension was off by a couple hundred feet. With this update, the runway, along with the turnaround aprons are in the correct location. Some work was done to thin out the forest on the approach ends to better match the real airport.
0G5 was updated to fix a terrain issue found on the east end of Devil's Track Lake. It was a minor bump which you can taxi over, but this update will smooth out the water.
Version 1.0 Updates:
KCKC:
- Added hard surface aprons to replace the grass which was default
- Lengthed the runway to the current length of 5002 ft.
- Added Hangars and other default airport objects to make it appear accurate including the taxiway to the hangars on the east side of the airport
- Relocated parking spots to line up with the painted T's
- A bit of night lighting and relocated rotating beacon
- Runway Signs
0G5:
- Added Parking locations to allow to spawn on something other than the one runway
- Added Rwy 3-21 as it exists in the Chart Supplement
- Added Docks and taxiways along with a few other objects like the windsock.
- Some wildlife around the airport
- Some texture to the old runway
Installation:
- Extract the packages from the zip file to your community folder. There are two packages, one for each airport. You can install either or both of them to suit your tastes.
As always, enjoy flying in Minnesota!
Does this work since SU 11?
1 years ago
It looks the same for me after SU11.
1 years ago
spidermanMN
BLUE3272
hâte de les voir. et den décoller pour voir le paysage
2 years ago
Lorent8857
Merci pour le conseil, en fait j'ai réussi à le télécharger avec mon VPN ?............
2 years ago
Great! Thanks for the update.
2 years ago
spidermanMN
Lorent8857
TOUJOUR : Échec – Erreur lors du téléchargement.
2 years ago
I'm sorry you're having issues. Error downloading to me is an issue connecting with the site. I'd suggest the website help section: https://flightsim.to/help
2 years ago
spidermanMN
Lorent8857
Bonjour, excuse-moi mais à chaque fois ; j'ai "Erreur de téléchargement".
2 years ago
Perhaps the site had an issue. I was able to download without issue right now. Try again and see if the site works now?
2 years ago
spidermanMN
Lorent8857
Thanks for the Airport. Next time I was up at our place in GM I was going to shoot pictures and attempt this but looks like you did a great job!!
3 years ago
Thanks for the comment! Glad you're familiar with the area; someday I hope to get there as well! I've been eyeing up camping at the state parks up the north shore since there are so many good options. I'm also trying to convince my family to make a trip to Isle Royale so it got me looking at this airport. I've looked at the options to get there and found that Isle Royale Seaplanes goes to KCKC, so I thought I could recreate their bases in the sim. I've got their MI base created and am now working on cleaning up Isle Royale itself. Hopefully I can finish it in the not so distant future.
3 years ago
spidermanMN
Wheels7185
Perfect! My friend takes his plane (and the one I fly) up here all the time! Lovely area as well.
3 years ago
As mentioned, I'd love to get up to Grand Marais. The Superior Hiking trail looks great too. I haven't made it past Split Rock Lighthouse yet. We'll get there! To see the area from the sky would be a treat!
3 years ago
spidermanMN
ryanbatc