KJXN Jackson County - Reynolds Field Airport located in Jackson, Michigan, USA (JXN).
This new version fixes an error that stopped ground services at all airports world wide.
Now, ground services - there are none - affect only the Jackson airport.
REMOVE ALL KJXN ADDON FOLDERS FROM THE COMMUNITY FOLDER.
Runway 7 has an abandoned road running across it. You can get rid of the traffic by
turning off street traffic in the AI section of the sim.
This airport has been fully modeled from scratch. Highlights are:
(1) Terraforming
Airport elevations are accurate to within + or minus 3 feet.
(2) Buildings
All buildings on the airport propery reproduced and accurately placed . The modeling is
high quality but I kept a low poly count to keep the sim's frame rate as high as possible.
Modeling was done using Blender, GIMP, and Inkscape. Most textures were from textures.com
and supporting maps were made using GIMP. All textures were free for reuse, modification,
and for commercial use.
(3) Markings and signs - runway, taxiway, and parking
All markings conform to FAA USA standards and match Google Earth satellite imagery. A very
long time was spent remapping the sim's painted lines so there would be black outlines.
A compass rose was produced and added to the airport.
Taxiway numbering conforms to the FAA airport diagram. I had no reference pictures for the
taxiway signs, so I used my best guess. Feedback on incorrect signs is welcomed.
Runway remaining length signs were added.
In addition to making the taxiway numbering conform to the airport diagram, non-standard
taxiways were created for airport parking. These non-standard taxiways and parking spots start
with the letter "S" (sierra). I have included a PDF file in the download that gives more detail on
the scheme I used. I did not add taxiway signs for these non-standard taxiways. One way to learn the
the layout is to turn on the taxiway guide arrows.
AI and ATC works. However, if when you start the game and spawn to a parking place, and
then request to go to another parking place, directions will be given but there will be no way to
acknowledge the instruction. Just wait until ATC times out and stops transactions. After that
everything seems to work.
(4) Night lighting
Runway lighting, taxiway lighting, and the airport beacon all work, but the lights are on day and night.
Lights in building windows work properly.
(5) Navigation
Navigation has been added to the airport. The navigation conforms to the FAA approach plates.
The ILS 25 approach seems to work properly and will even land the airplane on the runway, but it
lands a little short of the touch down zone. The RNAV GPS approaches do seem to work, but the
glidepath brings the airplane in about 75 feet to low. Thus the airplane will land short of the runway.
I have not found anyway to fix this problem. The G1000 and G3000 will not allow you to set heights
of approach waypoints nor the elevation of the destination airport.
(6) Instructions
Download the zip file. The zip file contains the airport addon folder and a PDF file. Unzip the download
into a folder. Move the kjxn-airport-elw-v1-1 folder into the community folder. Place the Airport Diagram.PDF
file at some convient location. Do not put the Airport Diagram.PDF file in the community folder.
REMOVE ANY OTHER KJXN ADDON FOLDERS FROM THE COMMUNITY FOLDER.
"The RNAV GPS approaches do seem to work, but the glidepath brings the airplane in about 75 feet to low."
The glidepath is controlled by the pilot, not the avionics when doing RNAV approaches. There is no glideslope-type navigation.
1 years ago
gryper
Not sure if you still update this (doesn't look like it), but nice job on the college area. But about where you put the dumpster in the parking area is exactly where there is a working AVGAS fuel pump, if you ever feel like switching it out.
1 years ago
gryper
Looks amazing!
2 years ago
Trustdesa
Thanks for this beautiful scenery Everett!
But i do have one issue, i checked all my addons and i came to the conclusion this scenery is completely overriding the simulator default navdata, making it impossible to use it anywhere in world, no default navdata existent when using this scenery. Whoever uses Navigraph doesn´t have this problem, could you check when you can to see if there is any solution? thanks in advance!
2 years ago
Thorgalbr
I spent 3 days but narrowed it down to this airport to why I had no ILS data on the map which also prevented the autopilot from turning on in 2 aircraft but haven't tried any other because I still can't use ILS on any airport with it in my community folder. It's a shame because it looks very good and I even tried taking out the navdata .bgl but it didn't work either and crashed.
2 years ago
dogsfo
mod does not appear to work for me
3 years ago
Oncefamedman
Was able to narrow down why no airport in my sim was able to use the ILS or Glideslope. I narrowed it down to this airport is causing a conflicting issue through the sim that prevents ILS approach data.
3 years ago
I've also come to this conclusion as well. With this mod enabled, the ILS cannot be tuned to any airport.
2 years ago
ryanbatc
jerbo12
Not sure why, but this addon causes CTD at multiple airports.
For me specifically I spent an entire night trying to figure out why I couldn't land at KLAX without a CTD. I went letter by letter for all my addons until I isolated it to an addon with the letter K, then went one by one and it wasn't until I added this mod back that I got CTDs.
Great airport, fix the CTD issue please though and I'll give you a 5 star rating 😉
3 years ago
I have not been able to recreate a CTD on my system. I am requesting more information. Were you flying IFR? From where did you depart? What is your arrival runway? Are you using an arrival? Are you using an approach? Any other information that could help me reproduce the CTD is appreciated.
3 years ago
Everett10461
HypePerformanceGroup
to get the ground services back in all msfs airports I had to disable the entire kjxn airport mod maybe it is necessary to correct some files of this mod, it is not enough to remove only the airportservice folder: is it possible to correct the mod? thank you
3 years ago
I disabled all the ground services at Jackson, because I thought there were none at the airport. If the airport does have some services, let me know and I'll try to put those services back in.
Thanks for you feedback.
3 years ago
Everett10461
uberto
3 years ago
uberto
nice job but when the rar file is unzipped, the airportservice folder makes the ground services disappear in all msfs airports must be deleted
3 years ago
uberto
3 years ago
uberto
Will it work with the scenery from https://flightsim.to/file/2399/michiganderflyer-jackson in some fashion?
3 years ago
I do not know. I'll give it a try and and add another comment.
3 years ago
Everett10461
stormtracker6
Looks Great! So that is where I will fly in to for the NASCAR Michigan race in late August. About time of the one-year anniversary of the MSFS launch.
3 years ago
fppilot