KANE - Anoka County Blaine Airport (a.k.a.Janes Field)
Anoka county airport is a regional airport in Blaine, Minnesota. It is one of the reliever airports in the north metro area of the twin cities which receives primarily General Aviation aircraft with a handful of charter jets to the Lynx FBO on the north ramp. It also is currently a base for a small cargo company which flies twin piston aircraft around the area.
In the base sim, this airport suffers (like others) from a lack of buildings; namely all it has is the control tower and nothing else. This scenery adds random generic hangars to the airport to match the ground positions of the missing buildings. Also fixed in this scenery are the taxiway names and signs (many of which I modeled from my personal photos from the airport). I also corrected the incorrect VASI and PAPI lights which were incorrect/missing as well. Taxiway lighting has also been updated. The radio com frequencies and instrument approaches were not modified as the instrument approaches all appeared correct from a quick visual scan. I put in the observation area as well as I personally have many hours spent at that location and thought it deserved to be added as well.
This scenery uses a mix of stock scenery objects along with some areas added with Google Earth Decoder as I have not taken the time to learn how to make custom objects. The areas using the google maps are the Lynx FBO, the Fox Hollow hangars (west hangars), the Twin Cities Flight Training hangar and the south ramp (including the Golden Wings Museum hangar). Personally I feel that the visuals of these buildings are better while flying in the pattern although up close any photgrammetry area is poor. The core section of the airport contains hand placed generic hangar objects. For those that do not like the google maps version, I also have a version of the airport which uses only hand placed stock hangar objects for the entire airport and NO google maps data. Please search my other uploads if you perfer that version. I believe the link below should take you to that version, but if does not, you may have to manually search it out.
https://flightsim.to/file/14929/kane-anoka-county-blaine-airport
Installation:
Extract the scenery and drag/drop the anoka folder to the Community directory.
fsx_rwt
Thanks for this very nice airport scenery. I used Kane, Crystal, Flying Cloud for many missions in my Flight Training Package, and proper scenery help a lot beginners' Pilot orient themselves when they Taxi around. From now on I am going to recommend these airport sceneries to my end user.
spidermanMN author
Glad they can be helpful. Airport accuracy is one thing which could use some help in MSFS so I'm happy to be able to help out the flight sim community with my scenery updates.
2 years ago
lazer816
Excellent Work spot on i live next to this airport and see many flights in and out of this airport, would also like to see (KFCM and crystal airport done in the future...if i knew how, i would make many for the twin cities gamer tag Pro Flight#3053
spidermanMN author
Thanks! I also live just outside the KANE delta airspace and thus consider this my "home" airfield. I previously did a Crystal airport so I'd suggest looking for that one along with some other local airfields as well. I've started looking at FCM but I think it may be a bit slow trying to untangle the mess of taxiways that come with the default.
3 years ago
Dillon
This version works for me. Had some login issues to FS today but after sorting it out I went straight to this airport. My performance is great. The only thing I see is there's not parking spots over on the newly created east side hanger side. Outside of that you hit this one on it's head. Would you consider Flying Cloud (KFCM) in the future?
spidermanMN author
Thanks for checking it out. I put three parking positions on the east side hangars, I believe numbers 45-47. Let me know if you can't see those parking spots. As far as what airport to work on next, I haven't decided yet. I'm sure I'll get to FCM sometime unless someone else would work on it first.
3 years ago
Dillon
Great Job! I'll be trying this out first just to test performance on my machine. It's great there's two options
fppilot
Looks Great! Is there a cafe or other dining at that airport. Always looking for destinations for $100 hamburger flights.
spidermanMN author
Thanks - no cafe or dining that I am aware of. The Lynx FBO on the north side is very nice and would have a crew car - but unfortunately no food at the airport. I know STP has a restaurant on site in the old terminal building. That might be worth the $100 hamburger flight!
3 years ago