Aeropuerto José María Velasco Ibarra
José María Velasco Ibarra Airport (IATA: MRR, ICAO: SEMA) is an airport that serves the city of Macará, Loja. It was named in honor of José María Velasco Ibarra, president of Ecuador on five occasions.
The airport is at an elevation of 460 meters (1,508 feet) above sea level. It only has one runway designated 01/19 with an asphalt surface measuring 1080 meters.
History
The José María Velasco Ibarra Airport was built by the politician José María Velasco Ibarra (1893-1979) in 1947 under the name of Macará Airport. In its early years, it was used for flights to Guayaquil, since there were no automobile roads connecting Macará and the provincial capital, Loja (currently 188 km and three and a half hours by car). In addition, Macará's location was totally isolated from the rest of Ecuador, its only land connection being with Peru, at that time in hostilities with the Ecuadorian government.
The government of Velasco Ibarra obtained from the Peruvian Government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (1894-1989) to authorize the passage of heavy machinery through its territories towards Macará so that a group of the Corps of Engineers of the Army of Ecuador, commanded by Major engineer Alfonso Andrade Ochoa (1913-1994) – also builder of the Chachoan Airport in Ambato, the Los Perales Airport in San Vicente (Manabí) and the Teniente Coronel Luis A. Mantilla Airport in Tulcán built the airport. On June 13, 1947, the airport was inaugurated by Velasco Ibarra's presidential plane, a Junkers Ju 52 (registered HC-SAC). In 1954, the same engineer built the highway that linked Macará with Peru and Loja. Later, they stopped operating commercial flights and later, military ones, leaving the airport in disuse after the Cenepa war (1995). The airport was transferred to the Macará canton by the government of Rafael Correa in 2016.
The government of former President Rafael Correa and the mayor of Macará between 2016 and 2019, Roberto Carlos Viñan Rueda, sought to convert the airport into a park, following the example of the Sucúa Airport (Sucúa), the Atahualpa Airport (Ibarra), the General Airport Manuel Serrano (Machala), the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport (Quito), Mayor Galo de la Torre Airport (Tena) and the Reales Tamarindos Airport (Portoviejo). Dr. Alfredo Suquilanda Valdivieso, mayor of the Macará canton between 2019 and 2023, sought resources to reopen the airport (it does not have an enclosure and its runway is without asphalt) and operate flights to the city of Quito and cross-border flights on the Macará–Piura–Chiclayo route. The work could cost between 750,000 and 1,000,000 dollars.
Installation:
Step #1: Extract the contents of the .rar file into the Community folder of the simulator.
Step #2: Add the following lines to your Content.xml file:
<Package name="eduardomcfly-mac-ndb" priority="x"/>
<Package name="eduardomcfly-mac-ndb-old" priority="x+1"/>
(The "x" needs to be the number that follows the number from the last existing line in the Content.xml file)
Example:
<Package name="eduardomcfly-nir-ndb" priority="1"/> -------> The last existing line in the Content.xml
<Package name="eduardomcfly-mac-ndb" priority="2"/> -------> x= The number that follows 1, so x= 2.
<Package name="eduardomcfly-mac-ndb-old" priority="3"/> -------> x +1 = 3
Note: I do not model in 3D, so all the scenery models are generic or from a free-to-use library. This means that I'm not able to do a custom terminal that reassembles the original one.
Ram249
¿En dónde puedo encontrar mi "Content.xml"?
muchas gracias 😊
EduMCfly author
22 days ago