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San Diego Airport Embedded Approach Lights

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There is a freeware scenery pack on the ORG for KSAN - San Diego Intl (ver 1.02) that is an amazingly good looking airport (for X-Plane 10).  Sadly, because both ends of the runway at KSAN are offset (displaced thresholds of 700' (Rwy 9) and 1810' (Rwy 27)), the approach light bars do not display properly and protrude above the surface of the runways!

 

This makes for ANNOYING taxiing procedures, and the only 'workaround' previously available amounted to "DODGE THEM" or "Live with running over the approach lights" or "Take off from a short intersection in lieu of the furthest end of the runway(s)."  None of these appealed, and so I have modified the lights to embed into the runway surfaces as they do in RL.

 

The freeware scenery pack with the custom approach light bars embedded in the runway surface is available here.

 

San Diego is the busiest single-runway commercial airport in the USA, and it looks amazing in XPlane 10.  I hope this little mod saves others the frustration I encountered with the lighting.

 R. Scott McDonald  B738/L   Information is anecdotal only-without guarantee & user assumes all risks of use thereof.                                               

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San Diego is the busiest single-runway commercial airport in the USA,

 

Damn right it is! I work by KSAN and there is a local phenomenon the locals call the "Point Loma Pause", apparently any conversation over 2 minutes long will be proceed by a "Oh wait ..." and a 40 second pause.

Are those tall buildings really that tall??? They're right on the alignment of one of the rws?????

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The parking garage is the real problem - because of it, the touchdown zone for RWY 27 is 1810' up from the actual physical edge of the runway (displaced threshold).  Given it's only about 9000 feet long, that's a tremendous waste.  Normally KSAN is using Western flow (landing takeoff both off 27).  When the fog pounces though, they have to land the other direction, as there is only a LOCalizer on 27 whilst 9 has full ILS.

 R. Scott McDonald  B738/L   Information is anecdotal only-without guarantee & user assumes all risks of use thereof.                                               

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