This is after the UK World Update. Yes I have also installed the 4GB UK update file in the marketplace also. This is what it looks like when the sim loads me up at EGPR - Barra Airport.

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Edited February 17, 20215 yr by Nyxx

Thanks! I was expecting some sort of runway, but the airport is basically just a beach???

5 minutes ago, captain420 said:

Thanks! I was expecting some sort of runway, but the airport is basically just a beach???

Yes it is and famous for it 😉

Probably not an ideal airport for that a320 though 😊

Perfect for a Twotter... if only I had one 🙂

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39 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

Probably not an ideal airport for that a320 though 😊

Hahaha, I thought this would be at least a mid-size airport capable of handling the A320. But boy, was I wrong.

Our friends north of the border are trying to save a few groats on tarmac.

I believe in the real world that the tide also comes in, meaning you can’t land at high tide 

9 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I believe in the real world that the tide also comes in, meaning you can’t land at high tide 

Correct!
 

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As one of the last remaining airports in the world to land directly onto the beach, Barra Airport boasts some of the most stunning scenery in the Western Isles.

With the flight schedule governed by the ebb and flow of the tide – Barra is a breath of fresh air compared to other more ‘conventional’ airports in Scotland.

Source: https://www.hial.co.uk/barra-airport-2/

The UK airport updates are mostly 'interesting' airports rather than massively useful ones for big aeroplanes. Liverpool is probably the most useful one out of those included if you want to fly bigger stuff. Lots of EasyJet A320 and Ryanair 737 flights in and out of the place.

Barra is I think unique in being an airport which uses a tidal beach, as you've seen, although technically is has three 'runways' which are basically just sticks in the ground at the end of each one, formed in a triangle a bit like an old WW2 airfield layout.

Barton, which is the other small airfield featured in the update, was one of the earliest purpose-built airfields in the UK, and it was Manchester's main airport until Ringway was completed in 1938. Its control tower is a listed building and it is one of the places you can go to in the North West for your aviation medical. Although the airfield is small and has grass strips, it used to have massive airshows (these are coming back incidentally), and amongst the aeroplanes I saw there was a BA Concorde which did a low and slow pass along the runway, so it attracted all kinds of stuff even though not all of it could land there.

The pilot of that Concorde was willing to try a touch and go apparently, and he contacted BA to request permission whilst circling, but they said no, so he instead flew low and slow along the flight line. It was loud, but not as loud as the Vulcan which was a regular at those shows too. If you go to 16 minutes on the video below, you can see that Concorde fly-by. More scarily, I had a flight in one of those Bell JetRanger choppers you can see on that footage; a week after that flight I took, that same chopper was doing the same thing and crashed near Liverpool after an engine failure whilst performing another pleasure flight!

 

Edited February 17, 20215 yr by Chock

 

I do kind of wonder what all that salt does to the airframes of stuff which operates into the place.

2 hours ago, Chock said:

I do kind of wonder what all that salt does to the airframes of stuff which operates into the place.

I'm guessing any Twin Otters that fly out of there have similar airframe options, paint, and maintenance schedule as the seaplane variants.  Specially designed for operating in saline and corrosive environments.

Hopefully we'll get a good Twin Otter in the sim soon; I see them go over my house every day out of CYWH but it's been almost 15 years since I was last in one.  Hopefully we get some good seaplane aerodromes eventually too.

Handcrafted by Asobo right? The um terminal? I guess you call it 🙂 Nice find, can we get the tide to come in?