November 29, 2025Nov 29 Today, I was intrigued by a small (Swiss) airport scenery in the MSFS2024 Marketplace, of (LSFR) Frutigen Airfield 1967, with the following description: "The perfect place to begin your Alpine expedition! From here, the flight takes less than 10 minutes to reach the 13,000 ft peaks of the Bernese Alps and the longest alpine glacier, the Aletsch Glacier! Frutigen is also an ideal base for glacier flights. This scenery contains the military airport from Frutigen in its 1967 shape. Built during WWII, attempts to use it with fast jets in the 1950s were not fruitful (the runway is only 3,000ft) so it remained in use by air transport units (which operated among other aircraft types, the PC-6 and the JU-52). The airport was finally closed in 1997. So, if you would like to bring back a small piece of aviation history, this scenery is for you!" The site is now an industrial zone. Part of the former airfield is also used by the Tropenhaus (Tropical House), a unique facility that uses geothermal energy from the nearby Lötschberg Base Tunnel. So, to test this bygone (historical) airport, I took off from its Runway 21, in my de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) aircraft; into the nearby (fast rising) high mountains of the Swiss Alps range, and then, after a short tour of the vicinity, looped back carefully into the valley to land on Runway 3 of the same airport. The (custom) scenery includes farming barns and grazing cattle (see my concluding images below) that were once an integral part of the historic charm of this small airport and the town. The town of Frutigen still exists today nestled in the Swiss Alps, but the airfield (LSFR) is long gone...dissolved into the pages of (Swiss) aviation history... Hope you enjoy this collection of images...! Thanks for viewing...!
November 29, 2025Nov 29 Fine set 👍 cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
November 29, 2025Nov 29 Author 7 hours ago, pmplayer said: Fine set 👍 cheers 😉 Thanks for the note, pmplayer. Appreciated. (Like in my virtual trip, I’m looking out the window now at several inches of fresh white snow on the ground here…with more snow expected. I was also thinking of your recent Concorde posts in the wintry weather…🙂…) Cheers…! Edited November 29, 2025Nov 29 by P_7878
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