KCLE - Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Version 1.75
Sim Update 5, 6, and 7 tested! There was an issue with Jetways not showing up.....make sure you have Photogammetry AND Bing Maps enabled in the simulator.
CLE is the 48th busiest airport in flights and 43rd busiest in passengers in the United States. Situated west of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, it is the gateway to Lake Erie and northern Ohio.
Over 10 million passenagers pass through KCLE annually with 156 daily flights.
KCLE by Areography/Christopher DeYoe/MyPhysical World is a partnership with CLEFSDevelopement. CLEFS had developed this airport for use with FSX and P3D and has given Areography their buildings to convert them for use with MSFS 2020. We enhanced some features but still have a lot of work to do to fully convert the airport.
This version (Version 1.75) is divided into TWO packages: Package "mpw-kcle-clevelandhopkins" contains the airport infrastructure such as runways, taxiways, parking (gates), ground textures. Package "myphysicalworld-kclebldg" contains buildings and other scenery.
Primary reason for Version 1.75 is to make it functional after Sim Update 5 and add some buildings. All taxiways have been corrected based on data as of May 2021. This includes the new taxiway construction currently taking place at the aiport. We utilized Fall 2020 aerial photos obtained from Cuyahoga County GIS to fix the taxiways.
Though fully functional and realistic terminals, there is still much work to be completed, however, I believe you should get enjoyment from using these packages.....I hope...LOL
The animated Radar tower for this airport requires the installation of our KMFD airport since we are using that model that is identical in real world....it's also free from this site! (The radar can be used by any scenery creator for their airport if they want....permission granted here! Just a small note of credit if you will).
PLEASE remember, KCLE work is still ongoing!
INSTALLATION:
download KCLE175.zip and extract.
Remove old versions and copy them to a safe place....just in case!
Copy the new mpw-kcle-clevelandhopkins AND myphysicalworld-kclebldg into your Community Folder.
**You can choose to use the packages separately however, jetways will not be connected to terminals and some ground terraforming might not be "perfect"....sorry 'bout that....LOL
VERSION 1.75:
I adjusted jetways (which were already there and in the right spots on my installation) only to see if interacting with them and rebuilding the project helps with "errors" in drawing that people seem to be having with airports all over the place. (My testing showed them all where they needed to be and functioning properly.)
Added the FedEx facility
Added the Fire Station
Added Constant Aviation Hangar
Added more night lighting
Highy detailed terminals with interiors (seating at gates has not been added, still in the process of converting them for MSFS 2020)...Original models by CLEFSDevelopment.
Future Work to be Completed:
Finish building interiors with lighting and seating
Continue work on ground textures and airport service objects.
Convert many hangars for interior functionality (i.e United Airlines).
Add missing structures (UPS facility)
Rename ModelLib directory
Many other detailed fixes and enhancements!
Scenery looked great, but IFR approach to CLE does not work. Not sure why this accessory would change IFR settings on approach to CLE, but when traveling KLNN to KCLE, my IFR settings changed to another location.
When I removed this from Community folder, no longer had this problem. Running TBM 930.
2 years ago
Hmm, strange. I didn't mess with the ILS in this package at all. I just flew in and all worked....(KORD to KCLE).
2 years ago
Areographer
fthomas2001
Chris, thank you so much! This is amazing.
3 years ago
You are very welcome! CLEFSDevelopment did a great job on the buildings....I'm glad I was able to convert them for MSFS2020. More to come in the future!
3 years ago
Areographer
JERRYA
Great job and thanks for sharing. Makes for a nice A321 hop to ATL. One thing I noticed, on "C" concourse the pavement seems to be piled up against the base of the concourse. Looks almost like sand. Not so on other concourses. Other than that it's a masterful job. Please keep up the good work, its much appreciated.
3 years ago
Thank you. Yeah, I know about the "heap", still working on the terraforming. It is a very long Concourse and the ground has a gentle slope to the west and doesn't like to sit flat....so, I am still trying to get the ground to behave. There are a couple of other places that need fixing as well.
3 years ago
Areographer
duffystavern
does not work hangs after hitting the fly button from world map. Have to force quit sim through task manager. I just reinstalled MSFS after uninstalling it in June so I have the latest update
3 years ago
Sorry to hear that. It has been working fine for many others. Everything checks out fine. If this a new download for you, you might try to re-download it and try again. Something could have corrupted during download.
3 years ago
Areographer
dave81
So much better than the default scenery from MSFS202! Excellent quality that you get from most low to medium budget payware..and it is free
3 years ago
Thank you so much! Great to have you try out our scenery!
3 years ago
zjason13
vortac12
Great work but in the myphysicalworld folder can you please rename the modellib.bgl to something unique and also make that reflect in the layout.json file because with that default modellib.bgl name it causes lots of CTD's I renamed it myself for now but for those that dont know how. It's a known issue among the scenery makers since launch last year.
3 years ago
Fungaming44
Great Work! You are a pro of all of the pros at this stuff!😂
3 years ago
Such kind words. Thank you so much!
3 years ago
Areographer
NC914
Great work, Cleveland Rocks! I did notice some pink textures on the control tower, I can send a picture.
3 years ago
Thank you! Hmmm, that's odd because they do not appear on my installation. But I will keep an eye out for them.
3 years ago
Areographer
automater
great job!
3 years ago
Thank you so much! Thanks for downloading!
3 years ago
Areographer
whiskytango208
Awesome work - thanks so much for doing this! Any chance you could give some love to Erie-Ottawa International Airport at Carl R Keller Field (KPCW) in Port Clinton, OH? It's missing hangars including that of the Liberty Aviation Museum, and the Tin Goose Diner.
3 years ago
I will look into it! Thank you!
3 years ago
Areographer
Raven214
Would you entertain creating Akron Fulton Airport? No flight sim that I can think of ever modeled the airship hangar there.
3 years ago
It's on my list! However, SU5 has caused some issues for me in the SDK and until I get that worked out I must only work on runways, taxiways, and the like. New buildings are failing in the "Build" process of the SDK.
3 years ago
Areographer
EMan2000
I noticed that many custom airports had Jetway issues after SU5. They were in areas of high photogrammetry. I usually have that off during my development sessions (to safe memory and GPU stresss). When I went into the sim the jetways were gone but when I turned photogrammetry and Bing images back on, the Jetways reappeared. You might want to ensure photogrammetry and Bing maps is enabled....Just in case! Thanks everyone for downloading KCLE!
3 years ago
That's just a sim issue overall. Almost every airport has that problem.
3 years ago
LeDerpLegend
Areographer
Jetway issues with SU5 unfortunately. Hopefully will be fixed in future updates!
3 years ago
OK! I haven't updated my sim yet but I will look at it when I do! Thanks! I'm sure I will have to fix a lot of things due to the update.
3 years ago
Areographer
flightsim99
Absolutely fantastic! Thanks for your hard work!
3 years ago
Thank you. Hope it gets better with future updates! Thanks for downloading!
3 years ago
Areographer
PilotPete99
Absolutely wonderful! It's down to the smallest detail sculpted. Eternal thanks!
3 years ago
Thank you so much!
3 years ago
Areographer
jquell