Nanaimo Harbour Water Aerodrome       CAC8 - supplement

Nanaimo Harbour Water Aerodrome (ICAO CAC8) is a seaplane base (SPB) serving the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Nanaimo Harbour.

It is registered as an aerodrome, formerly classified as an airport, and an airport of entry by Nav Canada.

This package is a supplement to the default MSFS airport CAC8 and adds scenery, docks, pontoons, boats and a dock parking place for selection for those ‘cold and dark’ startups. 
The original Asobo CAC8 ‘airport’ consists of only water ‘runway’ start/takeoff positions. 

NOTE the images are taken with boats from mamu’s marina (see below) installed.

ICAO                    CAC8

Navigation aids None exist

Location               Country                                         CANADA

                             Province                                       BRITISH COLUMBIA

                             City                                               NANAIMO

                             Airport                                           NANAIMO HARBOUR WATER AERODROME

Runway/Starting Positions          

Parking position   PARKING 1 - DOCK GA               parked at dock position 1

                             PARKING 2 – DOCK GA              parked at dock position 2

Coordinates         49.169956 -123.93505

CREDITS

Bob May of Premier Aircraft Design – DHC3T Otter amphibian (ex FSX)

                            Please note that while Bob granted me permission to use his aircraft to rebuild into a static model for MSFS2020 it should not r                                          regarded as freeware.

                            Bob gave me permission in a message sent from flightsim.com on 20230710

Martin Clark        For his input of the roof of the Nanaimo Lighthouse Terminal building.

Blender

Google maps       3D satellite imagery

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Unzip folder named NANAIMO WATER AIRPORT to a temporary folder

PLEASE NOTE if you are updating the previous version then it is suggested  that you REMOVE folder named “jarnie-airport-cac8-nanaimo” before copying the new version.

copy the “nanaimo-airport-cac8-jarnie” folder into your FS2020 COMMUNITY FOLDER                  This module contains the docks, departure dock parking and Lighthouse bistro and pub.

copy the “nanaimo-3d-cbd-jarnie” folder into your FS2020 COMMUNITY FOLDER
                             This module displays the 3d satellite imagery of Nanaimo CBD

              NOTE if MSFS runs too slow then remove this folder however that will
                             result in no 3d imagery of Nanaimo CBD

Copy the “nanaimo-3d-other-jarnie” folder to you FS2020 COMMUNITY FOLDER
                             This module displays the 3d satellite imagery of Nanaimo south side of Nanaimo

              NOTE if MSFS runs too slow then remove this folder however that will
                             result in no 3d imagery of Nanaimo CBD

Also note that none of the above are dependant on the others. You can choose to install any
                             one or as many as you want.

OPTIONAL

Most of the scenery objects (boats at pontoons) will only appear if you download and install the following (all available at flightsim.to)-

              Mamudesign - Marinas  by mamu              most of the static boats   HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

                                                          Please NOTE that as at 20240401 this addon is no longer available at flightsim.to                                                                                                                  It is available at https://mamudesign.eu/shop/

Version 1.0:

- Docks and static aircraft
- 1 parking spot IN USE

Version 2.0:

-          Addition of more realistic shed on docks.

-          Removal of the decommissioned parking dock and addition of parking dock 2

-          Addition of the Nanaimo Lighthouse Restaurant and Seaplane Terminal building. I have included some lighting in the buildings although this is                not a 24 hour airport. The Terminal building was the most complex model I have ever created with walls which do not follow the ‘shape’ of the                   roof, heaps of different separate walls and many walls angled

-          Addition of 3D satellite imagery of the CBD of Nanaimo taken from maps.google

           Note that this imagery is quite low resolution.

-         Addition of 3d satellite imagery of the south side on Nanaimo including McGregor Park
          Note that this imagery is quite low resolution.

-         Replaced the DHC3 static floatplane with a DHC3T static floatplane.

Version 2.1:

-          Mask library objects on north dock

-          Add floating logs east of Nanaimo

Version 3:

              Filename change to prevent conflict with mamu’s marinas addon.

Version 4.0:

-          Mods to make it FS2024 ‘friendly’ including extra package to level water.

This scenery is freeware and must not be distributed for gain.

Let me know if you see need of improvement or have any issues with the package.

It has been tested with MSFS2020 World Update 13 (1.33.8.0) as at 12 July 2023.

Check out my other water airports at SECHELT, VANCOUVER HARBOUR, WHISTLER. LAKE POWELL