SIMPILOT FORUM FLIGHT RALLY #10

Date: Sunday, November 24th, 2002
Time: 3pm EST (2000Z)


ID Elevation Latitude Longitude ATIS Freq.
KEYW +4 N24° 33.40' W81° 45.60' ******

 
Runway Length Surface ILS/LOC Freq. ILS ID
9 4800 Asphalt ****** ****
27 4800 Asphalt ****** ****

The destination for the SimPilot Forum's tenth Flight Rally is Key West International Airport in Key West, Florida USA!

Key West International Airport (KEYW) Key West International Airport started as a small private airport in 1927 when Palm Beach millionaire Malcolm Meacham leased the present site to Pan American Airways. The airport remained a small and privately owned strip until the start of World War II. The land was then purchased by the Federal government and converted into what was primarily a dirigible base. A runway of approximately 2,400 feet, oriented from northeast to southwest, was constructed on the site. This site, named Meacham Field, was sold to the County for $150,000 after the war was over.

In 1954, the Meacham Field runway was realigned to its current east-west orientation and, in 1958, the terminal was built. At this point, Meacham Field was renamed "Key West International Airport". At about the same time, Aerovias Q Airline took over Pan American's Havana flights. During these early years, the only consistency in air service to Key West was the speed at which the airline turnovers occurred. Aerovias Q Airline operated until it was displaced by Argonaut Airlines. American Air Taxi took over the routes of Argonaut Airlines in 1966, followed by Air Sunshine in 1973, by Air Florida in 1975, and by Southern Express in 1979. Providence-Boston Airlines (PBA) began competing for the Key West market in 1979 and soon had its own terminal area at Key West International Airport. Passenger traffic at the airport started off modestly but continued to grow.

Today, the airport terminal accommodates over 540,000 passengers annually. This amounts to processing the entire population of Key West through the terminal every 18 days. Scheduled airline landings and takeoffs average approximately 123 daily.

There is scenery for this airport in Microsoft's "Flight Simulator" version 5.1 to 2002, subLogic's "Flight" and "Flight Light", Nomissoft's "Airline Simulator 2", as well as subLogic's "Scenery Disk 7" and "USA East" scenery packs which can be used with Microsoft's "Flight Simulator" 4.0b and subLogic's "Airline Transport Pilot".

Download the file KEYW.GIF in Files Section 3 (Navigation) for an aeronautical chart of the area.

Please join us on Sunday, November 24th for the tenth SimPilot Forum Flight Rally, and make sure to visit Conference Room 5 (Fly Online/FS Rallies) after your flight to let us know all about it!


Download RALLIES.TXT or RALLIES.HTM from Files Section 11 (Fly Online/FS Rallies) for detailed information on the SimPilot Forum Flight Rallies. If you need any further info or help be sure to post a message in Message Section 11 (Fly Online/FS Rallies). We'll be looking forward to seeing you there!


Rich „Weeds„ Nagel
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