Leg 7 KJAX - Jacksonville (US) to KMCO - Orlando (US)
KJAX - Airport Info
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ICAO code: KJAX
Airport name: Jacksonville International
Location: Jacksonville, FL, USA
Useful information
Airport elevation: 30’
Time zone: ET (GMT -5)
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: 10000’
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Runway 7 : ILS 110.70 - 074º
Runway 13 : ILS 110.50 - 134º
Runway 25 : ILS 110.30 - 254º
Jacksonville Info
Situated in the great double loop of the St Johns River and with long established lumber and coffee
industries, JACKSONVILLE, the largest city in the US – 841 square miles – is suspicious of anything that
might upset its hard-working tradition. Pleasure seekers are expected to stick to the beaches. Even the
film industry, which came here seeking a base in the 1910s, was scared off by the religious zeal of the
locals and settled in California instead. The growing size of the white-collar sector has eased the visual
blight of years of heavy industry, and efforts have been made to enhance Jacksonville's appeal by creating
parks and riverside boardwalks.
However, the sheer size of the city dilutes its character and makes it
impossible to walk around and get a real feel for the city.
In the beginning, pilots used the hard-packed sand of Jacksonville's beaches for runways. They were plenty long, but too far from downtown to be convenient. In those days, there were no scheduled airline flights and the railroad was king in Jacksonville. By 1923, local pilots began using a small grassy strip called Paxon Field, on the city's western outskirts (site of present-day Paxon High School). At the same time it was realized that a true airport was needed, one that could support large air mail and passenger aircraft. A thoroughly modern Jacksonville Municipal Airport was built in 1926 adjacent to the City Prison Farm on North Main Street.
KMCO - Airport Info
ICAO code: KMCO
Airport name: Orlando International
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
Useful information
Airport elevation: 96’
Time zone: ET (GMT -5)
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: 12005
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Runway 17L : ILS/DME 110.95 - 184º
Runway 17R : ILS/DME 111.75 - 184º
Runway 18R : ILS 111.90 - 184º
Runway 35L : ILS/DME 110.50 - 004º
Runway 35R : ILS/DME 111.15 - 003º
Runway 36R : ILS 110.70 - 004º
Orlando Info
The Mickey Mouse draw card has turned Orlando into the third-ranking US destination for overseas travellers, after Los Angeles and New York City. The city 'built on the peel of an orange' has also established itself as part of Florida's high-tech corridor.
While everybody knows the big-name theme parks - they've spawned smaller versions in most of our home countries - the real treasures of Orlando's psyche are the sidekicks: Holyland is peddling God; Reige's Firearms rent out real semiautomatics for a blast; and Skull Kingdom is endearingly low-tech.
Orlando boasts not only the space technology industries focused on the Florida Space Coast but a healthy dose of bits and bytes makers as well. So you'd better watch your step in this 21st-century boomtown: according to a 1998 study, the stampede to Orlando has made it the most dangerous place in the US for pedestrians.
The biggest city in central Florida, Orlando is dominated by Lake Eola in its northeastern downtown quadrant. The most famous downtown icon is Church Street Station, a collection of restaurants, bars and shops located between Interstate 4 and the railroad tracks. Orlando is 6km (4mi) from Universal Studios, 16km (10mi) from Sea World, and 32km (20mi) from Walt Disney World, all located southwest of downtown in an area appropriately known as the Tourist Quarter.
Downloads
KJAX airport scenery - kjax_v1.zip (add-on scenery on flightsim.com )
AFCADs for default scenery - kjax.zip (AFCAD on Avsim.com for default )
City of Jacksonville - jacksonvillev2.zip ( scenery on Avism.com )
KMCO airport scenery - SimFlyers ( payware – simflyers.net )
KMCO airport scenery - oia_update.zip (add-on for new runways on default scenery on AVSIM.com )
AFCADs for default scenery - real_mco.zip (AFCAD for default, on
flightsim.com
),
kmco.zip (AFCAD for default, on
AVSIM.com
),
mco_acof.zip (AFCAD for default, on
flightsim.com
),
kmco_afcad2.zip (AFCAD for SimFlyers on
AVSIM.com
)