Leg 8 KMCO - Orlando (US) to KTPA - Tampa (US)
KMCO - Airport Info
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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.
KTPA - Airport Info
ICAO code: KTPA
Airport name: Tampa International
Location: Tampa, FL, USA
Useful information
Airport elevation: 26’
Time zone: ET (GMT -5)
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: 11002
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Runway 18L : ILS 110.30 - 184º
Runway 18R : ILS/DME 108.50 - 184º
Runway 36L : ILS 108.90 - 004º
Runway 36R : LOC/DME 111.95 - 004
Tampa Info
The thriving west coast city of Tampa is out to prove that not all the action in the warmly-welcoming southern state of Florida happens at Miami Beach or Cape Canaveral. At the heart of its revitalization is Ybor City, the historic heart of the old cigar industry.
Tampa is also living testimony to the fact that not every Floridian has an incurable predilection for Gloria Estefan and a sartorial insensibility that teams B-Grade actors, five-o'clock-shadows, and pastel jackets with rolled-up sleeves. Miami Vice, you have a lot to answer for.
While it's true that Tampa, in combination with nearby St Petersburg, is energetically promoting the sundry pleasures of holidaying off the annoyingly pleasant Gulf of Mexico, it's also attempting to throw off the big-haired, buffed-bod, rollerblading stereotype that sticks like fake tan to any city south of the 30° parallel.
Thrusting out rudely towards Cuba from the southeastern corner of the USA, where it helps keep the placid Gulf of Mexico to the west from mixing socially with the rather more temperamental Atlantic Ocean to the east, is the fat little peninsula that the majority of the state of Florida calls home. Florida also claims a comparatively small strip of North American turf jutting out from below the southern borders of Alabama and Georgia. It's known colloquially as the Panhandle due to its undeniabley panhandley shape.
Strung out along the peninsula's east coast are prominent Florida sites like the space-shuttling Cape Canaveral, the theme-park scramble of Walt Disney World and the garish pastels of Miami's Art-Deco architecture. Refreshingly, the western side of the peninsula is a far less trammeled and fashion-conscious stretch of coastline. About halfway along the west coast are the sheltered confines of Tampa Bay, on the northern shore of which is its urban namesake, closely shadowed to the west by the similarly-sized city of St Petersburg.
Tampa's highway-threaded downtown area is mainly on the eastern bank of the sizeable Hillsborough River, which empties out beyond compact Davis and Harbour Islands into the small Hillsborough Bay. Making up the rest of the main local watercourses are Garrison Channel, which is the southern boundary of the downtown area, and Ybor Channel, which skirts the inner city 0.6mi (1km ) to the east. Franklin St, which runs north-south, is a pedestrian mall for most of its length. Two blocks east and running parallel to Franklin is Marion St which closes itself off 6am-7pm to all motorized traffic except public buses. Lying in Tampa's northeast is the distinctive Ybor City district, once the hub of the country's cigar industry and now the hub of Tampa's nightlife.
Tampa International Airport is located 13mi (21km) west of downtown, while the city's Greyhound bus terminal is on Polk St - just east of Franklin St - and the local Amtrak train station is further east on Nebraska Ave.
Downloads
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
)
KTPA airport scenery - FlyTampa ( payware - flytampa.com )
AFCADs for default scenery - af2_ktpa.zip (AFCAD for default, on
Avsim.com
),
ktpa.zip (another AFCAD for default on
Avsim.com
)