My second airport on flightsim.to after the Frutigen scenery is another closed Swiss Air Force air base: Ulrichen - LSMC
But, other than Frutigen, Ulrichen is a downright jet air base with a long runway, which saw jet operations until the nineties.
For inspiration, I would like to point you to these two YouTube videos, that show the last Hawker Hunter operations from Ulrichen:
- Hawker Hunter à CH-Ulrichen en 1990- part 1 - YouTube
- Hawker Hunter à CH-Ulrichen en 1990- part 2 - YouTube
So what highlights are offered by this Ulrichen scenery?
- The airbase had a spectacular canyon-approach, for which the pilot has to literally throw down his aircraft the steep flanks of the Minstiger-Valley. In the above videos, the canyon approach is shown here. In MSFS, I have recorded and published the canyon-approach under this link.
- The airport has two shelters on the other side of the Rhone (up there called Rotten). These shelters are connected to the taxiways with wooden bridges! So in the scenery you have to taxi over a wild mountain river in order to reach the runway.
- Very unique is also the railroad crossing, which has to be passed by the aircraft coming directly from the Rhone/Rotten bridge!
- The Furka-Oberalp (FO) railway is modeled fully in the area of the airport, including a precise replica of the catenary with wooden masts. A train with an authentic FO HGe 4/4 I locomotive and a couple of jet fuel tank cars (which existed on the Swiss narrow gauge networks exactly for the purpose to transport aircraft fuel to the remote Alpine air bases) is waiting on a siding next to the airport.
- The U-68 aircraft shelters and the hangar recreate the scenery as it looked about at the early 1970ies. This aerial image from 1967 shows the layout and the details, how they are modelled in the scenery.
- Time from the eternal snow of the Aletsch-area glaciers to the circuit of LSMC: 30 seconds.
- Highest fighter air base in Europe.
- Good place to take off with Swiss military airplanes, be it the F/A 18, the PC-6, the Ju-52 or even the upcoming Hawker Hunter.
2 months ago
CaptainMoonlight
3 months ago
loupilotdj
Thank You!!! flew there today 😊
2 years ago
Klaatu
Realy nice airport. I like the the scenery of the upper Wallis. I had first a elevation Problem, the bridge und the rails of the train dosen't fit with the MASH 10M installed. Without it is o.k. Thanks for your good work.
2 years ago
Silberfuchs
Very nice scenery, thank you very much for it! Could it be possible, that there are some shelters missing? Just next to the bridge on the lower valley and and one across the river on the upper valley end? They are visible in the aerial picture but not in 3d...
2 years ago
Sorry, I can't see more than the 8 shelters in the linked aerial image. Do you maybe look at an aerial image from a later date? Later more shelters (and more modern ones than than the U68) have been added. But, Ulrichen never had underground caverns.
2 years ago
flightzoomer
shasta62
I vote for Interlaken
2 years ago
MrBigg63
Nice work! Do you plan to do other active SWISS air bases?
2 years ago
No plans from my side so far, but who knows? But I specialized a bit on closed airports. There are still many not yet done, e.g. Ambri, Interlaken.
Regarding the active ones, I know that Meiringen is being worked on:
https://www.flightforum.ch/board/topic/106314-in-arbeit-lsmm-meiringen/
2 years ago
flightzoomer
totheskies
Thank you very much. Only unfortunately no longer active in reality.
2 years ago
swiss
Nice scenery and Viasual Approach. Good Job, it's time to try Frutigrn!. Thanks a lot !!!
2 years ago
Popolo
great , it diserve more than 3,5 stars , so i give a 5 .
2 years ago
odscenery
Thank you for the update!
2 years ago
MrBigg63
Nicely done, I do like how you modeled the railroad and bridge. nice detail. Really appreciate the update!
2 years ago
Sorry for that, as the zip is basically copied out of my community folder I need to check what went wrong.
2 years ago
flightzoomer
MrBigg63