Charlton Clump is a small airfield located on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain Training Area, just outside of the active danger area. The airfield is used by the De Havilland Moth Club's Tiger 9 formation display team for regular practice days. Information on the airfield is very difficult to find, other than the odd photo here and there so this wasn't as straightforward as I thought that it might be.
I have tried to recreate this airfield as accurately and faithfully as possible, though I have added a few extras to make life a little easier. One such extra is painted runway numbers as the runways are not easy to spot, and in some aerial imagery, they are not seen at all. I guess it stands to reason that when the Moth's fly they just point into the wind and go. I have however added two runways in, and I believe these are placed correctly and in the right orientation using the current Bing Maps imagery.
I have depicted a "training day" scene with a number of UK-based moths out on the airfield (K4259, T6953, and Queen Bee LF858). To see these three Moths you will need to own the fantastic Ant's Airplanes Tiger Moth payware add-on.
Like Urchfont before, this strip doesn't appear in Microsoft Flight Simulator by default so I have corrected that and issued the ICAO EGW2.
The following model libraries will be required to see some static elements - Thank you to the developers for sharing them.
Windy Things by trfsto:
https://flightsim.to/file/14024/windy-things
Animated Human 3D Models Library by superspud:
https://flightsim.to/file/33166/animated-humans-library
EGCV - Sleap by Bailsoft:
https://flightsim.to/file/36939/sleap-egcv
EGBO - Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green by dabba:
https://flightsim.to/file/30822/egbo-wolverhampton-half-penny-green
Simply unzip and place into your community folder.
Enjoy!
Great job, I've always wanted to visit this strip. I don't suppose Brown Shutters Farm and Wadswick are on your list?
1 years ago
Thank you! I must admit, I've never been to the strip myself though I must have driven past it hundreds of times. Brown Shutters and Wadswick were not on my list but I'm more than happy to add them!
1 years ago
TacitBlue82
Towline
What a smashing little scenery (Urchfont too). I love these little strips that Asobo overlooks. Just one query - I have Ant's Tiger Moth installed but can only see two Tiger Moths at Charlton Clump, no sign of the Queen Bee LF858. Any ideas? Cheers, Steve
1 years ago
Hi Steve,
Thank you very much! I have some more tweaks to come to improve the airfield even further. Regarding LF858, I have just realized that it is a 3rd party repaint (available via Sim Outhouse) which explains why it won't be showing for you.
If it proves to be too much of a problem I might replace it with another of the stock liveries in the next update.
Thank you for letting me know!
1 years ago
TacitBlue82
Flying_Junk
Beautiful scenery darling.
1 years ago
Thank you ever so much!
1 years ago
TacitBlue82
lossie15