Westray & Papa Westray Airports

Westray and Papa Westray airports are two small yet fascinating airfields located in the Orkney Islands, a remote archipelago off the northern coast of Scotland. These airports are most famously linked by the world’s shortest scheduled flight, operated by Loganair which draws aviation enthusiasts from around the world eager to experience this unique journey. The flight between the two airports covers a distance of just 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers), with a flight time of about two minutes—or less if the wind is favourable!

Westray Airport is a small hub on the island of Westray, serving as a critical transportation link for both residents and visitors. The airport primarily supports the inter-island air service, which connects Westray to Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney, and other neighboring islands. The facilities are minimal, reflecting the rural nature of the island, but it is a vital lifeline for the community, supporting tourism, medical transport, and everyday travel.

Papa Westray Airport, even smaller than its counterpart on Westray, serves the tiny island of Papa Westray. This airport is crucial for connecting the island’s small population to the wider world. Like Westray Airport, it plays an important role in tourism, particularly for visitors drawn to Papa Westray’s rich archaeological heritage, including the Knap of Howar, one of the oldest preserved stone houses in Europe.

Westray & Papa Westray airports has been faithfully recreated by Burning Blue Design, undertaking on-site visits to ensure the highest levels of accuracy featuring:

• Over 50 custom 3D objects each with full Physical Based Rendering (PBR) textures.
• Based on 2024 layout.
• Full custom night lighting.
• Animated garage doors which close at night.
• Custom windsocks.
• Animated spectators who leave at night.
• Real-life static aircraft seen at the airport:
  • Loganair Brittan-Norman BN-2 Islanders (G-BCPA & GBLDV)
• Real-life Surrounding scenery has been added as visual reference points:
  • All trees have been removed from the island of papa Westray and the Aikerness peninsular
  • Tens of miles of dry stone walls have been added to the areas around the airports
  • numerous farms and surrounding buildings have been created to ensure accuracy during approach and take-off.
  • Papa Westray War Memorial
• High resolution colour corrected ground textures taken from Bing maps and manipulated for consistency and realism.

Once you have purchased and downloaded the product, double click on the zip file to open it. You should see the airport’s folder inside, this will need to be extracted and placed into your Microsoft Flight Simulator Community folder, if you don’t know where the community folder is, we have a full guide on how to install our packages here.

If you still have trouble locating your community folder this easy to follow video will help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhSkMzWLFR0

There is also a community tool called ModmanFX which makes installing and removing Microsoft Flight Simulator packages incredibly easy, you can get it here: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/modmanfx

• Transparent and translucent glass panes can appear very dark when subject to particle effects such as rain, snow and fog. This is a known bug that Asobo/Microsoft are aware of and will hopefully fix in the near future.

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Further Information and Licensing:

A number of the static vehicles used within the scenery were 3D models used under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The models were reskinned to match their real life contemporaries. For further information and full attribution on any of the individual models please contact us here: https://burningbluedesign.com/contact/

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