After doing a lot of fiddling about on old airports, decided to start over with a different design. I have planned out exactly what the first Terminal will look like, so let’s see how it has to change as we go on…
Staverton Airport is a small airport near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK, but is known as Gloucester Airport and has the IATA code GLO.
The first Terminal will handle small and medium Domestic flights, and will be built into the left half of a 3x2 playing area. I started on Difficult setting with £1 million, needed to safeguard the area to the left of the start area, so bought that straight off and left myself with just over £250k to start the airport. So grass everything was the order of the day, except for the angled off-ramp, as this doesn’t come in grass. Spent everything except about £10k to get this far.
Slowly does it, gradually adding stands as the money accumulates until the whole GA area is built. The top two stands were incorporated into the Terminal as Gate A01 and the Emergency stand.
The past couple of days have seem some planning and progress on the Medium stand extension to the Domestic Terminal. At close of play the runway and associated taxiways had been built, three medium stands installed (one a Vintage stand) and the Terminal building extended on Level 0.
This extension contained the three gates (one for Emergencies, currently hasn’t been used), a temporary Security area and four medium check-in desks, which are in use for the medium flights, but are occasionally allocated to flights from the small stands, which entails a bit of a walk for the PAX on those flights.
During the couple of days, I had two Fuel crises, which on the second, resulted in me suspending Jet-A1 fuelling. When the crisis ended and the fuel depots needed refilling:
Another day, more progress. Baggage handling started, and construction has gone upstairs to Level 1, with the Emergency Stand having been converted to a Jetway-connected stand. This stand will be converted to a Vintage stand, and the original Vintage stand converted to the Emergency stand, as this will be before the hangar, not after it. A new Remote stand has been built to handle the ATRs and CRJs.
Security is now on Level 1 with a direct stair from the Check-in area, and the original Security area removed; a start has been made on the Administration Offices.
