kelticheart
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A good day to everybody! 
I am currently working on Achim's Milano-Linate scenery. The sat picture attached below of modern Linate shows clearly the IDROSCALO (floatplanes landing area), the large man-made body of water built in the second half of the 1920's.
At the time floatplanes were the airliners of choice for long distance flights, especially across the oceans where a floatplane could land in case of emergency. Being the economical importance of Milano, also called the "capital of Northern Italy" or even the "Italian New York", ensuring a landing area for flying boats, where a regular land strip nearby (Linate) was already in exhistance, granted top priority to the project.
With aeronautical engineering and technology fast pace the Idroscalo was not intensively used as the original projects projected, but it still provides to date a nice recreational area during the warm season, as it can be seen from the late 1950's picture I attached, too.
Someone even thought of it as an emergency ditching area for aircrafts supposed to land in Linate, but unable to lower their undercarriages, the water providing a fire retardant effect. I don't know if such emergency plan is still in effect.
Before starting my gsl work I even thought to add a couple of buildings and piers to the Linate scenery in the Idroscalo, which is 2,600 metres long, 250 to 400 metres wide and from 3 to 5 metres deep. A Cant Z506, or even a larger floatplane like a Sunderland, could easily land there.
The problem is that in my CFS2 install the pond, where the Idroscalo should be, is not there and I don't know why.
Can any gentle soul around here check if they have the same occurrence in this scenery area? Just bring up Achim's Milano Linate and check its map.
If yes, I don't think anything can be done as it's another CFS2 glitch. If not, then I have to investigate what's going on in my CFS2.
Thank you!
KH
I am currently working on Achim's Milano-Linate scenery. The sat picture attached below of modern Linate shows clearly the IDROSCALO (floatplanes landing area), the large man-made body of water built in the second half of the 1920's.
At the time floatplanes were the airliners of choice for long distance flights, especially across the oceans where a floatplane could land in case of emergency. Being the economical importance of Milano, also called the "capital of Northern Italy" or even the "Italian New York", ensuring a landing area for flying boats, where a regular land strip nearby (Linate) was already in exhistance, granted top priority to the project.
With aeronautical engineering and technology fast pace the Idroscalo was not intensively used as the original projects projected, but it still provides to date a nice recreational area during the warm season, as it can be seen from the late 1950's picture I attached, too.
Someone even thought of it as an emergency ditching area for aircrafts supposed to land in Linate, but unable to lower their undercarriages, the water providing a fire retardant effect. I don't know if such emergency plan is still in effect.
Before starting my gsl work I even thought to add a couple of buildings and piers to the Linate scenery in the Idroscalo, which is 2,600 metres long, 250 to 400 metres wide and from 3 to 5 metres deep. A Cant Z506, or even a larger floatplane like a Sunderland, could easily land there.
The problem is that in my CFS2 install the pond, where the Idroscalo should be, is not there and I don't know why.
Can any gentle soul around here check if they have the same occurrence in this scenery area? Just bring up Achim's Milano Linate and check its map.
If yes, I don't think anything can be done as it's another CFS2 glitch. If not, then I have to investigate what's going on in my CFS2.
Thank you!
KH
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