ian elliot
October 9th, 2014, 09:48
Always on the look-out for intresting military airfields in Europe to fly a Mig from, ive become facinated with Zeijava AB, Originally built in the former state of Yugoslavia,now on the border of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovia. Built almost entirly underground in the side of a mountain, Zeijava was able to house,support and maintain up to 3 squadrons of Mig 21's of the Yugoslav airforce within 4 kilometers of tunnels with five runways (two modelled by me) visable outside. It was claimed that the complexe was stronge enough to withstand a direct hit from a 20-kiloton nuclear weapon and was probably the most expensive military construction project in Europe.
Much of the base's surface structure's including runways were destroyed by retreating Yugoslav force's in 1991 and the tunnels dynamited by Serbian force's in 1992, more info can be found on---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljava_Air_Base, there are some great you-tube clips of Mig 21's operating from LYBI
and another site i found with great info and clips here---
http://www.zeljava-lybi.com/
Im afraid its only the runways and taxiways that are available with this scenery, almost all
the airfield infrustructure we are used to on military airfields were placed almost entirly underground, even the control
tower was built into the mountain side with very little visable. This is a great base for exploring some pretty spectacular Balken scenery but you'll just have to imagin those 4 Kilometers of tunnels im afraid
You will need to install my East German airfield pack---"Cottbus-Derwitz and Preschen for FSX.zip" found in the SOH library
and at Flightsim, as ive used some of the object and Vehicle librarys from that scenery
There's also a traffic file for 10 Yugoslave Mig 21's, you'll need----
"mpai_mig21_ai_traffic_05.zip" by Mike Pearson, found at Avsim
My FSX install at the moment is stock with no sdd-on mesh or landclass, if you use third party mesh for this region, there may be issue's with the airfield not fitting properly.
cheers ian
Much of the base's surface structure's including runways were destroyed by retreating Yugoslav force's in 1991 and the tunnels dynamited by Serbian force's in 1992, more info can be found on---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljava_Air_Base, there are some great you-tube clips of Mig 21's operating from LYBI
and another site i found with great info and clips here---
http://www.zeljava-lybi.com/
Im afraid its only the runways and taxiways that are available with this scenery, almost all
the airfield infrustructure we are used to on military airfields were placed almost entirly underground, even the control
tower was built into the mountain side with very little visable. This is a great base for exploring some pretty spectacular Balken scenery but you'll just have to imagin those 4 Kilometers of tunnels im afraid
You will need to install my East German airfield pack---"Cottbus-Derwitz and Preschen for FSX.zip" found in the SOH library
and at Flightsim, as ive used some of the object and Vehicle librarys from that scenery
There's also a traffic file for 10 Yugoslave Mig 21's, you'll need----
"mpai_mig21_ai_traffic_05.zip" by Mike Pearson, found at Avsim
My FSX install at the moment is stock with no sdd-on mesh or landclass, if you use third party mesh for this region, there may be issue's with the airfield not fitting properly.
cheers ian