Waterloo International Airport (CYKF) is a regional airport in Ontario, Canada, serving Kitchener-Waterloo and surrounding areas. It features a new terminal, two runways, and daily domestic flights including Flair Airlines, Westjet and Sunwing. The airport is also home to the Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre. Over the last few years, the airport has undergone many expansions which is now a growing hub for general aviation, cargo, and commercial travel. CYKF is an alternative to Toronto Pearson for Southwestern Ontario travelers.
Awesome scenery of my home airport with extreme detail. Great textures for both buildings and ground, almost looks like an exact replica of the real airport. Although it does have some caveats all relating to the parking spots.
1. No GA small parking around the flight school and surrounding areas but has a few GA Medium spots instead. The one thing that makes this airport feel alive is all the 152, 172's flying around doing patterns or go arounds, but with much of the spots being GA Medium it expects things like business jets to park at a flight school which is not realistic.
2. The terminal gates are Cargo Ramps. Because of this, the few airliners that do arrive, don't park at the terminal but at the 2 GA Large spots next to the terminal. The terminals are always empty.
3. Some of the parking spots at the small hangars in the south side of the airport are GA Medium or large when they shouldn't be. It causes it to spawn planes waay too big for the area. I've seen a Global 6500 spawn in one of those small taxiways where both the wings go through the hangars.
Other than that I am very happy with the purchase and would definitely buy more sceneries from Astralis if they are released.
A good effort by the developers, unfortunately the scenery suffers from some basic mistakes/errors and bad design choices that need to be corrected:
- The approach lights for RWY26 are incorrect and mostly missing. It needs the correct type of approach lights and the blast fence removed.
- There are countless antennas missing: Localiser antenna is not present, instead a blast fence was placed there.
Glideslope antenna is missing
Meteo station antennas all missing
Tower with airport beacon and its support shed are missing
- A select few service buildings are missing. No drama but some generic objects should be placed there.
- And one more small thing that can easily be avoided, the low-poly default cars with blurry textures should not be used airside where they can be seen from an aircraft parking or taxiing. Those are fine to use on car parks obviously, but airside they just look bad.
Other than that, good buildings and textures! I feel the night lighting is a bit washed out for the flood lights and very generic looking for most buildings. Some refinement would make the night scene look more realistic.
Hope the devs will fix the approach lights and missing antennas very soon. The airport would certainly have 4 stars if those were fixed.