Charlton Clump is a small airfield located on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain Training Area, just outside of the active danger area. The airfield is used by the De Havilland Moth Club's Tiger 9 formation display team for regular practice days. Information on the airfield is very difficult to find, other than the odd photo here and there so this wasn't as straightforward as I thought that it might be.
I have tried to recreate this airfield as accurately and faithfully as possible, though I have added a few extras to make life a little easier. One such extra is painted runway numbers as the runways are not easy to spot, and in some aerial imagery, they are not seen at all. I guess it stands to reason that when the Moth's fly they just point into the wind and go. I have however added two runways in, and I believe these are placed correctly and in the right orientation using the current Bing Maps imagery.
I have depicted a "training day" scene with a number of UK-based moths out on the airfield (K4259, T6953, and Queen Bee LF858). To see these three Moths you will need to own the fantastic Ant's Airplanes Tiger Moth payware add-on.
Like Urchfont before, this strip doesn't appear in Microsoft Flight Simulator by default so I have corrected that and issued the ICAO EGW2.
The following model libraries will be required to see some static elements - Thank you to the developers for sharing them.
Windy Things by trfsto:
https://flightsim.to/file/14024/windy-things
Animated Human 3D Models Library by superspud:
https://flightsim.to/file/33166/animated-humans-library
EGCV - Sleap by Bailsoft:
https://flightsim.to/file/36939/sleap-egcv
EGBO - Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green by dabba:
https://flightsim.to/file/30822/egbo-wolverhampton-half-penny-green
Simply unzip and place into your community folder.
Enjoy!
Towline
Great job, I've always wanted to visit this strip. I don't suppose Brown Shutters Farm and Wadswick are on your list?
TacitBlue82 author
Thank you! I must admit, I've never been to the strip myself though I must have driven past it hundreds of times. Brown Shutters and Wadswick were not on my list but I'm more than happy to add them!
2 years ago
Flying_Junk
What a smashing little scenery (Urchfont too). I love these little strips that Asobo overlooks. Just one query - I have Ant's Tiger Moth installed but can only see two Tiger Moths at Charlton Clump, no sign of the Queen Bee LF858. Any ideas? Cheers, Steve
TacitBlue82 author
Hi Steve,
Thank you very much! I have some more tweaks to come to improve the airfield even further. Regarding LF858, I have just realized that it is a 3rd party repaint (available via Sim Outhouse) which explains why it won't be showing for you.
If it proves to be too much of a problem I might replace it with another of the stock liveries in the next update.
Thank you for letting me know!
2 years ago
lossie15
Beautiful scenery darling.
TacitBlue82 author
Thank you ever so much!
2 years ago