DOCUMENTATIONSceneries
Four airfields come with the U-2. They install with the aircraft package, so you do not need a separate download. Each one has a parking spot made for the U-2, with room for the ground equipment beside it.
Airfields
Included for no additional cost with the release package.
LCRARAF AkrotiriCyprusThe U-2 base on Cyprus, on the south coast of the island. A CIA U-2 detachment came here in August 1970 to watch the Suez Canal ceasefire. The Air Force took over in 1974 under the name OLIVE HARVEST, and U-2s still fly from Akrotiri today.Elevation72 ftRunway10/28 · 2,745 mU-2 parkingGate U 2Open airfield pageEGVARAF FairfordGloucestershire, EnglandThe European base of the U-2, at the USAF bomber base in Gloucestershire, England, also home of the Royal International Air Tattoo. U-2s of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing from Beale AFB have deployed here since 2017, and fly from Fairford on a steady basis.Elevation270 ftRunway09/27 · 3,046 m · ILS both endsU-2 parkingGate U 2Open airfield pageCIA1CIA Nordic BaseFinnish LaplandA fictional airfield: a small Cold War field camp in Finnish Lapland. A gravel strip in the forest, two parking spots and a static U-2R.Elevation512 ftRunway01/19 · 1,706 m gravelU-2 parkingGate U 1 or U 2Open airfield pageKXTAGroom LakeNevada, USAThe secret site where the U-2 story began. The CIA chose this dry lake bed in April 1955 to test the U-2 and train its pilots. The first U-2 arrived in July 1955 and made its first official flight on 4 August 1955. Shown as it was in the 1960s; today the site is better known as Area 51.Elevation5,895 ftRunway14/32 · 4,391 m, plus 4 lake-bed runwaysU-2 parkingAny of 17 ramp spotsOpen airfield page
At Akrotiri, Fairford and the CIA Nordic Base the U-2 spot is a Gate U. Select an airfield for its data table and airport diagram. Groom Lake and RAF Akrotiri are also mission bases - see Missions.
Starting at an Airfield
- Choose the airfield on the world map by its ICAO code, then the U-2 parking spot shown on its card above.
- Choose the start. A parking start is Cold and Dark; a runway start is fully powered. See Important Need-to-Knows.
- Use the U-2 parking spot. On a parking start the ground power unit, the air-start unit and the oxygen cart come out beside the aircraft, and the spot keeps that area free. See Chase Car and Ground Support Equipment.
Other Scenery Bundles
These sceneries are not part of the U-2 package. They are sold separately and go well with the U-2.
KTNXSeparate productTonopah Test RangeNevada, USAThe whole Tonopah Test Range: Area 51 as it was in the 1970s and 1980s, Tonopah AFB around 1990, and landmarks along the Extraterrestrial Highway.ByMiltech Simulations and SundownerSimProduct pageKBABSeparate productBeale AFB RetroCalifornia, USABeale AFB in the late 1980s, the Cold War years when the SR-71 still flew from it beside the U-2. For MSFS 2024.ByBlackbird SimulationsProduct pageKBABSeparate productBeale AFB ModernCalifornia, USABeale AFB as it is today, the home of the U-2S and the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, with the PAVE PAWS radar east of the base. For MSFS 2024.ByBlackbird SimulationsProduct page
The scenery is for MSFS 2024, like the aircraft. Fairford, Akrotiri and Groom Lake replace the default airports while the U-2 package is installed.