Payerne Airport (ICAO: LSMP) is a military airfield of the Swiss Air Force, north of Payerne in Switzerland, located approximately halfway between Lausanne and Bern.
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The required libraries are all the Asobo standard airports (particularly EDLP Paderborn Lippstadt), plus:
UK2000 Common Scenery = In the Free section of the MSFS Market Place
Object library v2 by Colinj = https://flightsim.to/file/16007/msfs-object-library-with-150-models-ranging-from-towers-hangers-terminals-to-cones
The various static aircraft are from MilitaryAIWorks (all converted from FSX models using MSFS Legacy Importer). In the legacy Importer, select your FSX a/c Directory {must be the folder that contains the aircraft.cfg file). Select the MSFS Community Directory, then click on the Import button.
Payerne AFB is the home of the milicia Northrop F-5 Squadron 6 Ducks, F/A-18 Fightersquadrons Sqn 17 Falcons and Sqn 18 Panthers and of the Transport squadron LT1. Every aircrafttype of the Swiss Air Force can been seen operating from Payerne. It is home to the air investigation division of the Swiss Accident Investigation Board. Payerne operates also as an alternate airport for the airport Bern-Belp for foreign government flights. Payerne is also the home base for the second (HB-SIB) Solar Impulse aircraft. On the ground of Payerne AFB is also the aviatic Museum Clin d'Ailes. Air Traffic Control is made by the military branch of Skyguide, Skyguide National.
Payerne is responsible for the education of the ground crews (aircraft Mechanic,Airport Fire Fighter,..) of the Air Force. The A1 motorway (Switzerland) is connected via a taxiway at the hangar 5 with the airfield and can, if necessary, used as runway for take off - and landing. However, this possibility has never been used since the construction of the highway. The air base is, at both end of the runway, equipped with retractable Arresting gear devices (used by the F/A-18 and in case of a problem by the F-5).