My new airport

[Puchu]

My first time making an airport. I attempted to make one for airshows.. any small aircraft.
It has a ramp so you can drive your favorite amphibian right into the lake. (which is also a runway you can start out on)

I'm still playing around with it. I'm not really satisifed yet.
Ignore the airplane. Can't figure out how to make it go away so I can just take scenery pictures.

[DonAlfonsoRoKil]

That looks great!!!

[Puchu]

I appreciate it.

Yeah, the background texture has been a problem. I can't seem to find one that fits. The default fsx texture underneath is a big mass of trees which looks funny if I don't put the texture overtop of it.  Yeah, it is fsx. I'm probably using some fsx-only features in it.

I've completely re-done it since I posted this. My computer couldn't handle all the scenery I wanted to make it look good. Framerates got to an unreasonable number.

Now it's like a private owned land.. with a house, garage, lake-ramp, small parking spot. Looks alot nicer when I'm not trying to fill such a large area up. It's not like the original concept though. I'm still playing around and learning. I'll go back to the original concept eventually. (but in a different location)

The airport is located at the northern tip of the southern peninsula of Michigan. Near the Mackinac bridge. Not alot of good scenery around since everything is flat. I imagine that I'll remake the original conept airport at a different location that's more fun to fly.  Any suggestions for locations are welcome.

Thanks for your feedback. I wasn't sure if people where going to think that the grass taxiways and runways where cheesy. I personally really like it that way. Just think of the lines and markings as the ground being painted like a football field.

[Travis]

Ignore the airplane. Can't figure out how to make it go away so I can just take scenery pictures.

Download an aircraft without a VC (Mike Stone's would be choice).  Then fly around and use the VC view to see nothing but scenery!

[DaveT]

nice mate which software did you use to build the Airport,and where did you get your runway from?

cheers
Dave

[Puchu]

I used Airport Facilitator X and Instant Scenery to make the airport. Both available at http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?category=fsx.

The runway is just a standard grass runway with all the markings enabled.

I ended up canning that airport and am in the process of re-building it. If it ends up being good and if I can ever figure out how to add AI airtraffic to it I may add it to the freeware scenery page here at simv.

[DaveT]

excellent,good luck with the rebuild.

Dave

[Puchu]

Here are some screens of the rebuild so far.
Located in Washington.
(ended up not being how I first wanted)


















I like it so far. I'm just having trouble getting some ai traffic into it. And the comm frequencies are weird too.. Sometimes when talking to atc you get stuck in a loop between 'contact tower' and 'contact ground' with no options to choose anything. Not sure what's going on. All asigned frequencies seem to be legitament.

[DonAlfonsoRoKil]

I sometimes have this problem when taxiing on an airport.
The atc always waits for an action of you, an action you maybe don't even know of
A solution: Just take-off without allowance (really works), or just land (if you're in the air before).

I also like this airport very much.
But the first one is still in my mind.... A great airport concept I could dream of....  8-)

-The Revelator

[air southwest]

Revelator

when you created your airport above where there trees in the way.
what i mean is when you created it and positioned it were default trees in the way of the airport.

[DonAlfonsoRoKil]

You maybe don't want to tell me this, but Puchu?!  :-?
By the way: AFX that he used lets you make exclusion rectangles which can hide all autogen objects.
AFCAD does this not.

[air southwest]

thanks another prob i have is that the ground id not level so it goes half way into a hill how do i get round this a other peoples runways are perfect.

[DonAlfonsoRoKil]

Flattening areas!

I don't know which prog to use for this, but it's a well-known one, just ask in a new post, so that other see it.
I have never worked with airports but I have read articles over nearly everything of FS.....  ::)