Simviation Airport

[murjax]

Well, I haven't been doing much with the current track other than the fact that it's still sitting in Homestead. I've been real busy helping the folks at FlightSimWorld.com [formally known as FS2004.com] build their FSW International Airport so as to represent their website. Unluck most of us here on this thread, the folks over there have been real dedicated to their project. I helped them model the parking which has three drivable levels and I'm now working on modeling the peer/dock for the TNCM-style beach they modeled into the airport. You can read about their efforts here:

http://www.flightsimworld.com/forums/in ... pic=106586

They even put together a yahoo group for you to see the overall progress if you don't want to read 60+ pages of posts.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlightSim ... l_Airport/

Now my 4-hour-per-day college course is about to start this monday and I'm still having a major headache because my Hummer will not allow me to display the DVC gauges. I really have my plate full over here.

We can wait for the airport. I just want to make sure nobody forgot about it. I just want both airports built so people can enjoy them.  :)

[spitfire boy]

Guys, this thread has come a long way, you all made great progress... PLEASE don't let it die now!!!

[murjax]

Guys, this thread has come a long way, you all made great progress... PLEASE don't let it die now!!!

Yeah please. If Katahu won't finish our airport project for us then someone else must.

[JA 37 Viggen]

If we can't get this airport than we'll never get a Simviation Airlines.

[spitfire boy]

Does someone want to PM Katahu in order to get this thread up and running again?

[murjax]

Does someone want to PM Katahu in order to get this thread up and running again?

I already talked to Katahu some time ago and he said he was going to be busy working on www.FlightSimWorld.com 's airport project. It's either he comes back within 3 days or we need someone who knows how to make things with gmax to come up and finish our great project.

[lilley]

hey guys cut kat some slack, its not an easy thing to do to build a scenery like that and if he has his plate full right now then just wait for him, you arent able to do it yourself so......

Come on guys, it will come. Might just be a longer wait than you expected, just dont let the thread dieand see when ket gets back to SimV form if we can get it fully underway again.

James

[spitfire boy]

hey guys cut kat some slack, its not an easy thing to do to build a scenery like that and if he has his plate full right now then just wait for him, you arent able to do it yourself so......

Come on guys, it will come. Might just be a longer wait than you expected, just dont let the thread dieand see when ket gets back to SimV form if we can get it fully underway again.

James

I know what you mean - but this thread is one that must be bumped, that's what I was doing.

By the way, I haven't the foggiest about modelling - either scenery or aircraft

[wealthysoup]

how about using the american airport for racing etc and the european airport for airshows (since, from what i read itll have things like flaming hoops and barns)

[spitfire boy]

how about using the american airport for racing etc and the european airport for airshows (since, from what i read itll have things like flaming hoops and barns)

The plan is for the American airport to have flaming hoops, and a track, and many different shapes and sizes of runway, but it will also play a part as an international airport - virtual airline pilots will feel right at home there. The European airport was to have the same sort of features, minus the track and possibly the hoops... I'm not sure.

[Katahu]

Hey guys, I just want to let you know that FlightSimWorld's airport has just finished and they're in the process of having it uploaded for public use. That means that I'm now free to work on the SimV airport.

Right now, I'm looking for ideas on how to design the main terminal building. I'm thinking about making the main building have the general shape of a Concorde with the control tower located at the tail and with the sliding gates running along the front half of the fuselage.

What do you think?

PS: I don't know how to program sliding gates.

[Katahu]

I did a little sketch on my free time to see how I should model the terminals, until I came up with an idea. Instead of making one big building with the general features of a concorde, why not make a seres of small concorses using that general shape and then lined up like spokes on a wheel radiating outward?

[spitfire boy]

I have a few recommendations.

Instead of having all the different types of aircraft, and aircraft services (military, commercial, GA, etc.) all haphazardly slapped together, each 'division', if you like, should have one section of the airport dedicated to it - each with its own dedicated runway, or maybe two runways each. The sections should be clearly distinguishable from each other, connected perhaps by a single taxiway.
A list of divisions I can come up with (feel free to contribute more);
Commercial
Military
GA
Helos
Miscellaneous aircraft
Airshow section

We should also arrange the sections like a ring around the tower, which will be in the center, placed on a few taxiways forming the words 'SIMV'!!!

The design of all the various buildings should be quite modern, and abstract... and each building should relate to the section it services. That's why I particularly like your idea of a concorde-shaped terminal.

I think, if we are going to have an airport in both Europe and the US, we should come up with one design for an airport and use it twice. We can attach the track to the side of the US airport.

Regards;

Spitfire

[Katahu]

Here is a preliminary design of the Concorde concourse. Like a said before, each concourse will look like this.





BTW, Spitfire Boy, I like your idea of having certain parts of the airport dedicated to it. I'm planning on adding a glass roof to the concourse so that players can have a nice look inside the structure.

[spitfire boy]

Here is a preliminary design of the Concorde concourse. Like a said before, each concourse will look like this.





BTW, Spitfire Boy, I like your idea of having certain parts of the airport dedicated to it. I'm planning on adding a glass roof to the concourse so that players can have a nice look inside the structure.

I just changed my mind!!!

Lets have that in the center, with the tower on top of the vertical fin (obviously if we did this it wouldn't be a great big pole, more like a wrap-around panoramic window, with the glass effect you mentioned added)

EDIT; Here's an idea! Lets have an SR-71 shaped building for the military section.

EDIT cont'd; Plus I just though of another section; historic aircraft. We could have two smaller buildings for that one... A Spitfire and a Mustang!!!

EDIT 2; I like the sound of that... concorde concourse. Try saying that five times fast!!!