4FD4 Bay Seaplanes, Panama City, Florida, United States
Bay Seaplanes is located in the dog leg of Saint Andrews Bay near Panama City Beach on the south west coast of Florida.
Although already available in MSFS with a single runway and no real scenery apart from water, it is well placed for some interesting flying.
There are four areas of construction for this sea-base and here are some of the choices for travellers/pilots:
The Tyke Air van will drop you at the shore terminal where you can fly out from the helipad by selecting runway E for east departure or W for west departure.
If you are travelling by seaplane to the east then selecting runway 25 that will put you in your aircraft ready to depart straight out from the boathouse (be sure to take the river boat from the shore landing to the boathouse pontoon).
If you are travelling to the west select runway 7 that will put you in your aircraft ready to depart from the pontoon (after taken the river boat from the shore landing).
Don’t forget to load your passengers before departing (FSE users).
As a test of your flying skill when landing from the east try to come to a stop in the boathouse without demolishing the walls and killing the passengers waiting for the next flight. To help you I have placed guide buoys either side of the runway but not made them too obvious.
And don’t fly into the geese.
As a warning please don’t walk too near the edge of the pontoons like the kid in the last picture did. Flying with wet clothes is no fun.
As a suggestion please take a flight from here 4FD4 to 1FL5 West Bay Creek available on Flightsim.to as is only 9nm and a joy at both ends.
I hope you enjoy the sea-base as much as I have in pulling it together.
A big shout-out to the developers of the library files below that you will need to download also.
Tyke.
https://flightsim.to/file/5806/fisherman-dave-s-seaplane-base-object-library
https://flightsim.to/file/4696/dave-s-crooked-library
https://flightsim.to/file/5452/dave-s-3d-people-library
https://flightsim.to/file/16007/msfs-object-library-with-150-models-ranging-from-towers-hangers-terminals-to-cones
https://flightsim.to/file/10748/helipads-pack-4-shapes-pbr-textures-fully-customisable