KWVI - Watsonville Municipal Airport
CA66 - Monterey Bay Academy Airport
Version 1.0.1
Installation:
Copy the folder "prairielet-airport-kwvi-watsonville" into your "Microsoft Flight Simulator/Community" folder (Delete a possibly already existing folder first)
For adding the optional airstrip CA66 copy the folder "prairielet-airport-ca66" to the same place
(Both airfields are independent mods)
Airport info:
Location: 36° 56′ 9″ N, 121° 47′ 23″ W
The KWVI airfield is located in the Monterey Bay area at the southern end of Santa Cruz County, California. Watsonville is about 65 miles (105 km) south of San Francisco. The origins of this airfield were in the '40s when the US Navy opened the Naval Air Auxiliary Station Watsonville (NAAS Watsonville). The untowered airfield is now operated by the city of Watsonville since 1947
LOC for runway 2: I-AYN 108.30 MHz
PAPI for runway 2 (3°), 20 (3°), and 9 (4°)
The airstrip CA66 is a small grass strip located next to the beach
Release info:
The goal is not to create the airfield as realistic as possible, but more to just improve its visual style and is mainly made based on Google Maps data
Thanks to ravenn22 for providing me with infos and pictures of the airfield! Go check out his projects
He also handed over his project of the airstrip CA66 for me to continue. It is provided as optional bonus content to my KWVI project. I may add additional custom details in the future as well
Features KWVI:
- Hand-crafted buildings
- PBR textures for these buildings
- Taxiways and aprons are redone
- Custom ground markings
Features CA66:
- Added parking spots
- Added some default scenery objects to improve the visual look
- A lot of terrain, water mask and photogrammetry cleanups in the whole area of the Monterey Bay
Update version 0.7:
- Added the hangars in the south
- Added some custom fences
Update version 1.0:
- Added new hangars (including an open hangar with parking spot)
- Added a custom beacon tower
- Some cleanups around the airfield
- Added CA66 as optional airstrip to the package
Update version 1.0.1:
- Recompiled after Sim Update 11 (40th Anniversary Edition) to ensure compatibility
- Replaced the helicopter parking spots with actual heliport starting points
Known issues, currently not included yet or not planned:
- Not all buildings are done. If a building is currently not present, there is an autogen building instead
- Only a few parking spots are selectable. Static aircrafts are placed on others. Otherways there is way too much ground traffic generated by the game. If you miss a particular parking spot, let me know so I can include it
- Further polishing of the airfields with more details may come with future updates
2 months ago
CaptainMoonlight
3 months ago
snot4tots
5 months ago
Chaser84
With this mod:
- there were over 80 aircraft sim objects rendered while I had all AI traffic and ground aircraft disabled
- procedures like the LOC 02 were broken, waypoint NALLS missing, nav from SANTY straight to the runway threshold
😞
6 months ago
detourist
Thank you so much for creating my home airport! Got so much love for this airport. Learned to fly at this airport.
1 years ago
gravelmonkey14
Terrific! Thank you, I can recommend Ella's at the Airport, great food and a good view. Before the pandemic my son used to play Jazz there on a Sunday evening.
One very slight criticism: unless its changed recently the windsock at KWVI is a sort of airplane thing on a stick...
Geoff
1 years ago
hefy_jefy
Never thought I'd be impressed by a GA field especially in a location I have no connection to, but this is excellent and moves the needle forward.
1 years ago
foxquakes
Thank you!
2 years ago
Trustdesa
This is such a great mod, really amazing work you've done here. Now my home airport looks a bit more realistic! Thanks for making this!
2 years ago
citizenzero
Dude you rock! Great addition to one of my favorite addons already. Any chance of adding Las Trancas in the future?
2 years ago
Interesting tiny airstrip, thank you! I will consider it
2 years ago
prairielet
GScene
You're doing a great job on this airport. My only comment is could you add the beacon back in? It's located next to the parking lot of United Flight Services on Aviation Way. You can see the shadow in Google Maps and see it in Google Earth. Near the parking lot of the custom airport building and United Flight services.
2 years ago
I put the default beacon back in! You can download it now again or wait for my custom made one, that will come in a future update
2 years ago
prairielet
Breeze
did most of my flight training here! Thank you for this!
2 years ago
v1rota7e
Top notch scenery! The ground textures and attention put into the FBO/Restaurant looks great! As a Bay Area pilot this is instantly one of my new favorites.
2 years ago
GScene
This looks fantastic! I used to fly into WVI a lot during my instrument training. I used to get lunch at the restaurant. I'll definitely be downloading this and checking it out.
2 years ago
WVI will always be in my heart, sorta. I failed my first instrument check ride on an approach to Rwy 2, in about 2001 or so. The tower got extremely busy and I was already overloaded so... I messed up. Passed it the 2nd time.
The flight home to RHV (my home base) after the first attempt was not so enjoyable, but in retrospect, hey I was flying an AIRPLANE! 8^) I was so fortunate to Be An Aviator...
2 years ago
blave
goincd3