September 11, 20214 yr I have created a fictional water runway next to York Factory in Northern Manitoba, Canada ( https://flightsim.to/file/17413/york-factory-manitoba ). When I created that scenery a few months ago, I discussed water aerodromes with other scenery developers on fsdeveloper.com. It appears that support for water landings was non-existing when MSFS was first released. I think it was added in spring. At the time when I created York Factory, it was not possible to create docking stations in water yet (I tried ramps, but they would be filled with normal AI airplanes). My guess is that amphibious operations and more water runways will be added over the next year. Until then, creating them ourselves and publishing it on Flightsim.to may be the best option. Peter
September 11, 20214 yr Thanks but I have no idea how to do it there. I posted a message there asking for instructions and never got a response Regards John Gigabyte Z390 m/b, i7 9700K cpu, 16Gb Hyper X Fury 3200 ram, RTX2060 6Gb, Gigabyte 32" monitor, MSFS 2020 store edition
September 11, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, Jarnie said: Thanks but I have no idea how to do it there. I posted a message there asking for instructions and never got a response It is not too difficult: - Register an account (for free) on Flightsim.to - Take the folder of your project that you created in the community folder and zip it (right click -> send to -> . zip file). - On flightsim.to, click on your username (top right corner) and go to "my uploads" - Clock on "new upload" and follow the instructions. You may want to prepare a few screen shots of your work, and you will have to write a text that includes installation instructions (usually, "unzip to project file and move it into your community folder") and an email address where people can contact you. Also, if you used any programs (like Gimp or Blender) for your projects, you should acknowledge it. And of course, you should not include any copyrighted material in your project.
September 12, 20214 yr Thanks I will prepare some descriptive texts to also give credit to authors of some freeware scenery object I included. One airport (Whistler) is actually a rework of the airport created for FSX by someone else (I simply converted it for use in FS2020 and added 3D car tires along the sides of the docks) and I have sent an email to the email address in the original asking for permission (in was created for FSX maybe 14 years ago) and never got a reply not even a 'email address does not exist). Maybe it went to the persons spam folder and he overlooked it BUT what do I need to do about that? Maybe just mention the facts and the original 'author' and their email address? Regards John Gigabyte Z390 m/b, i7 9700K cpu, 16Gb Hyper X Fury 3200 ram, RTX2060 6Gb, Gigabyte 32" monitor, MSFS 2020 store edition
September 12, 20214 yr I wonder though about including static floatplane aircraft 'borrowed' fro FSX (there are none at present for FS2020). Leave them out or include with a note in the readme file? Regards John Gigabyte Z390 m/b, i7 9700K cpu, 16Gb Hyper X Fury 3200 ram, RTX2060 6Gb, Gigabyte 32" monitor, MSFS 2020 store edition
September 12, 20214 yr Do not include any files that were created by someone else, except when you have explicit permission. Sending the author an email is a very good idea. And you should not include objects converted from another simulator, this is forbidden most of the time.
September 15, 20214 yr And then there is https://return.mistymoorings.com/z20_homepage/index.php Lots of lots of water runways there and shoreside camps. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 cores) Hyper on, Evga RTX 3060 12 Gig, 32 GB ram, Windows 11, P3D v6, and MSFS 2020 and a couple of SSD's
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September 16, 20214 yr Originally there weren't any. But by now, of course, there are a ton of water runways. CNQ5, CRB7 and CTY3 are in my area.
February 17, 20224 yr In Little Navmap you can filter on runway surface. Set it to water. MS FS 2020/2024 | 9800X3D | 64GB DDR5 6000mhz | ASUS ROG ASTRAL RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 OC EDITION | Varjo Aero | Navigraph | VATSIM | TPR Pedals | Virpil | Honeycomb | Winwing FCU + EFIS | Behringer X Touch Mini | SPAD.next
February 17, 20224 yr To find water runways go the the world map and at the bottom click more, then filters. Select water runways, the turn off all the other types. Every dot you see is a water runway, You have to zoom in to see them. They're hundreds of them. Don't try the Alaska ones right now if you have live weather on. You will get stuck in the ice. 🙂 Roy Edited February 17, 20224 yr by Roy Warren Added Note: Leave Airports On i7-10700 CPU @2.90 GHz, 32 GB Ram, nVadia GTX1660ti, Samsung 1 TB SSD Drive
February 17, 20224 yr Lake Hood in Alaska is now in the MSFS data base, PALH.. You can select water runways in MSFS to start flight ( providing you have an aircraft with floats?? 😉) Edited February 17, 20224 yr by Bobsk8
February 17, 20224 yr They are all over the place and well marked if you zoom into the world map. Don't know what the big problem is?
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