Could do with ORBX Bob to have a walk around this one. Any idea why he has not been made available for MSFS?

Pilot Plus are turning into one of the best airport developers around. Would love to see them take on a big international hub. Heathrow would be fantastic by these guys.

2 hours ago, algy10 said:

I never ceases to amaze me why developers spending so much time and effort into modelling the interiors of terminal buildings. It all looks very professional, however, at the end of the day this is a Flight Simulator not a Terminal Simulator. As an option, why could we not have a 'light' version of the airport where only the exterior of the airport is modelled. This would also benefit frame rates, I would assume.

Just my 2p worth.

Al

I believe it's called a labor of love.

Bristol is now my local airport and have flown in/out of there prob twenty times mainly to Bergerac, France where we use to have a house but also Italy a few times. Will certainly buy once released.

CJ

Looks great. Any chance of adding animated people in the terminal to bring the airport to life? Now, that would be the icing on the cake.

9 hours ago, Moria15 said:

You are right, but Bristol is really more of an interegional airport, which does have flights to other countries because here in the UK other countries are a lot closer.   After all.. from Bristol, you can get to France after 160 NMiles.    It was also a fairly small airport origionally with the big airport being at Filton, just North  (The Concorde development base) which  is now closed and decaying   (but still fully implemented in MSFS2020).

It's also really a tourist airport..  the majority of flights are Ryanair and EasyJet..  you won't find the big international airlines there.. although I do have a photo of an Air China plane there from some years ago and have NO idea how that came to be 🙂

In fact, when Bristol was upgraded to more than just a local gliding club to an airport with a full international licence..  I'm not sure that Jetways even existed as it was just post war.. so it may well just be age and lack of investment since the BOAC times 🙂

Interestingly enough.. there is currently planning permission out for a fairly big expansion to Bristol.. and that will have some Jetways in it 🙂  Theres some info and a pic on this site of what the expansion should look like :-

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/heavyweight-backing-for-bristol-airport-expansion-appeal-19-02-2021/

Regards

 

Graham

 

EDIT:-  am totally up for this airport as it is my home base for OnAir and fly in and out of Bristol every day in the Sim 🙂

hey, cool.  Thank you very much for your response here.

12 hours ago, Moria15 said:

Interestingly enough.. there is currently planning permission out for a fairly big expansion to Bristol.. and that will have some Jetways in it 🙂  Theres some info and a pic on this site of what the expansion should look like :-

Thanks for the info. It's an airport which we used to use three or four times a year. 
 

But it looks like the planning appeal has been turned down. And sadly it's probably now unnecessary to expand the airport in any case. Increasing government backed pressure and policies from the environmental fanatics together with virus fear and its associated costs and regulations  will I suspect mean that the typical frequent short hop low cost holiday breaks in the sun are gone forever. Demand will never return to anywhere near what it once was.

2 hours ago, jarmstro said:

Thanks for the info. It's an airport which we used to use three or four times a year. 
 

But it looks like the planning appeal has been turned down. And sadly it's probably now unnecessary to expand the airport in any case. Increasing government backed pressure and policies from the environmental fanatics together with virus fear and its associated costs and regulations  will I suspect mean that the typical frequent short hop low cost holiday breaks in the sun are gone forever. Demand will never return to anywhere near what it once was.

I understand they are appealing again to a higher authority in Govmt..  it's not dead yet 🙂 although I do tend to agree about the need.

Graham

I think the expansion will go ahead eventually.  The same thing happened at Southampton Airport where they want to extend the runway south of over the M27.  They won their appeal on this but in reality it will still take many years before it happens. 

8 minutes ago, Moria15 said:

I understand they are appealing again to a higher authority in Govmt..  it's not dead yet 🙂 although I do tend to agree about the need.

Graham

Well if I am wrong and strong demand for air travel returns customers finding that Bristol is clogged could always nip down the M5 to my local airport, Exeter, which has plenty of spare capacity and which is, I suspect, in danger of closing since the demise of FlyBe. 😀

looking forward to this one and comparing it to UK2000s rendition.

The mendip transmitter will also be modelled apparently.

Can I make some suggestions please

will the bus be animated around the A38 to silverthorn car park?

maybe some people at RW27 to simulate the plane spotting location?

Perhaps some animated people queuing to board outside the main terminal, this would bring some life to that area IMO.

oh and model Ashton gate of course 😉

 

Edited August 12, 20214 yr by hanhamreds

1 hour ago, hanhamreds said:

looking forward to this one and comparing it to UK2000s rendition.

The mendip transmitter will also be modelled apparently.

Can I make some suggestions please

will the bus be animated around the A38 to silverthorn car park?

maybe some people at RW27 to simulate the plane spotting location?

Perhaps some animated people queuing to board outside the main terminal, this would bring some life to that area IMO.

oh and model Ashton gate of course 😉

 

I already have the mendip transmitter in a european transmitters addon from flightsim.to (Its called I love VFR). They also have a fantastic stand alone addon of ashton gate I have been using for ages and fits well alongside the Bristol photogrammetry and decent ground textures introduced in SU3.

+1 for the Silverzone bus and animated people.

Edited August 12, 20214 yr by cianpars

3 hours ago, cianpars said:

I already have the mendip transmitter in a european transmitters addon from flightsim.to (Its called I love VFR). They also have a fantastic stand alone addon of ashton gate I have been using for ages and fits well alongside the Bristol photogrammetry and decent ground textures introduced in SU3.

+1 for the Silverzone bus and animated people.

Yes the Mendip transmission station and tower will be included as well as the obstacle lights on the mast!

3 minutes ago, Pilot Plus said:

Yes the Mendip transmission station and tower will be included as well as the obstacle lights on the mast!

I guess that going to clash with We love VFR then?   Any chance of an optional exclude for that?  

26 minutes ago, The Moose said:

I guess that going to clash with We love VFR then?   Any chance of an optional exclude for that?  

There is an exclusion in place for the area, however it depends how the simulator handles multiple custom assets even with an exclusion. Sadly the MS marketplace currently does not allow a way to provide options to end users. To keep all distribution consistent this therefore won't be possible.