[Freeware] San Diego Brown Field (KSDM)

[vbazillio 2,226]

Brown Field Municipal (ICAO: KSDM) is located 1.5 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Otay Mesa community of the City of San Diego.Brown Field Municipal is a busy general aviation airport. General aviation encompasses all aviation except air carrier and military, although the military continues to maintain a strong presence (look at FA-18!). The types of general aviation aircraft that operate at Brown Field Municipal include private, corporate, charter, air ambulance, law enforcement, fire rescue, flight training, cargo, skydiving, banner towing, helicopters and... airships.

All types of aircraft are welcome with
the 7,972 ft main runway. Even the famous Concorde and AN-2 landed there. Fuel (Jet and Avgas), plenty of hangars, maintenance,  ATC in effect, 2 instrument approaches and RAIL, HIRL lightning.

Free to download at: https://flightsim.to/file/38035/brown-field-muni-kdsm

Author's note

As for all of my MSFS mod, this small scenery is made from a pilot-eyes perspective. In real, I'm a Plus One Flyers member and mostly fly from Montgomery Field. I'm real PPL but a rookie amateur scenery developer: this mod is made with 99% of MSFS default objects library and feature massive number of details. The scenery is inspired by high resolution aerial views from Bing and Google maps. It's a mix between the satellite imagery displayed from MSFS and more accurate data found on Internet. 1000+ objects have been added to the default scenery to make in more live and bring a touch of an active area.

Features

• (almost in 0.9) Add all fences border all around the airport
• All taxiway markings verified and redesigned if needed
• Add generic buildings to replace autogen MSFS
• Add resurfacing patches on runways
• Fix PAPI position
• Add ATIS (132.35), Ground (124.4) and Tower (128.25) frequencies
• Add some banners and signs on public side/business area
• Add +800 objects manually set
• Remove several spikes around the field, cleanup of some monolith trees close by the field
• Remove un-wanted blue light poles
• Fix pattern circuit's position
• Fix and correct windsocks
• New ground markings on apron (mixed between uptodate and older satellite imagery)
• Add Cafe Landing Strip, First Flight School, Altitude Helicopters, EAA Chapter 14 hangars and apron
• Add AVFuel and Philipps66 (First Flight) fuel spots
• Add plenty of static planes at First Flight school apron (as real as pictures and satellite imagery)
• Simplified version of US Customs and Border Protections Air Unit (north side of the field)
• A lot of Helipad available (training on south east side and USCBP Air Unit at the North)
• F18 at the ramp, as real as it gets (see below)

Free to download at: https://flightsim.to/file/38035/brown-field-muni-kdsm

Edited August 13, 2022 by vbazillio

[ryanbatc 12,814]

Nice!  I flew there once in PE but lined up for the Mexican one just south of SDM lol!

[vbazillio 2,226]

12 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

in PE but lined up for the Mexican one just south of SDM lol!

I won't make fun of you because it happened me once... in real. It's a classic trick for all cFI's in this area to full their student! The two airports are so close, same orientation and so risky to make the mistake!

Edited August 13, 2022 by vbazillio

[Republic DC9 234]

Another wonderful airport Vincent thank you...between your airports and the photogrammetry in the area SoCal is a very realistic area to fly!

 

 

[Clutch Cargo 384]

With all the SoCal airports you've created, I would consider yourself well beyond a rookie developer! 😊  Soon you'll be running out of airports, ha!  Ever considered going east towards Borrego Springs or El Centro?  Don't want ya to get bored. 😉

[vbazillio 2,226]

38 minutes ago, Clutch Cargo said:

Ever considered going east towards Borrego Springs or El Centro?

Guess what! I have already started Borrego (L08) where I did my first circuits in US. And I just accepted the request in the "Scenery Request" at flightsim.to 😉 https://flightsim.to/requests/scenery

Thank you all for your comments which are really appreciated.

[vbazillio 2,226]

 

[vbazillio 2,226]

Version 1.1.1 has been updated yesterday with a mystery sign revealed (San Diego Jet Center behind the Avfuel) 🙂

 

[grandfred29 180]

Elle est chouette ta scène Vincent 

[vbazillio 2,226]

54 minutes ago, grandfred29 said:

Elle est chouette ta scène Vincent 

Merci !

[leprechaunlive 1,852]

12 hours ago, vbazillio said:

Version 1.1.1 has been updated yesterday with a mystery sign revealed (San Diego Jet Center behind the Avfuel) 🙂

 

Who would have thought, all this years later, we'd both be creating addons for MSFS 😅 and if you dont remember: i used to be called "Hinano HIN-001" when IVAO French Polynesia was still a thing 😚. 

[vbazillio 2,226]

2 minutes ago, leprechaunlive said:

Who would have thought, all this years later, we'd both be creating addons for MSFS 😅 and if you dont remember: i used to be called "Hinano HIN-001" when IVAO French Polynesia was still a thing 😚. 

And the only place we meet is a english spoken forum! Nice to hear from you again!

[Fielder 3,645]

https://www.youtube.com/c/VincentBazillio/videos

[leprechaunlive 1,852]

2 hours ago, vbazillio said:

And the only place we meet is a english spoken forum! Nice to hear from you again!

Yea well, pilote-virtuel is not as friendly as it used to be 🥳 Great sceneries by the way!

[leprechaunlive 1,852]

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

https://www.youtube.com/c/VincentBazillio/videos

I remember when blogs were still fashionable, he had great posts about his flying trips in the US, some FSX reviews as well if i remember right, high quality stuff.