In my earlier post, I'd taken a short flight from KBFI (Boeing Field / King County International Airport) to the small Private Airport of Fall City (1WA6), approximately 20 miles east of Boeing Field. Located just outside of the town of Fall City, this airport is a "Private Airport Community". See, below (in shot #1), the large "PRIVATE" marking on the Rwy, where the Rwy marking would normally be... (FAA and AirNav sites list the Runways simply designated as "E/W" = i.e., "EAST/WEST"... 90/270 degrees respectively) ...

The town of Fall City, though small, actually seems to pack a big punch as a major tourist attraction. It got its name (most likely) due to its location near the (famous) Snoqualmie Falls. The Snoqualmie Falls, a popular tourist hotspot, in all of Washington and beyond, (btw, also of "Twin Peaks" drama fame), is where the Snoqualmie river (spectacularly) falls 270 feet down a precipice (see 2 shots of the Snoqualmie Falls, below). The Fall is located just about 4 miles further east of Fall City airport. In fact, I could clearly see the waterfall, immediately after being airborne from the East Runway of Fall City airport. The township, located barely 30 miles from the (large) Seattle metropolis, is scenically tucked-away, and grew up around the Snoqualmie river, that runs twisting around the community (see pictures of the river and the town, in the very last 3 shots, below).

I read somewhere, "From August through November (i.e., starting just about now), in the RW, it’s possible to see thousands of spawning salmon in the rivers of the Snoqualmie valley. Each fall, "native" salmon (i.e., native to Snoqualmie) make the impressive journey all the way from the Pacific Ocean to their birthplaces in these streams and rivers that feed into Puget Sound (Note: Salmon fish always return to the place they were born to lay their own eggs). The native salmon complete this incredible feat thanks to their extremely strong sense of smell, which is about one million times stronger than ours..."...Oh well...Also, though the salmon can easily swim upstream, the Snoqualmie Falls present a formidable (upstream) barrier for fish, so there are no salmon found above them...but abundantly only in the river below...

Orbx, as usual, has done a great job bringing out an authentic feel of this tiny place (airport and town) ...with plenty of a/c activity, roaming service vehicles, and residential housing, spotted around the airport,..visited, here, virtually, in the Fall Season, but Winter in the town, would surely have its own distinctive appeal. I read in the Orbx introduction, "...5 seasons color matched imagery..." and "...In the fall, you'll see leaves falling from trees onto the ground..." etc. Though I did not test (and wait for) the "falling leaves", I did test the (remarkable) seasonal differences in the color of the trees, for several successive months, across the Fall season...See e.g., the 3 identical (B2B) screenshots below of the same trees in the months of September/November/January. In the fall, the state of Washington is known to glow with the colors of Autumn beginning in late-September...but, for now, these virtual pictures, below, will have to do, for most of us, in lieu of a RW visit in the Fall season... (noting that the Fall colors around the Midwest can also be quite spectacular) ...

Hope you enjoy this sample of pictures from (and around) the Fall City Airport. The airport, being privately owned, you'll normally not visit it, as you could any other public airport, except, of course, right here, by virtual means, with yours truly, as the guide...🙂... (On the FAA bulletin, the (1WA6) Airport use is listed as "Private use. Permission required prior to landing", and contact information is provided for those of you who may be able to fly in piloting your own (real) a/c into this scenic airport and this quaint little town...) ...Sounds like a place for good fun and great sights...!

Thanks for viewing these virtual sights from my tour of Fall City (Washington)...!!

Edited August 20, 20223 yr by P_7878

Excellent capture of the character of that area and the airport!  Thank you for posting these.  I badly wish that now in MSFS 2020 there were more open hangars.  Open hangars show life.  The big rub if there is any for msfs is that the airports, especially GA local and regional airports, look so lifeless.  Even the mega number of freeware airports suffer the same fate due to the character of objects available in the libraries.

Edited August 20, 20223 yr by fppilot

Frank:

Thanks for the comments and thoughts...! I was more hoping to hear you say that you have had a chance to visit Fall City IRL...🙂....

Ha those are awesome.  I just took a flight there today in MSFS - you should definitely consider installing the new sim!  

Thanks for the interesting stories.

You always show an interesting description of what surrounds the flight.

It attracts and fascinates to make a flight in places where you have already visited.

Superb shots! 😉 

That`s a nice set Mister P_7878 !

cheers 😉

Like Frank said , I miss the open hangers of the the past with Orbx  . I was really disappointed with Biggin Hill for MSFS , over 

100 hangers and only one that opens . Anyway rant done , loved the post Sir . 

***Gorgeous Shots***They really sum up The Coolness and Fun of GA at local,small Airfields ***

Folks:

Greatly appreciated your taking the time to provide comments and thoughts...🙂.... it's also great to note I made some of you to look up this place (in your own virtual world) ...🙂...BTW, the MSFS (Orbx) Fall City looks much better, with, as I see, more structures, hangars, embankments etc...and it's less than 1/4th the cost of the one for FSX/P3D... (Though I recall I'd got this one quite a while ago, during one of their SALEs...). Hope some of you will consider it worthwhile to acquire this add-on to go visit the (beautiful) Snoqualmie Falls...

And agree, having seen most of the major (Intl.) airports of the world, yes, there is a certain unique coolness and fun at small airports and airfields...Of course, Orbx being a master of recreating the warmth of such places...helps...!

Cheers...!!