I recently bought the Boeing 314 The Clipper flying boat by FS Pilots and I've been using LittleNavmap, scanning every inch of the map trying to see how many routes I could find for it and I have to say I'm quite disappointed with how few seaports there are in P3Dv5.  I only found them in North America and mostly just in the U.S. as well as some parts of Canada.  The entire rest of the world is completely devoid of them. I just want to know if there's any seaports out there, payware or freeware that I can install to add to the P3D world?  I did some searches but came up empty.  Maybe my Googling skills just suck but I searched seaports and similar terms for flight simulators and found nothing.  There has to be at least some payware seaports out there right?  Also, if I were to add some Orbx Regional scenery like California, Pacific Northwest, Fjords and Southern Alaska would that scenery include more seaports perhaps? 

Dr. Google found this -- https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/7282/fsx-your-own-sea-port-part-ii-scenery/ -- supposed to work for both FSX and P3D. Hope this helps. And if I remember correctly, yes ORBX does add seaplane areas. You might want to check their store and/or post a question in their forums.

22 minutes ago, pgde said:

Dr. Google found this -- https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/7282/fsx-your-own-sea-port-part-ii-scenery/ -- supposed to work for both FSX and P3D. Hope this helps. And if I remember correctly, yes ORBX does add seaplane areas. You might want to check their store and/or post a question in their forums.  I've been looking through what seems like hundreds of 3rd party airports on the payware sites and so far I haven't found any payware seaports.  There's just so many airports to search through it's very tedious.  I don't normally buy 3rd party airports but I'm willing to make an exception if I find some good seaports to buy.

Thank you!  That's something awesome looking freeware there.  I'm downloading it right now.  I will go check on the Orbx forum and see what they say.

Edited February 13, 20233 yr by Kalnon

Take a look here

Sceneries for 1939 North Atlantic PanAm

https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=p3d5scen&DLID=219834

Gérard

Edited February 13, 20233 yr by gaab

On 2/13/2023 at 5:27 PM, gaab said:

Take a look here

Sceneries for 1939 North Atlantic PanAm

https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=p3d5scen&DLID=219834

Gérard

Sorry I didn't see your post until now, thanks for the link, that's great.

I used Ideal Flight Professional 10.027eh (Flight1) to create airport subset files during its scenery indexing process. This function finds many different airport types including airports with water strips (includes add-on scenery if installed) and stores the ICAOs into text files that the program can use to filter. The Water Strips Airports output lists more than 500 airports with water strips in stock P3D v5.3:

https://download.codelegend.com/other/WaterStripsAirportsP3D5.zip

You can get similar info with LittleNav Map.

368 airports (default P3DV5.3) with at least one Water RunWay
- 1 in Australia (YMET)
- 4 in Porto Rico (PR03, PR34, VI22, VI32)
- the remainder in USA  !

Good luck to explore the world with a seaboat...

I got 256 more with all my add-on,126 outside USA 😉

Gérard

On 2/28/2023 at 5:29 AM, SteveW said:

I used Ideal Flight Professional 10.027eh (Flight1) to create airport subset files during its scenery indexing process. This function finds many different airport types including airports with water strips (includes add-on scenery if installed) and stores the ICAOs into text files that the program can use to filter. The Water Strips Airports output lists more than 500 airports with water strips in stock P3D v5.3:

https://download.codelegend.com/other/WaterStripsAirportsP3D5.zip

Thanks for the list!  That is extremely helpful.

9 hours ago, Kalnon said:

Thanks for the list!  That is extremely helpful.

My pleasure!