April 22, 20233 yr Marble Canyon is an incredibly unique location. While the majority of the Grand Canyon is off-limits to lower-level flight without a tour operator permit, L41 is accessible to anyone: get onboard your favorite GA plane, fly as real-as-it-gets and enjoy to land inside the Canyon! I pay attention to recreate the town with custom buildings. Don’t forget to go to the restaurant across the street to pay the landing fee and enjoy an iconic meal. But overall enjoy the view during the approach! Free to download for PC at https://flightsim.to/file/53549/marble-canyon-airport-l41 Features Add several custom made buildings: the gas station, the trading post, the restaurant and lodge Cherry on the cake: The Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center has been fully rebuild with custom buildings Add dozen of custom objects at Marble Canyon town Fix the Windsock’s position Add one helipad starting position in the main ramp Try to enhanced the terraforming of the whole area Fix the traffic pattern location for AI From the flight deck Marble Canyon airport sits at 3’600 feet. Because of the whole area is a National Park, you can’t join the pattern as you want. There’s a Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) centered on the airfield for 3 nautical miles to allow you for a… risky descend. Don’t fly low if you want to keep your (virtual) licence. Furthermore, because of the canyon wall, you may encountered significant updrafts or downdrafts in the vicinity of the rock walls. Runway 3/21 is on a 1.3° gradient with the approach end of Runway 21 being the high point. The runway is 3’715 feet (1132 meters) and only 35’ large (11 meters). It has been resurfaced few years ago. The pavement is in good condition, but it’s a desert area and you may encountered tumbleweeds on a bumpy surface runway. Approaches are typically made on runway 3 due to the upslope. You have been warned: the terrain before and after the runway is not suitable for over or underruns. Also, the elevation of the airport combined with Arizona summers hot temp leads to significant density altitude considerations. Lean and check your mixture! Finally, there’s no fuel on site. But Page, KPGA is a max 10 min flight with a C172. Don’t forget to pay the landing fee cross the street at the restaurant/lodge. You may enjoy a nice meal. Enjoy for free at https://flightsim.to/file/53549/marble-canyon-airport-l41 and don’t forget to share your feedback! Thank you. Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
April 22, 20233 yr This looks awesome and such an interesting airport! Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
April 22, 20233 yr Encore une superbe réalisation Vincent, bravo ! Roland MSFS my local airport release: LFOR Chartres-Metropole MSFS Plugins RAAS (registered FSUIPC7 required) MSFS FX for Objects & Landmark in France (Steam and smoke) and Aerial coverage for French nuclear sites
April 22, 20233 yr Awesome work, as always. Downloading now! ASUS Prime Z490-A / i7-10700K / RTX 4080 / G.SKILL Ripjaws 32GB / Lian-Li PC-O11 Dynamic case
April 22, 20233 yr Lovely ! Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
April 22, 20233 yr Great fun and well done CrazyCreatives had a version for P3Dv2-3 that I fly in P3Dv5 MSFS in line with it’s continually improving setup has generated an improved version for a very interesting area to fly xxd09
April 26, 20233 yr Author Version 1.1 available: Add building’s lights at night Add Lees Ferry Entrance entrance sign Add Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center entrance sign Add one static parked aircraft on tie down line Add the cable tie down line Add people at Navajo Interpretive Center and on the pedestrian bridge Fix restaurant front wall sign typo Reduce slightly the density of shrubs close to the runway (Please remove any tree mod to avoid conflict with this scenery) … and some other minor fixes Click here for free download. Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
November 27, 20232 yr Author Version 1.2 released yesterday : Replace the ugly road texture with a new one Enhance asphalt ramp Add marking on road and at the Navajo Bridge Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
November 27, 20232 yr Haven't got around to downloading the new version yet as it's not an area I fly that often, but the old version is great and the update looks even better. Will give it a try later. As always, Vincent's airports are definitely worth downloading and MSFS is a much better sim for all the work he has put in. Ryzen 5800X3D, Nvidia RTX5080 - 32 Gig DDR4 RAM, 1TB & 2 TB NVME drives - Windows 11 64 bit MSFS 2024 Premium Deluxe Edition Resolution 2560 x 1440 (32 inch curved monitor)
November 27, 20232 yr Side point; I had to Google the story behind the two bridges, was interesting. ...and yes another vouch for this very talented developer, thank you again. Pico Neo3 Link VR - Windows 11 64bit, Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite Mobo, i7-10700KF CPU, Gigabyte RX 9070 XT OC 16gb (AMD GPU), 32gig Corsair 3600mhz RAM, SSD x2 + M.2 SSD 1tb x1 Saitek X45 HOTAS - Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals - Logitech Flight Yoke - Homemade 3 Button & 8-directional Joystick Box, SNES Controller (used as a Button Box - Additional USB Numpad (used as a Button Box)
May 5, 20242 yr Author New small update today with version 1.3.0 : - Replace the default MSFS windsock with an animated 100% orange FAA compliant windsock - Fix a holding short issue Available for free for PC user at https://flightsim.to/file/53549/marble-canyon-airport-l41 Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
October 19, 20241 yr Author Enjoy for free my latest update of Marble Canyon (v1.3.1). I've added new details at the Trading Post, but also re-colored the runway based on latest Youtube IRL videos. Finally, fixed minor errors for the fun of it 😉 https://flightsim.to/file/53549/marble-canyon-airport-l41 Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
October 19, 20241 yr Just flew though Page and now just flying over Marble Canyon. Your airports are sooooooooooo amazing. I'll have to stop by Marble Canyon in the near future (on my way to Sedona right now). 😉
December 6, 20241 yr Author I’ve just released version 1.3.2 compatible with MSFS2024. Because several users wanted to enjoy the beauty of Grand Canyon photogrammetric version in MSFS2024, here’s a Quick & Dirty FIX for trees all around the runway in MSFS2024. Not perfect but it’s a quick&dirty fix. Free to download for PC at https://flightsim.to/file/53549/marble-canyon-airport-l41 Vincent B. Check my free MSFS sceneries : https://flightsim.to/profile/vbazillio/trending and my hardware configuration.
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