freeware Placerville Airport (KPVF)

[vbazillio 2,405]

Placerville airport is located in the heart of the Sierra Nevada foothills and a common plan B for pilot diverting when Lake Tahoe is not accessible. The airport is located on top of a bluff, so you can practice your aircraft carrier landings. There’s a lot of parking spaces and a very practicable fueling island. EAA Chapter 512 as well as Skywagons (aircraft sales and brokerage) are hosted at the field. You can also have a look at inside the Ragtime Aero hangars. Placerville Airport is free to download : https://flightsim.to/file/67811/placerville-airport-kpvf

Features v1.0

• Huge amount of work on elevation of the whole airport but also on small areas around and inside the perimeter
• Hard work blending all revised new airport textures with the underlying satellite images
• All fences around the airport (thanks to vectorplacement SDK features)
• Add specific taxiway signs (noise abatement extrapolated from ground charts, if you have their exact meanings let me know)
• Add Helipad H1 located on north side of runway 05 end
• Add the Hangtown VOR-DME (objects)
• Add the Windtee customized for KPVF and the weather sensors
• Add thousand of small objects to make the airport a more living and immersive environment. Mostly with stocked objects which requires no 3rd party library installation except World Updates. See requirements below.
• Add several open hangars (with some jewels inside) replacing AI generated.
• My scenery works better in daylight: invite yourself to the EAA - Chapter 512 summer meeting. Don’t forget to bring deserts, Chapter provides hot dog and hamburgers
• Special attention to buildings : EAA Chapter 512, Ragtime Aero and Skywagons.com
• Fix the 4-box VASI runway 5
• Fix the 2-light PAPI runway 23
• Fix the airport beacon tower
• Fix windsock position
• (WIP) Fix taxiway signs. If you know how taxiway name are layed out, drop me a message and I’ll fix them.

Placerville Airport is free to download : https://flightsim.to/file/67811/placerville-airport-kpvf

More pics available here: 

 

Edited January 19 by vbazillio

[flyblueskies 143]

Looks very nice!

I'll download the next time I'm on flightsim.to.

 

[btacon 1,855]

Vbazillio, your Grace knows no bounds. Thank you once again!

-B

[MarcG 3,041]

Awesome, another gem for the collection, thank you

[69Yanks 33]

Thank you. I have a question. Are the people stock items and if so, I assume these are from the world MSFS updates? I do not have all the updates installed and do not see the library of people when creating my scenery. 

Edited January 19 by 69Yanks

[vbazillio 2,405]

1 hour ago, 69Yanks said:

I assume these are from the world MSFS updates?

Yes. Some statics are from World Update USA. Check object name "kbid_workers_x" and "kbid_people_xxxxx". Animated people are object named "LSZO_einzelperson_" from the Game Of The World (GOTY) edition which includes a free LSZH.

[dusty_sourdough907 79]

Vincent,

Thank you for sharing this.

It's a beauty ❤️

[JYW 2,990]

Another masterpiece!

[tymk 109]

What a nice surprise, I remember loving the place in the P3D era, even though it was just an "enhanced" airport as part of Orbx's NCA region. With your rendition, it's really a dream come true. Thanks!

[flyblueskies 143]

Awesome rendition of the airport!

 

I particularly liked the help wanted sign...

 

[69Yanks 33]

Thanks showing me the people location for placement in the scenery editor. I found all of the standing people in KBID and LSZA. Can you direct me to the sitting ones?  

[ryanbatc 13,065]

Thanks for the scenery.  I just checked it out yesterday.  What a beautiful area to fly in/near!

[Keirtt 593]

Just did a flight into here this morning. Great scenery and excellent work! Thank you for continuing to put out high quality freeware for the community to use!

[vbazillio 2,405]

Thank you all for your messages and feedback. Glad this work finds its target!

Edited January 24 by vbazillio

[vbazillio 2,405]

5 hours ago, 69Yanks said:

Thanks showing me the people location for placement in the scenery editor. I found all of the standing people in KBID and LSZA. Can you direct me to the sitting ones?  

It's simple. Just translation "seated" in German 😉