Have a few smaller Northern California airports in the works at the moment, with three nearing testing and finishing stage.

Healdsburg (KHES)

A lovely wine country airfield between UKI and STS. Some changes necessary from the default including a taxiway that has been removed from service since MSFS came out, and the usual fixes to inaccurate runway PAPI location.







Ukiah (KUKI)

There hasn't been a decent UKI scenery for awhile, even in past sims. This is an important regional airport on the way to the north coast, and has a Cal-Fire base too. The local data in MSFS is also a bit old, I have added Costco and a hotel that are missing from the default ortho.







Nevada County Airport (KGOO)

This airport hosts an important Cal-Fire base and is a significant facility in the Sierra foothills west of Lake Tahoe. Great jumping off point to a lot of excellent local scenery







Wondering if I'll need to get to Cloverdale at some point too, because it seems at this point Orbx will not update the P3D title for MSFS...

Edited July 23Jul 23 by Nandengo12

Ukiah is nearly done, in final testing now

Current layout of the airport is reflected. Surrounding MSFS photogrammetry is kind of a mess, so I have done a lot of cleanup of areas that can be seen from taxiway Alpha (giant tree blobs everywhere up and down the airport and melted mobile home park near rwy 33 threshold)







The Cal-Fire base got plenty of attention, as it should



Also added the hotel and Costco that are missing from the MSFS ortho and PG. Both can be seen from the runway





If no major issues are found, should be ready soon!

Edited July 31Jul 31 by Nandengo12

Ukiah (KUKI), to Healdsberg (KHES) and then continue on South as follows:

Sacramento (KSMF by DQCA), Lodi (1o3) by Nandego12, We don't have Stockon (KSCK), Don't have Modesto (KMOD), Don't have Turlock (O15), Do have Hilmar Alhem Farms (CL84 by DVI Creations), Do have Merced (KMCE by Nandego12, Do have Mariposa (KMPI by VBazillio), ((fly over Yosemite Canyon)), Do have Lee Vining (O24 by Zepingouin35), Tahoe (by Asobo free), Reno (by Asobo free).

All of the Do Have's above are free on flightsim.to. The last 2 are free by Asobo.

You could fly South from Ukiah to Healdsberg, and continue on as above to Sacramento and so forth past Yosemite Valley and continue to Reno.

Edited August 1Aug 1 by Fielder

1 minute ago, Fielder said:

Ukiah (KUKI), to Healdsberg (KHES) and then continue on South as follows:

Sacramento by DQCA, Lodi (1o3) by Nandego12, We don't have Stockon (KSCK), Don't have Modesto (KMOD), Don't have Turlock (O15), Do have Hilmar Alhem Farms (CL84 by DVI Creations), Do have Merced (KMCE by Nandego12, Do have Mariposa (KMPI by VBazillio), ((fly over Yosemite Canyon)), Do have Lee Vining (O24 by Zepingouin35), Tahoe (by Asobo free), Reno (by Asobo free).

All of the Do Have's above are free on flightsim.to. The last 2 are free by Asobo.

You could fly South from Ukiah to Healdsberg, and continue on as above to Sacramento and so forth past Yosemite Valley and continue to Reno.

The big one missing in there is we don't have KSTS still. Hopefully a good payware studio somewhere is taking that up. Such a shame that Orbx never released theirs for MSFS, though there is a new airline terminal now so it would need updating anyway. There are some others up there available, especially in the gold country. I have done KJAQ, O22, and KCPU, and VBazillio also did KPVF. There is also KTRK by uk2000. I also released a relatively simple version of KMAE.

KMOD was just recently released by Spinoza actually, and was well-done, basically an instant purchase for me.

Stay tuned, because I am actively working on KGOO, and already having released KOVE, I also have KMYV in the pipeline.

Edited August 1Aug 1 by Nandengo12

4 hours ago, Fielder said:

Very nice. Makes me miss California

I will (somewhat begrudgingly) thank you for doing KUKi, even though the despicable Ukiah Lions are the sworn rivals of the mighty and vastly superior Willits Wolverines to their North. I'll enjoy flying down from O28 to give sidelong glances at the goings-on down there and cheer every time the Lions' QB is sacked. 😁

Anyone who has been to Yosemite remembers the first time they exited that cave to see that view. I think the phrase "it'll take your breath away" came from that experience. Your jaw drops to your lap and EVERYONE has to pull off at the scenic viewing area. It's truly a magical spot in our universe.

11 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

Anyone who has been to Yosemite remembers the first time they exited that cave to see that view. I think the phrase "it'll take your breath away" came from that experience. Your jaw drops to your lap and EVERYONE has to pull off at the scenic viewing area. It's truly a magical spot in our universe.

Yes indeed. Many magical childhood memories of visits there, especially as a teen when I would bike all over the valley for the day.

3 hours ago, Stoopy said:

I will (somewhat begrudgingly) thank you for doing KUKi, even though the despicable Ukiah Lions are the sworn rivals of the mighty and vastly superior Willits Wolverines to their North. I'll enjoy flying down from O28 to give sidelong glances at the goings-on down there and cheer every time the Lions' QB is sacked. 😁

Haha always rivalries between small towns throughout the state! I recently sent a note about KFOT on flightsim.to, did you happen to see it?

12 hours ago, Nandengo12 said:

Haha always rivalries between small towns throughout the state! I recently sent a note about KFOT on flightsim.to, did you happen to see it?

Thanks for the reminder - I've seen it now. Let me work on that, thank you! I just did a touch n'go there the other day but didn't look at the buildings too much...

Ukiah and Healdsburg have been released. The Russian River region of northern California is now active in MSFS 🙂

(KUKI) Ukiah Municipal Airport, Mendocino County, CA - Airports for MSFS | Flightsim.to

(KHES) Healdsburg Municipal Airport, Sonoma County, CA - Airports for MSFS | Flightsim.to

KGOO is going to require more development time due to terraforming challenges, so I decided to do a 3rd small airport along the Russian River between UKI and HES, Cloverdale (previously done by Orbx but never updated/released for MSFS). O60 is in final testing now

One reason that MS doesn't have guns in flight simulator is to stop strafings of evil football stadiums.

5 minutes ago, Fielder said:

One reason that MS doesn't have guns in flight simulator is to stop strafings of evil football stadiums.

Are you attacking Ukiah too? lol

6 hours ago, Nandengo12 said:

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KGOO is going to require more development time due to terraforming challenges, so I decided to do a 3rd small airport along the Russian River between UKI and HES, Cloverdale (previously done by Orbx but never updated/released for MSFS). O60 is in final testing now

GREAT choice. Cloverdale is beautiful, gorgeous airport location right there by the river and I wasn't all that taken with Orbx's version. Heck I don't think we even minded losing to their team! 😁