Here's my next instalment of MSFS's missing airfields of Australia. Today's add-on covers the Apple Isle (aka Tasmania) and some of its islands in Bass Strait. Lots of hills and mountains in Tasmania, so no surprise that almost every single airfield has a slope of some sort, and several are one-way strips.
Update Version 0.2.0
Lots of changes. I've added 25 new airfields to the 20 that were included in the original version. I've also changed several of my fictional ICAO codes to the official ones I managed to identify. PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU DELETE ALL THE OLD YTxx FOLDERS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY FOLDER TO AVOID ANY ISSUES BEFORE INSTALLING THIS UPDATE. Also, rather than listing the details of 45 airfields in this crowded space, I have moved them to a PDF file included in the download.
Please also make sure that you have installed the latest versions of the dependencies, particulalry colinj's object library, as I have replaced hangars included as model libs in the original versions with the ones from his library.
Note 1. The download comes in two separate files. 44 airfields are in the main download. YDLI Deal Island is in the other one. Reason being, Deal Island is just a blob in default MSFS, so I have used Google imagery for this scenery. However, even at the relative low resolution I have implemented, that's still 250MB to cover the island. Also, and you probably know this already if you have a low-medium spec system, flying over/near large areas of Google aerial imagery may cause poor performance of the sim. I'll leave it up to you to decide.
Note 2. I'm experiencing some weird mesh behaviour around Redbanks (YT13). I initially thought this was caused by my runway terraforming, but the mesh morphing appears to happen with or without my mods, so I believe there's something wrong with the sim's mesh data in that area, not my mod.
Installation
Simply copy the included folders into your Community folder. (If you are updating this scenery to a newer version, first delete the existing folders of the same name.)
Dependencies
You may wish to install my Australian Salt Lakes Fix mod (I highly recommend it!), as many of the airfields covered in this pack are near dry/salt lakes, which in the default sim contain unrealistic amounts of water.
In addition, you may also want to consider the excellent Powerline and Solar Farms mod for some added realism. Tasmania has powerlines aplenty!
To see the scenery objects I've placed, you will need to have the following object libraries installed:
MSFS 2020 object library with 190+ models ranging from towers hangars to cones by colinj
totof- aircraft library by Totof33120
https://flightsim.to/file/17182/totof-aircraft-library-v1-1
Vintage Aircraft collector library by Totof33120
https://flightsim.to/file/18392/vintage-aircraft-collector-library-v-1-0
PBK Effects Library by Photosbykev
https://flightsim.to/file/21769/pbk-effects-library
AirHispania Libraries by AirHispania
https://flightsim.to/file/5043/airhispania-libraries
totof-library-object
https://flightsim.to/file/17179/totof-library-object-v1-1
BeeKay-Pack1
https://flightsim.to/file/8887/beekay-pack1
Dave’s Crooked Library by BadMed
https://flightsim.to/file/4696/dave-s-crooked-library
Mikea.at - AssetPack by mikea.at
https://flightsim.to/file/1923/mikea-at-assetpack
Windy Things by trfsto
https://flightsim.to/file/14024/windy-things
Static Boast 3D Model Library by superspud
https://flightsim.to/file/27907/static-boat-3d-model-library
Emerald Object Library
https://flightsim.to/file/8824/emerald-object-library
Collection d'avions pour FS2020 by Jean-Pierre Fillion
https://www.jpfil.com/quebec-fs2020/scenes/Collection-avions.zip
Credit: Jean-Pierre Fillion, Quebec
My appreciation also goes to Windhover for his Open Hangar Library.
Many thanks to the library object developers for making them available!
[Note: the scenery will function without these libraries, but will look less interesting.]
So also here many Thx for this wonderfull 45 places to fly.
I proposed categorizing as "Bush flying". Hopefully this will increase the number of your fans 😉
Best Regards from Warstein in Germany,
Heinz-Werner Arens (aka Captain Moonlight)
2 months ago
2 months ago
gunther
CaptainMoonlight
Thanks for these missing airfields.
2 years ago
fStopper
Great work as always mate, thank you very much.
2 years ago
con7inuum
Very nice work, thankyou
2 years ago
piperwarrior2
Amazing work again! Thanks Gunther.
2 years ago
sarahymac