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KSMO Santa Monica Municipal Airport uploaded

I think it just hasn't been approved by the librarians yet. Should be there soon, I'm sure!
 
Nice little rendition.
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Thank you for the kind words. Given that I'm using stock structures, nothing custom, are there any issues that I need to address?
 
Very nice. I'm using it now. I'm curious, as I have never done any creative work in a sim; how much time would you say you spent on that project?
 
Santa Monica Municipal Airport used to be the home of Douglas Aircraft where my dad worked for a few decades.
There were probably hundreds of DC-3's that were built there.
 
downwind said:
Very nice. I'm using it now. I'm curious, as I have never done any creative work in a sim; how much time would you say you spent on that project?
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It took about a week, but I don't work on such things all day long. I tend to spend 1-3 hours a day on such projects, so all told, probably 12 hours of work.
 
Only because you asked, and this is not a deal breaker, if you look at the screen shot along the south edge of the airport, where, I assume you pushed out the boundary, some people may see a cliff where one does not exist. I have a feeling this is an issue with either FSX or some other scenery package that made that area a canyon, but in reality it is not, it's reasonably flat to a slight slope southward. It would probably take an unreasonable amount of effort to fix the mesh there so I wouldn't worry about it.
 
I think that is a mesh issue and I'm not a mesh artist. An airport background cvx will flatten it too, but then it will be the exact elevation as the airport, which is also unrealistic.
 
Live ATC

I like to check out VatSpy when I have some time for a couple hours of flying during the day. It is easy for me most of the time to say "I think I'll fly" being retired but I understand that many of the Controllers on VATSIM have real life jobs or school to attend so no afternoon hours for me on the US East Coast quite often. I could fly Europe I know. Anyway this prelude is yesterday I found KSMO Tower online and LAX Center WOOHOO!!! so I went to Simbrief and planned my flight. I like to do that to get a plan to download for FSX. I flew a C172 Skyhawk to enjoy the VFR scenery and follow BSSMM sector chart along the way between KSMO and KBFL (Bakersfield) to fit my freetime to fly. Really a lot of fun. I placed the Cessna on the ramp at GA #10 adjacent to Taxiway A and got taxi clearance from the Tower who sent me to Rwy 21. Really nice job on the airport. Took off for Bakersfield and had a great afternoon. Only "downer" was as soon as I got airborne waiting for LAX Center as I swapped frequencies, they went off air. Oh well. It was a nice flight anyway. Looking forward to Saturday to have a lot of controllers online to choose from in the U.S. and Canada. Thank you for a great job modding the new runway and updating the airport. I fits the current Airport Diagram by Jeppsen right on. Back in the day: "IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK" LOL! :biggrin-new:
 
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