Description
Previously hosted on Nexus Mods, the Amboy Airfield/Runway (Route 66) is now available on Flightsim.to.
The Amboy Airfield/Runway (Route 66) is a project inspired by Matt Guthmiller video how he landed on the Route 66 highway to eat at a gas station and another pilot randomly landed at the same spot. It's just a few miles north from 'Rice Army Air Field.'
(Work in progress, releasing and updating as MSFS SDK grows)
In real-life, this runway actually exists at the Roy's Motel Cafe on Route 66 or more commonly known as the Amboy Airfield. It features a dirt runway (no lights) and has 1 hangar with a windsock on top of it (just in case if you catch bad weather you can park inside of it). Amboy is mostly a ghost town though it has a gas station and a restaurant where flyers come in from all over the country to visit, eat and see other pilots. With this recreation players can now do the same thing real-life pilots do when they fly into this area for plane meetups at this gas station.
This video inspired me and I thought this was so amazing to see, so I thought I'd try and recreate this small area apart of Route 66. This runway is built from reference images and all built in-sim, not from ADE.
Fun fact, it's one of Harrison Ford's favorite stops to fly into. Take flight and live unique history.
Reenvisioned Runway
Runway/Airport:
- ICAO: AR66
- IATA: A66
- Runway: 1
- 1 taxiway path
- 1 windsock
Other added stuff:
- Custom built Roy's Gas Station
- Custom built Gas Station Sign
- Custom built Roy's Motel Cafe sign
- Custom built Amboy USPS building
- Custom built Resident houses
- Custom built Amboy Church (St. Raymond Church)
- Custom 'Amboy School' sign
- 3 small GA stands with taxi-pushback/ground crew.
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Amboy Airfield/Runway (Route 66)
Experience a reenvisioned Amboy Airfield/Runway (Route 66) in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Inspired by real-life events, this project includes custom buildings and details like Roys Gas Station and the Amboy Church. Fly into this iconic location where pilots gather to visit, eat, and enjoy unique aviation history.
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Version History
Note: Please remove the older package on your computer. I had to change the name of a few textures. So if you don't want any extra space being taken up by unused textures, please remove and download this newest version. This is a very large update, here comes update 1.1. Changed: * Changed the scenery throughout the entire city. I changed it from Grass to Dirt. ** Thanks to my 'McCarthy Airport (PAMX)' add-on this changed help to remove the Grass texture to bring that Dirt texture to life. * Changed the texture of the gravel near the resident houses/parking to a darker gravel (which reflex's the current imagery based on reference photos). * Updated the textures a bit on the Amboy Church. Still a work in progress. * Updated the textures on the resident houses. Added: * Added in the Amboy USPS building. ** Bug: At night the interior isn't lighting up properly.
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Log Inover 1 year ago
The background texture (while much better than the grass) still looks painted on. That effect is reinforced by the lack of vegetation. All around your airfield you see lots of bushes dotting the landscape. Except around your airfield. In addition the texture file also repeats so from a higher altitude it looks distinctively fake.
However, I'm reasonably sure if you spread a significant number of those bushes around in a similar density as in the surrounding landscape your airfield will blend very well with the surroundings and the repeating texture won't be noticable any more. :-)
over 2 years ago
But one of the little buildings (a little new one) hasn't got any texture.
It is the one near the windsock.
Regards.
almost 3 years ago
Looking for a little project to try out some blender techniques, your scenery inspired me to model Roy's motel office and residence building.
It's uploaded and oriented to integrate with your scenery. Here: https://flightsim.to/file/56025/roy-s-motel-office-and-residence-amboy-california
almost 3 years ago
Want to join my Discord? Let's chat about this project.
almost 4 years ago
Really love this place I Dont know why Fly straigh north and you go to Las Vegas
Im starting games/flights REALLY Often on this small airport :D Glad theres is Some custom models in this ... Awesome!
Im putting 4 and 1/2 start and if i like it once tried ill put 5 ;) xD
almost 4 years ago
Appreciate the review.
As an update, the entire scenery is getting updated soon with all custom 3D models design from the ground up.
almost 4 years ago
I just realized I have your mod but an earlier version cant wait to see the change (right now :D ) :P Thanks
over 4 years ago
One of the best sceneries on Flightsim.to, Keep up the great scenery projects, you can see the video, I made of your scenery at Cerebro Brother on UTube
over 4 years ago
Hey! Thank you so much. Glad that you like the airport. I noticed in your video that a building is generated through the gas station, does it still happen in the latest version?
over 4 years ago
Is it possible to have a version without the green grass texture that just uses the default Bing imagery? The Bing looks quite good in this area.
over 4 years ago
This is currently not a high-demand task for me to do. Focusing on 3D models still with this runway/scenery.
over 4 years ago
Fantastic job, such an unique scenery!
over 4 years ago
Thank you my man.
almost 5 years ago
I ended up deleting my content & scenery dat files. After MSFS restart and rebuild of the files, it reappeared!
almost 5 years ago
Hello! I downloaded and flew into the new Amboy scenery today. The runway, etc. looks great, but for some reason, I lost the famous Roy's sign that was visible in the previous version. Any ideas? Thanks!!
almost 5 years ago
Try deleting that old folder and redownload it again. It must be a weird model file issue.