KWVI - Watsonville Municipal Airport
CA66 - Monterey Bay Academy Airport
Version 1.0.1

Installation:
Copy the folder "prairielet-airport-kwvi-watsonville" into your "Microsoft Flight Simulator/Community" folder (Delete a possibly already existing folder first)
For adding the optional airstrip CA66 copy the folder "prairielet-airport-ca66" to the same place
(Both airfields are independent mods)

Airport info:
Location: 36° 56′ 9″ N, 121° 47′ 23″ W
The KWVI airfield is located in the Monterey Bay area at the southern end of Santa Cruz County, California. Watsonville is about 65 miles (105 km) south of San Francisco. The origins of this airfield were in the '40s when the US Navy opened the Naval Air Auxiliary Station Watsonville (NAAS Watsonville). The untowered airfield is now operated by the city of Watsonville since 1947

LOC for runway 2: I-AYN 108.30 MHz
PAPI for runway 2 (3°), 20 (3°), and 9 (4°)

The airstrip CA66 is a small grass strip located next to the beach

Release info:
The goal is not to create the airfield as realistic as possible, but more to just improve its visual style and is mainly made based on Google Maps data

Thanks to ravenn22 for providing me with infos and pictures of the airfield! Go check out his projects
He also handed over his project of the airstrip CA66 for me to continue. It is provided as optional bonus content to my KWVI project. I may add additional custom details in the future as well

Features KWVI:
- Hand-crafted buildings
- PBR textures for these buildings
- Taxiways and aprons are redone
- Custom ground markings

Features CA66:
- Added parking spots
- Added some default scenery objects to improve the visual look
- A lot of terrain, water mask and photogrammetry cleanups in the whole area of the Monterey Bay

Update version 0.7:
- Added the hangars in the south
- Added some custom fences

Update version 1.0:
- Added new hangars (including an open hangar with parking spot)
- Added a custom beacon tower
- Some cleanups around the airfield
- Added CA66 as optional airstrip to the package

Update version 1.0.1:
- Recompiled after Sim Update 11 (40th Anniversary Edition) to ensure compatibility
- Replaced the helicopter parking spots with actual heliport starting points

Known issues, currently not included yet or not planned:
- Not all buildings are done. If a building is currently not present, there is an autogen building instead
- Only a few parking spots are selectable. Static aircrafts are placed on others. Otherways there is way too much ground traffic generated by the game. If you miss a particular parking spot, let me know so I can include it
- Further polishing of the airfields with more details may come with future updates

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KWVI - Watsonville Municipal Airport

This airfield is located in the Monterey Bay area at the southern end of Santa Cruz County, California. Watsonville is about 65 miles (105 km) south of San Francisco. The origins of this airfield were in the '40s when the US Navy opened the Naval Air Auxiliary Station Watsonville (NAAS Watsonville). The untowered airfield is now operated by the city of Watsonville since 1947. 

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