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    KLZU Gwinnett County Briscoe Taxiway Updates & Field Enhancement (Georgia, USA) - Image 1

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    Did the AI turn your plane in a flippy cup with malformed taxiways and runways? Me too.

    It was a labor of Love to Terraform this place using the built-in tools (polygons and rectangles), but after throwing myself at this one 6 hours, I finally was able to make accurate elevation and gradients for the runway, taxiways, the aprons, and even the creek bed!

    A River Runs Through It

    Yeah it's really a creek that got manscaped into an overgrown drainage ditch, but bless the conservationists for trying to preserve some habitat out here. It was probably more expensive to pave it over and do constant maintenance anwyays. I loved doing the creekbed for some reason. Wish I could I play in it.

    Stay Current with the New Taxiway Y!

    Gwinnett County Briscoe Field has a newly form taxiway as of Spring 2021 and gosh darn what a surprise, old Bing scenery doesn't have it it. With this scenery, you can now taxi to RWY 25 via T D Y just like in real life. 

    This scenery uses aerial photography from USGS sources. Currently it looks like all dead grass but I'll make a color corrected one first so it doesn't look like scorched earth forever.

    I learned how to import aerial images. It was a pain trying to understand why I had "invalid CGL parameters" until I figured out I had not specified the correct xml and bing tile locations. I can't believe I wasted 6 hours troubleshooting this.

    This towered airfield is not as close to midtown Atlanta, but it is a 7-minute flight to Lake Lanier. Go buzz some boats why dontcha.

    As with all my sceneries, handplaced stock everything so it's super lightweight.

    • Creek bed bushes!
    • Real-life elevations
    • Reworked Real-World Taxiway Y
    • Replacement Aerial photography for Taxiway Y
    • RWY 25/7
      • ILS Frequencies, Glideslope, DME
      • Real-World Approach Lighting and Edge Lighting
      • Real-World Glide Slope Indicator
      • Accurate Elevations and Gradients
      • AI usable
    • All taxiway Edge Lights placed
    • All Taxiway signs placed
    • Handplaced North FBO Apron Lighting
    • Lots of parking spots for now (planning >100 handplaced parking spots)
    • Scenery Additions
    • Handplaced Beacon and Tower
    • Handplaced stock Hangar and Lights to come
    Minor Dependencies:

    Hangars from MSFS 2020 object library 200+ models (https://flightsim.to/file/16007/msfs-object-library-with-150-models-ranging-from-towers-hangers-terminals-to-cones)

    In the future
    • Replacing all AI generated buildings with stock buildings
    • More apron lights

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    over 1 year ago

    Would love to see an FS2024 version of this! Your terraforming skills are much appreciated.

    over 2 years ago

    Question:
    Do you, "overwrite" or delete and replace?

    almost 3 years ago

    Several points along taxiway V with elevation spikes that makes traversing it difficult.

    almost 3 years ago

    Thank you very much for getting my home field updated!

    almost 3 years ago

    As a native of Atlanta and someone who lived in that area for approx 20+ years, thanks!


    :)

    about 3 years ago

    Thanks again for your continued improvements! Do you plan to have custom hangars added? Would love to see Advanced Aviation and neighboring hangars.

    about 3 years ago

    As soon as I learn Blender... :p or as soon as a modeler volunteers!

    about 3 years ago

    Is there any way you could make some tiny tweaks to the scenery of D73 Cy Nunally Memorial Airport about 18NM southeast of this field? It's my home airport and it's a little broken, and I have access to the airport IRL if you need photos for comparison. Just let me know, thanks!

    about 3 years ago

    The today's downloaded scenery (0.71) doesn't load, MSFS is stuck at ~90%.

    Latest versions give real good loading times! Thank you for this really amazing place!

    about 3 years ago

    I have a couple more tweaks coming for 0.72, hopefully that should work for you.

    about 3 years ago

    Thank you Magosprout, for giving this a/p a little attention. Much appreciated.

    about 3 years ago

    Awesome job! Keep it going!

    about 3 years ago

    Thank you so much for working on my local airport! Looking forward to your roadmap.

    about 3 years ago

    I'd appreciate anyone listing an airport to include the state it is in the listing.

    about 3 years ago

    This one's in Georgia. Agreed -- you can tell Flightsim.to isn't based in North America or they'd have states and provinces in the metadata for the USA and Canada.

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    KLZU Gwinnett County Briscoe Taxiway Updates & Field Enhancement (Georgia, USA)

    Gwinnett County Briscoe field has a newly reworked taxiway as of Spring 2021 and gosh darn what a surprise, old Bing scenery doesn't have it it. With this scenery, you can now taxi to RWY 25 via T D Y just like in real life. By the way, did the stock malformed runways and taxiway make you wince for your landing gears or turn your plane in a low-rider? Me too. It was a labor of Love to Terraform this place using the built-in tools (polygons and rectangles), but after throwing myself at this one 6 hours, I finally was able to make accurate elevation and gradients for the runway, taxiways, the aprons, and even the creek bed!

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    Simulator
    MSFS2020
    CategoryAirports
    Sub-CategoryRegional Airports
    ICAONULL

    Version History

    Simpson Circle Ramp implemented as "West Parking" 20 new parking spots there, and 6 hangars placed. Terrain on Taxiway Z completed

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