PALH - Lake Hood Airport (Alaska) - Image 1

Description

PALH - Lake Hood Airport - By Nirgal2776
0.7 Alpha

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Lake Hood Airport is a state-owned Airport located three nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska.

Operating continuously and open to the public, Lake Hood is the world's busiest seaplane base, handling an average of 190 flights per day
It is located on Lakes Hood and Spenard, next to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport

1 gravel runway :
14/32 (2200 x 75 ft. / 671 x 23 m) / Traffic pattern 14: left, 32 : right

3 Water Lane :
Runway E/W (4541 x 188 ft. / 1384 x 57 m)
Runway N/S (1930 x 200 ft. / 588 x 61 m)
Runway SE/NW (1369 x 150 ft. / 417 x 46 m)

(Traffic pattern: left for all)

Parking :
453 Tie down for wheeled Aircrafts + 24 for transient aircrafts on 6 parkings (Runway parking, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Echo parkings)
344 Slip for Float Aircrafts + 8 for transient aircrafts all aournd the lake

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It is alpha because water base is in WIP (for taxi network and coast design). Water Parking are not all well placed due to inaccurate default lake coasts.

Included :
+ 1 Gravel Runway (with correct verticale profile)
+ 3 waterLanes
+ All parking (From Alpha to Echo and gravel runway parking)
+ Com :
- TOWER LAKE HOOD 126.800
- ATIS PALH 125.600
- APPROACH ANCHORAGE 119.100
- CLEARANCE LAKE HOOD CLERANCE 119.400
- DEPARTURE ANCHORAGE 119.100
+ DEM of 5m for PANC and PALH area

nb: If you call for a fuel truck, it will come from International Aviation services at PANC, so be patient.

known bugs :
- MSFS add automaticaly a ground com with the same frequency as tower frequency if an airport have only a tower com.
- MSFS can't deal with airport with hard AND water runway.
* so If you start from a parking spot (hard or dock) or from hard runway, ATC always send you to hard runway
* if you start from water runway start point, ATC, will only know water runways.

Even if i use FS since FSII, It is my very first scenery creation done during my freetime. Be indulgent ;)
All has been done with objects from default MSFS library, i don't have skill (yet !) to make custom building. I will do it in the future.
Any constructive criticism is welcome to make this scenery better.

Just unzip into your community folder.

(Don't distribute to any other place than flightsim.to)

Comments(23)

xgep

21 days ago

Something with this addon is absolutely murdering my framerate when at or nearby. Like 45fps down to 7fps for no apparent reason.

xgep

14 days ago

I discovered whatever it is is on the west side of the field. It has to be objects or textures because it overwhelms my GPU but only when facing to the western edge of the lake.

SkyLane

over 1 year ago

Amazing Job! and Works verry well on FS2024!

However if you got the time for this, there may need some minor fixes sich as trees removal and andt the little island in the middle on the lakes that would need some love ;) (a bit glitchy, it looks the same by default) I included some pictures showing how it looks like ;)

Have a nice day!

nirgal76Author

10 months ago

Hi and thx for your comment.

Unfortunately, i don't own FS2024 (and didn't touch MSFS for 3 years ago, i think i'm totally rusted for scenery creation / modification).

McDark

over 2 years ago

Thank you! The scenery is amazing. But i do not have the static airplanes... How did you get them there?

THEOLI4D

over 3 years ago

Does this still work well with SU11 and after the second USA Worldupdate?

nirgal76Author

over 3 years ago

Sorry but I don't know, i have abandonned MSFS for couple of months now.

THEOLI4D

over 3 years ago

OK :/. So you wont to any updates?

nirgal76Author

over 3 years ago

I don't think i will do any update. But Simwings have a beautiful scenery for this area now. Far better than everything i could do.

https://secure.simmarket.com/aerosoft-sim-wings-anchorage-msfs.phtml

USAFNukem

over 4 years ago

I absolutely love fling in and out of Lake Hood, I usually use the gravel strip (Not float rated), but love watching the float operations there during the summer. You did a wonderful job!

nirgal76Author

over 4 years ago

Update will take some times to come. Time is missing to work on the scenery, but i will do ! just be patient ;)

RGWY4X

over 4 years ago

This is your first scenery...WoW. You did an awesome job. There's a live webcam of Lake Hood on youtube that I have seen and I think what you have done is awesome.

DADGAMETIME

almost 5 years ago

Excellent job!

ezwingman

almost 5 years ago

I got the date wrong, it 2011 when I was there.

Here are a couple of picture links;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/11977330@N00/51388446803/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/11977330@N00/51387438577/in/dateposted-public/

ezwingman

almost 5 years ago

Thank you so much for creating one of my favourite airports. I walked/drove around it one summers evening back in 2017. What a marvelous place - and now I can fly in there myself with FS2020 :-)

nirgal76Author

almost 5 years ago

It will continue to evolve along with my skills.

You are lucky, i would love to see Lake Hood a day. I'm living in France, but i'm in love with this place.

MSFS 2020MSFS 2024

PALH - Lake Hood Airport (Alaska)

Explore the worlds busiest seaplane base with PALH - Lake Hood Airport add-on by Nirgal2776 for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Located in Alaska, this state-owned airport features a gravel runway, three water lanes, and various parking options for both wheeled and float aircraft. Experience realistic details like correct vertical profiles, communication frequencies, and a 5m DEM for the area. Enhance your Alaskan flying adventures with this alpha version scenery, including ongoing improvements for water base development.