Description
Some of the most interesting and challenging bushstrips are located in Morobe province, northeastern Papua New Guinea. Many (but not all) of these airstrips are included in standard MSFS, but almost unflyable due to the vegetation and bad implementation of the runways.
Note: For some airstrips there are other sceneries available. Do not install the extra package if you already have installed one of these airstrips by another creator.
Main package:
AYBG, AYNM, AYSZ, NMG (Nomaneneng), AYOG, LNC, AYVB, MXK, AYPD, MPG, AYFI, AYEW, AYQS, AYSW, AYWS, AYDE, AYYW, AYIS, AYTP, MEN (Mengang), PIV (Pivin), AYSD, AYNS, BAJ
Extra package:
BWJ, AYDN, GOR (Goriok), AYBC, AYNA, MIB (Mibu), AYCG
The goal was to make all these airfields flyable, while at the same time increasing realism. In the default sim most of these airfields are just lanes in the forest, so I reconstructed the vegetation around the airfields and the neighboring villages as accurately as possible, based on the aerial imagery.
Improvements compared to standard scenery:
- Runways completely re-done, new profile, better integration into terrain
- Vegetation thinned out, redone
- Added scenery objects such as fences, bushes, houses, cones, etc.
- Terrain and vegetation fixes in the area auround the airstrips
- The majority of the airstrips (but not all) have parkings for cold and dark starts
No extra assets are required, everything is made using assets coming with MSFS as standard for better performance, less stutters and easy handling. Just WX53 Bugaluga from default sim has to remain installed.
The main scenery is compatible to wantok's terrain and airstrip fixes: papua-new-guinea-airstrip-maintenance
Installation
The zip file contains two packages
- friedlir-airports-lae (main scenery)
- friedlir-airports-lae-extras (extra airstrips and vegetation fixes)
Install these by copying them to your community folder, just as usual. But do not install the extra package if you have other airstrips or sceneries in this region installed. You can use MSFS Addons Linker to enable and disable conflicting packages easily.
Update 3.9.0
- Added airports LNC, AYVB, MXK, AYDE, AYDN, GOR, MIB
Have fun!
31 Challenging Bush Strips in PNG
Some of the most exciting and challenging bushstrips are located in Morobe province, northeastern Papua New Guinea. This scenery contains 24 of these airstrips. The runway profiles, terrain and vegetation, buildings etc. have been carefully modeled to increase realism.
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Added airstrips LNC, AYVB, MXK, AYDE, AYDN, GOR, MIB
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Log Inover 1 year ago
Is there already an update for FS2024? That would be amazing?
about 2 years ago
I just checked ICAO codes and AYYW, BWJ, AYDN are also made by OrbX and there are other freeware AYNA and AYFI here in fs.to. (edit: and AYBC) (edit2:AYTP, AYIS in ORBX PNG2). Just adding these here to save people some time from searching.
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about 3 years ago
Love it!
I’m in the process of visiting all of these strips.
Would it be possible to add at least one parking spot to each? To start cold and dark for the next leg another day…
about 3 years ago
Thank you for your feedback. I already added parking spaces to some of the strips. So in any area you should find at least one airstrip with parking. And I will add more in the future.
over 3 years ago
Thank you so much for this. Looking forward to more packs from you.
about 4 years ago
Great work, thank you!!!
Unfortunately BWJ had already been done as an excellent work by Photosbykev. Is it possible to exclude this airfield from your collection? Would be great! Thank you!
about 4 years ago
Thank you! Yes, I noticed that too late. I am just about to finish an updated version where I will remove it.
about 4 years ago
That's perfekt. And thank you for your work! Pls go ahead ;-)
over 4 years ago
very good work! thanks.
over 4 years ago
Awesome!
over 4 years ago
AYNM has multiple vegetation growing out of the buildings on the left side of the runway facing downhill, it would be great to also have some parking at BWJ. Great mods.
https://imgur.com/a/nUbHwYX
over 4 years ago
Thank you! I will try to fix this in the next release. But in general this will happen sometimes, as the autogen vegetation is a bit difficult to control. And I try to reduce the performance impact of the scenery, I use as much standard elements as possible.
over 4 years ago
And in the next version I will add new airports, two of them with parkings. Adding parkings is a bit more work (I have to add invisible taxiways, airport services etc.), so I prefer to do more airstrips instead.
over 4 years ago
Can't wait!
about 4 years ago
To be honest, every single airfield should have at least one parking space so we can start cold and dark which is more realistic instead of being forced to start ready for take off on the runway, I never fly from a field that doesn't have one for that reason and it's annoying when an addon doesn't include at least one. I know it's a pain that they added the taxiway link requirement recently but it wasn't that hard or much time to add them to my own addon so please try to do that going forward, the taxiways don't have to be perfect.
about 4 years ago
Whitehawk... dude. I understand why it's nice to have a cold start, and I add them in my scenery, but: this is freeware. It represents a significant investment of time, given freely to the community (and it's very good work). I've gotta tell you, you comment comes off a little demanding.
Regarding parking though, in case anyone wasn't aware, the recent version of the SDK has removed the requirement for parking spots to be linked to a taxi path. You can again place parking spots with no taxi path at all. It'll throw a yellow caution, but will still build just fine - it's no longer a red warning that prevents a build.