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!
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.
2 months ago
1 months ago
cebros
zbootsum
6 months ago
6 months ago
cebros
nbrich1
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…
1 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.
1 years ago
cebros
detourist
Thank you so much for this. Looking forward to more packs from you.
2 years ago
ZILL
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!
2 years ago
Thank you! Yes, I noticed that too late. I am just about to finish an updated version where I will remove it.
2 years ago
cebros
Damudm
very good work! thanks.
2 years ago
ardeeff
Awesome!
2 years ago
CaptJohnCoPPickles
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
2 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.
2 years ago
cebros
iTz_DOLPH
It's fun to land there. Thanks and so on.
2 years ago
JetRanger3
Hi, just wanted to let you know that I've done a new version of my airstrip-fixes mod to remove the vegetation (and no-vegetation/no-building) polygons for these three airstrips. This whole area - the Saruwaged Range, and the Finisterre Range - is a real gem for bush strip flying. I'm working on a little strip on the northern side called Tazon which I'll release shortly. Again, great work, and thanks!
2 years ago
Thank you very much! I just tested it and everything looks perfect. So I also changed the description and added a recommendation for your fixes.
I'm looking forward to your new release! Maybe if I will have time, I will do some more strips too.
2 years ago
cebros
wantok
Great work, thank you.
2 years ago
bstikkel
Hi cebros, thanks for this! The more hand-crafted airstrips in PNG, the better! I'm happy to do a new release of my airstrip-fixes mod to remove my changes from these three strips.
2 years ago
Hello wantok! This would be great! Your fixes are simply a must when flying in PNG. I would be happy to see both sceneries work side-by-side without any conflicts.
And nice to hear from you :-) Your work made this scenery possible in the first place. I would never have found these airstrips in the default sim.
2 years ago
cebros
wantok
Fantastic work. really enjoyed the challenge. Don't try it in anything but clear weather! a bit of cloud with turbulence makes it really hard to get a stable approach. I loved having to side slip in over the terrain to keep the speed down.
2 years ago
tshikwara