Blackbushe, UK - hand-crafted airport

I have recrafted this airport from scratch and tried to match the real-world features as closely as possible. It mostly uses stock objects but I have also created a custom model for the five green hangars
The default airport in MSFS is SO bad (airport parking in the BCA auction site) I just had to fix it.
I hope you enjoy it!

Info:

Blackbushe Airport (ICAO: EGLK) is an operational general aviation airport in the civil parish of Yateley in the north-east corner of the English county of Hampshire. Built during the Second World War, Blackbushe is north of the A30 road between Camberley and Hook. It for a time straddled this road with traffic having to wait whilst airliners were towed across. The southside was used for aircraft maintenance, utilising wartime-built hangars. Today, only the part of the airfield section that lay north of the A30 remains in active use.

Blackbushe Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P693) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Blackbushe Airport Limited). The aerodrome is licensed for night use.

Includes:

Completely overhauled airport from scratch
Runways and taxiways base on airport charts.
Custom runway, apron, taxiway and car park paint markings
Taxiway signs
Custom model for green hangars
Over 200 other hand placed stock scenery objects (inc. lots of cars for the BCA Auction site)
Added ground ATC
Night lighting (may not be completely true to life)

Install:

Extract the "gobby-eglk-blackbushe" folder to your /Community/ folder.

Notes:
· I have intentionally left the inactive runways with default aerial imagery and not designated them as runways. The runways are in such bad condition they are not used in real-life.

Looks like a great re-working Gobby.

Nice one. Thanks.

2 years ago

WillFly

Great job mate. I downloaded as I watch 'The Flying Reporter' who flew from her and it looks pretty good.

3 years ago

DaveCooper93

As a big Blackbushe fan & a favourite walk for us during lockdown, this is very much appreciated.
Sorry to hear the news about the Bushe cafe.

vtecfan

great job 😊

tt6y76

Cracking job - really well done!

splang

Excellent, very well done.

Trog

So happy to see this. I also base most of my flights out of Blackbushe as I only live a mile away, and the stock airport is poor. Frustratingly, I can't install it today but I am very much looking forwardto it. Thank you!

p.s. looking forward to the fantastic cafe opening again soon!

bigblip

As you said in your "About this file". Living very near and using EGLK as my starting point in MSFS 2020. The default airport is so bad, it was great to see your brilliant efforts. It is the best I've ever seen. My only thoughts are that the trees at the end of runway 07 ( ie Taking off from 25 ) are not there in real life, there are bushes but not trees. If this can be fixed great, if not I still love it. Many Thanks Paul

Paulcoy

Brilliant! Do my Flight Training at EGLK, and fly regularly around the local area. Love this and EGHP. I also fly out of Brimpton, EGLP, would love to see this remade in FS2020. Thanks so much for the great scenery, great when people give the UK GA Airfields love!

Pearcee

I flew in and out of this airport once IRL, and it looks very accurate! Thanks!

FarFutureFox

Great job on Blackbushe and Popham, I base myself out of Blackbushe in FS2020 as I only live a few miles away and visit for a coffee regularly so it's great to see it looking 'right'. To finish it off you need a Citation and a Kingair parked down in front of the tower facing west, there always seems to be one or two there with GA on the rest of the field.

Keep up the fantastic work!

Tnarius

your airports are out of this world! blackbushe is one of the ones i was waiting for. Is there any chance you can re-do the badly needed EGKB- London Biggin hill- Airport please? Recently there are two aircraft repaints on this site from the flying club (Alouette)I am a member of and it would be fantastic to have that airfield redone, since the default is not too good?i would really aprreciate a lot. Thanks!!!!

cookiesboy787

Blackbushe has been my home airfield since starting flight sim many years ago, great to see it now actually looks like Blackbushe. Big thumbs up from me 😊

gaj52

Fantastic to see Blackbushe done, my local too

BobbyD66

Thanks so much for doing this. Blackbushe is my local airport, im about 10 mins away and i was disappointed to see the default Blackbushe. Nice Job

samiturk8

Looks great but the Fuel Supply (Bowser service) does not work. can you fix this please ?

daveji

This is a wonderful addition to airport scenery and I've been using it for some time. However, I've recently noticed a problem when the data is read by LittleNavMap. It shows the field elevation as being 1066 feet instead of 323 feet. (Perhaps there was a mistake wth the elevation data being entered in metres rather than feet!). Can you check to see if your update is causing this problem?

Just to follow up, I removed you blackbushe files from my Community folder and reloaded the LNM Scenery Library and, guess what, the field elevation is shown correctly at 323 feet. So it is your data that's causing the problem (although MSFS still shows the correct elevation).

As I surmised before, I believe you must have entered your field elev. as 323metres which, transposed to feet gives 1066ft.

As this is my 'home' airfield, can you issue an update to correct this. Many thanks!

CanukUK

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Stopped working after sim update 5 - crash to desktop as soon as I click fly and load into Blackbushe.

Haywain99

Love this airfield, learnt to fly here :=)

brainshot

@Gobby

Hi Gobby. Couple of things I have noticed today (since installing World Update 3, although they may have been there before but just not spotted).

1. Both windsocks are doubled - yours and the original MSFS windsocks are now displayed - but going in opposite directions! Yours look much nicer 😊

IGNORE--->>2. A few of the car groups in the big BCA parking area (to the right of runway 25) are floating.

>>> sorry, I looked again and I think it might have been a trick of the light. My mistake.

Thought you'd like to know. This remains my favourite airport enhancement!

Cheers.

Unless I am mistaken, the airport has emploed the previous staff to run the cafe - so all good hopefully. We'll be there soon to check it out now that the restrictions are easing.

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Hi - just noticed that the green hangars are floating about a metre off the ground!

Also, just heard the sad news that Bushe Cafe has not had its lease renewed. The airport will be putting its own cafe and staff in. They have a tough act to follow and, I suspect, a tough crowd to please!

Fixed in 1.3. Thanks for letting me know

Gobby

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