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    VTOL Aviation's KSMO Santa Monica Municipal Airport - Image 1

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    KSMO Santa Monica Municipal Airport for MSFS

     

    A product of VTOL Aviation: https://sites.google.com/view/vtol-aviation/home (updated website coming soon)

     

    VTOL Aviation is proud to release Santa Monica Municipal Airport! Santa Monica Municipal Airport is 2 miles from the Pacific Ocean, and 6 miles north of LAX International Airport. KSMO is overwhelmingly a General Aviation airport, with over 83,000 GA operations in & out of the airport each year. Santa Monica Airport has a rich history, dating back to its creation in the 1920’s. Recently, the airport has been the focus of community efforts to reduce noise and airport operations, which resulted in the shortening of the runway to its current length of 3,500’. The historic layout of the airport can be seen through the various patchwork of concrete and asphalt as the airport evolved over the years. Very recently, the concrete that made up portions of the original runway have been removed and replaced with grass. This is reflected in version “FA2020” which is included. 

    Also included is an updated Marina Del Ray, which properly displays all boats and docks above the water surface. 

     

    This airport is free to use and always will be, no matter what additional edits we make. If you use this airport in a stream or other creative media, all we ask is to receive credit for the airport. Please do NOT upload elsewhere without our permission. In order to ensure that people get the best quality freeware, we are handling releases in a very particular way to ensure that it's easiest for us to manage hotfixes. Once a period of time has past, we'll begin uploading to other sites.

     

    Current version: v1.1 

     

    INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

     

    Download the zip file.

    Inside the zip file is a folder titled "vtolaviation-KSMO" (pre-summer 2020 version) and “vtolaviation-KSMO_FA2020 (Fall 2020 & current version). IMPORTANT!!! Choose only one folder and drag that into your MSFS\Community directory. 

    That's it! Fire up MSFS, then go to World Map and search for KSMO.

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    over 4 years ago

    Hoping for a update on this project soon! Overall looks great

    almost 5 years ago

    I'm new to the flightsim world. Is this a free, downloadable add-on airport to MSFS 2020? If so will it work with any version of FS2020?

    almost 5 years ago

    Yes, this airport is freeware scenery and should work on MS Store and Steam versions of FS2020.

    almost 5 years ago

    Very nice inside LA! I love it to start my tours through LA from here!

    about 5 years ago

    It looks very pretty, but I seem to be having issues with invisible holes/bumps on the runway.

    about 5 years ago

    Unfortionately, that's an issue with many runways. The underlying cause has to do with the terrain mesh, and cannot be solved through scenery editing. Asobo is aware of the issue, but community members can help push this issue to the top of their priority list by voting on topics like this one...
    https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/runway-tears-terrain-issues-in-photogrammetry-areas/324479

    about 5 years ago

    @mdapol
    That asphault soccer area used to be GA parking, but has been closed off from the airport property. All of my references (current as of October 2020) show this to still be the case. Do you know for sure that the airport has reincorporated this parking area?

    over 4 years ago

    Nothing has reverted back. It still remains closed off from the airport, along with the soccer field.

    over 5 years ago

    Also enjoying your airport. But there is a fairly large error. The field that you have currently showing as a asphalt soccer field at the south east end of the airport (just south of the entrance to runway 21, is not a field. It is general aviation parking and there is no fence separating it from KSMO. Would you be able to fix that?

    over 5 years ago

    Hello this is fantastic thank you! A few things that would help if you can:
    1) The approach ends for 21/03 have grass planted (not the trees this is showing) which is important as the trees showing create large obstacles to the displaced threshold
    2) The Atlantic (GA) ramp is a commercial building and does not have hangars and fencing as shown now in front of it. It is basically the large building behind the hangars and fencing you can see.
    3) There are other smaller things that are far less important such as the airplanes popping up and down into the ground, and have photos of anything you might need if you are able to update! :)
    Thanks gain!

    over 5 years ago

    Great work, so happy to see this airport handcrafted. Is it possible to add a fence around the control tower?


    Cheers

    over 5 years ago

    Thanks! Yes, I'll add the fence around the tower.

    over 5 years ago

    Awesome thank you!!

    If you’d like you can also add the small observation desk by the police station

    And the names of the FBO (Atlantic) possibly ? Just a suggestion haha!

    over 5 years ago

    We're working on adding more custom buildings, but at this time we have no timeframe on release date. The main administration building, near the B5 runup is near completion, including the mini-park and observation deck. Is this the observation deck you're talking about?

    over 5 years ago

    Sorry for late reply, yes it is!

    over 5 years ago

    Looking GREAT! This feels a lot better than the default, even after the ORBX updates. Thank you especially for changing the parked aircraft to face the right direction. The VOR looks great! Couple pedantic notes:

    There's a significant berm between the barker hanger and the off-taxiway tie downs- any way this could be added? Cars also frequently park between the tie downs and the berm.

    The B5 runup area should be slightly longer- the north end is actually past the northern more extreme of B5.

    The main airport building should be 1 story shorter. The hangers to the south of the main airport building should be taller.

    Pedantic light BS: Helipad has in helipad ?green? lights at night. The taxiway lights on B are not aligned with the center stripe- they're offset to the north-west of the stripe. There are Christmas lights inside the tower.

    Thank you for this!

    over 5 years ago

    Thanks for the support Shidarin! I do appreciate the comments, and suggestions. Unfortionately, due to the limitations of the simulator and SDK, many of those suggestions aren't possible. The berm would require terraforming, which currently would also affect all the taxiways and ramps nearby. Taxiway centerline and helipad lights are baked into the taxiways. Only the blue edge lights can be manually placed. We do plan on adding custom a admin building and nearby hangars, but what you're currently seeing is simulator AI placed buildings, so that's why their height is off. You can expect to see those custom buildings in the future. Christmas lights in the tower would be neat, but it would involve a lot of work for such a minor detail, sorry. I can certainly add vehicles behind aircraft on the taxiway tie downs, you can expect that in future updates.

    over 5 years ago

    Sounds good man, it really is a huge improvement already. I didn't know what the limits of the simulator were so thanks for the information!

    over 5 years ago

    I'm hopeful that future versions on the SDK will allow the ability to do some of these corrections. I'll keep an eye on the updates, and if I'm able to I'll update the airport with fixes. If you have reference photos, those will help tremendously.
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    VTOL Aviation's KSMO Santa Monica Municipal Airport

    Explore the scenic KSMO Santa Monica Municipal Airport in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Located just 2 miles from the Pacific Ocean, this general aviation hub boasts a rich history dating back to the 1920s. The airport features a unique layout reflecting its evolution over the years, including recent changes such as the replacement of portions of the runway with grass. Version "FA2020" includes updates like the revamped Marina Del Ray with accurately depicted boats and docks. Download this freeware airport add-on from VTOL Aviation for an immersive flying experience.

    Downloads4K
    Version1.1
    File Size204.88 MB
    Published5 years ago
    Updated5 years ago

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