KSMO Santa Monica Municipal Airport uploaded

[stansdds]

Just to say that I have uploaded my version of KSMO. Try it out, let me know what you think.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...ys=1&keyword=fsx-ksmo-santa_monica_muni_v1.01

 

[Penzoil3]

Link doesn't work.
"There are no entries matching the criteria you selected"

 

[DennyA]

I think it just hasn't been approved by the librarians yet. Should be there soon, I'm sure!

 

[stansdds]

The link is now live.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/114568-KSMO-Santa-Monica-Municipal-Airport-zip

 

[johannesl]

Nice little rendition.

 

[ziggy]

Hey! Great job!!

 

[stansdds]

Thank you for the kind words. Given that I'm using stock structures, nothing custom, are there any issues that I need to address?

 

[downwind]

Very nice. I'm using it now. I'm curious, as I have never done any creative work in a sim; how much time would you say you spent on that project?

 

[jamminjames]

Great little airport! Nice work. No Issues here.....Thanks

 

[Rudyjo]

Santa Monica Municipal Airport used to be the home of Douglas Aircraft where my dad worked for a few decades.
There were probably hundreds of DC-3's that were built there.

 

[stansdds]

Very nice. I'm using it now. I'm curious, as I have never done any creative work in a sim; how much time would you say you spent on that project?

It took about a week, but I don't work on such things all day long. I tend to spend 1-3 hours a day on such projects, so all told, probably 12 hours of work.

 

[johannesl]

Only because you asked, and this is not a deal breaker, if you look at the screen shot along the south edge of the airport, where, I assume you pushed out the boundary, some people may see a cliff where one does not exist. I have a feeling this is an issue with either FSX or some other scenery package that made that area a canyon, but in reality it is not, it's reasonably flat to a slight slope southward. It would probably take an unreasonable amount of effort to fix the mesh there so I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[stansdds]

I think that is a mesh issue and I'm not a mesh artist. An airport background cvx will flatten it too, but then it will be the exact elevation as the airport, which is also unrealistic.

 

[tgycgijoes]

Live ATC

I like to check out VatSpy when I have some time for a couple hours of flying during the day. It is easy for me most of the time to say "I think I'll fly" being retired but I understand that many of the Controllers on VATSIM have real life jobs or school to attend so no afternoon hours for me on the US East Coast quite often. I could fly Europe I know. Anyway this prelude is yesterday I found KSMO Tower online and LAX Center WOOHOO!!! so I went to Simbrief and planned my flight. I like to do that to get a plan to download for FSX. I flew a C172 Skyhawk to enjoy the VFR scenery and follow BSSMM sector chart along the way between KSMO and KBFL (Bakersfield) to fit my freetime to fly. Really a lot of fun. I placed the Cessna on the ramp at GA #10 adjacent to Taxiway A and got taxi clearance from the Tower who sent me to Rwy 21. Really nice job on the airport. Took off for Bakersfield and had a great afternoon. Only "downer" was as soon as I got airborne waiting for LAX Center as I swapped frequencies, they went off air. Oh well. It was a nice flight anyway. Looking forward to Saturday to have a lot of controllers online to choose from in the U.S. and Canada. Thank you for a great job modding the new runway and updating the airport. I fits the current Airport Diagram by Jeppsen right on. Back in the day: "IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK" LOL!

 

[stansdds]

Glad that you are enjoying KSMO!