Mercer Airfield coming

[Condor61]

I have been working on Mercer Airfield for several years. It is located in New Zealand 65km south of Auckland. It has a long history as a small Airfield
In a farming area. In the last ten years a large ex airforce hangar has been built there. This has given it a whole new feel. I have built into it MSFS2024
Features like walking around inside the hanger including being able to go up stairs to the mezzanine floor. There is an old area of maintenance hangers and a Backpackers motel with a Cafe which you can enter. Mercer is centrally located so it is an excellent for Tiger moth flying.
I'm Greg Law
My history in flight sim creation goes back to CFS3 Groundcrew group and Regs hanger.

 

[Naki1]

Excellent...looking forward to it...must call into the real ine one day and have a look

 

[Condor61]

It's very quiet there these days. When I first measured it several years ago it had a busy aircaft maintenance firm located there.
Unfortunately things didn't work out for them. Now it's feels very quite. The big hanger is locked so it has a ghost town feel. However,
They still do flight training there.
Have a look at the sim version. It is really terrible. When I saw it I knew I had to get back to the build and finish it. I had to do a lot of terraforming and sort the stream out. I replaced the bridge, so now you can taxi over it. I have placed a starting point in the old hangar area which adds a lot of interest to the Airfield. You can only use smaller planes from that parking spot. In reality only a few plans use it. The road is a little steep, but unusable. I'm working on the access road and entry area at the moment. The roads are hard to deal with, it's a case of case of accepting a few wonky sections. I've made all the signage that is on the main road corner, so if you drive from Kelly Airfield you will be able to find the corner.
This week I will send the build to the owner to get approval for me to release it to the public.

 

[Whitehawk]

Epic! I'll be able to get my lot to practice their competition flying in the sim for the next regional competitions - I'm Gavin, CFI of Auckland Aero Club

 

[Condor61]

I should be making good progress over Easter. I have a few signs to do, A small issue with one of the Hanger LOD's and lighting needs a lot of work.
I can't seem to get Blender lights to work. In the end I might have to use the MSFS2024 lights. Once released I will still be working on improvements. I'm looking for someone to give me advise on texturing dirt into the hanger walls. I use Blender.
I see I had a typo in my earlier post. The road between the bridge and the old hanger area is a bit steep, but useable. I enjoy using the bridge.
The bridge is 90% accurate to the real thing. After Patch1 the stream shifted a bit fortunately the right way. now the link road works as it should.