707, 727, now Airports?

[gumf456]

Now that we have a couple retro jets, how bout some retro airports?

[TheSevenflyer]

Category changed and title edited to better reflect topic.

[Cutlass172]

Would be cool but super duper niche. I suspect based on readings of past Navigraph surveys that the majority prefer modern environments (and generally modern aircraft). The 727 seems reasonably popular partially due to the fact that it’s the Freighter version, which was in use until relatively recently, but I’d suspect that retro airports may be a bridge too far for those that don’t want to constantly enable/disable depending on what era they want to fly in. Redwing does have super retro (20s and 30s) fields, and I’m curious how well those actually sell.

[Habu2u2]

If you want to head back in time a bit, take a look through the thread below. Some amazing work on recreating the feel of flying the navaids available in the late 1950’s. Thanks to @Apollon0011
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[RELEASED] U.S. Golden Age of Air Travel - 1958 navaids

Refer to this post for information about release: Are you a fan of Classic Propliners making their way through the skies in the late 1950s? Are you worried where all the classic navaids (VORs & NDBs) go with every AIRAC cycle update? Then you may have just stumbled over a right thread for you! [7859d1d503dfad432a9ef3a65734a438b3769f3e] Why Recently, when crossing the U.S. following the 1953 United Airlines timetable westbound, I wondered on a couple of occasions how great it would be t…

[DementedCorn327]

See related wish:

Historic airports, aircraft, flights, eras etc for MSFS

Here is a thread which seems very popular: So …… above and beyond the few historical airports and aircraft and flights that have already been made for MSFS, wouldn’t it be great if past aviation history, especially the golden years of the 1920s and 30s, could be included in MSFS in some big way, part of the core Sim. The main thing would be the great old airports, the “golden oldies”. I am sort of trying to do it in YouTube: But it would be great to have it in the core Sim. The Sim would …

[Editer]

Back in the FS2004/FSX days, there was an awesome collection of airports and classic airliners that let you recreate 1940s-1970s flying.

http://www.calclassic.com/scenery.htm

(Available classic airports)

Porting planes from FSX to MSFS2020 has turned out to be a bust. There are a half-dozen decent full conversions (which involve basically rebuilding the model with modern tools and crafting new systems) and dozens of utterly cruddy, flawed, buggy portovers.

However, airports can be much more easily ported over. It’s still a lot of work, but unlike most aircraft portovers, you can bring in FSX building models and they’ll work fine in native MSFS scenery after the conversion process. So someone could update the CalClassics airport library for modern MSFS, if they had lots of time to spend doing the building conversions right and adding some additional detail and building the runways, etc. with MSFS tools.