For the younger generation, Bowerman airport means nothing. It’s a small GA airfield on the Pacific North West Coast near Seattle, Washington. For the older FSx/P3D simmers, it should remind the Orbx freeware scenery that set the quality standard at that time. So, let’s bring back souvenir and have a quick bit at Lana’s Cafe. It’s free to download: https://flightsim.to/file/62459/bowerman-airport-vintage-edition-khqm
Perfectly located, KHQM could be the perfect starting point to explore this awesome area. With it’s 6-24 asphalt runway of 5,000 feet (1,524 meters, ILS runway 24), KHQM is promoted as “Only Jet-Capable Airport” by the local authority. It will match GA to Bizjet perfectly and don’t forget to have lunch at the restaurant.
Why a Vintage Edition?
This scenery is a mixed between what exists today (Oct’23) and what it was around 2014. For example: Lana’s Cafe has moved from the airfield to downtown. Nowadays the building restaurant has been destroyed. But in this scenery, the iconic restaurant is still there as it was in Orbx freeware.
Features
- Fix all taxiway signs
- Fix runway PAPI
- Fix windsocks
- Replace all AI generated hangars and buildings with more appropriate MSFS stocked objects
- Replace all light blue poles with inert blue reflectors
- Enhance all taxiways/apron textures (cracked, more various colors, patches)
- Improve visual on final 24 : water waste plant (Hoquiam Sewage Treatment Plant) and wood factory (Willis Enterprises), still WIP + cleanup the water bassin to reveal hidden part wrongly covered by default
- Improve visual on final 6 : water exclusion on the bay to reveal Grays Harbor National Wildlife
- Water exclusion to redesign the low tide on the shore (WIP)
Free to download: https://flightsim.to/file/62459/bowerman-airport-vintage-edition-khqm
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