[Freeware] Placerville (KPVF), California (released)

Vincent1064 · January 12, 2024, 1:39pm

Placerville airport is located in the heart of the Sierra Nevada foothills and a common plan B for pilot diverting when Lake Tahoe is not accessible. The airport is located on top of a bluff, so you can practice your aircraft carrier landings. There’s a lot of parking spaces and a very practicable fueling island. EAA Chapter 512 as well as Skywagons (aircraft sales and brokerage) are hosted at the field. You can also have a look at inside the Ragtime Aero hangars.

Features v1.0

Huge amount of work on elevation of the whole airport but also on small areas around and inside the perimeter
Hard work blending all revised new airport textures with the underlying satellite images
All fences around the airport (thanks to vectorplacement SDK features)
Add specific taxiway signs (noise abatement extrapolated from ground charts, if you have their exact meanings let me know)
Add Helipad H1 located on north side of runway 05 end
Add the Hangtown VOR-DME (objects)
Add the Windtee customized for KPVF and the weather sensors
Add thousand of small objects to make the airport a more living and immersive environment. Mostly with stocked objects which requires no 3rd party library installation except World Updates.
Add several open hangars (with some jewels inside) replacing AI generated.
My scenery works better in daylight: invite yourself to the EAA - Chapter 512 summer meeting. Don’t forget to bring deserts, Chapter provides hot dog and hamburgers
Special attention to buildings : EAA Chapter 512, Ragtime Aero and Skywagons.com
Fix the 4-box VASI runway 5
Fix the 2-light PAPI runway 23
Fix the airport beacon tower
Fix windsock position
(WIP) Fix taxiway signs. If you know how taxiway name are layed out, drop me a message and I’ll fix them.

This freeware is now available free to download at flightsim.to only for PC users: Placerville Airport (KPVF) for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS

CharlieFox00 · January 12, 2024, 2:19pm

Love this! I’d routinely fly Auburn, Placerville, and Cameron back in the day. Great airports in a beautiful area. You do awesome work (was just plugging your Oceano Co on Wednesday’s stream) and I’m excited to see this area get some love.

Stardrifter2232 · January 12, 2024, 3:10pm

HYPE! For anyone who follows Skywagon University on YouTube, this is the airport he does his videos from and flies out of. Thanks for doing this one Vincent!

meh1951 · January 13, 2024, 3:49pm

Great choice. Love all of your stuff!

Vincent1064 · January 14, 2024, 7:54pm

Screen shots. Still work-in-progress.

Vincent1064 · January 16, 2024, 6:11pm

Getting closer and closer to the public release

Vincent1064 · January 19, 2024, 1:44pm

version 1.0 is released. Hope you’ll enjoy. First message of this discussion has been updated with new pics.Placerville Airport (KPVF) for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS

Vincent1064 · January 20, 2024, 10:14am

DestructZero915 · January 20, 2024, 5:13pm

A tip o’ my hat to you, sir. I noticed your airports down in the San Diego area and actually began flying the TBM again just so I could use them. This one is outstanding just as the others are.

BigCow74 · January 25, 2024, 12:03am

I noticed the XCub next to me might be stuck in the concrete.

Vincent1064 · January 28, 2024, 10:24am

Yep, there’isn’t much I can do with these SimObject. It happens.

Vincent1064 · April 3, 2024, 11:50am

I have published a minor update only to address an issue with my next upcoming projet (Corona KAJO).

Vincent1064 · April 28, 2024, 1:29pm

New version 1.1.2 available for free with the new 100% orange (US Like) windsock to replace the default MSFS object.