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: https://flightsim.to/file/67811/placerville-airport-kpvf
This freeware is now available free to download at flightsim.to only for PC users: https://flightsim.to/file/67811/placerville-airport-kpvf
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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.
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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!
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Great choice. Love all of your stuff!
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Getting closer and closer to the public release
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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
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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.
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I noticed the XCub next to me might be stuck in the concrete.
Yep, there’isn’t much I can do with these SimObject. It happens.
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I have published a minor update only to address an issue with my next upcoming projet (Corona KAJO).
New version 1.1.2 available for free with the new 100% orange (US Like) windsock to replace the default MSFS object.
Sorry for the quick (again) update. But I think it’s worth another download to jump to version 1.2 with a 100% animated Wind Tee in addition to the 100% orange windsock! Download for PC for free at Placerville Airport (KPVF) for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS
No excuse from the air not to pick the correct runway 
Enjoy this new free update of Placerville Airport (KPVF), you Plan B for Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada! And if night arrives, with this update you’ll be immerse in the night life of Placerville! https://flightsim.to/file/67811/placerville-airport-kpvf
Version 1.21 includes:
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Redefine the whole vegetation around the runway and the airport.
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Rebuild (entirely and more precisely) all blue light taxiway poles.
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Add night lightning.
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Add more details here and here.
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Fix minor bugs.
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Enjoy v2 compatible with MSFS2024.This version include also fixes and a lot of improvement for MSFS2020. Free to download for PC : https://flightsim.to/file/67811/placerville-airport-kpvf
- Update and add new static airplane.
- Fix MSFS2024 vegetation (WIP).
- Fix default buildings overlapping scenery
- Fix elevation issue
- Fuel Price Update Jan’25 at FBO
- A lot of small fixes that you won’t ever notice.
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A small fix is now available (v2.0.1) to correct a sunken Piper and add a new yellow PA18
https://flightsim.to/file/67811/placerville-airport-kpvf
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v2.0.2 update is now live with some chainsaw work done on both threshold runways. I’m still in hope that MSFS2024 gets updated to tune the quantity and type of trees just around the airfield.
https://flightsim.to/file/67811/placerville-airport-kpvf
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