Hi all,
Just introducing myself here as Simwest, focusing on sceneries for airports on the west coast of US and Mexico that have not been done by others. Generally, I hope to improve on default airports with some modestly realistic feel even though I am not much of a modeler.
Although I posted in the Moffett Field thread that I am working on that for fun, my current full airport project is KACV on the north coast of California.
Please have a look at other releases here if you are interested in flying this corner of the world. I have several more regional and GA airports planned, and have checked with Spinoza and other developers to make sure nothing will be redundant. Recent releases include KCEC (Crescent City, CA), KAPC (Napa, CA), S21 (Gold Beach, OR), and O46 (Weed, CA)
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Well as a local in Palo Alto I appreciate the effort. I used to go fishing up on the North Coast and need to take a sightseeing trip.
Anything that you can do on Moffett would be appreciated by those of us who know the history of the place. I still fly out of it a lot as it is the easiest place to take off to practice ILS approaches into SFO.
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Same here, I love going in and out of Moffett. I spent a lot of time there when I was younger, my uncle flew P-3s there in the 80s. Used to see them on approach over 101 all the time!
I recently released Napa, please check it out if you get a chance.
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Cool. There’s a dev (Vincent) that has been doing a lot of SoCal GA airports, and a few others west of the Rockies. They are nice, lightweight improvements with some custom models, but easy on the system and not hundreds of MB’s.
That’s kind of the sweet spot in my opinion.
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Yep I absolutely love Vincent’s work.
I try to do buildings that are general impressions, not too detailed, but better than default. And also add ramp clutter, fencing, etc. If there are very specific items like a particular static aircraft that is a museum piece, I add those too.
It’s a bit too much work to replace orthos, but I will fix some areas when new buildings have been added and the MSFS map is out of date.
Basically in the sweet spot you describe, I hope.
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Happy to announce this project is now released.
It took a bit of time to finalize because of a lot of troubleshooting with terrain enhancements for the beach and bluff next to the airport.
Enjoy, this one was fun!
Also a lot of thanks to Humboldt County, a lot of the buildings would have been difficult without their excellent public records available online.
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My sweetspot is the more MB the better 
sharp custom buildings and the more clutter the better. KACV looks good especially for a free airport but ever considered going payware? A more detailed KACV I would welcome very day. I know a payware developer is doing KEKA. This surely is a beautiful spot of the world..
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I don’t really have the skills to go payware and in any case, I like covering a lot of ground instead of spending too much time on a particular airport. I kind of get tired of an airport if I spend more than a month working on it (though some of my projects have spanned 2-3 months).
Appreciate the suggestions though 
I’m currently doing quite a bit of flying in the Cali area, so your work is greatly appreciated! 
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