This is an insertion of the renewed Penzance Heliport in Cornwall that is the base of Penzance Helicopters who fly to Tresco and St Marys on the Isles of Scilly.
It has a real world ICAO - EGHK - that the sim has allocated to some farm airstrip so this one is EG39 instead.
I couldn't do Land's End and St Marys and not do this too. High five to Havoc11 for reminding me.
All done from scratch as there's nothing but some brown streaks in the sim.
At the heliport site itself I've covered up the burn ins and building work. Done the car parks. Added some hedges and fencing. Windsocks have been added in the correct locations.
Because you've been so well behaved recently you receive a custom terminal. I can't find any photos of the interior and I haven't been there yet, as I have a ticket to use up, so the interior is a bit of a blank guess at present.
There are two parking spots. One on the official helipad and another a few metres to the right. No idea if you land there in real life. The runway start is on top of the main parking spot pretty much so if you want to start cold and dark instead of already spun up you'll have to hover your mouse around a bit to make the right selection.
It has slightly silly taxi lights surrounding the landing pad as I couldn't get the correct ones to work. I haven't added proper ATC. Let me know if you want it.
I you're unaware of them this goes neatly with Tresco - https://flightsim.to/file/598/eght-tresco-isles-of-scilly-uk
And St Marys on the Isles of Scilly which contains Bishop Rock and Longships lighthouses both of which are landable in your wee chopper - https://flightsim.to/file/3615/eghe-st-mary-s-airport-isles-of-scilly-uk-upgrade
I would advise not telling them if you've arrived from here at Lands End - https://flightsim.to/file/2812/eghc-land-s-end-st-just-airport-uk-upgrade as they will shoot you down on takeoff as they tried to stop this place getting built.
V 1.3
Adds helipads. Same roll call as elsewhere. The parking space and runway remains for non rotorcraft.
Added an open hangar with a parking space inside as some day we'll get helicopters with wheels. Am pretty sure it's poor form to start your helicopter indoors, but you live on the edge.
Added animated humans and a bit more detail here and there.
Great heliport.
Works perfectly, looks great
and is a great upgrade for the MSFS.
It is compatible with SU11,
thanks for that
1 years ago
Quassel89
Just another big thanks from me Superspud. Really appreciate your work and since I'm a simmer based in SW England, I get to benefit from nearly all of your best stuff. Great that you are keeping these all up to date and even improving them as well.
1 years ago
cianpars
Thanks for the update. I have to say, however, that your update description is lacking the flair, sarcasm and irony of your usual missives. I look forward to this being corrected, aggressively, in your next update.
1 years ago
davidvance
This is a great Heliport and i installed it from the first version without problems. Since the recent update if i take off from a nearby airfield and land on the "H" at your heliport i get an imediate CTD. This happens with both the H135 and H145 with only your heliport and the two helicoptors in the Community Folder. No other addons at all in the folder and the CTD does not happen at any other heliport. Is this a known bug?
3 years ago
That's a new one on me. There was someone who had another mod who got an instant CTD when they touched a particular runway and that was down to them having Navigraph installed for some reason.
The only change I've made to the the landing pad is the angle of the start and the height of the taxi lights. I'll upload the old version so hopefully that should work still.
3 years ago
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alibee
Thanks for this Superspud. Just wondered have you ever shared your real world visits to places anywhere, videologs, photo's, reddit posts etc? If not, I'd love to see you on your travels visiting these places. As a sim pilot only, and new to this hobby I'd love to see these places for real, and video footage of you walking around and showing the places off would be fascinating. I expect lots of others would be interested also. Just an idea!
3 years ago
I have an untold number of enemies so cannot divulge my movements other than through here after the event.
Rather more pertinently I haven't been anywhere remotely interesting other than the Isles of Scilly via here or Land's End since that wee illness thing.
But for that I would've gone to most of the places I've done on here and plenty more. St Helena, Ascension and the Falklands is the big one but I have to wait until next year as Ascension's runway is still broken. I think that will be worth documenting somehow.
3 years ago
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KevinBrook
Hello superspud! I am a great fan of your work, I have downloaded many of your addons including Kai Tak and St Just. However, can you create the old Croydon Airport, i would be so thankful! I hope you will read this.
3 years ago
A period piece would be a lot of fun, but I think that one might be beyond me at my present abilities, or lack thereof. Also finding enough references would be an undertaking and a half. I will file it away anyway as lightning might strike.
3 years ago
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AviatorMan1
Amazing again Superspud ! one very small thing....The title of this update is a little different from the previous version so it doesn't automatically replace the older folder in the community folder when copied in.
3 years ago
Odd. I don't remember changing anything. But no one said progress would come without a cost.
3 years ago
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OptimusPrime
Hey. Update 1.16 seems to have messed up this scenery EG39 can no be found in MSFS map?
3 years ago
It was showing up fine for me, but I've given it a recompile and starred it too. Lemme know if it still isn't working.
3 years ago
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CptCharlie130
Looks good. Have downloaded to give it a try with the H135.
Any plans to create the airport at Plymouth, EGHD? It was originally in MSFS but recent patches have removed it, presumably because its no longer active.
3 years ago
There's a development team not on here who were talking about Plymouth being their first MSFS project. But these teams seem to take 12-24 months to model one drain cover.
Just had a quick look and the airport is intact with runways and taxi system showing up as active. I'll see if just purely adding an airport to what's already there makes it functional again.
3 years ago
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White_Wolf
Any chance you could work your magic on that location as I am sure many pilots would love to see it done.
Once again many thanks for your Scilly island service locations please keep uo the good work.
3 years ago
I've had a preliminary fiddle with it and the terrain seems to be rather badly behaved in edit mode. Some places distort like mad no matter what you do. I'll pop back and have a look again in the next few days.
3 years ago
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Davit403
It is always nice to see Devon and Cornwall getting attention, but perhaps inevitable that clashes could occur at some point. In this case it is the Longships lighthouse which is in both your Scilly Isles addon and also his West Cornwall landmarks. This results in two overlapping lighthouses when both addons are installed.
I don't see any way I can get around this and both addons are desirable. Perhaps you could communicate and collaborate to resolve this and prevent further conflicts.
Best wishes.
3 years ago
DownedAviator
If it was not for your mod I may never have found out that a new heliport has since been built and service resumed.
Your addons give me many happy memories of places that I may never see again in the real world. It is people like you that bring the sim to life. Thank you so much.
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3 years ago
WillFly
I'm off to relive some memories of my many flights to Tresco in the old S-61. Just need someone to build one of those now 😜
3 years ago
PhantomLXXIII