Borrego Valley Airport (ICAO: L08) is a county-owned public airport three miles east of Borrego Springs, in San Diego County, California, United States. Its one runway (8/26) is 5,011 x 75 ft (1,527 x 23 m) asphalt, CTAF/Unicom and host onsite restaurant "The Propeller Bar & Grill".
Author's note
As for all of my MSFS mod, this small scenery is made from a pilot-eyes perspective. In real, I'm a Plus One Flyers member and mostly fly from Montgomery Field (KMYF). I'm real PPL, but a rookie amateur scenery developer: this mod is made with 99% of MSFS default objects library and feature massive number of details. The scenery is inspired by aerial views from Bing and Google maps. It's a mix between the satellite imagery displayed from MSFS and more accurate data found on Internet. Unfortunately, there's no taxiway information nor in Jeppesen, FAA or Foreflight data. I did my best based on online video and online pictures. Hundreds of objects have been added to the default scenery to make in more live and bring a touch of an active area.
Why Borrego? The place-to-be for aerobatics
The International Aerobatic Club (IAC) has a practice and competition area just north of the airport (see white ground markings). Aerobatic pilots from California and the southwest US regularly use it for practice and major competitive events; Two annual competitions are sponsored by the San Diego Aerobatic Club, in April and October. Jump into your CAP 10 or Pitts!
Features
- All taxiway markings verified and redesigned if needed. Mostly position correction and add of "Extended center line" at holding point.
- Fix the solar farm north of the field with handplaced solar panels
- Fix the color of re-asphalted taxiways and runway
- Fix and add correct windsocks
- Fix circuit pattern correct position
- Reveal the BORREGO letters marking on ground
- Reveal and improve the solar farm north of the field
- Add generic buildings to replace autogen MSFS: hangars, admin building, The Propeler restaurant and its upper deck...
- Add AWOS frequency 126.575
- Add Unicom 122.8
- Add PAPI's at correct position
- No extra library or depedencies required.
How to install?
Unzip the file into your Community folder. Keep the folder structure from the zip (\AirportServices \ContentInfo, \MaterialLibs, \scenery, layout.json and manifest.json at the root directory). Once installed go to L08 as usual, the scenery is overlayed over the existing default one.
If you love the San Diego area, you should also consider my other sceneries:
- KMYF Montgomery Field: https://flightsim.to/file/5856/montgomery-gibbs-exec-airport-taxiway-fix-and-many-more
- KRNM Ramona: https://flightsim.to/file/25710/ramona-krnm
- KSEE Gillespie: https://flightsim.to/file/36679/gillespie-field-ksee
- KOKB Oceanside: https://flightsim.to/file/37328/oceanside-box-maxwell-memorial-airfield-kokb
- KSDM Brown Field Muni : https://flightsim.to/file/38035/brown-field-muni-kdsm
- L18 Fallbrook Community Airpart: https://flightsim.to/file/63441/fallbrook-community-airpark-l18
- The Bush Trip "San Diego VFR Transition": https://flightsim.to/file/6276/vfr-transitions-at-san-diego
Requirements
- Sedona scenery (free from the stocked MSFS)
- World Update II (USA) + World Update X (USA)
3 months ago
BurstixTV
Thank you , thank you , i like your energy !
5 months ago
Thank you! I like your comment!
5 months ago
vbazillio
Brytskiva
Your scenery is outstanding! I never miss a update. Just for the heck of it, I looked on YouTube and found a video of the real airport. Now I don't know if the airport might have been improved since the making of this video, but this video is a stark contrast to your great scenery!! Pete
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXwHWMH7EU
5 months ago
Thank you for your comment. The linked video was one of the source I used. I went only once, in real at Borrego, and got personally very low quality material. There're a lot of details I would love to add in my scenery, but it goes was too much off my skill or my spare time ;)
5 months ago
vbazillio
AMEC1987
Hey, I like all your airports and have all of your SoCal ones installed - they are really a improvement!
One thing however I'd like to criticize: It's the static aircraft 😉 I know you placed them to make the scenery feel more alive but I personally especially dislike the generic ones from Asobo (like the business jet). It would be neat if you could at least get rid of these ones - the TBMs, King Airs, C172s and other "user" aircraft are pretty fine 😊
Another approach could be to place static aircraft using an additional .bgl file so one could remove them all in one go by removing this .bgl at least 😉 As I use AIG and other traffic related solutions I most of the time have some aircraft parked on airports.
9 months ago
Delta2k5
I like your work!
1 years ago
MSFlight
Everything you make is amazing!
1 years ago
Sonosusto
Thank you once again for your great work. Another well deserved 5 star rating.
1 years ago
owend1944
Hi! Great work with the airports in the Southern California area. I live in the Coachella Valley and maybe you have flown to our airports like Jaqueline Cochran in Thermal or Bermuda dunes. Would you like to recreate these airports for the sim in the future?
1 years ago
Thanks for your support! I went 2 or 3 times to J.Cochran KTRM but don't have any specific material (good quality picture of specific signs, taxiway signs, banner on building...). I didn't check yet what type of building is back there and if they can be replace by generic one. I suspect KTRM is a medium size airport (for my skill considering my experience)... Hum...
1 years ago
vbazillio
Uncletucker11
Thanks for the great airports!
1 years ago
A huge thank you for your support!!!
1 years ago
vbazillio
rexbo47
Another great San Diego County airport! Thank you for continuing to bring life to this region of the sim.
1 years ago
Thanks to you for the trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7iRvPmpo4
1 years ago
vbazillio
ryu1940
Thank you once again Vincent for your hard work and great contributions to our sim. Borrego is another beautifully done airport with nice attention to detail.
1 years ago
55tom55
One very hot day,, with a student in a C172, departing from Borrego, we had to spiral up for about 5 minutes in order to be able to clear the surrounding
mountains😉
1 years ago
SerenaFrank