The default Montgomery Field KMYF airport is great... but requires improvement: most taxiways and signs are inaccurate, some taxi blue lights obstruct movements, buildings are missing, there are windsocks everywhere... etc. Here's my first updated airport started in Jan'21.
KMYF is a public airport six miles north of downtown San Diego. The airport has three runways and lot of ramps and hangars. It's one of the busiest airports in the U.S. for small aircraft and has a number of flying clubs, flight schools, plus business turboprops and jets based there. You also find San Diego Fire Department and the famous King Schools.
Thanks so much to all the simmers who appreciate and supports our passion and encourage me to build this scenery. If you liked it, please write a comment!
Features List
- New taxiway names. C, A, H, G1, M, E are misplaced or non-existent in the stock MSFS version. They are updated in this scenery and are similar the official airport ground chart.
- New and correct taxiway signs : all signs have been reviewed and updated (see Caution)
- New Custom taxiway signs (Noise abatement departure, warning when entering airport taxiway)
- Windsock at the right location.
- Missing buildings have been added according to the Bing Map photorealistic texture.
- The underlying apron object covering most of the airport Bing texture is resized and now reveals iconic locations: business area with FSDO and Marv's Golden, Casa Machado, west side of airport (to be continued), Gibbs FBO and more to come if you enjoy it! Let me know thru comments
- A lot more of living small objects and details to greatly enhance immersion.
- New CrownAir FBO
- "Executive AirPark" previously known as Gibbs Flying service ;(
- Coast Air Center FBO on the west side of the field. I have very limited info on this new area. More picture/info are welcome if you have some!
- Big TAXI letters on ground taxiway Hotel
- Gibbs information sign on taxiway Juliet
- Fences added to close the airport
- A Boeing Stearman sits in the apron where it's in real
- Clean autogen trees the Qualcomm stadium (now demolished)
- Fix Approach Lights 10L/28R (MALSR 5 Strobes/REIL). Thanks to comments of Swinden
- Customized control tower by BullFrogSim. A BIG THANK YOU for this awesome object!
- San Diego Police Department Air Support Able Base with starting helipad positions
If you want a taste of the real Montgomery (KMYF), you can check my Youtube channel with a lot of Farwest flying trip videos but also this great FAA Runway Safety episode showing a lot of details.
How to install? Unzip the file into your Community folder. Once installed go to KMYF 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:
- KSEE Gillespie : https://flightsim.to/file/36679/gillespie-field-ksee
- KSDM Brown Field: https://flightsim.to/file/38035/brown-field-muni-kdsm
- KOKB Oceanside: https://flightsim.to/file/37328/oceanside-box-maxwell-memorial-airfield-kokb
- KRNM Ramona: https://flightsim.to/file/25710/ramona-krnm
- L08 Borrego : https://flightsim.to/file/38247/san-diego-borrego-valley-l08
- L18 Fallbrook Community Airpark : 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
Caution
Back in January 2021, it was my first airport. Don't expect high quality payware content. I'm totally new to the MSFS Scenery Editor mode. Feel free to comment and share any mistakes to improve this first work. I'm a member of a flying club at Montgomery Field (Plus One Flyers) but I leave in France. I fly at San Diego several times per year but my real experience of certain areas is null or very limited. For example, I never went (in real) in the west side at LIMA or GOLF. I have a lot of video materials (check my Youtube channel) but I lack of shots at location... I never went. If you have pictures usefull to update this scenery, feel free to contact me.
Limitations
This airport's update contains 99% of stock objects except of the great control tower by BullFrogSim. No handmade texture or 3D objects have been designed, because It's far beyond my design skill ;) (update Jan 2022: except for some specific taxiway signs and minor objects like Golf Carts). They give a feeling of "it looks like what we have in real". The Bing Map ground photorealist texture is not up to date. For example some ground markings, the old Crown Air building, G1 taxiway are wrong compare to the reality. Thus, this scenery is a mix between the date of the Bing texture and today's real world. Even after the World Update 10.
After updating all the taxiways, which were the main initial objectve, I started to play with the MSFS scenery editor and enhanced other aeras. It wass just a first try and play as my first scenery. Let me know in the comment! Known issues:
- Some red marked hold shorts do not appeared or are wider than in real. It's a SDK limitation.
- Some blue lights have been totally removed to clear the taxiway path. Unfortunately I didn't succeed in putting some at the right place. SDK limitation?
Back in January 2021 : tools used is ADE Beta 12 for MSFS to generate the initial .xml project file, then everything is generated with the included MSFS SDK editor. Thank you to Antoine D., Manuel G. and Patrick M. for their Beta tests. And Virginie S. for the local pictures!
I'm unsure where my reply went, but I was referring to it before the runway. You can't see it in an aerial image, but on the ground, you can.
https://imgur.com/a/QRvtssh
Edit: Thanks for the quick update!
16 days ago
16 days ago
vbazillio
Poody18
3 months ago
3 months ago
vbazillio
PAPYDANIEL66
Significant fixes for the stock default. The only change I see needed is the divit between the taxiway up to 28R and 28L. There's a little water hole there that would end badly if you landed short compared to everything being okay if you landed short in the sim. Thanks for this again!
8 months ago
4 months ago
vbazillio
Poody18
Thank you for this big update to my home airport! And all the great updates to the other local airports from today - it's like Christmas!
8 months ago
4 months ago
vbazillio
MojaveHigh
Another great destination and/or departure. Such a beautiful area, I really need to visit the San Diego region again and rent a small plane for the weekend with the girlfriend. Great work as always and thanks for the update.
8 months ago
4 months ago
vbazillio
JockoFlocko76
OMG I love this addon!!! I’ve been flying out here since you first door this…. and you keep making it better!!!! There are a lot of payware devs that can learn a thing from you!!!!
8 months ago
4 months ago
vbazillio
Ibexto
Home of John and Martha King!
9 months ago
dcannon1227
hello , first of all thank you for your wonderful work,i suggest you to rename the "fix" in "update" ,i think its better ,its only a suggestion of course.
9 months ago
Thank you. What do you would like that I rename ?
9 months ago
vbazillio
ericdoe
Good job. Thanks for creating this.
9 months ago
lscism
Superbe scène!!!
Mais comme pour votre scène du touquet, problème avec l'ils: il n'apparait plus sur la VFR Map ni dans leGPS (garmin 1000) donc impossible de faire une approche aux instruments, sauf si on connaît la fréquence et qu'on la renseigne directement.
Ce problème semble être connu et un solution existerait (paramétrage dans le SDK)?
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/airports-with-custom-ils-broken-since-su11/557724
10 months ago
Désolé pour cet ILS. Et je ne vois pas de solution dans le lien indiqué de 48 message entre le "ne pas cocher "DELETE-ALL-ILS"" pour utiliser ceux de base ce qui est déjà ce que je fais depuis le début et des trucs avec le content.xml de chacun sur lequel je n'ai pas la main. C'est donc toujours nébuleux. Je verrais peut-être cela plus tard lorsque je serais proche de mon PC de dev.
Pendant ce temps-là, n'hésite pas à utiliser les vrais cartes disponibles gratuitement, si le problème est juste de ne pas connaitre la fréquence ;)
10 months ago
vbazillio
louma55
Outstanding scenery, really appreciate this one. Merci!
11 months ago
Thunderstruck
The link in your description to your youtube channel does not work...
1 years ago
Thank you, it's now fixed : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpYIEH5mmKhaWDtOOy0e7EQ
1 years ago
vbazillio
THEOLI4D
Merci pour votre excellent travail, bonne continuation !!!
1 years ago
bricio
Excellent work. Thank you.
1 years ago
jpravain
Would you like to take on NAS North Island - KNZY? The one that is on here lacks the proper buildings? And how about Brown Field?
1 years ago
To tell you the truth, I'm too much amateur to start a new project as it requires a lot of free time! Have you try to request it thru the Scenery request of this site? https://flightsim.to/requests/scenery
1 years ago
vbazillio
Swinden