PhrogPhlyer

My pleasure. I hope there becomes enough interest to require regular updating of the list.

One of the best corporate paint schemes I've seen in quite a while!

The attached list is of the airfields known to have been recreated for the flight sim community. This list will be updated as additional fields have scenery created. If you know of any other fields that have had scenery created and are listed on the Abandoned & Little-Know Airfields website airfields-freeman.com, please let me know and I will update this list accordingly. Abandoned & Forgotten Airfields List 240330.pdf

Reading your PIREP was just that, well done.

After spending the day at NAS Lakehurst (JBMDL) moving the Silver Snipe out of Hangar 5 to the temporary mooring mast; topping off fuel, food, and helium, we repositioned to PhrogPhlyer’s home field, Trenton-Robbinsville Airport (N87). We plan on being in Chicago to see the sun rise over Lake Michigan. Cruising at a blistering 50kt, this trip should take just shy of 12 hours, so we should depart Robbinsville around 1800 local time. We weigh off, make final speed/range/fuel calculations and at 1805 we are airborne again. Evening flights are such a pleasure with little to no traffic in sight. After a few hours we pass over Punxsutawney Pennsylvania. I must say that Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog prognosticator for the arrival of spring called it right this year, with an early blossoming of all the trees and flowers across our route. The white pear trees are visible in the light of a nearly full moon. I give the controls to my copilot Larry, not a bad aviator, even for an Air Force pilot, and stroll to the galley for some fresh brewed coffee. Sitting down gazing at the slowly passing landscape, the constant and familiar droning of the two P&W Wasp engines provides a comforting hum to the night. As I return to the cockpit, I realize that we have reached Toledo Ohio. After all the hustle, vibration, and stress of the Australian Air Race, taking it easy and sailing along in the Silver Snipe is a welcomed change of pace. One feels at peace, as if you are one with the air surrounding you. The flight is strangely reminiscent of time spent aboard ship, no frills, efficient, and with a calm sense of purpose. Before we know it, we approach South Bend Indiana. Ahead an open gray expanse appears. Lake Michigan. Time to go feet wet and scan the horizon for the lights of Chicago. Other than the moon above, not a single light is seen around us, and then Land Ho. With the sun starting to fill the eastern sky we leisurely cruise past Navy Pier with Meigs off our nose. It’s been many years since I strolled the pier followed by dinner and some local beer. On the deck, 11 hours and 55 minutes since we departed Robbinsville. Traveling 598nm and burning 278gal of avgas. If we had cruised between 25-30kt the fuel burn would have been closer to 80 gallons. Takes a lot of HP and fuel to push her up to 50kt. As the sun rises further and we find a place to erect a mobile mooring mast, we are greeted by the early morning crew of Chicago Airlines. We of course do the courtesy of offering them some coffee and giving them a tour of the Silver Snipe, in my humble opinion, the finest K-ship to ever grace the sky. Now for a few hours of sleep in the helium hotel. I certainly couldn’t sleep in the JetRanger during the Australian Air Race. I just got an email from home, apparently a local airport kid in NJ saw us depart and made a sketch of the Silver Snipe. When we get home, that kid’s going to get a personal tour of the ship and even a flight over his house.

Since only you have posted there as of yet, perhaps just delete the thread and start a new one with the branded naming?

I flew there last nights and will post my flight PIREP with the new Meigs thread.

And steal you place of honor? Never!

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I looked at the unzipped folder again. This is not the same as many scenery airports that have the folder placed in Addon Scenery. The readme states to place the bgls (chose two of the three based on use of closed runway use or not) into the Addon Scenery/Scenery folder, and copy the textures from the Jetway Texture folder into the main Texture folder. I followed the readme instruction and the airport looks great. If you followed the readme directions and still have a problem, then it's beyond my ability to sort out why it won't work with your setup.

Did you just delete the scenery files or did you remove it in the setting/scenery files/delete area? I loaded the one from AvSim (fsx_rpll_rs.zip) and it appears to be missing its scenery folder. I would ensure that both add-ons are properly removed this file, reload FSX to ensure the default airfield is OK, and try a different version of scenery for Manilla.

Frank. Once again you're remake has re-highlighted an unfortunate but critical point of aviation history. This incident is a must read, with so many errors, any one of which may have prevented the fatal event. I was a young aviator when this occurred, and it was an eye opener, If these errors could be done by those so much more experienced than I, it makes one pause.

Range means total distance from T/O to Landing at standard cruise speed/fuel burn.

The airport is missing a ground poly (GP) to flatten the surrounding area. You can make on using ADE, save as a bgl, and then add to you addon scenery/scenery folder. If this is an add on airport, reinstall, you may have somehow corrupted a bgl file. Which airport?

And at NE Philadelphia Airport (KPNE), but the restaurant has been closed for years.

Would you please post the link and I'll add this to the list. Thx And for the so so many come and gone heliports, send any info to Paul also. With enough interest he might add these to his site.

I'll add this to the list.

This thread is intended for use by all the scenery creators who use Paul Freeman's Abandoned & Little Know Airfields website to develop missing airfields ( http://airfields-freeman.com/ ). Although this thread is listed within FSX, creators in all other sim versions are welcome to use this location for the same reason. I have contacted Paul Freeman, and he welcomes our efforts and requests that we credit the use of his material by identifying his web link, http://airfields-freeman.com/. Periodically I will attach an updated list of these fields with download links. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me here on FlightSim. Thank you, PhrogPhlyer

I'll send the zips I used in PM, see if that works. I will still do a little "adjusting" of these to add the helo spots and a couple other details. I will upload as just that, enhancements to be used with these files.

I use many FS9/2004 scenery objects in FSX. But never scenery itself.

What's a little scud running among friends? Nice screenshot.

Found these two combined work well: kcgxfsx1.zip and kcgxpoly.zip Saved me a lot of work. I'll send a screenshot soon.