Well, I blame James Hayden, the star of my Hayden’s World book series. In the stories, he’s an awesome pilot, and it’s hard to write about an awesome pilot without learning a thing or two about airplanes. What started out as curiosity evolved into hundreds of virtual flight hours in X-Plane. One of the brilliant things about X-Plane is that it is crowd-sourced. Its creators give you a free world editor called, not surprisingly, WorldEditor (or WED for short), and you can create your local airport or anyplace else in the world.
What started as a place to link flight videos for this blog grew into my YouTube channel. If you’ve been following it, you’ve seen me showcase some custom airport designs. I thought I’d create this page so that you could have them for yourself. These airports are designed to blend in with the Orbx TrueEarth series, and use libraries from that series to be seamless.
NOTE: I add zoom level 19 orthophotos as a base for my personal airports because Orbx orthophotos are ZL16 or ZL17 (depending on whether you purchase the SD or HD version of Orbx TrueEarth scenery). I do not have licensing to distribute orthophotos, however, so they are not included in the airport files. The screenshots show the airports with the orthophotos. With a little bit of elbow grease, WorldEditor, and Ortho4XP, you can add your own.
AIRPORTS
OREGON
4S9 MULINO STATE
Located south of Portland, Oregon, this untowered field is surrounded by lush green countryside.
Required Libraries:
3D People
CDB Library
FlyAgi Vegetation
Handy Objects
Mister X
NAPS
Open Scenery
RA Library
Orbx TrueEarth Oregon (Orbx_OrbixlibsXP)
S48 COUNTRY SQUIRE
Located southeast of Portland, Oregon, this untowered field is surrounded by lush green countryside and can be a challenge to find.
Required Libraries:
Handy Objects
Mister X
Open Scenery
Orbx TrueEarth Oregon (Orbx_OrbixlibsXP)
FLORIDA
07FA Ocean reef beach club
This private airfield is located south of Miami in Key Largo. A ninety-five mile flight west takes you to Key West.
Required Libraries:
CDB Library
Handy Objects
Mister X
Open Scenery
RA Library
RD Library
Orbx TrueEarth Florida (Orbx_OrbixlibsXP)
NEW JERSEY
N40 SKY MANOR
Located northeast of Philadelphia, this untowered field is surrounded by lush green countryside.
Required Libraries:
Handy Objects
Mister X
3D People
Open Scenery
JB Library
PPlibrary
Orbx TrueEarth (Orbx_OrbixlibsXP)
pennsylvania
kwbw wilkes-barre wyoming valley
Located near KAVP Wilkes-Barre Scranton International airport, this untowered field is surrounded by green mountains.
Required Libraries:
Handy Objects
CDB Library
Mister X
3D People
Open Scenery
JB Library
Segmented Circles
76n skyhaven
Located near KAVP Wilkes-Barre Scranton International airport, this untowered field is surrounded by green mountains.
Required Libraries:
Handy Objects
CDB Library
Mister X
3D People
Open Scenery
JB Library
Segmented Circles
Orbx TrueEarth (Orbx_OrbixlibsXP)
SKYCOLORS
Sky colors are one of the easiest ways to transform the visual appearance of X-Plane. I prefer Vivid Sky for most of my colors, but I made my own file for clean skies using actual sky photographs.
