Asheville Regional RWY 17/35 opened Nov 2020 😎
MSFS 2020 and even payware scenery is still living in the past, If you follow the stock ILS, you would be landing an unfinished gray slab of asphalt
Be in the present, with this mod.
- Fly the ILS 17 / 35 onto an actual runway instead of a giant grey slab
Temporary runway is now Taxiway B, construction completed in 2021. - Follow taxiway signs and markings, painstakingly handplaced and recreated from photos and videos.
- Park somewhere that looks real. The hangars are correctly sized.
- Enjoy night lighting from over 300 taxi edge lights individually placed and positioned
- All pavement areas and taxiway shoulders are handplaced, pavement coloration areas matched individually
- Approach lights, papis, all true to real-life counterparts.
- VATSIM-ready (Request by messaging me or through this form: https://www.ztlartcc.org/pilots/request-staffing)
I pair this in my own sim with the Asheville scenery from EnjoyItFly for a more immersive VFR experience! https://flightsim.to/file/28924/asheville-nc-usa and https://flightsim.to/file/30100/asheville-south-nc-usa
Special Thanks...
to these VATSIM Aviators that I met on network.
- F. Jackson who flies from South Florida to Asheville and is in airline training. Good luck to you! and Thanks in advance for those photos the next time you fly in :)
Minor Dependencies
- the Glideslop antenna uses an antenna from Aerosoft's free Paderborn airport,
available in-game or from the Aerosoft store - the Radar tower is from Areographer's KMFD - Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport.Watch his YouTube videos here!
Versions
- v0.1
- RWY 17/35 placement
- RWY 17/35 lighting
- RWY 17/35 approach lighting
- RWY 17/35 PAPI and nearby structure and antennae
- RWY 17/35 blastpad
- TXWY B from B1 to B5
- v0.2
- TXWY A, A1, A3, A4, A5, A6
- TXWY B5, B3, B1
- TXWY B end-loops
- hourglass shaping for TXWY B3, B5, A4, A6
- TXWY A2, A7 + hourglass shaping
- v0.3
- highspeed exit refinements TXWY A3, A5
- TXWY K to Signature Support Services ramp (northernmost ramp)
- Signature Support Services aprons + parking
- Signature Support hangars
- Terminal apron + Gate 2 and one ramp parking
- v0.4
- Gate 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Jetways
- Windsocks
- TXWY A7
- v0.45
- added imaginary lighting for Terminal Apron
- added imaginary lighting for Signature Support Services apron
- v0.5
- South FBO Ramp created with 4 parking spots
- TXWY E, F connections to TXWY A
- Taxiway A7 and A8 pavement complete with taxiway decals and hold short lines, taxiway lights complete.
- v0.6
- North FBO
- pavement and foundations
- taxiway paths
- ground markings
- parking with imaginary lighting
- Taxiways G, H
- a few taxiway signs on north side of the field
- North FBO
- v0.7
- Added all of the essential taxiway signs (Taxiway A, its intersections, runway signs)
- Added 44 new functional parking on North FBO GA parking rows
- Added parking to Signature Ramp, South FBO
- Tweaked parking stall sizes and orientations of all 70ish parking spots to allow AI filler traffic
- Conformed parking location names
- Taxiway A1 and A2 detailing
- Pavement around taxiways is now 90% laid in.
- v0.71
- enabled ILS17, ILS35
- added all ATC frequencies
- 0.73
- corrected runway terrain height bug
- added ILS antennas at the ends of the runways
- added fuel tanks area NE of the field (AI scenery put buildings there instead of fuel cylinders)
- added some stock buildings and terraforming for GF Linamar building just west of airfield
- changed model for glideslope antennas to remove a dependency
- 0.80
- Taxiway A now has extended paved area as in real-life
- Taxiway Edge Lights on A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8
- Taxiway Edge Lights on C, D, E, F, G, H, J
- Adjusted taxiway lines on A and B so they are now straight.
- v0.90
- Taxiway B1, B3, B5 complete with edge lines, lights, hold short lines.
- Taxiway A8, A7, A6, A1, A2 edge lines and edge lights completed
- Taxiway B edge lines added
- North FBO hangars replaced with stock buildings that better resemble actual buildings
- Radar tower from https://flightsim.to/file/14335/kmfd-mansfield-lahm-regional-airport added
- MSFS 2020 keeps crashing everytime I want to add a "painted line" so as soon I as resolve that bug, I'll finish all the edge lines in A3, A4, A5, then add in taxiway edge lights for the entirety of Taxiway A.
- v1.0
- Taxiway A and B full length edge lights complete
- Taxiway A5, A4, A3 edge lines and lights completed
- Taxiway foundation, edge lines, and lights tweaked on A8, A7, A6, A5, A2, A1.
- Added Taxiway A6 connection to RWY centerline (AI ATC can now use A6 on and off the RWY)
- South FBO
- AI buildings replaced stock hangars sized to real-life hangars
- ground markings complete
- terrain height adjusted
- Rental Car lot area elevation implemented
- Fine-tuned GF Linamar building area terrain
- Fictional Apron lights adjusted
- v1.01
- Replaced "Gates" at Terminal Gate 7 and Gate 1 with "GA Ramps" so they can get air stairs.
- v1.02
- Fixed skewed ILS courses by adding MagVar values to ILS and Airport!
I know it isn't anything you've caused, but this is one of many airports in my collection that have the approach lights stanchion at either end of the runways appearing with a texture of pink squares because of, I'm assuming, a corrupt file. They don't appear when I launch the sim with no add-ons, and I don't particularly want to download the sim again. I was wondering if you knew of another fix? Maybe a couple of files need to be overwritten to correct it.
7 months ago
newtestleper
10 months ago
10 months ago
mangosprout
MVA_Simulations
Nice airport upgrade. Any plans to include ATIS? 120.200
1 years ago
ooh, I thought I had included it. Something by the end of January. glad you're enjoying it!
1 years ago
mangosprout
SkyborneVisions
Hi great airport, the ILS for both 35 and 17 is still mis-aligned
2 years ago
Finally was able to fix it! Latest SDK update had apparently reworked how MagVar was declared. So now you can fly ILS 35/17 approaches.
2 years ago
mangosprout
Tailspin488
Thank you so much! Keep 'em coming 😊
2 years ago
pmnagel
This airport is AMAZING!!! Very well done! Especially since I bought a version of the same airport on marketplace and was very disappointed. Thank you for making one of my favorite airports! I sent you a thank you via Paypal!
2 years ago
Greenranger
Localizer beam for ILS 17 is not correct. Glide is fine though.
2 years ago
Thanks for the report, investigating.
2 years ago
mangosprout
simpilotnews
Excellent work.
Just checked the ILS 17 and it was not working.
I still give it 5 stars for effort. I'd prefer an update to the payware. Thanks.
2 years ago
Finally was able to fix it! Latest SDK update had apparently reworked how MagVar was declared, so now you can fly ILS 35/17 approaches.
Still haven't figured out how to mod a mod yet though. Sadly.
2 years ago
mangosprout
CFIJose
Hello! I wanted to thank you for your great work on this airport and contribution to the Flight Sim "world". It looks great!!
I did want to ask; are the jetways and/or stair trucks supposed to be functional? I landed and was assigned Gate 6, but ground said the jetway wasn't available. I also attempted a stair truck via Gate 7 using (Pushback Toolbar). I could see the truck move a liitle, but I'm guessing it's non-functional.
Again, thanks for the great airport!
2 years ago
Thanks for reporting the issue! I'll take a look.
2 years ago
mangosprout
browns11
I think this is the most updated airport on this website lol. Thanks.
2 years ago
gryper
I have a soft spot for Asheville; your work makes this airport one of my favourites worldwide and a fantastic base of operation, both for GA and airliners!
2 years ago
That’s so kind! Thank you! I have fond memories of visiting Asheville (by car) and love flying around the Appalachias. Glad my mod made this airfield viable for you as it did for me!
2 years ago
mangosprout
MacAndCheese83
Great progress. Can you find any sources for GA hangars that have the door(s) open? With so many if nearly all of the addons airport work I see so far, across the board, having all the hangars with closed doors just robs a good dose of life from the airports.
2 years ago
Thanks for your comment! I’d love to put that in this Asheville file, and I intend to do just that around version 1.5 or so.
If you come across an open hangar you like, send me the link it to me. If it’s a good fit, I’ll incorporate it as a dependency the way I did with the radio tower.
My long term goal though is to learn how to do the modeling myself and make the actual Asheville hangars. It’s too bad architectural companies or hangar manufacturers don’t just publish/share low-poly 3D models of their hangars. That would really help the scenery development community.
2 years ago
mangosprout
fppilot
Following this project with great interest. Was just at the airport last week when visiting my Dad in Brevard. I am watching the roadmap with great interest and will enjoy the progress. The roadmap is a great touch. Thank you!
2 years ago
fppilot
Thank you so much for your hard work on my local airport. I had tried to work on it a while back but you're making much better progress!
2 years ago
CalsFM
When using your mod, there is no ILS frequency listed for RWY 17. This is with the Baron, NXI and Navigraph latest cycle. When entering the PROC in NXI, the ILS frequency field is blank and the nav radio stays at the default frequencies. The freq should be 110.900. When I remove your mod, the RWY 17 freq is fine. I guess you need to indicate the ILS freq in one of your files.
The airport looks great.
2 years ago
Thanks! I didn't mark the "Delete ILS" or "Delete Frequencies" checkboxes in the Airport object so it should have never been eliminated, but oh well! Uploaded a fix.
2 years ago
mangosprout
blueline308