Welcome to Old Park Farm, (EGPY) my first ever go at making scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Situated between Port Talbot and Pyle near the south coast of Wales, UK and just down the road from Margam park, Old Park Farm has two sloped grass runways with interesting approaches where you need to avoid power lines, villages and a wind turbine. I've included a couple of images in a Documents folder showing the procedures.
I've improved the field and it's surroundings as best I can but please be gentle as again this is my first go at this plus other limitations like Covid lockdown meaning I can't get to the field right now and limited media. I'm also relying on default models for the hangars etc except for a few items made availble in the asset packs listed below, as this field has a number of unique T-hangars and triangle shaped hangars and structures I can't get it super close to the real thing but I hope you will agree it's an improvement on the default airfield version where not only are many hangars missing (as if there were blown over :-) ) but what structures are included are not even close to resembling what is really there.
List of improvements:
Added runway 12/30 that was completely missing in the system.
Added 2 parking spaces so you can start cold and dark.
Re-terraformed the field and runways which are tricky because of two directions of sloping ground and changes in the degree of sloping across the runways lengths.
Added many hangars that were missing and replaced others, plus other structures like the terminal, a static caravan in real life.
Added fencing and hedges around and near the field.
Added vehicles and people.
Added other misc items.
Added 3D solar panels to a nearby field that is flown over on approach to runway 36 and the wind turbine also close by. (be aware the turbine is probably a fair bit bigger than the real one due to the SDK not saving scaling of that object)
Added another field of solar panels on a hill overlooking Port Talbot, Taibach and Goytre, it's about 3-4 miles away so not that close but thought I might as well as it may be flown over.
Added cows and sheep to nearby fields. (due to the way the sim works and these models LOD they unfortunely pop in very close to the camera so I may remove them if they are too distracting, but I'm hoping that modified versions will be made availble to further the distance at which that happens)
Added many telephone posts which need to be avoided on a few different approaches especially runway 18.
Added the small dock and a few boats on Eglwys Nunydd Reservoir that's between the airfield and the coast if you fancy a dip with some floats. (not sure that's legal but... :-) )
Removed large number 18 written into a field nearby which has been removed in real life some time ago.
Removed some trees and shortened others.
I'm going to have a go at learning Blender to see if I can make and replace some of these structures in the future with something closer to the real thing, but no guarantees.
If anyone who downloads this is familiar with Old Park Farm airfield and finds something they would like added, removed, tweaked, let me know, I'll see what I can do.
Required Asset Packs:
https://flightsim.to/file/1923/mikea-at-assetpack
https://flightsim.to/file/5452/dave-s-3d-people-library
https://flightsim.to/file/4696/dave-s-crooked-library
https://flightsim.to/file/6841/dave-s-3d-animals-library
https://flightsim.to/file/5806/fisherman-dave-s-seaplane-base-object-library
Just read this:
"To developers, if you have an AirportServices file in your project to remove airport services. Remove it.
SU8 make some changes and doesn't like this file anymore. Remove that airportservice asset group, make sure upon build it gets removed from your .layout file.
If you don't anyone who downloads your scenery will get affected by 0 airport service from any airport.
2 years ago
gkkes
Thanks for the update and your work. Good Health to you
3 years ago
Thanks for the comment, I wish Wales was getting more love than it is, but I don't have the skills, so this is a tiny contribution that I could do for now. I may make one or two other simple field improvements around Wales in the future if I have time. Take care.
3 years ago
WhiteHawk77
TheFlyingPig
Hallo! Prima Flugplatz! Wollte ihn nach längerer Zeit wieder anfliegen.
Klappt nicht. Kann es sein das das Weltupdate für United Kingdom darn schuld ist?
Eines als Beispiel: EGCB-EGPY=Menü-Start=Absturz=Desktop.
Hello! Great airfield! Wants to fly at him again after a long time.
Doesn't work. Could it be the world update for Uk is to blame?
One example: EGCB-EGPY=Menu-Start=Crash=Desktop.
3 years ago
Hi there, apologies for the delay in responding, don't seem to get notifications of messages here.
I don't know what could have been causing the crashes you were having, I haven't seen any due to loading in this field myself. It is very likely the Sim update was the cause as if you have had much time with this sim you know it isn't eaxactly stable, especially after updates. I would say check my latest version and see how that goes but Sim Update 5 has been the worst so far for many so crashes are likely anywhere.
Did you have a mod for EGCB Barton installed at the time? As I know the UK World update did include a version of that airfield which may have conflicted with that mod.
Once again sorry for the wait in responding.
3 years ago
WhiteHawk77
Renevigat
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WhiteHawk77
fosheem
If this is an accurate representation, I have a lot more respect for my mate Tim. He flies out of here IRL.
In the sim, I face-planted the Savage Grravel.. twice.
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WhiteHawk77
scaleybrat
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WhiteHawk77
rivereveal
3 years ago
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WhiteHawk77
WelshPilot