Picton Airport, for MSFS
Real place, ICAO code NZPN
Version 1.2
--Description--
Picton, in the Marlborough region, at the northern tip of Sout Island of NZ, is a small, private airport. Owned by the regional airline SoundsAir, one can fly to Wellington, Taupo or Westport. Recently, an Air Park has been designed with already several hangar and houses built.
It's a perfect starting place to visit the sounds, or cross the straight to North Island.
--The scene--
The scene is an improvement of the existing platform. I used several default assets and many others are custom, some using PBR textures.
As the Air Park is constantly evolving, the scene depicts the situation as late 2020 I believe.
Known bug: it seems that despite my attempts I can't remove the default windsock from the field. So normally the airfied has 2 airsocks, one on each end, and there you have 3 windsocks. Not a big issue though.
It's a perfect complement to my other Marlborough airfields:
- Anokoha Bay Airstrip (https://flightsim.to/file/14667/anakoha-bay-airstrip-nz98)
- Titirangi Bay Airstrip (https://flightsim.to/file/16263/titirangi-bay-airstrips-nz97)
- Koutuwai Point Airstrip (https://flightsim.to/file/14590/koutuwai-point-airstrip-nz99)
--What's new--
v1.2
Made compatible with World Update 12 "New Zealand" from February 2023.
v1.1
Removed the noisy and busy dead-end roads around the Air Park thanks to the new version of SDK introduced with SU7.
v1.0
Initial release
--Installation--
Please remove any previous version of this scenery you may have.
Just unzip and drop the "sbworks-airport-nzpn-pictonairport" folder into your "Community" folder of MSFS.
It is more than strongly recommended to install this library:
- SBWorks Asset Library v1.2 or later (https://flightsim.to/file/21396/sbworks-asset-library)
- Beekay pack (https://flightsim.to/file/8887/beekay-pack1)
- Dave's 3D people library (https://flightsim.to/file/5452/dave-s-3d-people-library)
--Credits--
All work done by SBWorks (Stéphane Beilliard).
October 2021/February 2023.
notchuck
THEOLI4D
Nice work!
However, there is one wind sock that shows 180° in the wrong direction 😉
SBWorks author
Yes indeed, I need to remove one.
1 years ago
matthew4143
I have the Orbx NZ mesh installed. Unfortunately, I couldn't land at your Picton airport because the aerodrome is sunk deeply into the surrounding terrain.
SBWorks author
Hi. Thanks for the feedback! Indeed it seems SU9 changed something here.
Actually, this seems to be a bug within MSFS itself introduced by SU9 and has nothing to do with my scenes. Check on official MSFS forum.
2 years ago
spas3man
Great stuff!
OlivierQC
A few weeks ago I wrote to you in PM to know if you could make this aerodrome because I use the TBM930 with the Sound Air texture and you did it,
I'm going to make some flights between the airfields that are used by Sound Air
so a big thanks
Skyscorpion121171
Premium
Only 4 of 5 stars because of smaller comlexity than other airports...
Skyscorpion121171
Premium
Nice small Airport... like the small area to come into the Cessna 😉 ... sheeps are sweet...
totheskies
Absolutely beautifully made! Love it!
SBWorks author
Thanks! And enjoy ;)
3 years ago
maty743
Awesome work! Thanks for making another great NZ airport. Been to this one many times with Sounds Air and looking forward to trying it out.
I'm just hoping one day we will have a World update for NZ as the Marlborough Sounds are amazing but in current base game state they look horrendous :'(
trevg
Great rendition thanks, looks just like the place did on Saturday Afternoon when I drove past
SBWorks author
Good! Good to know that it's pretty up to date, thanks ;) Few houses are missing in the air park compared to reality but I guess it may be updated in the future.
3 years ago
Shado2k
Superb Stéphane , thank you for this wonderful NZ scenery.
Oozler
LoL you had me going... I am from Picton Ontario.
Hello to fellow Picton people everywhere downloading this airport 😊
SBWorks author
Ahah I see! When looking for reference pictures on the web I kept ending up in Ontario indeed ;P
3 years ago
AdamskiNZ
Many thanks for this! Picton is a beautiful area in NZ.