Agua Dulce Airpark (ICAO: L70) is a small public-use airport located 35 nm north of Los Angeles. Also known as Agua Dulce Airport, it has one single asphalt paved runway (4/22) measuring 4,600 x 50 ft (1,402 x 15 m). No jet traffic permitted. No ATC, use unicom 122.8, no IFR dep/app and no night operations. But self service fuel is available (only 100LL) and plenty of picnic tables, clean grass and clean bathrooms;) Expect the flight a little bumpy because of the surrounding terrain. It's a challenging approach on gusty days.
If you want to play as-real-as-it-gets : Agua Dulce airport is open to the public... when there are no filming activities, for example "Ford vs Ferrari" in 2019 or the final act of the TV series "Bones". The historic Star Trek movie site "Vasquez Rocks" is just 3nm South-East of the field, south of freeway 14.
If you want to know more:
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua_Dulce_Airpark
- Airnav: http://www.airnav.com/airport/L70
- Skyvector: https://skyvector.com/?id=L70&zoom=2
Author's note
As for all of my MSFS mod, this small scenery is made from a pilot-eyes perspective. The scenery is inspired by aerial views from Bing and Google maps. It's a mix between the satellite imagery displayed from MSFS and more accurate data found on Internet. I did my best based on online video and online pictures available. Hundreds of objects have been added to the default scenery to make in more live and bring a touch of an active area. If you have local pictures to help being more accurate, please let me know!
Features
- Add all iconic red barn hangars. PBR textures. Some hangars have their door opened.
- Add the FBO Agua Dulce Airpark Ranch main building with PBR textures.
- Add the (also iconic) fuel station with PBR textures.
- Add local signs at holding points.
- Add custom Wind Tee. 100% animated. Indicates the wind direction dynamically.
- Fix the color of re-asphalted taxiways and runway
- Add weathered asphalt
- Fix and add correct windsocks: animated orange US-like windsock
- Fix circuit pattern correct position (west side only)
- Clean up some trees on both approach paths
- No extra library or depedencies required (only some World Update see below).
How to install?
Unzip the file into your Community folder. Keep the folder structure from the zip (\AirportServices \ContentInfo, \MaterialLibs, \scenery, layout.json and manifest.json at the root directory). Once installed go to L70 as usual. This scenery replaces the stocked MSFS one.
Requirements
- Free stocked MSFS Sedona (KSEZ)
- World Update II (USA) and X (USA)
- World Update XI Canada (only for electric poles)
Known bugs and limitations
- The vegetation is overdensed on this area by default. The hill on the south-east side is way less covered by trees in the real world and version 1.1 tries to fix this. Let me know what you think
- If you have Big Bear, California and L35 airport (https://flightsim.to/file/6334/big-bear-polys), be sure to have minimum version 5.4 (released 16th January) to keep the autogen vegetation around Agua Dulce Airport. Thanks to FlightsimDude (author of Big Bear) for the update..
BurstixTV
vbazillio author
2 months ago
browns11
vbazillio author
2 months ago
jvortiz56
vbazillio author
2 months ago
roughapproach
vbazillio author
2 months ago
Snoopy7412
vbazillio author
2 months ago
PAPYDANIEL66
vbazillio author
10 months ago
papycaen14
Un grand merci pour l'ensemble de votre travail qui améliore les scènes notre passe- temps
Greazer
Champion
bugdani
Obstacle improbable en courte de la 22 sur la droite. en effet un arbre beaucoup trop grand et beaucoup trop près ne semble pas exister dans le réel. Je ne suis pas sûr qu'il soit possible de le supprimer. Pour le reste, excellent travail: Bravo et MERCI !!!
vbazillio author
J'va regarder. Merci d'être passé par ici!
1 years ago
knack
awesome scenery with lot of details, thanks
fuzz1
Outstanding work, thank you for your effort. Really enjoyed the Orbx freeware version of this airport in prior sims and am really happy you gave it life again in MSFS. Another iconic airport that I miss very much from ORBX is Bowerman KHQM.
I think your style and skills would be a perfect fit for also bringing this magnificent airport back to MSFS 😊
vbazillio author
Oh yeah Bowerman! Looks like we had the same of using FSx/P3D ;) I'm in the process of selecting my next scenery. To reveal a secret, next could be Page, AZ because KPGA ticks several of my requirement: out of overloaded area, airport where I land several time in real life, small airport, not already available for MSFS, not too complex for my amateur skills.
Thansk for your comment!
1 years ago
ScarsStitches
First of all, love all your Cali airports. Out of all payware i have, my GA always happen to spawn at your airports for some reason. So immersive.
Second, the file structure in this changed with this update. Add-on linker seem to only recognize the folder inside
vbazillio author
Thank you! Really enjoy reading passionate flight simmers ;)
About the wrong file for 1.1.2 version uploaded yesterday around 8pm (CET), it was my fault and I fixed it 1 hour after, thanks to supporting simmers sending me warning!
Let me know if it's OK or if I did again-and-again a mistake ;)
1 years ago
ChillMays
A great addon, as always. Keep up the great work, every release is anticipated!
vbazillio author
Thank you! Don't know if you're interested but the next update will be for Oceano (L52)
1 years ago
mark429112
Great scenery bro! Looks fantastic!
paulhannover
great fun to fly there