Previously hosted on Nexus Mods, the Amboy Airfield/Runway (Route 66) is now available on Flightsim.to.
The Amboy Airfield/Runway (Route 66) is a project inspired by Matt Guthmiller video how he landed on the Route 66 highway to eat at a gas station and another pilot randomly landed at the same spot. It's just a few miles north from 'Rice Army Air Field.'
(Work in progress, releasing and updating as MSFS SDK grows)
In real-life, this runway actually exists at the Roy's Motel Cafe on Route 66 or more commonly known as the Amboy Airfield. It features a dirt runway (no lights) and has 1 hangar with a windsock on top of it (just in case if you catch bad weather you can park inside of it). Amboy is mostly a ghost town though it has a gas station and a restaurant where flyers come in from all over the country to visit, eat and see other pilots. With this recreation players can now do the same thing real-life pilots do when they fly into this area for plane meetups at this gas station.
This video inspired me and I thought this was so amazing to see, so I thought I'd try and recreate this small area apart of Route 66. This runway is built from reference images and all built in-sim, not from ADE.
Fun fact, it's one of Harrison Ford's favorite stops to fly into. Take flight and live unique history.
Reenvisioned Runway
Runway/Airport:
- ICAO: AR66
- IATA: A66
- Runway: 1
- 1 taxiway path
- 1 windsock
Other added stuff:
- Custom built Roy's Gas Station
- Custom built Gas Station Sign
- Custom built Roy's Motel Cafe sign
- Custom built Amboy USPS building
- Custom built Resident houses
- Custom built Amboy Church (St. Raymond Church)
- Custom 'Amboy School' sign
- 3 small GA stands with taxi-pushback/ground crew.
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Notes:
- Q: How can I give feedback?
- A: If you'd like to give me feedback of my mods, head to my personal Discord Server: https://discord.gg/ycbMseh
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In the meantime, check out my other airports that I created here.
But one of the little buildings (a little new one) hasn't got any texture.
It is the one near the windsock.
Regards.
7 months ago
John_Fields
Looking for a little project to try out some blender techniques, your scenery inspired me to model Roy's motel office and residence building.
It's uploaded and oriented to integrate with your scenery. Here: https://flightsim.to/file/56025/roy-s-motel-office-and-residence-amboy-california
11 months ago
Want to join my Discord? Let's chat about this project.
11 months ago
azgoodaz
littlebit
Really love this place I Dont know why Fly straigh north and you go to Las Vegas
Im starting games/flights REALLY Often on this small airport 😀 Glad theres is Some custom models in this ... Awesome!
Im putting 4 and 1/2 start and if i like it once tried ill put 5 😉 xD
2 years ago
Appreciate the review.
As an update, the entire scenery is getting updated soon with all custom 3D models design from the ground up.
2 years ago
azgoodaz
HackanHackerGame
One of the best sceneries on Flightsim.to, Keep up the great scenery projects, you can see the video, I made of your scenery at Cerebro Brother on UTube
3 years ago
Hey! Thank you so much. Glad that you like the airport. I noticed in your video that a building is generated through the gas station, does it still happen in the latest version?
3 years ago
azgoodaz
smoothflyer
Is it possible to have a version without the green grass texture that just uses the default Bing imagery? The Bing looks quite good in this area.
3 years ago
This is currently not a high-demand task for me to do. Focusing on 3D models still with this runway/scenery.
3 years ago
azgoodaz
foxquakes
Fantastic job, such an unique scenery!
3 years ago
Thank you my man.
3 years ago
azgoodaz
HypePerformanceGroup
I ended up deleting my content & scenery dat files. After MSFS restart and rebuild of the files, it reappeared!
3 years ago
browns11
Hello! I downloaded and flew into the new Amboy scenery today. The runway, etc. looks great, but for some reason, I lost the famous Roy's sign that was visible in the previous version. Any ideas? Thanks!!
3 years ago
Try deleting that old folder and redownload it again. It must be a weird model file issue.
3 years ago
azgoodaz
browns11
Hey with the last update we are once again stuck with the modellib.bgl and again having CTD's can you please update it again, you fixed it in the last update when you renamed it.
3 years ago
I replied to you in the Activity thread.
3 years ago
azgoodaz
Fungaming44
Great to see Amboy again! I passed through it often over the years in SoCal. Thanks!!
3 years ago
Thank you. Yeah it's one of my favorite projects I've done so far.
3 years ago
azgoodaz
browns11
Thanks for the quick update
3 years ago
No problem
3 years ago
azgoodaz
Fungaming44
Looks great but can you please rename the modellib.BGL to something unique because having it like that causes crashes for pretty much everyone. Problem is if someone also uses that name by default then it mixes them both together causing CTD's it's been known for a while now and heavily talked about on the microsoft flightsim forums
3 years ago
I have 4,000 airports from this website and have never had a CTD, so you're incorrect. It was mentioned about six years ago on a forum and everyone believed it.
3 years ago
newtestleper
Fungaming44