NEWS! - Scenery Released : KPAO - Palo Alto Intl Airport by FSDesigns

 

 

FSDesigns have released the Northern Californian airport of Palo Alto International Airport in collaboration with CieloSim.

 

Palo Alto Airport is a general aviation airport in the city of Palo Alto in Santa Clara County, California, United States, near the southern end of San Francisco Bay on the western shore. Facilities at this busy towered airport include a staffed terminal and multiple repair shops with, Advantage Aviation (Cessna & Beechcraft Authorized Service Center), WVAS Inc. dba Aero Works (Diamond Authorized Service Center), Rossi Aircraft, and Peninsula Avionics.

The airport is also home to a number of flying clubs (in order of establishment): Stanford Flying Club (est. 1930),[3] West Valley Flying Club (est. 1973), Sundance Flying Club (est. 2006), and Advantage Aviation Flying Club. The airport is located within one-half mile of U.S. Route 101.

 

Note... If the airport has a customs office or is designated as a port of entry, it can accommodate international arrivals for private or charter flights, making it technically international or noted having as Customs and Border Protection Facilities, but in reality Palo Alto does not have International Airline services.

 

Key Features

•     3D Vegetation
•     Accurate up-to-date ground textures
•     Realistic PBR textures
•     Weather maps for 12 features
•     Realistic hand-placed night lighting
•     High resolution orthoimagery
•     Highly optimized for FPS
•     Added dirt, grime, and details

 

 

So just how do you fly "quietly"?

 

Palo Alto Airport has one approach to runway 31. The RNAV (GPS) approach to runway 31 has 460' MDA/1-mi visibility minimum for category A approaches. The VOR approach has been decommissioned.

 

Images are courtesy of FS Designs...

 

KPAO is priced at an extremely low price at US$8.99, and now available at the X-Plane.OrgStore.

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Yes! - KPAO - Palo Alto Intl Airport by FS Designs is NOW available from the X-Plane.Org Store here :

 

KPAO - Palo Alto Intl Airport

Price is US$8.99

 

Requirements

X-Plane 12  

Windows, Mac or Linux

8 GB+ VRAM Recommended
Download Size: 200MB

Current version: 1.0 (Dec 2nd  2024)

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News by Stephen Dutton

3rd December 2024

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It’s nice and all but I’m afraid developers are going to have to do better then a small unknown GA airport to get me flying more xplane. Xplane is my favorite but we need something eye opening than. It’s too bad this has been the trend with scenery lately. Not to mention ORBX flat out lying about supporting xplane. 

8 hours ago, Ando71 said:

It’s nice and all but I’m afraid developers are going to have to do better then a small unknown GA airport to get me flying more xplane. Xplane is my favorite but we need something eye opening than. It’s too bad this has been the trend with scenery lately. Not to mention ORBX flat out lying about supporting xplane. 

It's only 9 bucks? look at all the nondescript releases in MSFS, at least KPAO is an interesting major General Aviation airport for the SF area.

To each his own I guess. I used to live in the bay area and I am happy that one of the many airports in the area has been released. I like it, I think it's well done, and am happy with my purchase with the low price asked for it. Small unknown airports are still interesting to us that do a lot of flying in the area, keep them coming!

On 12/3/2024 at 7:47 AM, Ando71 said:

It’s nice and all but I’m afraid developers are going to have to do better then a small unknown GA airport to get me flying more xplane. Xplane is my favorite but we need something eye opening than. It’s too bad this has been the trend with scenery lately. Not to mention ORBX flat out lying about supporting xplane. 

 

On 12/3/2024 at 4:08 PM, Stephen said:

It's only 9 bucks? look at all the nondescript releases in MSFS, at least KPAO is an interesting major General Aviation airport for the SF area.

 

I'm from SoCal AND purchased this scenery (from the .org store) the day of release because I believe XP scenery developers should be rewarded for releasing "general aviation" airports (besides as Stephen pointed out "It's only 9 bucks?")

 

Was kinda curious what other scenery the developer had developed,... so did some googling and found out KMTH was on sale for $2.99 (w/ a promised up grade to XP12 features

 

https://flightsimdesigns.com/products/kmth-x-plane

 

PS if the developer reads this,... whatabout doing a version of KBVU - Boulder City Municipal Airport (similar to an ORBX version for Prepar3D v4)

 

https://orbxdirect.com/product/61b

 

...as I see things this GA airport /w lots of helipads would pair nicely with the default XP12 KLAS (especially if the Hoover Dam and Memorial Bridge land marks were included in the scenery package)