I wanted to fly today. I got interrupted over and over. Then when I finally created my flightplan, it was 3+hours in the C172 and I just didn't want to fly that long. So, I went to Skyvector. Currently I am at KCHS Charleston, SC from my last flight from Myrtle Beach. I started looking at the sectional and saw an airport, KDBN, W.H. Bud Barron Airport in Dublin GA. About 1 and a half hours. Just right. My next step is to search and see if I can find an FSX airport for it. No such luck! Ok, open up ADE and see what the 12 year old (or more) ACEs default FSX looks like. Not too bad. Now open up Google Earth and oh yah it's not very accurate if it was 12 years ago. The first thing I did was to replace the nicely surfaced closed runway with a ground poly of old broken concrete like it looks in Google Earth. Had to straighten out the taxiway to runway 32 which was not right and length it. Then I had to add the blastpads to 2/20. Fix the apron and add 11 more parking spots for GA and resize them all. Now I'm ready to fly and Google Earth had one of those nice 3D on the ground shots of the terminal not just the top down and that did it for me. The next 3 hours went into creating an accurate terminal in Sketchup WITH night textures added in MDCx. I was going to just resize and use some fsx default buildings but after doing the terminal I am going to try and get some accurate hangers as well since Google Earth lets me get down on the street and walk around the outside of the airport. When I am finished I will share it here and fly my flightplan from KCHS to KDBN.
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