Kapiti Coast Airport Overhaul + Scenery Fixes/Upgrades
Kapiti Coast Airport (IATA: PPQ, ICAO: NZPP), earlier called Paraparaumu Airport, is on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island, between the Wellington dormitory suburbs of Paraparaumu Beach (to the west and north), Paraparaumu to the east, and Raumati Beach to the south. The Wharemauku Stream flows through part of the airport's land.
Originally government-owned, the Kapiti Coast Airport was the greater Wellington region's main airport until Wellington International Airport re-opened in 1959. It was privatised in 1995. Source
Special thanks to @Joshhay from the Kapiti Aero Club for offering to take me for a flight from NZPP and for the help with resources. Taxiway signs will be added after we are out of lockdown and I'm able to go out to the airport.
This is probably the my favourite work so far and spent at least 50+ hours on this one. Appreciate all the love and support from the NZ MSFS community and appreciate the donations immensly thank you all <3
Note: If the main terminal is missing a chunk please restart the flight and it should show up again. This is a Asobo autogen bug
Features
- Over 1500 individually placed items
- Added Kapiti Aero Club building + textured/animated flag
- Added tyre gables (By Elijah Hoyne)
- Added placemakers
- Added caltex gas station
- Added mechanics next to gas station
- Added heritage tower (By mgh65 / Textured by me)
- Added AVGAS pumps
- Added AACA hangars
- Added old glider club hangars
- Added Can Do rentals
- Added flight service tower
- Added night lighting
- Added perimiter fences
- Added parked traffic
- Added AI support
- Added parking ramps
- Added animated windsocks
- OrbX mesh support
- Mikeaat mesh support
Note: Make sure you have all the world updates downloaded and updated from the content manager <3
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Change Log
03/09/2021 (Version 1.0.1)
Textures will no longer conflict
Shoutout to Headychicken taxiing around while I'm updating :D
03/09/2021 (Version 1.0.2)
Sorry fixed a taxiway that wasn't meant to have a centerline
6 days ago
Badgerbrausch
GSX Giving isolated parking, meaning a disconnected taxi system. Would be great if you could fix this
1 years ago
Jqro
Very nice! Keep these coming.
1 years ago
55tom55
Hey STR1KEStudioz,
Excellent work...
Just a reminder to update the version number in the 'manifest.json' as it shows in the sim and in Addons Linker and will be of primary importance in programs such as MFS AddOn Collector, for example, as developers produce auto-updating programs...
The version number here shows 1.0.2, but it shows 0.1.0 in the 'manifest.json'.
Thanks for your efforts...
2 years ago
lawlegge
Just been for a visit and love what you have done with this airport and the excellent use of available libraries really bring it to life. Thanks for your efforts.
3 years ago
mstockan
Been out for a bit of a fly around NZPP just now and just noticed when taxiing back in on A via A2 that around that southern part of taxiway A the tyres seem to be floating a bit. As I went further north I noticed they'd gone back to normal. Not a biggie but figured I'd point it out. (I've got a screenshot if you need to see what I'm talking about). Regardless of the small issue still loving your work on the airport!
3 years ago
They're all set to snap to ground so might be an asobo issue
3 years ago
STR1KEStudioz
r2b2nz
merci beaucoup pour ce travail
3 years ago
De rein
3 years ago
STR1KEStudioz
PAPYDANIEL66
great work mate, really love your small airport mods for NZ! Any plans to do NZGS (Gisborne) - that airport is my homebase and really could do with some love. happy to donate for it 😊
3 years ago
Claudio21NZ
Heya bro I've been waiting for this for ages, well done, and great work!! I live in Paraparaumu and I helped a Kiwi ex pat do NZPP for Xplane a couple of years ago by taking photos for him. They are a great bunch of guys there. Have you met Jack the old Maori fella who drives the ute around? He took me out onto the tarmac to get pics of signs and taxi ways etc. One thing though for me is the main hanger in front of the terminal doesn't look even close to the real one. Can this be updated later? Is this a generated building? Mate, if you need any help for future updates I have lots of pics on a stick SOMEWHERE at home and have recently been there to take more pics. NZA simulations said it was on their list. But hey, if you wish to improve this airport at a later date then I'm all yours. Thank you so much for all the time and effort you've put into this, much appreciated I can assure you
Andy
3 years ago
Yeah bro I haven't been out there yet because of lockdown so can't get photos of my own. I'd love the pics if you can find them. The main terminal is just an auto gen building as the real one is quite complex and I don't have any blender experience
3 years ago
STR1KEStudioz
Buzzard2008
Hi, impressive work! You do this full time or what? 😊
3 years ago
Pretty much, been on ACC for awhile then lockdown hit and got quite into it
3 years ago
STR1KEStudioz
SBWorks
Tried having just the NZPP airport installed in the community folder with nothing else and Placemakers is now blue and the terminal is okay. Looks like the problem is one of the dependencies.
3 years ago
The CBJ objects pack was updated yesterday so maybe that's it. See if you have the latest version. Also I noticed the terminal will bug out every now and then as its an auto gen building but restarting the sim seems to fix it for me
3 years ago
STR1KEStudioz
fudge
With just NZPP (incl nzpp flag) plus the dependencies shown above installed in my community folder the Placemakers building is grey and a large part of the terminal building is missing.
3 years ago
fudge
Great work! Weirdly though, everything is good for me except the big blue building in your screenshots is either missing or a default building for me. Everything is updated & downloaded, including libraries.
3 years ago
Hmm that building is from the CBJ library. Is it the same building but just grey?
3 years ago
STR1KEStudioz
d25bev
Good grief, you're a machine! Great work as usual. Thanks very much for all your work on NZ!
3 years ago
Thanks man will get a few more smaller airfields done over next few days
3 years ago
STR1KEStudioz
TheMoose