London Biggin Hill Airport, UK - hand-crafted airport
This has been a much requested airport and I've avoided it for a while as it looked like a lot of work. I wasn't wrong. So many taxiways, intersections, and tons of hangars and surrounding buildings to fix, this one has taken a while.
As always, I've used airport charts to accurately reflect the correct runways and taxiways. I have not created any custom models for the hangars (yet?), so they are all stock objects.
Enjoy it!
Info:
London Biggin Hill Airport (ICAO: EGKB) is an operational general aviation airport at Biggin Hill in the London Borough of Bromley, located 12 NM south-southeast of Central London. The airport was formerly a Royal Air Force station RAF Biggin Hill, and a small enclave on the airport still retains that designation.
Biggin Hill is best known for its role during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War, when it served as one of the principal fighter bases protecting London and South East England from attack by German Luftwaffe bombers. Over the course of the war, fighters based at Biggin Hill claimed 1,400 enemy aircraft, at the cost of the lives of 453 Biggin Hill based aircrew.
The airport has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P804) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Regional Airports Limited). It specialises in general aviation, handling a spectrum of traffic from private aviation to large business jets. It currently has no scheduled airline service, as flights using the airport are not permitted to carry fare-paying passengers.
Includes:
- Completely overhauled airport from scratch
- Runways and taxiways based on airport charts.
- Terraforming, vegetation and ground texture fixes
- Custom runway and taxiway paint markings
- Taxiway signs
- Runway and taxiway lighting
- PAPI (accurate glideslope angles)
- Custom Spitfire model (thanks to DelBoy on 3dwarehouse)
- Hundreds of hand placed stock scenery objects
Install:
Extract the "gobby-egkb-bigginhill" folder to your /Community/ folder.
Notes:
· I couldn't find many photos/videos showing taxiway signs, so there may be some missing and/or innacurate. The important "hold short" ones should be correct.
· Parking number order is a mess when selecting in-game. No idea how to fix this.
· Approach lights are the closest I could find and are not 100% accurate.
4 months ago
elliotf6
5 months ago
HPST64
Looks good.
12 months ago
CalumWE
Hello, Chap hope your well,
Are there Any Updates coming to Biggin anytime soon? I am a streamer on twitch and youtube that I do a show called Big Spit tv and I would like to bring her home from Duxford to Biggin. so was wondering if you were going to improve it or add any custom models etc?
Regards CptSpitfire
2 years ago
CptSpitfire
Any chance of getting the exisiting ATC to work here?
2 years ago
elliotf6
Thanks very much for this excellent work.
Is it possible to fix the elevation error in front of the hangar north of the control tower please? Also questioning the white slopy thing at the north end of the control tower building?
3 years ago
Sender46
is this compatible with SU5?
3 years ago
jvortiz56
Thanks for this. Biggin Hill means a lot to me. Two very significant events that shaped my life occurred there.
Please can you take an axe to the duplicate windsocks that have appeared since the MSFS UK update.
TIA
3 years ago
DownedAviator
3 years ago
FERG
Bernie Ecclestone's FOA bought the RAF site on the Western perimeter. This housed his TV Production business. Other buildings along the South housed other F1 businesses. His BAE146 was based here. He owned a Hangar which when open, you could see a stacking system on the side walls which housed all types of F1 cars (Parmalat).
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AK3KXN/british-aerospace-bae-146-100-g-ofoa-belonging-to-bernie-ecclestone-AK3KXN.jpg
3 years ago
gkkes
Looks great and thanks for your hard work.
EGLF Farnborough next? I have numerous elements
3 years ago
gkkes
3 years ago
BrianT58
3 years ago
3 years ago
Gobby
nevs
3 years ago
nevs
3 years ago
dogpuppy109