Description
Located in the heart of Cornwall, just off the A30 dual carriageway, Bodmin Airfield is home of the Cornwall Flying Club.
Bodmin Airfield was the development of a dream by local business man, Mike Robertson, founder of Trago Mills, to make aviation available to everyone. In pursuit of this dream, local engineers, The Dingle Brothers were commissioned to construct the airfield on what was once Treswithick Farm. In 1972, the airfield was bought by the Cornwall Flying Club, which, in 1978, became a limited company, Cornwall Flying Club Ltd. In keeping with the original ideals and dreams of its creator, Cornwall Flying Club operates as a non-profit organisation.
It was here that Trago Mills designed and built the Trago Mills SAH-1 in the early 1980s. The SAH-1 derived its name from its designer, Sydney A. Holloway.
The airfield is also home to Cornwall Aviation Services, an aircraft maintenance business.
Bodmin Airfield has been accurately recreated by Burning Blue Design’s modellers and coders with on-site visits, and features:
- Over 30 custom 3D objects have been created exclusively for Bodmin airfield, each with full Physical Based Rendering (PBR) textures.
- Realistic dirt, grime, dust and rust can be seen exactly where it should be, with on-site visits carried out by the team.
- Custom runway terraforming.
- High resolution colour corrected ground textures.
- Working custom Signal Square and Windsocks.
- Control tower and cafe interiors.
- Open hangar parking spot.
- Dynamic scenery objects, which change realistically depending on the time of day.
- Custom aircraft have been included around Bodmin to reflect actual aircraft found at the airfield:
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk (G-EGLA – Bodmin Airfield Flight Training)
- Ikarus C42 (G-CIFZ – Air Cornwall Flight School)
- Correct AI pattern procedures and accurate taxiway placement.
Image Gallery
MSFS stock Bodmin vs Burning Blue Design Bodmin
Installation Instructions
Once you have purchased and downloaded the product, double click on the zip file to open it. You should see the airport’s folder inside, this will need to be extracted and placed into your Microsoft Flight Simulator Community folder, if you don’t know where the community folder is, we have a full guide on how to install our packages here.
If you still have trouble locating your community folder this easy to follow video will help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhSkMzWLFR0
There is also a community tool called ModmanFX which makes installing and removing Microsoft Flight Simulator packages incredibly easy, you can get it here: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/modmanfx
Known Bugs
- Transparent and translucent glass panes can appear very dark when subject to particle effects such as rain, snow and fog. This is a known bug that Asobo/Microsoft are aware of and will hopefully fix in the near future.
- Grass is too long – this bug has been introduced by Sim Update 5 and Asobo are aware. We are unable to control grass length in the latest SDK.
- Fuel scenery items cannot be hidden. There is a working fuel parking spot towards the back of Bodmin. Unfortunately Asobo have not provided a way to hide the automatically generated fuel items, so they are hidden behind some bushes until this is fixed.
Requirements:
Minimum
Recommended
Further Information and Licensing:
A number of the static vehicles used within the scenery were 3D models used under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The models were reskinned to match their real life contemporaries. For further information and full attribution on any of the individual models please contact us here: https://burningbluedesign.com/contact/
Kevin Hindom (verified owner) –
This was my first airfield by Burning Blue Design, which I saw on VR Flight Sim Guy’s Youtube channel. Living in Devon Cornwall is one of my favourite places to fly so I grabbed this. It’s only a small airfield but they have packed a ton of detail into it, as well as enriched the surrounding fields with sheep and more realistic farm buildings. It was good enough that I bought all the other six airfields from BBD!
barry.pate (verified owner) –
This is one of the first three BBD airfields I have purchased. It is a challenging, small airfield with unusual ground contours. I like such challenges and will be using this as a base for flights in the south west of England. While small there is still a lot to discover here and even taxiing is sometimes a challenge. I like it!
Neil Berry (verified owner) –
I learnt to fly here. Always loved the place. Burning Blue Design used my words for there advertising blurb. I interviewed Bruce, Mikes son, for a radio show many years ago and wrote a piece for wikipedia about the Bodmin flying club as well as the aircraft that Sidney Arthur Holloway designed. Bodmin was initially built to help Sidney get there first when buying stock for Trago mills. Back in the late sixties and throughout the seventies whenever there was stock upcountry going under the hammer, Sydney would hop into his single engine aircraft and head off to secure it for Mike at Trago. After a particularly hairy engine out experience, he demanded that Mike furnish him with a twin! It was this combination of getting there first that gained Trago the distinction of always having cheap goods for sale, even if said goods were often water damaged from flooding or stunk of smoke from fire damage!