Description
Burning Blue Designs is exceptionally proud to present our largest and most detailed project by far, Farnborough Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The team at Burning Blue Designs has grown, and so has our scope, and we are extremely confident in saying that Farnborough is the most detailed Airport as yet released by any developer for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Farnborough has perhaps the richest history of any airport in the United Kingdom, and boasts a significant history dating back to 1908 when Samuel Franklin Cody, a Wild West showman accomplished the feat of the first powered, controlled and sustained flight in the United Kingdom. Cody’s audacious endeavour granted Farnborough the illustrious title, ‘The birthplace of British Aviation’
The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was created at Farnborough a year after Cody’s flight in 1909 and was where aircraft designers such as Geoffrey de Havilland and Henry Folland found fame, and over the course of more than fifty years designed, the RAE built and tested hundreds of aircraft at the airport including the Harrier and Concorde.
Today Farnborough is renowned worldwide with it’s yearly airshow attracting over 80,000 visitors and hosting over 1500 exhibitors all viing for a business in the incredibly lucrative civil and military aviation sectors. During the rest of the year Farnborough sees over 30,000 business jet movements and is UK’s busiest and most prestigious business aviation hub, hosting a swathe of business jets companies.
Farnborough Airport has been recreated faithfully over many, many hundreds of hours by Burning Blue Design’s 3D modellers and coders and features:
- Over 90 custom 3D objects have been created exclusively for Farnborough Airport, each with full Physical Based Rendering (PBR) allowing for far more realistic textures.
- Over ten thousand carefully placed stock assets across the airport and surrounding area, every fence, parking space, cone, light and tree has been placed in it’s correct location bringing life to Farnborough airport and the surrounding area.
- As with all Burning Blue Design Products new custom working Windsocks have been created and accurately placed around the airport.
- High resolution colour corrected ground textures have been used as a basis for the airport, these have been taken from Bing maps and heavily manipulated for consistency and realism which far surpasses the quality of the stock Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 ground texture.
- New taxiways and roads have been created in and around the airport and the runway with it’s huge displaced threshold has been faithfully recreated.
- Full night lighting placed across the airport and surrounding area including individually placed street lights along the surrounding roads.
- Surrounding landmarks have been created and placed in their correct locations to improve visual navigation and general airport atmosphere, these include:
- The Wind Tunnel Project.
- Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre
- The Aviator Hotel
- The Gloster E28/39 monument to Sir Frank Whittle.
- Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum (FAST) with it’s assortment of display aircraft.
- Farnborough Airship Hangar Frame.
- Farnborough Business Park.
- Eelmoor bridge.
- The Swan Pub.
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MSFS stock Farnborough vs Burning Blue Design Farnborough
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
Requirements:
Minimum
Recommended
Further Information and Licensing:
A number of the static aircraft 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/
Mark Elvin (verified owner) –
I live just a few miles from Farnborough Airport. I can honestly say Burning Blue Design have done an incredible reproduction of the airport and the surrounding area and roads…. I can see places in this scenery where I go shopping, or stop for a walk! Well done!
Kevin Hindom (verified owner) –
I only fly GA planes and much prefer quirky airfields and am not interested in big airports. I only purchased this to complete the set. The airport is huge, and probably interesting if you like that sort of thing. For me, the unexpected delight came from the modelling of the surrounding town. Shops and superstores authentically modelled, improved road textures with street lighting and traffic lights, houses that look like actual houses. I wish all the towns looked like this, seriously the surrounding suburbs are a glimpse into what I want MSFS towns to look like in the future.
ginahallett195 (verified owner) –
What can you say except stunning! I know Farnborough quite well and to recreate this level of detail is nothing short of amazing. Well done. My first purchase, and it will not be my last.
David Hicks (verified owner) –
Love the work put into this airport, not only the airport it’s self but all of the surroundings. This really sets BBD apart from other developers. The approach is as accurate and appealing as the airport or airfield. Creates so much better immersion and pleasure flying to and from.
Flying the Avro Vulcan here is amazing. I often spend some time doing some of the usual airshow maneuverers from back XH558’s flying days, certainly brings back some feelings.
Great work! Remember the BBD airports will all soon be on Xbox 🙂
Stephen Read (verified owner) –
I don’t fly private jets much in the sim and I too purchased this scenery to complete the set. It’s a very clean airport and seems almost too clean for me. Where this scenery shines most is the surrounding buildings including the museum which are a joy to fly around. I do need to explore this airport more, so other reviews might give a better idea of what to expect. I can say that this is a really good value airport which I will be using more when I get my hands on a Vision Jet and the upcoming Solent scenery.