White Waltham Airfield

Nestled in the almost perenially green Berkshire countryside, some twenty five miles West of London, White Waltham is the largest grass airfield in Europe, it boasts the largest flying club in the UK, and is home to over one hundred and fifty general aviation aircraft.

White Waltham is steeped in history and was originally founded by the De Havilland family in 1928 for use as a training field for the famed de Havilland Flying School. During the second World War White Waltham was requisitioned by the UK Government and became home to the Air Transport Auxiliary which used the field as a base to ferry new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories, assembly plants and active service squadrons and airfields.

After the war White Waltham became a testing airfield for Fairey Aviation and later Westland Helicopters. Several famous aircraft designs had their first flight at White Waltham including The Fairey Rotodyne, Westland Wasp and Fairey Gannet.

The airfield has achieved some fame over it’s almost hundred year old lifespan and has appeared numerous time in films and television programmes. The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was taught to fly in a De Havilland Chipmonk at White Waltham in the 1950s, and this event was dramatacised in the hit television show, The Crown.

White Waltham Airfield has been recreated faithfully over many hundreds of hours by Burning Blue Design’s modellers and coders and features:

• Over 80 custom 3D objects have been created exclusively for White Waltham airfield, each with full Physical Based Rendering (PBR) allowing for far more realistic textures.
• There are thousands of carefully placed stock assets, every shed, car, post and tree, along with an assortment of ground workers has been placed in it’s correct location ensuring an atmosphere of a working airfield.
• High resolution colour corrected ground textures taken from Bing maps and manipulated for consistency and realism which far surpasses the quality of the stock Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 ground texture.
• Working custom Windsock and working custom Signal Square.
• Numerous custom aircraft have been added around White Waltham to enhance the realism and better reflect actual aircraft found at the airfield:
  • Fairey Gannet
  • Hawker Hurricane Mk1
  • De Havilland Chipmonk
  • Panavia Tornado GR1 in Desert Pink camo
  • Challenger Private Jet
  • Lockheed C130 Hercules’ cockpit
  • Westland Lynx
  • Robinson R22
  • Eurocopter EC135
  • Aérospatiale Alouette II
• Full night lighting placed across the airfield and within and around the hangars and buildings.
• Correct AI pattern procedures and accurate taxiway and runway placement have been incorporated into the release.
• The surrounding area has been enhanced:
  • Key points of interest added to aid VFR navigation including Shottesbrook Church and Littlewick Green Petrol Station.
  • The nearby trainline has been created with actual tracks and trains.
  • Fields and farms have been enhanced with agricultural equipment and hay bales.
  • Roads around the airfield have been improved with correct markings and colours.
  • Houses and gardens around the airfield to enhance the realism when on short final.

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

• Static aircraft “bounce” when you approach them. This is a known bug that Asobo/Microsoft are aware of and will fix in the near future.
• 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 fix in the near future.

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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/

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