[Freeware airport requests]

On 1/5/2018 at 1:44 PM, Sabretooth78 said:

It seems that while the freeware airports do a good job of peppering the northeast and mid-Atlantic US, Western New York (and Upstate NY in general) is largely devoid of these improvements.  Might I suggest a selection which would fill that gap up nicely while also complementing the ORBX "butter zone" of existing smaller fields:

 

0G0 - North Buffalo Suburban

4G2 - Hamburg Inc

5B2 - Saratoga County

5G0 - LeRoy

62NZ - Lockport Cambria (mostly a gliderport)

7G0 - Ledgedale Airpark

89NY - Maxson Airfield

9G0 - Buffalo Airfield

D38 - Canandaigua

D80 - Olcott-Newfane

KALB - Albany Int'l

KART - Watertown Int'l

KBGM - Greater Binghamton/Edwin A Link Field

KBQR* - Buffalo-Lancaster Regional (was "D77" up until a few years ago)

KDKK - Chautauqua County/Dunkirk

KDSV - Dansville Municipal

KELM - Elmira/Corning Regional

KELZ - Wellsville Municipal Tarantine FIeld

KGFL - Floyd Bennett Memorial

KGVQ - Genesee County

KIAG - Niagara Falls Int'l (current/former AFB)

KJHW - Chautauqua County/Jamestown

KMAL - Malone-Dufort

KMSS - Massena Int'l/Richards Field

KOGS - Ogdensburg Int'l

KOLE - Cattaraugus County/Olean

KPBG - Plattsburgh Int'l (former AFB)

KPEO - Penn Yan

KPTD - Potsdam Municipal Damon Field

KRME - Griffiss Int'l (former AFB)

KROC - Greater Rochester Int'l

KSCH - Schenectady County

KSDC - Williamson-Sodus

KSWF - Stewart Int'l

KSYR - Syracuse Hancock Int'l

N66 - Oneonta Municipal

 

A few of these (particularly KROC and KSYR) are perhaps a bit on the larger side but there are to my knowledge no significant offerings available.  (Of editorial interest, in real life I've flown out of 9G0 (in the left seat), KBQR, KSYR, and skydived out of KMAL.)

 

Also, a few other suggestions outside Upstate NY:

 

KAVP - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Int'l

KERI - Erie Int'l

KHPN - Westchester County

KMHT - Manchester-Boston Regional

 

Finally, I'd also like to second the previous requests for:

 

TFFG - Grand Case

TQPF - Clayton J Lloyd Int'l

 

I've made some improvements to both of those for my personal use (TQPF was recently expanded), but they really deserve the professional treatment to play with their brethren TNCM, TNCS and TFFJ in that tight little cluster of some of the worlds' more interesting airports.  I've been to or right by 3 of them in real life, hopefully get to knock off the other 2 someday soon.

 

I promise I'm done - I'd be appreciative to see even just one of all these make the cut! 

 

As someone who lives and did my GA PPL in this area those would are some fantastic additions.  The Finger Lakes region makes for some magnificent scenery.  I would also add KFZY.   to this list.  Nice dual runway GA airport with some pretty good landmarks for vfr. 

[Freeware airport requests]

I'd like to suggest KDSV, Dansville.  Not a challenging airport to land in but beautiful as it's in a valley and has lots of GA and glider activity.. It also is home to the NYS Festival of Balloons each Labor Day.

Thanks

Kevin