preview London Biggin Hill - Microsoft Flight Simulator - Pilot Plus

[Pilot Plus]

The Pilot Plus team are pleased to announce one of our current projects, London Biggin Hill for Microsoft Flight Simulator!

 

The Pilot Plus team are working closely with airport management to enable the creation of the most realistic and accurate digital twin of Biggin Hill.

Biggin Hill is in the London Borough of Bromley, placing it within close proximity of Central London. The airport is a popular choice for private and charter flights and is rich with history, most notably the role the airport played in the Battle of Britain.

 

The environment will capture the essence of the airfield and be at the level of detail you have come to expect from a Pilot Plus product. Also known as ‘Biggin on the bump’, the digital twin in Microsoft Flight Simulator will include accurate terrain for the airport and surrounding area. This will be at an impressive 1 metre resolution, including the runway slope. 

The team spent significant time capturing airside reference of both new and old infrastructure, on foot and from the sky by helicopter. 

 

 

Here are a handful of renders of some of the iconic infrastructure at Biggin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can view more previews on our press release

 https://pilotplus.io/announcing-biggin-hill-airport/

 

 

[boetie]

Great to see this historic airfield created for MSFS. Well done team, can’t wait.

Cheers

Graeme

 

[Sniper31]

With these preview shots and your description, one can already tell how much you are focusing on how to make this very special, historic airport developed in the right, honorably way. I will be watching this development in earnest  

 

Cheers!

Landon

[stiletto2]

Looks great!

 

Rod

[MadProf]

Amazing!  Finally a great rendition of my local airport.  I see most of the 1%'ers coming in on approach to 21 from my house   Instabuy from me

[BigginJames]

18 hours ago, MadProf said:

Amazing!  Finally a great rendition of my local airport.  I see most of the 1%'ers coming in on approach to 21 from my house   Instabuy from me

I'm under the same approach. Instabuy as well. 

[wain71]

looks like another great addon...

[EasternT3]

Great little airport. I wonder if you would consider adding the Formula 1 Building that's pretty much adjacent to the airfield, and then when we get a 146 we can fly the proper FOM ops. Thanks

[Pilot Plus]

1 hour ago, EasternT3 said:

Great little airport. I wonder if you would consider adding the Formula 1 Building that's pretty much adjacent to the airfield, and then when we get a 146 we can fly the proper FOM ops. Thanks

 

I can confirm that the F1 building will be included in the package! 

[EasternT3]

18 minutes ago, Pilot Plus said:

 

I can confirm that the F1 building will be included in the package! 

Amazing news, thanks!

[pipeorgan]

Don’t forget the Spitfire Hangar, my real life flight is booked for next month.

 

Instant buy for me.

 

 

[flsm (Frank)]

I love visiting this airport when in the UK from Melbourne, Australia.  Will you be including the beautiful RAF Chapel and new Museum, and the Spit and Hurricane at the entrance gates to the chapel and museum?  How about including Winston Churchill’s nearby home, Chartwell - he was a frequent visitor to the airport - it would be a nice bonus,  but now I’m being greedy!  Cheers.

[flsm (Frank)]

3 hours ago, pipeorgan said:

Don’t forget the Spitfire Hangar, my real life flight is booked for next month.

 

Instant buy for me.

 

 

To fly in a spit has always been my dream.  My wife says go for it, but I think too expensive.  On my last visit to the UK I was standing on the top of Dover Castle with my wife and son when two spits flew by.  They thought it was OK - but I nearly peed myself!  Anyway, hope you have great weather and it is everything you want it to be.  How long is the flight and how much?  Cheers.

[BradB]

1 hour ago, flsm (Frank) said:

To fly in a spit has always been my dream.  My wife says go for it, but I think too expensive.  On my last visit to the UK I was standing on the top of Dover Castle with my wife and son when two spits flew by.  They thought it was OK - but I nearly peed myself!  Anyway, hope you have great weather and it is everything you want it to be.  How long is the flight and how much?  Cheers.

If you ever get of lockdown Frank , here you go : https://australianwarbirds.com.au/warbird-adventure-flights/

[flsm (Frank)]

2 hours ago, BradB said:

If you ever get of lockdown Frank , here you go : https://australianwarbirds.com.au/warbird-adventure-flights/

Yeah, thanks Brad, knew about them, but no Spit unfortunately.  I think UK and NZ are only places where you can go in a Spit.  BTW, how the hell did you get to 36.6K posts!  Cheers.

[pipeorgan]

8 hours ago, flsm (Frank) said:

To fly in a spit has always been my dream.  My wife says go for it, but I think too expensive.  On my last visit to the UK I was standing on the top of Dover Castle with my wife and son when two spits flew by.  They thought it was OK - but I nearly peed myself!  Anyway, hope you have great weather and it is everything you want it to be.  How long is the flight and how much?  Cheers.

It‘s also been mine ever since being a young boy reading the Biggles books. Yes it is very expensive but I am very lucky as it is a birthday present. It is a 45 min flight to Beachy Head with a victory roll etc. included. I will also be able to take control at some stage so I am practising at the moment with the FlyingIron Simulations Spitfire in msfs2020 in VR. The whole experience is about 2 hours see https://flyaspitfire.com/

[pipeorgan]

Oops just noticed the Heritage Hanger when viewing the screen shots on my large screen. Well done in showing it in all its glory, can‘t wait for the release!

[mikee]

Hello ,

Could we have some more previous ?

[Pilot Plus]

On 11/15/2021 at 7:04 AM, mikee said:

Hello ,

Could we have some more previous ?

 

We're working hard at the moment! More information soon!

[mikee]

On 11/16/2021 at 7:05 PM, Pilot Plus said:

 

We're working hard at the moment! More information soon!

What happened to London Biggin Hill ??

[Pilot Plus]

On 2/3/2022 at 5:44 PM, mikee said:

What happened to London Biggin Hill ??

 

The project is sitill under development by the team! - We are working hard to ensure the accuracy is comparable to that of our EGTK project  As a smaller team, resource can sometimes be limited, but we greatly appreciate your interest and support!

[mikee]

On 2/12/2022 at 11:11 PM, Pilot Plus said:

 

The project is sitill under development by the team! - We are working hard to ensure the accuracy is comparable to that of our EGTK project  As a smaller team, resource can sometimes be limited, but we greatly appreciate your interest and support!

Great news ! 

Looking forward for more previous 

[BlueFinn]

Now that we will soon get the BBJ into MSFS, is there any news about Biggin Hill?

Will definitely be one of my destinations with that aircraft

[mikee]

On 4/18/2022 at 12:26 PM, BlueFinn said:

Now that we will soon get the BBJ into MSFS, is there any news about Biggin Hill?

Will definitely be one of my destinations with that aircraft

+1 

[Pilot Plus]

This week has seen some great progress with EGKB! 

 

Here are a couple of WIP in-sim previews  

 

 

 

[stiletto2]

Thanks for the update!  I am looking forward to this one!

 

 

[Flyer2022]

Nice, to see it coming!
Could it be possible to include a static Hawker G-MKSS parked there? A small easter egg/reference to the Da Vinci Code movie 

[mikee]

Great shots ! Looking forward 

[Pilot Plus]

EGKB is now in Beta testing phase, we are super excited to bring this one to you guys! We are extremely happy with the results  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[stiletto2]

Excellent news and pics!

 

Thanks for the update.

 

 

[pipeorgan]

Looking forward to it, definite buy for me