Custom Phoenix RC Flying Sites based on the HHAMS Aerodrome

This is a follow-up to the custom airfields I made for RealFlight. This time I modeled the HHAMS (Hempstead Harbor Aero Modelers Society) Aerodrome on Long Island for Phoenix RC. One of the flying sites has been accepted by Phoenix RC as an official flying site. You can simply download it from the simulator itself, or you can manually download it at this page. See the end of this article for more information.

HHAMS Aerodrome in Phoenix RC

Manual download Instructions: Each photofield comes in a ZIP file. Just click on it in your browser, and save this zip file. Then unzip it and you’ll find a .PKG file. Launch Phoenix RC, but do not click on the button that starts the simulator. Instead, click on “Advanced”, and then choose “Install an update” to pop up a file chooser dialog. Find the .PKG file and install that. Once this is done, you will find the custom flying site in the airfield chooser in the simulator. If you have trouble installing the file, please see the end of this article for detailed screenshots.

hhams_aerodrome_2016-04-10_10am_phoenixrc-pkg.zip

Here is a video capture using Windows 10’s built-in Game Bar (Xbox Game DVR).

Some screenshots to follow…

Detailed Instructions

As mentioned before, one of the flying sites has been accepted by Phoenix RC as an official flying site. You can simply download this one from the simulator itself via menu System | Check for Updates, or you can manually download it at this page.

Manual download page

As this article is expanded in the future, it will include more flying sites. Not all of them will be submitted to Phoenix RC. So you will have to manually download some of these in the future, outside of the official Phoenix RC download page.

Each photofield comes in a ZIP file with a long, descriptive name indicating field, date and time of the day, like this: hhams_aerodrome_2016-04-10_10am_phoenixrc-pkg.zip

Just click on it in your browser, and save this zip file. Then unzip it and you’ll find a .PKG file.

Launch Phoenix RC, but do not click on the button that starts the simulator. Instead, click on “Advanced >>”, and then choose “Install an update” to pop up a file chooser dialog.

Click on Advanced>>

Find the .PKG file and install that. Once this is done, you will find the custom flying site in the airfield chooser in the simulator.

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