WA17 Majerle STOLport enhancements and fixes
Check out Washington State’s beautiful Snoqualmie Valley, or just practice your short-field takeoffs and landings in a beautiful area. at this updated grass-field airport. I’ve cleaned up the excess foliage, mowed the runway, added a little more activity around the airport, and thrown in an easter egg or two.
WA17 Majerle STOLport is a small airfield on a farm just north of Duvall, WA, a suburb in the foothills east of Seattle. It’s a small grass strip mowed out of farmland. In fact, it’s currently closed, as the Majerle family sold the farm and the new owner hasn’t kept up the strip maintenance. However, in our Flight Simulator world we prefer to keep it open as it’s a beautiful base from which to explore up and down the scenic Snoqualmie Valley. Head south to Fall City to see Snoqualmie Falls (from Twin Peaks), or North to Monroe, do a touch-and-go at First Air, and then fly East through the mountains.
The AI-generated WA17 had significant issues, the biggest of which were tall trees at the end of the runway (which aren’t there in reality) that made it extremely difficult to land on. Also, the grass runway wasn’t visible at all, when in fact the lighter color from the mowed field makes it very visible from the air. These were corrected, and some objects were added to give the area more life. (Including a couple of Easter eggs for Duvall residents.)
The scenery additions and tree placements were made using Bing maps, as well as Mr. Marzulli’s video, as a guide. All objects are standard MSFS objects; I hope to eventually update this with custom buildings that more closely match the real-life buildings there.
DISTRIBUTION: This modification is free to use. If you use this airport in a stream or other creative media, all I ask is to receive credit for the airport. Please do NOT upload elsewhere without my permission, as I would like to ensure all distribution points have the latest version. If you have questions or would like me to upload it elsewhere, you can reach me at dennya@gmail.com
Current version: 1.0
Installation Instructions:
1. Unzip the file to a temporary directory
2. Choose which version to install:
* airport-wa17-majerle – The full version
* airport-wa17-majerle-no_wildlife – a version without fauna in the area
3. Drag the folder you want to use to the Community folder in the folder where you installed your Microsoft Flight Simulator data. Hopefully you chose an easy-to-find custom folder when you installed the simulator, but if not, you’ll typically find the folder here:
Microsoft Store and Game Pass versions:
C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_\LocalCache\Packages\Community
For the Steam edition:
C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community
