Chandler Municipal Airport (KCHD) - Phoenix, Arizona
Chandler Municipal Airport (CHD) is just 18 miles southeast of Sky Harbor International Airport and offers trouble-free access to anywhere in the region. An excellent business airport, it also is a base for charter, transport and sightseeing excursions, and is home to world-class training institutions.
With more than 200,000 operations this year, it is among the nation’s busiest general aviation airports. CHD’s location is well-situated for easy travel to southwestern U.S. markets and beyond. At the airport, Chandler Municipal offers access to air transportation services and facilities to house aviation-related businesses, which makes it an excellent choice for the growth of your company for both corporate aircraft owners and business activity.
Whenever Flight Sim servers are offline. Airport quality severly reduce in quality, as my mod adds apron layers with opacity set to half, leading to missmatching offline textures from online textures.
Version 1.0
Please let me know if theres anything that might need improvement or has changed in real life, as I create most of these looking at google maps and old YT videos. Im happy to spruce up any pesonal area or FBO you like to fly out of, just ask in the comments.
- Fixed and reduced parking spots
- Removed or greatly reduced cars driving on taxi and runway.
- Fixed, added and removed taxilights.
- Added night lighting.
- Two Helicopter pad spawn points, gates H1 and H2.
Other Arizona mods:
Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (KDVT)
Phoenix Goodyear Airport (KGYR)
Installation:
Unzip and insert phoenix-airport-kchd-chandler file into your community folder.
Look for me flying around Arizona in game: Henry Morgan
KCHD is one of my favs! Especially since I've done some training there. Now that we have helicopters, could there be a possible update to add the helicopter flight school on the NE side of the airport?
1 years ago
DaveSchuette
Just a heads up, the parking space for the pipers has now returned to the original location in front of the Chandler Air Service building. In other words, what you see on google images is correct once again. I went for a flight yesterday and took some pictures of what the parking area looks like from the ground.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eiP6NADFdpnpDcwZxLoICWv4P5K8ZEhG?usp=sharing
2 years ago
x15adam
Awesome thanks!
2 years ago
PUA687
Can confirm it works with SU8 but there is heavy hit to FPS now. There are still planes sitting on their noses in one of the static areas.
2 years ago
Sonosusto
Wow! Really nice work here. I did notice some flipped aircraft as well and resting on their noses. Not a huge deal but probably an issue with static GA planes. Looks great. Wonderful job. Keep it up and keep this place updated!
2 years ago
Sonosusto
Fun airport. Just a couple bugs/errors I noticed.
The intersection runway hold signs in the mod have the runways flipped from what they should be (image for reference below). Also, IRL the runway hold position signs that are on taxiways that are at the ends of a runway should only list one runway in the red runway hold position sign rather than both (IE: 22R not 22R-4L). So for example if you're on taxiway November and are holding short of 22R, you should see a black box with a yellow N (indicating you're on taxiway N) and right next to it should be a red box with 22R labeled in white (indicating that you're about to enter 22R).
The taxiways that intersect a runway and aren't on the ends of a runway are the only ones that should list both runways in the red runway hold position signs (IE: 21R-4L). That style of sign is the type that is flipped btw.
Here's an FAA image for reference.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aip_html/images/fig-AD-1dot1-27.jpg
Lastly, a bunch of the aircraft at the southwest hangars/shaded area just south of the terminal/admin building are flipped over or resting on their noses in the sim.
2 years ago
Thank you. When I started this, the only information I had was google maps, images, and Youtube videos of pilots. A lot of things I just had to guess and fill in the blanks. I'm going to try to go through the mods here and give everything an update and fix random things that changed from world updates. Thank you for the information and resources.
2 years ago
RadioMan234
x15adam
Looks great but there is an issue. There is a pretty steep upgrade between the 2 parallel runways. 4R/22L seems to sit on a hill that isn't there in reality. It's pretty flat IRL. Can you flatten that?
Also the planes parked by Southwest and Hanger cafe in that small lot are very large. Normally that is filled with Southwest's Piper aircraft. Can you replace. Hard to squeeze my GA in there
2 years ago
I flattened out the airport to the average altitude of the two runways. Not perfectly flat, but a lot more realistic.
What spots specifically are hard to get to? Around what parking spots? I thought the fleet of aircraft in front of the Southwest Aircraft Charter building are KingAirs now a days? I unfortunately I don't have any photos or videos around the FBOs that are current, and if there are any, they are hard to find.
2 years ago
RadioMan234
jcoops
Dude... You absolutely nailed it, jaw dropping work. Had a smile on my face the whole time taxiing around on your latest version. So much love and attention to detail. Thank you so much for this! Easily gonna be one of my most used addons. Donated.
2 years ago
Thank you! I'm moving onto Glendale and Scottsdale next, maybe Prescott after. Let me know if any other airports in Chandler area need improvement. Smaller and municipal is better to work with. It'll be nice to eventually add custom buildings but will take up alot of time to do. Thank you for you support!
2 years ago
RadioMan234
x15adam
Hi Radioman. A couple of fixes for you.... the taxi sign at the intersection of A and K, one of the signs (when you're heading SW on A) indicates M instead of K. Also the sign indicating a right or left turn onto A when taxing on K at this same intersection appears to be floating. I do have the Justflight pay ware for taxiway signs, so I'm not sure if you're able to fix these (?).
And if it's not too much to ask...lol... Is it possible to replace the trees next to the building that would be the Hangar Cafe with tall palm trees instead of the ones currently there? You can see these palms on Google Earth. I do really appreciate your work on this.
2 years ago
Thank you for pointing those out. Fixed the signs but can't change the height. I changed somethings to hopefully fix it, but can't find anything else that might fix it if it's still floating. Changed to the palm trees, unfortunately the game doesn't seem to have the desert palms so I just had to use tropical palms and enlarged them.
2 years ago
RadioMan234
DaveSchuette
Alright, Downloaded, Installed and Launched. Dude I gotta say, you did an awesome job. Definitely a massive improvement over the base sim. This is my home airport and has one of the best rental fleets in the area, so I think getting the FBO and rental parking/spawn right is important - there are some things that could be improved. I made a picture illustrating some slight improvements that could be made as well as the location of a slight bug/visual error. Here's the link to that pic: https://ibb.co/g6N7JBd
Overall, great work man. Thanks for this.
2 years ago
Should be a good fix, Let me know if the paint lines with the KingAirs have changed. It's hard to find any current photos of the airport so I had to mostly guess with your suggestions. But thank you for your help with the picture and changes. I'll have to eventually model in some custom buildings.
2 years ago
RadioMan234
x15adam
Oh man! Been waiting for this one, looking forward to giving it a shot.
2 years ago
x15adam
Thanks for doing this. Are you planning on any custom buildings? It would be cool with the Hangar Cafe and Chandler Air Services represented. I did some training out of KCHD and always made it a point to go to the cafe. 😊 If you Google Hangar Cafe (Ryan Rd, Chandler) you'll find plenty of photos.
2 years ago
DaveSchuette
Nicely done! Very clean and good attention to detail.
2 years ago
Thank you! Let me know if you have any issues with the airport approaches. I'm not sure if that's something I need to add.
2 years ago
RadioMan234
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