This post is off topic in the sense it relates to FSX and not SP, but its still sort of tied to SP because of Rainier Aerospace. And plus its pretty cool. ;)
Anyways, because Rainier Aerospace is now getting serious about serial aircraft production, with models such as the F-36, RQ-120, and the future JADF program needing an actual facility to be produced in & tested efficiently, Rainier's old office and medium-large-ish sized hangar sitting at the corner of Grant County Intl. Airport (KMWH) won't cut it anymore. So Rainier recently has begun investing into a legit production plant and dedicated flight ops center for their production aircraft!
While I started on this project yesterday, Rainier Aerospace canonically began this major upgrade/project around mid-2018.
Rainier originally wanted a plot of land just outside of the west section of the airport for more space for a bigger facility, Rainier couldn't acquire the land due to a few farm fields occupying the spot. So Rainier could only develop their facility in one of the four major airport infields, and chose the SE section.
Rainier couldn't decide on this facility's exact role and what it would produce, so Rainier went all out and made the facility, supporting hangars, and the whole apron extra large to support large aircraft in case Rainier ever decides to produce anything bigger than a regional jet. Not just that, but Moses Lake is currently a top contender as a base-of-operations for Rainier's future space plans, which includes their SSTO shuttle (still in the design stages). So everything was built to support large aircraft, even if it's overkill for something like fighter-jets.
For now, the facility is expected to produce Rainier's first production aircraft including the F-36, RQ-120, JADF fighter, and potentially the MQL-125 Ghost if a potential customer orders it into serial production (currently only experimental in limited numbers with the US Navy).
The facility is expected to be complete by the end of 2019 and will be able to support production and flight ops by 2020. Unfortunately, as you can obviously tell, this scenery is exclusively for FSX (and I may upload it when its complete), but I thought it would be pretty cool to share anyways. I recently joined FSdeveloper.com since I'm considering making aircraft addons for FSX (freeware) and I will more than likely incorporate Rainier Aerospace into that as well, so I made this scenery to go along with my future aircraft plans in FSX. Although I know how to use blender and I have a fairly good understanding of FSX, I'm not starting any FSX aircraft projects because of the huge initieal learning curve I need to go through for FSX aircraft-making, so I won't start any FSX aircraft projects until this summer when I'm out of school. I also started a Rainier Aerospace website although it's far from finished. Anyways, just thought this would be a cool thing to share! ;)
@JohnnyBoythePilot haha, nice
@Carbonfox1
Oh nice. I live across the mountains from you in Arlington, WA. I chose Moses Lake/Grant Co Intl. Airport as my fictional company's HQ/home airport because of how open it is out in Eastern WA and the LOOONG runway Moses Lake has. Its perfect for Rainier's future SSTO shutte service. I originally wanted to build the new facility outside of the airport on the NW side, but it looks like there are farm fields there, so I just decided to build it in-field.
@JohnnyBoythePilot yupp
@Carbonfox1
Wait you live in Moses Lake, WA?
Hey leave my home airport alone its fine for tge MRJ! lol
@LancasterAce
Grant County International Airport is a public airport, so yes NKR can land their any time. But Rainier's 2 flight centers are private property, so no taxing over to those. ;) Rainier actually has plans to develop 1 or 2 private airports/bases in the deserts of Oregon, Utah, or Nevada for more private development of our defense projects.
@Brields95
DTG unfortunately no longer supports their flight sims. After their FSW debacle, they've completely moved out of the flight sim business, with the only exception being minor steam-related updates to FSX:SE, and the occasional new payware that joins the steam store for FSX. The Jeppesen databases for MS weather are no longer supported or updated by DTG, so the real-world weather feature no longer works with FSX (I use FSrealWX to substitute default weather engine). Your only shot at VR flight simming is Aerofly FS2, P3D V4, XP11, or the upcoming Deadstick bush flight simulator (it will support VR by default).
@JohnnyBoythePilot DTG needs to get with the times, and make it VR. a 3rd party developed VR for it but it costs monthly to use it. they need to make it free or a onetime payment.
@Brields95
FSX Steam Edition still is. There are still around 15-20 online servers still active. With the improvements DTG made to the sim, included SP1, SP2, Deluxe, and Acceleration in this one version of FSX, and drastically lowered its price to $24, I think they made it relevant again. IMHO I think its the best entry-level flight sim for beginners right now as of 2019, and its the biggest bang for the buck.
If I ever move past FSX:SE, I'll probably go with P3D V3 or V4 (depends on what PC I have in the future). I may get XP11 as well, but it won't be my mainline flight sim, and I can't play XP11 on my current PC because my PC can't even launch it (I've tried the demo).
I remember when FSX was relevant. Those were the days.
@TheMutePaper
Thorp T-18 (Comparable to the Vans design)
Cessna T206H/U206G Soloy Turbine Mark I & Mark II (Another incredible payware-quality addon like the French-VFR Cessna 150)
Basler BT-67 (Another high-quality payware-level addon that's freeware)
Aero Commander Package by Milton Shupe (An awesome Aero Commander package made by the legendary Milton Shupe!)
LIC Aeronca Champ 7AC Package (A great little freeware gem that gives you the lovely Aeronca Champ!)
Bellanca Super Decathlon Package
Bellanca Scout Package
VirtualCol ATR Series Package (Recently released as freeware)
FSND Aircraft (My favorite is the Beech Bonanza P35 V-tail and the Cessna 177RG Cardinal)
Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey by Maryadi (Another fantastic payware-quality-but-freeware aircraft!)
Eagle Rotocraft Simulations Bell 206, Bell 222, Enstrom, EMB-120, & P.180 Avanti (Another fantastic freeware developer that specializes mainly in helicopters)
That's all the freeware I'll list. If you want more I can give you links to more planes, especially warbirds n' such. FlyAwaySimulations, Rikoooo, Avsim, Flightsim.com, and Simviation all have excellent freeware gems in their libraries!
@TheMutePaper
As far as freeware, I won't list all of my freeware planes because I practically have an air force of freeware planes in my FSX, but some of the best freeware planes I have, and other freeware addons that improved my FSX include:
FSUIPC
FSrealWX (EXCELLENT replacement for the default weather engine since the MS weather/Jeppesen database is no longer supported by Microsoft or DTG
FSX GA-Traffic Generator (Generates general aviation traffic files based on perimeters you set such as which aircraft are used and what continents the traffic appear on
French-VFR Cessna 150L Aerobat (Superb freeware addon that I believe won an award or something, but its truly a gem and one of the finest 150/152's for FSX. Great entry-level trainer
Ant's De Havilland Tigermoth, Tecnam Eaglet on Floats, Drifter Ultralight on Floats, and his North American T-28A Trojan (Excellent aircraft, ESPECIALLY the Tigermoth!!!
Aeroworks Technologies Scenery & Aircraft (They make repaints, scenery, custom aircraft, and have high-quality freeware-variant planes such as an F-15E from IRIS, a B-52G and a B-1B from Virtavia available to download (they aren't cracked, they are old "outdated" versions of those payware planes those developers no longer support
FSrecorder 1.3 (Superb addon for making FSX videos, airshows, or formations on all your own. It's basically a flight-data recorder and you can play it back as yourself or as AI traffic. FSX:SE only takes 1.3 but the boxed version of FSX can take the latest 2.1 version
Airport Design Editor (Superb tool if you want to edit airports and create scenery like I did here)
Rob Richardson's Aircraft (This guy makes incredible jet & prop freeware aircraft! My fav is his Cessna 310B and Cessna 310Q. Those planes have some insane performance!
Wolf-Gang Piper's Gliders (Another amazing freeware developer who specializes in gliders!
Vans RV-7 Package
@TheMutePaper
The vast majority of the other addons I have are freeware, but I do have some payware, mainly from the FSX Steam Store. My payware addons include:
A2A Accu-feel (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Cessna 172N Skyhawk II
Carenado Cessna A185F Skywagon (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Piper PA-28-181 Archer II
Alabeo CSA SportCruiser
Just Flight Beechcraft Duchess 76
Virtavia Rutan Long-EZ
Lionhart Creations Piper Pacer 150/180 Super Pack (Highly Recommend)
Milviz Northrop/McDonnel Douglas YF-23 Black Widow II (Milviz took all there products off of steam so you can't buy this one anymore, which is kind of a good thing as all of Milviz's products on steam were HEAVILY watered-down compared to buying their products directly from them).
Lionhart Creations is probably my favorite addon developer. LHC's products are very high quality but not super-duper expensive.
@TheMutePaper
These are the skybox textures I'm using. Like I said it doesn't look as good with the lighting and time of day the screenshots were taken at, but it's a very good freeware addon (although its highly recommended you back-up your original skybox textures in case you don't like the new ones). My only complaint is I think the day-time sky is a little too dull/grey-ish. I miss the default deep-blue day-time sky textures, but the default dusk and dawn textures never looked that realistic to me (looked a little too purple/red-ish). But either way I highly recommend this addon.
@JohnnyBoythePilot what addons do you have
@TheMutePaper Oh that XD. Ironically those are my tweaks. It's just after dawn so the sun is still low and everything is rather dim, by the skybox textures I have are actually very good, particularly right a dawn and dusk, but even in the daylight it still looks good.
@JohnnyBoythePilot a couple aircraft one is a Space fighter
@JohnnyBoythePilot no i mean like skycolours and textures
@CptJacobson
What would FIA wish to partner with Rainier on?
@TheMutePaper
What do you mean? If your talking about the scenery (and how it appears mostly blurred in the distance), that's Moses Lake, WA for ya. Not a whole lot out there besides semi-desert, shrubs, and some crop fields. And stock FSX Grant Co. airport itself doesn't have a whole lot of buildings. I've got my FSX scenery settings nearly at max, with an exception for building/tree/vegetation autogen scenery, where its on low settings.
FIA is willing to partner with Rainer if your willing
Dude get some tweaks for FSX