Sky Country Lodge (AL60)

SimVenture | A Hangar Studios 713 Experience

Welcome to Sky Country Lodge - where your arrival is only the beginning.

Discover Greg Koontz's Sky Country Lodge in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: an Alabama grass airfield with lakeside scenery, working hangar doors, and an interactive experience that continues after you shut down the engine. Fly in, explore on foot, and make yourself at home among the lodge, workshops, hangars, and gathering spaces.

From an approach over the trees to an evening beside the lake, Sky Country Lodge gives you reasons to stay. The property brings together the grass runway, aircraft parked beside the lodge, a lakeside pier, golf cart shelter, playground, and carefully arranged scenery details. After dark, hangar lighting and decorative strings give the airfield a different character - and the lake becomes the setting for a show.

Meet Hooty and explore

Your owl guide, Hooty, leads you through 13 discoveries around the property. Leave your aircraft and follow clues, optional hints, and the live map in the included HS713 SCL APP on your EFB. Lost him? The tablet's Find Hooty button shows you where he's waiting. Discoveries unlock activities and controls, with your tour progress and earned unlocks remembered between visits.

Prefer to try the activities immediately? An optional Unlock All Activities setting lets you explore them at your own pace without completing the tour first.

Make the lodge your own

Use the tablet to operate hangar doors, choose decorative lighting around the buildings and golf cart pavilion, and reveal optional Halloween or Christmas decorations. Visit the pond to discover its fish, water effects, and splash sounds, or enjoy the atmosphere from the pier.

Stay for the evening

Start the programmed fireworks show over the lake, with colorful bursts, illuminated shapes, and a finale. Turn on the raft light show for moving beams over the water, or enable its aircraft-tracking light. Add airshow drama with the Fire Wall, controlled from the tablet or triggered by a low pass.

Take on The Golden Drop

Put your flying precision to the test by dropping golden bean bags through the opening of a tire floating on a raft in the lake. Fly an airplane or helicopter, play five-attempt rounds, review your results, and chase a perfect five-for-five score. An optional follow camera lets you watch each bag fall. Local records give you a reason to return and improve your next run.

Included features

• Sky Country Lodge (AL60), with its grass airfield, lodge, hangars, lakeside pier, and surrounding property details.
• The HS713 SCL APP for your EFB - exploration, activities, scenery controls, and settings - built into the package.
• Hooty's on-foot tour with 13 discoveries, clues, optional hints, a live map, and a Find Hooty button.
• Saved tour progress and earned activity unlocks, plus optional immediate activity access.
• Operable hangar doors and selectable decorative lighting.
• Optional Halloween and Christmas decorations.
• Pond fish and water effects with splash sounds.
• A programmed lake fireworks show, raft light show, and aircraft-tracking light.
• A manually controlled or low-pass-triggered Fire Wall.
• The Golden Drop precision challenge with scoring, local records, and an optional follow camera.
• An illustrated Visitor's Manual, available in the app and as a PDF.

Requirements

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PC. Hooty's exploration uses the simulator's on-foot avatar mode.

Installation

1. Close Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
2. Unzip the download. Inside is one folder: bfg-sky-countryal60.
3. Move that folder into your MSFS 2024 Community folder. Do not rename it or place it inside another folder.
4. Start the simulator and select AL60 Sky Country Lodge. The HS713 SCL APP appears on your EFB.

The Visitor's Manual is in the package's Documentation folder.

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