Flight Simulation developers shared news today, including airports and scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
Before we move on to the news, you can check out two stories that received their own individual coverage.
- DCS World Update 2.9.25.21123 Introduces the Lavochkin La-7 and Much More
- Volanta v.1.16.0 Update Adds Real World Data, New X-Plane 12 Plugin, and More
Without further ado, I leave you with the flight simulation news.
Cheddi Jagan International Airport Released for Free for MSFS 2024
Kevin1995 released a free rendition of Cheddi Jagan International Airport (SYCJ), the main airport of Guyana.
It’s available on Flightsim.to for the affordable price of zero dollars.
It includes the following features:
- Detailed Layout: Accurate taxiway, apron and runway configurations based on the latest charts.
- The Main Strip: Runway 06/24—the primary 11,023ft asphalt runway
- Custom Terminal Model: Features the newly expanded terminal building and passenger boarding bridges.
Tenerife Scenery Released for MSFS 2024
Island Creations released the MSFS 2024 version of its Tenerife Scenery.
It comes in three versions, Standard, Premium, and Premium Plus, each with increasing resolution and details, as detailed in the last picture in the gallery above. They’re on Simmarket priced respectively at $18.98, $23.74, and $29.67.
It features the following:
Custom Ground Textures
- Realistic colors achieved through manual color correction, removing greenish tints.
- Sharper imagery with enhanced detail from rock formations to shoreline structures.
- Completely cloud-free aerial imagery.
Upgraded Ports
- Hundreds of hand-placed vessels including motorboats, sailboats, yachts, catamarans, and ships across all ports on Tenerife.
- Fred Olsen Express ferries with night lighting.
- Cruise ships featuring landable helipads and night lighting.
- Container ships and cranes in Santa Cruz.
Enhanced Night Lighting
- Ports, piers, and promenades illuminated for a realistic nighttime atmosphere.
- Hotels, pools, plazas, parks and sports facilities come alive at night.
Improved Vegetation
- Native vegetation added to urban and coastal areas, including palm trees.
- Replaced trees at the Teide crater with typical vegetation for the region.
- Adjusted vegetation to match aerial imagery (e.g., bushes instead of trees in rocky areas).
- Removed incorrect coastal trees.
Accurate Coastline
- Custom water masks align the ocean water with aerial imagery.
- Previously submerged features such as breakwaters, piers, sandbars, and islets now fully visible.
Other Improvements
- Detailed 3D models of all seven Tenerife lighthouses, including animations.
- Removed misplaced buildings on fields, pools, and sports areas.
Mariscal La Mar National Airport Released for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020
Simdesigns co released Mariscal La Mar National Airport (SECU) in Ecuador.
It’s available on Simmarket for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020 for $21.18.
It includes the following features.
- Runway RWY 24 and RWY 06 with Slope Runway
- ILS Included
- ALS in model 3D
- Representative models of the City in 3D : Animated Metro Cuenca, Alejandro Serrano Aguilar Stadium , Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Cuenca and others
- Add Landmark POI Military Base Noroeste CUE with Heliport, Landmark POI Camara de Industrias Cuenca, Lanmark POI Alejandro Serrano Stadium, Lanmark POI Metro Cuenca, Landmark Totoracocha
- Checking the runway lighting system as it is currently and point for approaches and communications
- PBR texture
- Dynamic lights
- Slope Runway
- Taxi 3D ligths and LODs System
- Night Textures of Models of the City
- Airport Objects
- Optimised for good performance
- High resolution custom textures.
- Excellent Setting contour to the Airport
- Customized floor textures with excellent details.
- Scenery tested and highly optimized in frames
If you’d like to read more flight simulation news, you can find plenty in our previous roundup article from yesterday.
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