Flight Simulation developers shared news today, including aircraft and airports for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, MSFS 2020, and X-Plane 12.
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Without further ado, I leave you with today’s flight simulation news.
Kalymnos Island National Airport Released for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020
MM Simulations released Kalymnos Island National Airport (LGKY) for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020.
This small but scenic Greek airport is available on Orbx Direct and Simmarket starting at $11.42.
It includes the following features.
- Detailed recreation of Kalymnos Airport (LGKY)
- Fully modeled terminal interior
- Detailed ATC tower interior
- Kalymnos Port and surroundings
- Custom ground textures and PBR materials
- Realistic night lighting
- Optimized performance
- Compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 & 2024
Mexico City Landmarks Released for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020
Orbitforge released a set of Mexico City Landmarks. They’re available for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020 for $13.93.
The add-on includes the following landmarks.
- Custom-made Mexico City landmark buildings
- Compatible with MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024
- High-quality 4K textures
- Full PBR materials
- Realistic night lighting
- Enhanced skyline for VFR flying
- Improved city recognition during approaches and departures
- Optimized models for smooth simulator performance with LODs
Offshore Landmarks: North Sea Released Natively for MSFS 2024
Aerosoft released a native MSFS 2024 version of its Offshore Landmarks: North Sea package.
It’s available on the developer’s own store with the following features for $20.73, but those who have the MSFS 2020 version can upgrade for $5.95.
- Over a billion polygons
- Fully usable crew boat (designed to be used with outside view only)
- 388 new heliports
- 196 new airports (ICAO codes)
- 78 new NDB stations
- 741 new ships with helideck or winch locations
- 72 new substations (part of a wind park) helideck
- All objects with extensive LOD support, emissive and dynamic lights
- Most objects will have some form of animation
- Fishing Industry
- Trawlers
- Factory Ships
- Seiners
- Shipping Industry
- Container ships
- Bulk carriers
- LNG tankers
- Oil tankers
- Chemical tankers
- Fruit juice tankers
- Livestock carriers
- Other vessels
- Ferries
- Dredgers
- Cruise ships
- Wind Industry
- Monopile wind turbines
- Jacket wind turbines
- Fast crew boats
- Substations
- Wind Industry Construction
- Survey vessels
- Heavy lift vessels
- Offshore support vessels
- Crane vessels
- Crane platforms
- Floatels
- Tug boats
- Cable laying vessels
- Oil/Gas production
- Production rigs (spar, jack-up, compliant)
- Normally Unmanned Installations (NUI)
- Conductor Support Systems (satellite stations)
- Fast crew boats
- Support vessels
- Anchor vessels
- Patrol vessels
- Floating production systems ships
- Floating production systems monocolumn
- Floatels
- Single buoy mooring stations
- Oil/Gas Industry construction
- Drilling rigs
- Seismic survey vessels
- Crane vessels
- Tug boats
- Anchor boats
- Pipe laying vessels
- All Windfarms
- Borssele
- Hollandse Kust – Zuid
- Hollandse Kust – North
- Egmond aan Zee
- Riffgat
- Alpha Ventus
- North Sea One
- Sea Wind South/East
- Amrum Bank West
- Butendiek
- DanTysk
- Ramp
- Thanet
- Kentish Flats Extension
- Gunfleet Sands II
- London Array
- Lincs
- Neart Na Gaoithe
- Burbo Bank Extension
- Walney Extension
- Anchorages
- Rotterdam Anchorage
- Scheveningen Anchorage
- Amsterdam Anchorage
- Aussenelbe Anchorage
- Neue Weser Anchorage
- DW Anchorage
New in MSFS 2024
- All models in the original MSFS24 format
- All models with the MSFS24 LOD system
- Model visibility at altitudes above 40,000 ft
- 24 new animated characters added (appear at different times an temperature. Not visible at rain or snow)
- Terrace with animated people added (appear at different times an temperature. Not visible at rain or snow)
- Complete new crew vessel by Rodrigo Moraes
- Rotterdam-Rijnmond Pilotage Service (ICAO: EHTP)
- EHTP Helicopter Landing Pad reworked
- 24 new animated characters added
- 5 new helicopter parking spots added (for Cold&Dark start)
- New LED lights at the helipad
- New flags and windsocks with cloth animation
- Containers added at the adjacent terminal
- Terrace with animated people added
- Rotterdam Maasvlakte with tanks, offshore containers, container ships, and gantry cranes Upgraded
- Added 2 new Radar Tower
- Added 1 Bird Radar
- Added 36 new wind turbines
- Added 2 Transmission tower
- New in Pistoolhaven
- Sewage sewer
- HAPI at the EHTP helicopter landing pad (non-functional)
- In Character Mode
- Landable and walkable platforms, ships and tankers
- Walkable docks in Pistolhaven
Optimizations
- 37 3D-models for “hard surfaces” removed; these have now been integrated directly into the 3D models
- Dozens of individual windsock placements removed; these windsocks are now attached directly to the models via Model Attachments
- Optimized walkable and landing surfaces of the ships and platforms
Corrections
- Corrected reversed wind turbine orientation in Maasvlakte
Compatibility
- Adapted to the photogrammetry from City Update 14 (Belgium and the Netherlands)
- Optimal integration with Global Shipping 24 by Seafront and the GAIST Shipping Add-On by Henrik Nielsen
Boeing 787 for X-Plane 12 Gets New Screenshots
FlightFactor released new screenshots previewing the progress made on the Boeing 787 for X-Plane 12, which is making “steady progress.”
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