Scenery designers 29Palms and Captain7 are taking us to Nuremberg, for an updated rendition of Nuremberg Airport (ICAO: EDDN). The airport was first released for FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane 11 and now a converted and updated version for X-Plane 12 is available on the Aerosoft shop.
Nuremberg Airport is an international airport, located north of the city of Nuremberg in the Bavaria region in Germany. After Munich airport, its the second largest airport in the region. The airport has been around since 1955 and has seen many incremental additions over the years such as a cargo center in 1987 and a transfer-control-terminal in 2007. It features a single 2700m runway, which is used daily by both GA traffic and many commercial airlines such as Eurowings, Corendon airlines and Ryanair. The airport offers various ways to line up your favorite aircraft with either runway 10 or 28. These include ILS, RNP, LOC and VOR for a mix of precision and non-precision approach types.
The scenery for Nuremberg was under development for around 2.5 years, aiming to include all the buildings and facilities around the airport. The rendition covers an area of around 55 km² and contains various recognizable buildings, traffic routes and terrain features and is compatible with various seasons in the simulator. According to the developer, one of the highlights (full feature list below) is the lively and realistic atmosphere at the airport due to various vehicle animations. Extra care was taken to get an accurate depiction of the taxiway and apron surfaces. The conversion to X-Plane 12 also brings a number of extra features related to X-Plane 12 tech, such as revised lighting, trees, bushes and grass and weather effects.
EDDN was also previously released for MSFS, as can be read here.
The scenery can now be purchased at the Aerosoft shop, for around €20.00 (excluding VAT).
Features
- Highly realistic rendition of Nuremberg Airport based on most recent geodata
- 55 km² satellite imagery coverage with resolution up to 20cm/px including all seasons
- Highly detailed buildings with internal modelling of the terminal and Hangar 2
- PBR ground and marking textures
- Athmospheric HDR night lighting
- Animated Jetways (SAM Plugin required)
- Custom seasonal textures (XP11: SAM Plugin required, XP12: native XP12 seasons)
- Snow and rain effects
- Animated FAI gate (SAM Plugin required)
- Custom Runway lights automatically switched on in low visibility
- Detailed airport lighting including REILs, Running Rabbits and HDR Lighting
- Custom vehicle animations on the apron
- Animated tower radar (SAM Plugin required)
- Static aircraft with proper liveries and registrations
- X-Plane conform export of all scenery elements using the latest techniques
New Features in the X-Plane 12 version
- Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
- Revised lighting
- Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
- Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
- Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
- XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
- Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
- Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
- Reworked autogen and street placement
- Revised static aircrafts
