Renowned scenery development house Fly2High has released their next U.S. destination, this being Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (KLBB), for MSFS.
Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport is a medium-sized international airport located 5 miles north of Lubbock, Texas. Named after former Texas governor Preston E. Smith, the airport is the eight busiest airport in the state, serving as a hub for both FedeEx and UPS who use the airport as a dispatch center for feeder planes across the the country’s South Plains.
The airport orignially opened in 1937 as South Plains Airport, and was put under military command in 1942 when the U.S. Army Air Forces requisitioned the airport to serves as a training airfield. The airport primarily saw ground and flying trianing of army glider pilots and military use of the airport only ended in 1947 when civilian operations resumed. On an interesting side note, the original civilian passenger terminal was converted to house the Silent Wing Museum, a museum dedicated to the glider pilots stationed at the airport during the early 1940’s.
Today, the airport is considered the 8th busiest airport in the state and sees a wide variety of domestic and international operations take place. In addition to it serving as a interstate focus city for low cost carrier Southwest Airlines, the airport also sees major U.S. mainline carriers including American Airlines and United Airlines operate to major hubs across the country. The airport sees numerous freight carriers operate on its grounds including Ameriflight, Federal Express and UPS.
Renowned scenery developer Fly2High has released its rendition of this history-rich Texan airport for MSFS cowboys to discover. The airport comes with all the usual bells and whistles attached and seems, based of off first impressions, to live up to the developers previously set standards. Some of the features that the scenery comes included with include an accurate recreation of the airport, its buildings and surrounding objects, custom modelled and placed night lighting and good performance optimisation. For history buffs, the scenery also includes a number of Silent Wing Museum exhibits placed around the original passenger terminal, just waiting to be discovered.
For all those cowboys among you who would like to add another Texan airport to the collection, feel free to head over to the iniBuilds online store where you can purchase Fly2High’s rendition of Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (KLBB) for MSFS for $15.23 excl. VAT.
Feature List
- Accurate simulation of Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport
- Hand-made ground textures (Runways, aprons, paths, roads)
- Accurately modelled and positioned dynamic airport lighting
- Highly detailed models of all airport buildings, objects and surroundings
- Good optimisation of FPS
