Renowned Turkish payware and freeware scenery developer SceneryTR Design has just released Istanbul Airport (LTFM) for P3Dv4 and v5 via the simMarket online store, finally providing P3D users with an accurate rendition of this recently inaugurated Eurasian aviation mega-hub.
Officially commencing operations on April 6th, 2019, Istanbul Airport (LTFM) took over passenger services from the continuously aging Ataturk Airport (LTBA) and has since become the main gateway to the city of Istanbul and its surrounding region. The project to construct a new airport was initiated as a direct consequence of capacity shortcomings at both Istanbul Ataturk and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Following a lengthy construction period, the airport was eventually inaugurated on October 29th, 2018, with Turkish Airlines Flight 2124 being the first airplane to touch down on one of the airports’ 5 new runways. Fun trivia: the airports’ control tower was designed to closely resemble the shape of Turkey’s national flower, the tulip.
Renowned Turkish scenery developer SceneryTR Design has just released their P3D rendition of this critical new Eurasian hub, finally filling the void having been left behind in our sims following the recent closure of Ataturk. The developer claims to provide users with a faithful and detail-rich recreation of the new airport and indicates that the scenery comes included with numerous features, including photorealistic textures applied to airport buildings and surroundings, the use of custom created and seasonally varying ground textures, ambient occlusion and hand crafted static objects to name but just a few. If you are feeling intrigued, feel free to check out the full feature list quoted below.
The scenery is now available to community members via the simMarket online store and will set you back 25.00€ E.x. VAT.
Finally, if you feel like picking up and testing out this new scenery, a domestic run across Turkey to one of this developers’ numerous freeware sceneries might prove interesting. If that should prove to be the case, feel free to check out SceneryTR’s freeware offerings linked here.
Feature List
- Highly detailed replica of airport buildings and surroundings
- Photorealistic high resolution textures on airport buildings and vehicles
- Custom high resolution ground textures, detailed markings and seasonal variations
- SODE animated jetways and VDGS support
- 3D Taxiway signs
- Custom airport vehicles and static objects
- Volumetric grass
- Custom surroundings with seasonal variations and hand placed autogen
- Various effects, i.e. animated runway guard lights, smoke effects, wet/puddle effects during rain, SODE windsock, animated radars, dynamic reflections on windows, bump maps, specular shine
- Ambient occlusion (texture baking) and custom night textures
- Various Dynamic Lighting effects
- Compatible with GSX/GSX Level 2 (settings ini file supplied)
