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RouteAnn-Studios has released their first scenery, and this is covering the recently built Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in Anhui, China.

Hefei Xinqiao Airport first started construction in December of 2008, and cost over 3.7 billion yuan. The airport finally opened on the 30th of May, 2013, replacing Luogang Airport. The airport has a single 11,155 ft runway that will be able to handle pretty much any aircraft in the sim. 37 airlines serve the airport, flying mostly in China, but does serve some of the neighboring countries as well. 2018 saw over 11 millions passengers with over 89,000 aircraft movements.

The airport has a great amount of detail put into it, including SODE jetways, and four seasons that are driven by SODE. Dynamic lighting is included, as well as animated windsocks and an animated hangar door.

The developer advises that “If you see the Luogang Airport when choosing ZSOF,please go to the folder:Prepar3Dv4 Scenery 902Scenery and delete the following two BGL files：APX79200.bgl  OBX79200.bgl （You’d better backup the file by yourself!）and then restart P3D.”

RouteAnn-Studio ZSOF Hefei Xinqiao International Airport can be picked up for EUR 20.00 from SimMarket.

Features

1. Sode dynamic jetways

2. Sode driven four seasons mapping and lighting effects (support night and day low visibility operation)

3. Animation windsock

4. Animation hangar door

5. Dynamic lighting

On the PMDG forums, Robert Randazzo has shared a good sized update on the future of their product lines and more.

737 NGXu

Starting with the NGXu, a smaller update was given for this product. The team is currently working on the BBJ expansion which will include the BBJ1 and BBJ2. The expansion will include all of the auxiliary fuel tanks, a custom interior, and “a bunch of other high-end goodies”. After this expansion, the team will be switching to the freighter expansion for the NGXu. The NGXu line up will also be getting a general update including bug fixes, enhancements, and more. This will come after the 747 and 777 updates.

747 QOTS II

The 747 will be receiving an update that will include many bug fixes, code tweaks, and more. The physics will also be getting an update to bring it in line with the NGXu. The new lifting physics should also help with the wing flex. The update was scheduled to go into beta yesterday, but the team is taking a bit longer than expected to get the update finalized as the update changes a lot of things with the 747.

777

Once the 747 update is done and released, the testing team will move onto testing the new 777 update. A big visual change is a complete remap of all the external models to include PBR, which will cover all three models on the initial release. This will be the first update to the 777 in about 20 months. This will include updates to the FMS, AFDS, physics, wing flex, and more. The EFB will not be in the update, as the team has already take under a large amount of work for not only the 777. Robert also went onto say that there will be a new expansion for the 777 line up to come. This will be the -200ER expansion. With the new hiring that PMDG is doing, they hope to expand the team to meet the new demands of keeping the current products up to date and for new products to be made as well.

The screenshots shared show the 777 with all three variants with PBR, also sporting the new PMDG house livery we came to find on the NGXu.

Once more information on the updates become available, we will be sure to share those updates.