Release

Mex High Flight has released their first scenery that’s not located in Mexico. With the release of Marrakech Menara International Airport (GMMX), the developer has crossed the Atlantic into Africa.

Marrakesh is the fourth largest city in Morocco, and located in roughly the center of the country. The airport has several passenger terminals to handle a considerable amount of passengers per year, as well as a cargo terminal. The airport serves a number of destinations, mostly in Europe. Marrakesh is a focus city for Ryanair and national airline Royal Air Maroc.

Marrakesh airport stands out by unique shapes and designs on their terminal building, with the big glass globe at the entrance of the airport, the diamonds on the main terminal building, and other designs that can be found all around the airport. These designs and shapes have been accurately recreated by Mex High Flight, with detailed 3D objects. The scenery also features realistic ground markings, numerous static objects, some animations and photorealistic scenery around the airport, which has been covered with autogen. A full list of features can be found at the end of this post. The scenery is available for €19,50 from SimMarket for Prepar3D v4.

Newcomer Lanilogic Technology Solutions has released their very first add-on: Self-Loading Cargo (SLC). SLC is a tool that aims at enhancing your flight experience by simulating passenger conditions. Much like competitor add-ons that aims to do the same or something similar, SLC will monitor the status of your flight and actions that take place during this flight, to calculate how happy your passengers are.

SLC uses different kinds of airplane and environmental inputs to calculate how smooth your flight is going, and how your passengers would react to that. Think about G-forces, excessive pitch rates, speed and, of course, turbulence. Technical issues and delays will affect your passengers in a negative way, as well as go-arounds, aborted take-offs and long taxi times. You can play music for your passengers, play movies for them, and give them drinks (either alcoholic or not) and food to make them feel better. But don’t give them too much to drink, as a drunk passenger will affect the happiness of the rest of your passengers. Also medical issues and other reasons for unruly passengers will impact how your flight is going. SLC comes with a large list of factors that affect how your passengers felt about your flight, their other passengers and about you as a pilot. Passengers are simulated individually and have their own personalities and traits, so you need to make sure to take care of everyone.

SLC provides an intuitive interface in which you can directly monitor your passenger status, as well as perform actions to increase their happiness. The interface will keep you up to date of events that are happening, and warn you when things are about to go wrong. The tool also comes with customisable sound packs, something which will no doubt be a must have for some people. You can also customise the tool a bit, allowing you more control over how SLC works and sounds.

Self-Loading Cargo reacts to button and switches in your simulator, provided the plane interacts with your simulator correctly. Otherwise, you can perform these actions via the SLC interface. The tool works with FSX, P3D and XP, and requires FSUIPC or XPUIPC to be installed for their respective platforms. You can purchase Self-Loading Cargo for £12.99 in early access from Lanilogic’s own website. Here you will also be able to find even more detailed information about the tool, as well as a full list of factors that impact the flight.