FS9 and FSX. First FSX airport in Albania. Good work from Tropical Sim, standard quality. Not a really "sexy" airport but a good stop for some flights inbound Athens or the rest of Europe.
Version tested : FSX V.1
File : 260 MB
Framerate : Very friendly
Tropical Sim did better ground textures. These ones are pretty good
but i would have like bette resolution, including for grass and apron.
The scenery includes a large area of landscape and custom textures.
My regret here : the developers did not designed the buildings near the airport
(see last picture).
Two custom AI traffics added by My Traffic V5.1 As usual, i would have appreciated
to see 2 or 3 local static aircrafts.
Textures at dusk
Dusk
The scenery at night
This small part in the blue box is not designed.
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1 comment:
This might come late, but anyways.
I find the review very objective. My comments on the scenery:
This is a small airport. Higher resolution textures/modelling would not hurt any framerates. The buses look awful. In an airport without air-bridges, the buses are something you can throw some details in.
The airport in real life, is close to a very densely populated area and overflies the industrial zone of the city. On a runway 36 approach, you would overfly a very busy place with a lot of industrial buildings. On the left during the approach, you would be overflying what used to be the Albanian version of "favelas".
The airport has some old military aircraft that got stuck there as well a military area. While some of the buildings/hangars were added in the update, it still does not feel like TIA.
However, they did a good job and it is cheap compared to high end sceneries. It improves the default too much to ignore it. The airport is small and not very popular among simers so it will not get a better representation any time soon.
One very good thing about it is the fact that it has both visual reference points mentioned on the visual approach charts placed appropriately by the designers. Great job there.
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