LATINVFR - SAN ANDRES AND PROVIDENCIA

Latin VFR San Andres and Providencia Scenery for FS2004

About San Andres

Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina or colloquially San Andrés y Providencia is one of the departments of Colombia. It consists of two island groups about 775 km (480 miles) northwest of Colombia and 220 km (140 miles) from the coast of Nicaragua, and eight outlying banks and reefs. Its capital is San Andrés.
 

About the airport.

The airport serves the cities of San Andrés and San Luis, but also commercially serves the nearby island of Providencia Island. All being major touristic and vacational spots for South and Central American tourists. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport is also known as Sesquicentenario International. Airport. The airport is the 6th busiest airport in Colombia in terms of passengers, with 836.234 in 2006. Most of these passengers come from the continental part of the country, due to poor international direct service to the island. Many international tourists have to fly to one of Colombia's or Panama's largest airports (Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Panama City) to be able to reach the islands. Although in recent years San Andrés has started to received seasonal charter flights, mainly, from Canada and few Central American countries.

The airport is one of Colombia's fastest growing airports with a 13.4% increase in the number of passengers between 2005 and 2006.

About the scenery package,

The package includes the two islands, made by photo realistic images, with a SRTM mesh. The two airports SKSP (Gustavo Rojas Pinilla Airport) and SKPV (El embrujo) fully detailed:

•  Airports fully built with GMAX for ultimate performance
• Photo realisic images for the islands for both night and day.
• High detail textures for the runway, tarmac and taxiways.
• Custom AFCAD for AI traffic
• Marshaller at arrival stand.
• And much more!!