Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport (FLHN - previously known as Livingstone Airport).
Livingstone Airport Addon for FS2020 is an exciting expansion pack that brings the stunning Livingstone Airport to life within the virtual world of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Situated in Zambia, Livingstone Airport serves as the gateway to one of Africa's most iconic natural wonders, the majestic Victoria Falls.
Shops start opening at 8:00 and close at 22:00
Both hanger doors open by hiding your airplane yoke (either one in a double yoke aircraft).
The goal of this scenery is to supply you with the experience of actually visiting the Livingstone airport as much as possible in the simulator by detailing the interiors along with the surrounding buildings. As a result it's a bit on the heavy side so if your running a low-end machine or you're an FPS junky, this add-on probably isn't for you. I would recommend a beefy medium-end to high-end system with a GPU of at least 8 GB VRAM. I will go back and try to optimize textures and poly count as much as possible, in order to help improve performance. I've been told, AutoFPS a freeware add-on by Vasco Ferreira, greatly helps improve FPS.
Updates to come - more buildings, more interiors, more animated characters.
Please feel free to message me with any corrections needed and I'll do my best to fix it with the next update, thanks!
Special thanks to MamuDesign and Jeppeson2001 for their technical support; I could not have created this project without their guidance.
Thank you to Kaharia and Daiki-Decimus for their rigorous testing.
I am grateful for all the emails I've received with corrections needed and filled with kind, supportive words.
Livingstone isn't really somewhere I ever wanted to fly in the sim but a half-price deal — plus a recommendation from a friend — resulted in a purchase. And I'm glad I did, because this has to be the most surprisingly brilliant airport I've ever bought! If it didn't suffer from a couple of relatively minor flaws, it would probably qualify as the first truly perfect MSFS airport!
The interior detail is simply stunning. There are so many animations and little Easter eggs to find, both inside the terminal and elsewhere on the airfield. It would be very easy to convince someone that this is a native FS2024 product, such is the level of innovation.
The only cons are an incredibly bumpy road running down one side of the terminal building, and the landside part of the scenery fitting somewhat awkwardly into the surrounding default terrain. But given the quality of what's offered here, I'm most reluctant to deny it the full five stars it deserves.
This is seriously one of the most impressive airports I’ve ever seen — it’s the perfect compliment to Jeppeson’s Victoria Falls scenery.
The detail, texturing, modelling and terraforming is all fantastic and the interior quite literally the best I’ve ever seen in terms of details, rivalling the best names in the field like Pyreguee, FlyTampa etc. Obviously the scale of this is smaller than those developers airports usually are but it’s full of charm and colour, densely detailed and really high-quality.
Frame rate performance takes a bit of a hit for me in VR when looking at the central part of the main terminal building but only a small part of it seems affected and it’s not really that bad, even in VR. YMMV.
There are so many nice little touches hidden here and there and the layout inside is completely realistic and full of life, so much so that it feels like you’ve actually been there. I even spotted TwoToneMurphy hanging out in his car!
The amount of detail in this airport is extremely impressive. I spent a couple hours just wandering around trying to find all the fun little easter eggs all over the place. Great job!
the details blew me away top tier scenery cant wait to see what else comes from robi at 61tree studios, if you support good devs this is one of them. highly recommended.
The sceney is good, but the issue i have is when taking off from runway 28 the aircraft is on grass and facing 90 degree off, so i hope the creator will correct this on the next update
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