Anchorage Ted Stevens International (PANC) the most important airports in Alaska and a destination of many national and international connections. It is a hub for Alaska Airlines and an important cargo airport located conveniently between the USA and Asia. This paradise for aircraft enthusiasts and pilots is now, finally, available for Prepar3D as well!
There probably is no place on the globe where aviation is as important as in Alaska. In this great state roads are scarce and limited to the major cities. The vast wilderness can only be reached by aircraft, often only by floatplane or small aircraft equipped for off-airport landings. And Anchorage International Airport ‘Ted Stevens’ is at the centre of much of this aviation.Add the violent weather and the long hours of darkness in the winter and you end up with an airport that is in every way remarkable and well worth a superb rendering for Flight Simulator.
Lake Hood: Right next to PANC, via a taxiway connection crossing several streets, you can find Lake Hood – the largest seaplane base in the world. During summer, up to 800 seaplanes arrive and depart here per day, bringing anglers, backpackers, and other visitors into all regions of Alaska. Quite a lot of guided tours also begin here.
Z41: Next to Lake Hood there is a dirt strip “Z41” used by aircraft that have tundra equipment attached (special wheels to enable landing on unpaved strips in the wilderness).
Features:
Scenery of Anchorage Ted Stevens Airport with all buildings and facilities (international terminal, national terminal, cargo area, maintenance area, Kulis Air National Guard Base, South Airpark, etc.)
Photo realistic ground textures based on aerial imagery (15cm/pixel). Ground layout including detailed aerial image according to P3D V4 SDK
Detailed recreation of Lake Hood (LHD), the world’s busiest seaplane base, incl. lots of static aircraft
Configuration tool to enable or disable features like vehicle traffic and dynamic lighting
Compatible with FTX South Alaska (compatibility switchable via the config tool, changes include an adaptation to the custom FTX season times and a recoloured aerial image
Landing Strip Z41
Animated ground vehicle traffic airside and towards the city with specific US vehicles (pickups, etc.). Note: The ARR train is not animated in this version for technical reasons
Autogen adapted to the aerial image
Seamless integration into the environment due to custom coastlines and a custom mesh covering the airport area
Custom new elevation for continuous transition from the airport to its surroundings
Complete taxiway and runway signage
Night lighting with dynamic lights (can be deactivated via config tool)
Detailed, functional AFCAD files for all included airports, for Anchorage including approaches based on recent nav data (1713)
True-to-original 3D runway and taxiway lighting, based on weather conditions
Animated windsocks
Detailed SDK animated jetways (SODE jetways can be downloaded and installed as an option)
Manual in English and German
All code (BGLs) compiled with P3D V4 SDK, using new material options
It's okay. I wouldn't pay full price for this because the texturing just isn't all that. Performance is decent but not insane, and it's an alright scenery, but not up there with the best and definitely not worth it at full price.
Wahnsinns-Scenery... Nein, die Texturen der Gebäude sind nicht die besten, nein ein paar Sachen sind optimierungsbedürftig, aber im Ganzen ist dieser Airport einer meiner Lieblinge geworden.
Immersion wird hier wirklich gross geschrieben, man fühlt sich beim taxiing als ob man in eine Kleinstadt einrollt. Überall Verkehr von Fahrzeugen, massig GA Flieger stehen rum, und endlo viele Objekte und Details sind wirklich was fürs Auge. Das ganze in einer 747 und der Immersionfaktor ist komplett.
Dynamic Lightning funktioniert tadellos, rein von der Performance her. Leider sind auch in der Nacht die Texturen nicht immer wirklich die tollsten, sie erreichen jedoch nie ein level das man als "unter Durchschnitt" ansehen könnte.
Das Areal ist riesig und bietet für jeden Anlass Gelegenheit. GA (Wasserpark und zugefrorene Seen bieten Platz für alle Arten GA), Cargo (Cargohub in alle Richtungen, Asia & EU & Nord+Südamerika), Passengerhub. Alles was man will.
Top-Scenery und jeden Pfenning Wert.
5 star upgrade.
Much better ground traffic, photo scenery is excellent and on a decent machine great performance.
Well done Aerosoft hopefully Fairbanks is on the agenda to.
Excellent!
The FS9 version of this scenery is actually better than the FSX version, but you get both with the same purchase. The main difference is with FS9 you have some amazing animations and very smooth FPS whereas with FSX some of the animations weren't possible and performance isn't quite as good. But as long as you scale back your AI and move a few sliders to the left, it's still excellent. I think it definitely deserves a much more positive review than the previous one, but it's a matter of opinion I guess. If you are a user of Orbx Alaska, I don't think you will adding this to the other great Alaskan sceneries that are available
For that price and the size of the file, I wasnt expecting better texturing but was rather disapointed. Perfomance aint all that improved as claimed.
Real disapointed.