The Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur “Reina Sofía” opened its gates in 1978 to serve tourists and provide an alternative to the airport Tenerife North with its unreliable weather conditions. Named after the Spanish Queen Sofía who officially opened it, the airport has become the most important passenger hub of Tenerife.
With Tenerife Sur for Microsoft Flight Simulator sim-wings recreates the airport in a high level of detail. High-resolution aerial images with up to 15 cm/pixel lay the groundwork for extremely detailed airport buildings and an up-to-date ground layout according to AIRAC 2104.
In addition, the scenery comes with more details like functional windsocks, per-area dynamic lighting and full PBR-rendered materials.
Installation runs via Aerosoft One, this requires an internet connection and an Aerosoft user account!
Features:
Highly detailed Tenerife Sur Airport scenery
Terraforming to blend airport into default elevation model
Runway with real elevation profile (sloped) and on a lower level than the Apron of the airport
Support for Aerosoft VDGS Systems
Custom aerial photo for the airport, elaborate retouching and color-correction for a true display
Intensive use of PBR Materials to build realistic surface for all buildings and objects
Detailed ground markings based on recent charts of parking stands and new taxiway layouts (AIRAC 2104), includes recent main taxiway extension and huge changes of taxiway layout
Extremely detailed Tenerife Sur airport buildings with interior designs at apron side and infrastructure buildings
Detailed animated jetway models with light effects while moving
For those that don’t have much time to read: buy this one, and don’t buy from MK-Studios.
The reasons:
- MK-Studios comes in a bundle when bought from the MSFS in-game marketplace, so you won’t be able to easily use only Tenerife North or South independently.
- The Sim-Wings version is MUCH more detailed. The interiors of the buildings and surroundings are just amazing. There are even passengers inside the main building.
- Even the colors in the MK-Studios versions are way off from reality.
- Both have the same FPS rates.
- I can’t talk about technical stuff like ILS accuracy, since I don’t have that level of knowledge yet. Take into account the reviewer that mentioned this (possible problems with ILS).
- The only issue with this one from Sim-Wings is that the new building (finished in real life a year and a few months ago) hasn’t been updated yet. You’ll have the building with a partially built roof which looks a bit goofy now.
Looks great, nice textures and will hopefully be updated as the new terminal building is finished. Main issue for reduced rating is that ILS runway alignment is way out
Great scenery, accurate airport and terminal with no flickering, very good performance in my Rig i7 10700/ RTX 2060 Super.
The quality and performance justify the 20 bucks.
GCXO and GCLP on my wishlist for this developer.