Suvarnabhumi International Airport is the largest airport in Thailand. The airport project was first established in 1973 to replace Don Maung Airport which was already congested and no way to be expanded. It took more than 3 decades to complete because of obstacles in politics. It was officially open in 29th September 2006.
Nevertheless, the airport itself is beautifully constructed with glass, metal and modern fabric canvas roof. Design by Murphy/Jahn Architects. The airport has 2 parallel runways. It has a total of 120 parking bays (51 with contact gates and 69 remote gates) and 4 of these are capable of accommodating the Airbus A380 aircraft.
VTBS armi project was released in 2009 with full of detail. I modified it to make it more frame rate friendly. But it is still only for FS9. I have upgraded this scenery for full compatibility with FSX. It has been done from inside gmax, to incorporate new feature of FSX including bump mapping, specular map, reflexion, airport vehicles, road traffic etc. Make this scenery much more beautiful than FS9 version.
Features
Main terminal and concourses are made in detail with 3d metal frames. Interior decoration has been added. You can see through the glass wall of the concourse and main terminal. But the interior decorations cannot be visible in front of the main terminal. Nevertheless, there are rotating doors provide some view that you can see inside.
Visual Guide Docking System by Arno Gerretsen, provide guide when parking to the gate.
Real 3d ALSF-2 landing light system.
Fully detail jetways and bridge to concourse.
Animated ground service vehicles.
Custom made lines, taxiway and taxi lights.
Custom Gmax ground texture from satellite photos will make you feel like being in the real airport. Moreover ground texture will change with season.
Animated Thai Maintenance Hangar doors. You can open them by dial Nav2 to 112.00. You need to wail 10-15 sec. until the doors opened.
Turn runway guard light into green by dialing NAV2 to 113.00
Runway guard light can be switched to red or green by dialing Nav2 to 113.00.
Surrounding area including Thanacity Golf Course, King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Logistic Center, Airport link station and Burapha Vitae Expressway.
new add building airline office , Suvarnabhumi Sign at main terminal , Engine test facility and etc
not competible with any ground environmental add-on
Incompatibility
This scenery is incompatible with Jan Martin’s VTBD and Bangkok. It may cause runway and taxiway disappear. Other scenery regarding VTBS should be removed, including VTBS photoscenery by myself (Jirayu Tanabodee) VTBS by Jan Martin, VTBS2006 and VTBS2008 by Siamavsim. This scenery is fully compatible with Prasong’s VTBD from Thaiflight.com. (but it is FS9 not FSX).
Update Offer
If you previously purchased ARMI PROJECT - VTBS-FSX 2010 at simMarket, you are entitled for a free upgrade. Simply purchase the product and you will not be charged. NOTE: The special upgrade price will be awarded automatically, therefore you must be logged into your same account used to purchase the previous version! If in doubt contact simMarket support first! NO REFUNDS GIVEN!
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Requirements
The lowest spec. PC should be at least CoreII 2.53 Ghz RAM 2GB. Video card memory should be at least 512 mb. Our beta-tester can get 10-15 fps. without any AI and clear sky. We recommend new CPU such as i5 or i7. FSX is CPU bounded program. If you’d like to upgrade your computer try the faster CPU not graphic card. Graphic card in mid level should do the task with decent frame rate. My 9800GTS is still working with newer CPU.
I would recommend not to run FSX at full spec. You need to tweak it to get decent frame rate. How much to tweak depends on your hardware.
Der Flughafen Bangkok Suvarnabhumi ist sehr detailliert dargestellt, die Texturen und Gebäude sind sehr realistisch. Zur Zeit der Veröffentlichung dieser Szenerie war Bangkok Suvarnabhumi gerade neu eröffnet worden.
Leider fehlt auf dem Flughafen jeglicher Flugverkehr - weder als statische Flugzeuge noch als AI Traffic. Das macht die Szenerie dadurch extrem unbelebt und einsam. Man hat das Gefühl, auf einem Geisterflughafen gelandet zu sein. Das ist wirklich sehr schade, da ansich alles sehr schön und stimmig aussieht.
Eine Nachfrage bei ARMI-Project wg. dem fehlenden Traffic ergab, dass man disen absichtlich wegliess, um die Performance zu verbessern. Zitat ARMI Project "About AI traffic we cannot set to this scenery cause of this scenery contain heavy polygon
for terminal building if we put the AI for this is will make frame rate drop and running not smooth"
It's just a great scenario. You get a good prorobotany and detailing the airport for such a small price. This product is a must to buy. I did not find the bugs. Just Excellent. Ten stars.
Solution to the sinking problem is to create an airport stub file using ADE or AFX to set the airfield base altitude to the same height as the AFCAD file included by the developer.
Nice scenery but major sinking issues in FSX. Flatten fix suggested in other reviews doesn't work. Unusable without a developer implemented fix as a result.
This is a very detailed and beautiful scenery of Suvarnabhumi, unfortunately I am not able to use it because it causes a fatal error to come up just beofre landing with any complex payware add on.
There is also the issue with the sinking.
I have also tried the AI pckage, but it doesn't work.
An otherwise beautiful scenery that lacks support and a fix
Absolutely love this scenery and great price. Even the inside of the terminal is very detailed. I did however have to fix the AFCAD due to minor errors but it is still worth it.
For thos who has bug that whell sink in marshland
1.)You have to go to scenery.cfg and open it with notepad.
2.)Find [Area.xxx]
Title=VTBS2008
Local=Addon Scenery\VTBS2008
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=56
3.)paste Flatten.0=5.0,N13 39.15,E100 45.32,N13 39.55,E100 43.65,N13 42.90,E100 44.76,N13 42.54,E100 46.30
in the bottom of remote=
like this
[Area.xxx]
Title=VTBSarmi_tic
Layer=52
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Local=Addon Scenery\VTBS 2010\VTBS Suvarnabhumi Airport\VTBSarmi_tic
Remote=
Flatten.0=5.0,N13 39.15,E100 45.32,N13 39.55,E100 43.65,N13 42.90,E100 44.76,N13 42.54,E100 46.30
4.)save you file and enjoy :)
#note that xxx is represent on your number of your secenry number. You don't have to change it to xxx like me :D.
apart the gate issue (gates dont move), all looks great and very detailed. No issues at all regarding taxing or FPS , i've really enjoyed it. It's remarkable that there's also an "internal view" of the airport. In my first flight i've landed from south, and i didnt say anything from the city that it's assumed to be get with this addon.
The same bugs as in the previous version. None was fixed. Airport is totally with no AI Traffic and planes still sink in "marshland" surrounding taxiways when still on the concrete. 4/5 for eye-candy general appearance, but airport is still not flayable 'coz of sinking aircraft during taxi.