Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (IATA: HEL, ICAO: EFHK; Finnish: Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema, Swedish: Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats), or simply Helsinki Airport, is the main international airport of the city of Helsinki, its surrounding metropolitan area, and the Uusimaa region. The airport is located in the neighboring city of Vantaa, about 5 kilometres west of Tikkurila, the administrative center of Vantaa and 9.2 NM (17.0 km; 10.6 mi) north of Helsinki city center. The airport is operated by state-owned Finavia.
The airport is by far the busiest in Finland (with 20 times the traffic of the next-busiest, Oulu) and the fourth busiest in the Nordic countries in terms of passenger numbers. About 90% of Finland's international air traffic passes through Helsinki Airport. The airport handled 21.8 million passengers in 2019, including 18.9 million international passengers and 2.9 million domestic passengers. On average, the airport handles around 350 departures a day.
The airport is the main hub for Finnair, the flag carrier of Finland, and its subsidiary Nordic Regional Airlines. It is also a hub for CityJet (on behalf of SAS) and an operating base for Jet Time, Norwegian Air Shuttle, SunClass Airlines and TUI fly Nordic. Helsinki Airport has around 50 regularly-operating airlines. The airport has around 80 scheduled destinations to other parts of Europe and 21 direct long-haul routes to Asia, the Middle East, and North America. There are also 35 charter destinations including numerous long-haul charter destinations. Currently, Helsinki Airport has two terminals with a total of 50 gates with jet bridges and 80 remote aircraft parking stands.
Originally built for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the airport today provides jobs for 25,000 people and there are 1,500 companies that operate at this airport.
Finavia aims to strengthen the position of Helsinki Airport in transit passenger traffic between Europe and Asia, and to increase the number of direct connections to Europe. Helsinki Airport's minimum transit time of 35 minutes is among the shortest in Europe. According to Finavia's survey, as many as one in every three passengers select their flight route based on the transit airport.
Fully compatible with FTX Global Base by ORBX
Fully compatible with FTX Global Vector by ORBX
Fully compatible with FTX openLC Europe by ORBX
Fully compatible with PILOT'S FSG - FS GLOBAL 2018 FTX and default mesh
Shading and occlusion (texture baking) effects on terminal and other airport buildings
Ground polygons made with the requirements of the SDK Prepad3D-PBR materials used.
Visual Docking Guidance System (VDGS) – see a manual for scenery after installation!
Animated SODE Jetways
Custom GSX Ground Service settings for scenery (parking’s specifications, vehicles, pushback and boarding services) – see a manual for scenery after installation!
Dynamic lighting of the apron
3D models now use PBR materials
High resolution ground textures / Custom runway textures
High resolution building textures
Many animated custom ground vehicles.
Surrounding area with custom autogen
Fully AI traffic compatible with accurat AFCAD file
Excellent night effects
3D birds
3D grass
Optimized for excellent performance
Fully 3d taxiways lighting
Automatic season change for vegatation, high resolution phototerrain
Realistic reflections on glass
Inclusion of manual in PDF format
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Requirements
Lockheed Martin Prepar3D V4.4+
Windows 7 / 8/ 10
Dual Core Processor with 3 Ghz or faster
Min. 8192 MB RAM
3D graphics card 4Gb
Excellent terminals, taxiways and runways detailing. Good frame rates on my machine.
But. Let down by no runway and taxiway dynamic lighting making a day time landing and taxing in low cloud, snow and fog near on impossible.
Pros:
- Beautiful, very high level of detail
- high fidelity and layout is up-to date
- super cool night lightning
Cons:
- VERY performance heavy at sunrise / sunset (and as it is a Nordic country, the sun is always low during winter days... So, bad performance all day long in that case) despite RTX3070
- lack of configurator. Would be great to be able to remove snow textures (it doesn't always snow in winter in Helsinki) and to un tick some options for better performance
Just purchased Vantaa and happy that I did so. For me Just Sim is a dev that I can trust and know that the product is going to be very well done. They did a wonderful job with EFHK, textures and performance is spot on and scooting around the airport shows it to be a faithful and accurate depiction of Vantaa and it's environs. Good job JS!