Larnaca International Airport (IATA: LCA, ICAO: LCLK) is an international airport located 4 km (2.5 mi) southwest of Larnaca, Cyprus. Larnaca International Airport is Cyprus' main international gateway and the largest of the country's two commercial airports, the other being Paphos International Airport on the island's southwestern coast.
Larnaca Airport was hastily developed towards the end of 1974 after the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey on 20 July of the same year, which forced the closure of Nicosia International Airport. The site on which it was built (near the Larnaca Salt Lake) had been previously used as an airfield in the 1930s and, subsequently, as a military installation by British forces. Larnaca International opened on 8 February 1975, with only limited infrastructure facilities and a prefabricated set of buildings comprising separate halls for departures and arrivals. The first airlines to use the new airport were Cyprus Airways, using Viscount 800s leased from British Midland, and Olympic Airways, using NAMC YS-11s. Initially, the runway at Larnaca International was too short for jet aircraft
Operations
The status of Cyprus as a major tourist destination means that air traffic has steadily risen to over 5 million passengers a year. This is double the capacity the airport was first designed for. For this reason, a tender was put out in 1998 to develop the airport further and increase its capacity. Already completed elements of the expansion include a new control tower, fire station, runway extension, and additional administrative offices. The surrounding road network was improved by upgrading the B4 road and by completing the A3 Motorway. A new junction has been constructed near the new terminal. The new terminal was built some 500–700 m (1,600–2,300 ft) west of the old terminal, adjacent to the new control tower, with new aprons and jetways. The old terminal building is slated to be partially demolished and refurbished as a cargo centre, and is currently used as a private terminal for visiting heads of state, VIPs, and private aircraft operators.
The airport's geographic location in-between Europe, Africa, Russia and the Middle East facilitates it as an airline hub for traffic and flight operations between these locations. It currently holds domestic, regional and international passenger and cargo services by over 30 airlines.
Fully compatible with FTX Global openLC Europe
Shading and occlusion (texture baking) effects on terminal and other airport buildings
Ground polygons made with the requirements of the SDK Prepad3D
Dynamic lighting of the apron - only Prepar3D V4
Visual Docking Guidance System (VDGS) (SODE+GSX)
High resolution ground textures / Custom runway textures
High resolution building textures
Animated SODE Jetways
Surrounding area with custom autogen
Custom restaurants and hotels on the coastal line of the sea
Fully AI traffic compatible with accurat AFCAD file
Excellent night effects
3D birds
Optimized for excellent performance
Fully 3d taxiways lighting
Automatic season change for vegatation, photobackground high resolution
This is certainly a nicely modelled and produced airport by JustSim. The terminal, taxiways, the cargo/maintenance areas and the salt lakes are perfectly presented. And the frame rates are good too in P3D v.4. But, it’s not just worthy of the full 5 stars from me though as the immediate areas outside of the airport frontage are not detailed enough, eg the car parks and approach roads are poorly detailed (and are a bit blurry). Also, there is no detailing of the Aspire Lounge terrace on the roof of the main terminal.
Another brilliant scenery addon from Just Sim. The detail is fantastic. The performance is very smooth with good FPS. Makes a nice airport to fly some Euro hops in the 737 or A320.
In overall, it's a very good scenery, friendly on fps ,great visuals etc. Two drawbacks. The first is the fact that JustSim could insert 3dgrass to have a little more detail(It looks like ans fsx scenery sometimes) and the second one is SODE as the other already talked about.So, we are waiting for update.
Great Airport textures are great! love the bird effect and detail put into the scenery. Im looking forward for SODE compatibility in the next coming weeks after release! Still lots to discover about this airport reason why im giving it a 4 at the moment.
I am very happy to see my home airport being made available again. The previous version by another developer was never updated and this left me without a Larnaca Airport for p3Dv4. Well done to Justsim for this. The airport is very detailed, the textures are sharp and realistic and it really corresponds to the reality. The FPS are not affected.