Vnukovo International Airport (IATA: VKO, ICAO: UUWW), is a dual-runway international airport located 28 kilometres (17 mi) southwest of the centre of Moscow, Russia. It is one of the four major airports that serve Moscow, along with Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Sheremetyevo International Airport, and Zhukovsky International Airport. In 2015, the airport handled 15.82 million passengers, representing an increase of 24% compared to the previous year. It is the third-busiest airport in Russia.
Vnukovo is Moscow's oldest operating airport. It was opened and used for military operations during the Second World War, but became a civilian facility after the war. Its construction was approved by the Soviet government in 1937, because the older Khodynka Aerodrome (located much closer to the city centre, but closed by the 1980s) was becoming overloaded. Vnukovo was opened on 1 July 1941. During the Great Patriotic War, it was used as a military airbase; passenger services started after the war.
On 15 September 1956, the Tupolev Tu-104 jetliner made its first passenger flight from Moscow Vnukovo to Irkutsk via Omsk.
On 4 November 1957, a plane carrying Romanian Workers' Party officials, including the most prominent politicians of Communist Romania (Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Chivu Stoica, Alexandru Moghioroș, Ştefan Voitec, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Leonte Răutu, and Grigore Preoteasa), was involved in an accident at Vnukovo Airport. Preoteasa, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, was killed, as was the aircraft's crew. Several others were seriously injured.
The first passenger flights of the IL-18 (Moscow to Alma-Ata on 20 April 1956) and Tu-114 (Moscow to Khabarovsk on 24 April 1961) were also made from Vnukovo Airport. In 1980, Vnukovo was expanded because of the 22nd Summer Olympic Games. In 1993, Vnukovo Airport became a joint-stock company.
A massive reconstruction and strategic development programme commenced at Vnukovo International in late 2003, following the transfer by the Federal Government of the controlling stake in the airport to the Government of Moscow.
As part of the Airport Strategic Development Plan, the following projects were completed between 2003 and 2005:
April 2004: New Terminal B was opened. The terminal currently handles international passengers. But in the future, it will be converted to handle domestic flights or to fulfill any other dedicated functions to be determined at a later date. The terminal's total floor space offering stands at 80,000 square meters (861,000 ft2), allowing for an annual passenger throughput capacity of four million.
August 2005: Vnukovo's Aeroexpress rail link to Kiyevsky Rail Terminal was opened.
December 2010: New Terminal A was opened.
Vnukovo is Europe's busiest airport for international flights by larger private planes
- 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 Prepad 3D
- 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
- 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, photobackground high resolution
- Realistic reflections on glass
- Inclusion of manual in PDF format
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This is also the first Justsim product designed for P3DV4 only, no longer FSX and other prehistoric findings were in mind when designing this one. As such, it comes with all the good stuff, taking advantage of the superior platform.
Justsim's VKO does not cease to amaze me whenever my virtual flight takes me there, be it day or night. The textures are sharp and crisp, high quality throughout. Night lighting is gorgeous, very spectacular and very immersive and even with dynamic lighting enabled, the performance is top, not a single FPS loss. My sliders are pretty much to the right yet I can take my most demanding aircraft at any time of the day to the airport, FPS will not be affected whatsoever. Great job guys!
At the time of writing this review, SODE jetways are not yet supported but worry you not, Justsim confirmed SODE jetways are coming within a few weeks so we can tick that one as well.
The surrounding area is also worth mentioning. Approaching the airport is a feast for the eye no matter where you are coming from - including building and vegetation. The area nicely blends in the surroundings be it default vanilla P3D scenery or ORBX FTX Global/OpenLC Europe.
You will find 3D grass everywhere and even animated birds add to the fun. Both are certainly a nice touch.
On the aprons, all kinds of service vehicles travel up and down, bringing the whole place to life.
I think this one is Justsim's best to date. No matter what aspect I am looking at, I cannot find anything to complain about.
I can only recommend this airport even if you have no reason or motivation to fly there. Just get it, load it up and it will inspire you straight away and in no time you will find yourself on the way to Moscow! Well done Justsim, well done Digital Design, this is what a scenery should look like in 2018. I am hoping that Moscow's Domodedovo and perhaps Novosibirsk's Tolmachevo will not be forgotten either and will soon be given the treatment only Andrei and his team can achieve.
I highly recommend to buy this one!
Lockheed Martin Prepar3D V4.X
Windows 7 / 8/ 10
Dual Core Processor with 3 Ghz or better
Min. 8196 MB RAM
3D graphics card min 4GB
