Nadi International Airport (IATA: NAN, ICAO: NFFN) is the main international gateway for the Republic of Fiji as well as an important regional hub for the South Pacific islands, located by the coast on the western side of the main island Viti Levu. It is the main hub of Fiji Airways and its domestic and regional subsidiary Pacific Sun. The airport is 10 km from the city of Nadi and 20km from the city of Lautoka. In 2011 it handled 2,231,300 passengers on international and domestic flights. Despite being the main airport of the country, it is quite far away from its capital, about 192 km from Suva, a 2.5 hour drive.
Arrivals and departures are much preferred to be to the south, due to the closeness of the Sabeto mountain range to the immediate north of the airport. A large turn around area, suitable for Boeing 747s, is to the left of the threshold of Runway 02, in case meteorological factors make departure to the north necessary.
In 2008, a Qantas Airbus A380 had to make an emergency landing to disembark a sick passenger, showing that whilst not certified, the facilities at Nadi are sufficient to cater for the largest civilian aeroplane in the world.
Nadi is the operational base for Fiji Airways, which services six airports throughout the southwest Pacific, and many more on the Pacific Rim. Remnants of the largest FIS in the world remain as, for example, Nadi Tower provides an FIS service for Fua'amotu Airport in Tonga when Fua'amotu Tower is off watch.
This scenery has the main features:
- Accurate details for the main terminal plus its jetways, and other details
- Accurate details for the maintenance hangar of Fiji Airways (before Air Pacific), all administrative buildings and general aviation hangars.
- NEW! FSX Native Textures with Bump maps and specular maps on almost all elements.
- Improved night lighting
- Photoreal map
- NEW! Photoscenery included covering part of the city area, plus hand-placed autogen.
- Semi-realistic textures
- Rain Precipitation Effects on Ground
- Fully compatible with FSX DirectX 10 Preview Mode
- Ready for Prepar3D v1 and v2
Review it now!
The scenery has the following flaws:
PAPI RWY 02 not working, always showing four white lights
Approach lights for runway 02 disappear when getting closer.
Approach lighting for runway 09 is floating in the air, no light poles are modeled
Apron and runway textures are unrealistically grainy. These overly grainy textures cause shimmering when viewed from a large distance
Unfortunately there are no moving jetways, I'm aware the developers don't advertise moving jetways but it would be a nice addition
Some textures should be provided in higher resolution, i.e. the Fiji Airways logo on the hangar.
The photo background is quite low resolution and has a strange blueish/gray tint to it. It probably has to be color corrected.
I hope that the developer will address some of the issues mentioned in an update.
If you specifically want to fly in and out of Nadi and can live with the above-mentioned flaws then go for it! If you are looking for a nice island destination and don't care about what it is then I suggest you go look somewhere else.
FSX SP2/Acceleration, FSX SE or Prepar3D 1,2 or 3
Minimum for FSX: 1.6Ghz Dual Core/Triple Core Processor, 4GB RAM, 256MB Video
Memory, Windows XP SP2 or SP3/Windows Vista SP1/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1,
+300MB HDD space avail, FSX with SP2 or Acceleration Pack
Minimum for Prepar3D 1.4: 2.0Ghz Dual Core/Triple Core Processor, 4GB RAM, 256MB
Video Memory, Windows XP SP3/Windows Vista SP1/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1,
+300MB HDD space avail, Prepar3D 1.4
Minimum for Prepar3D 2.0: 2.0Ghz Dual Core/Triple Core Processor, 4GB RAM,
1024MB Video Memory, Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1, +300MB HDD space avail,
Prepar3D 2.0
Recommended: Any Quad-Core Processor, +4GB RAM, +1GB Video Memory, Windows
7/Windows 8 (x64), +1GB HDD space avail, FSX with SP2 or Acceleration Pack
and/or Prepar3D 1.4 or 2.0
