Explore the beautiful UGSM of Georgia with our simulation quality.
Is the TOP 10 most beautiful airports in the world, because of its unique design and atmospheric, scenic environment!
Queen Tamar Airport (ICAO: UGMS) or Mestia Airport!
Is a small domestic airport serving Mestia, a town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia. Since its reopening in 2010. It is named after the medieval “queen king” regnant Tamar of Georgia, who is a popular symbol in Georgian popular culture.
Architectural diamond with modern style, and slick glass contrasts its natural mountain surroundings and environment.
The airport does not provide international flights but is the most demanding location in winter from Georgia Tbilisi and other places for tourists. The airport is equipped with ground services for VFR flights.
Queen Tamar airport is known for the challenge of takeoff and landing, because of the mountains, steep hills, and strong winds, without navaid lights!
Is the best airport to test your flight skills!
Why is it one of the most challenging airports?
We add some birds with collision attributes to make your landing and takeoff more difficult.
Also, The takeoff and landing can test your flight skills because of the long and high mountain with short runways and populated trees
Is located at 1,456 m (4,777 ft) above sea level in the valley near Mestia, wedged between the mountains of the Greater Caucasus.
Designed with the latest airport updates
PBR Materials
UHD Custom Textures using the latest painting Techniques
Super Detailed 3D modeling
Detailed HD Custom 3D Ground with PBR and decals
Custom 3D vegetations
Ground with 3D Tarmac
Airport Life with Animated 3D people Animated Flags and Birds with collision properties
Requirements
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Microsoft Windows 10 (64bit)
Processor: Quad-Core 3,5 GHz
RAM: 16 GB DDR4-RAM (2666 MHz)
Videocard: 8 GB VRAM (DirectX 11)
Size: 1.70 GB
…what a coincidence! I had just finished a flight in my trusty (and rusty) P-38 from Mestia to Batumi. After landing in Batumi, I saw that SimMarket offered a payware version of Mestia.
So I decided to buy and install it and flew right back to Mestia.
So far, I had used the FS.to freeware scenery of Mestia and was quite pleased with it. Of course I was curious to find out if the new payware version is worth it‘s money…
The „new“ Mestia has a perimeter fence, a new building on the north apron, a parking lot and animated horses grazing on one side of the runway. The interior of the terminal & tower is not nicely detailed, with 3D people inside. The runway looks like it is painted with white color, so not very realistic - I don‘t know yet how it will look in summer.
And yes, there are some birds that circle the threshold in a menacing manner - as a matter of fact, they fly in formation and look a bit like hawks made from steel…
It is a nice scenery and I absolutely love to fly the challenging approach into Mestia, but… the freeware scenery gave me a nice terminal building too, and the runway surface in winter looked better. Are the additional details mentioned above worth the money for the payware scenery? Well, not really, in my humble opinion…
But then: I love flying in Georgia, and the Mestia payware is an upgrade over the freeware version, so don‘t regret my purchase :-)