Welcome to Houston Hobby! Now also for Prepar3D v5!
Situated 7 miles South East from Houston centre, Hobby is the city's oldest commercial airport and has over six million passenger boardings each year.
Four airlines currently operate from Hobby airport, while they previously concentrated on domestic flights, a new terminal has recently been built, offering international destinations.
This detailed recreation of William P. Hobby International Airport includes:
A detailed recreation of the entire airport and buildings
The new terminal extension
2ft/pix Seasonal photo scenery
A significant area outside the airport modelled
Custom night lighting
Prepar3D v4 version has native models
Custom taxiway signs
Custom ground textures
Baked night lighting and Ambient Occlusion
Combined models and LODS for performance
GSX compatibility
Please note:
SODE REQUIRED
This product requires user activation
AI models shown at terminal not included
Product images show Prepar3d v5.1, FSX and legacy versions do not support building ground shadows or specular ground materials. Prepar3D v4.5 does not support Enhanced Atmospherics.
I'm very pleased with this scenery. Along with LatinVFR's excellent BWI, finally having a decent HOU makes flying PMDG/SWA routes much more enjoyable. I had noticed that GSX didn't play nice with the SXAD product, but an update to fix this was made available promptly. The scenery is not as minutely detailed as offerings from the 'big guys' but does the job very nicely (I've never been hung up on looking at seats in the boarding areas anyway). I look forward to seeing SXAD's next offering.
Excellent scenery. I did have one small issue in regards with SODE jetways and GSX. I contacted support (Shaun) and explained my problem yesterday (Nov. 26, 2018) and before I got home today, I had a fix in my inbox and it worked superbly!!! This scenery is very high quality and accurate. I can't say enough for the quality of the scenery and especially the great, quick support I received. I will be checking into the other products SXAD makes as well. I am using P3D v4.3.
This is my first SX Airport Design product, and I intend to buy more from them. As a South Texan moored to Houston Hobby by SWA I've long used modified AFCADs and now there is a decent scenery for this historic airport. On the plus side is the clean and somewhat detailed scenery and scenery objects on par with any mid-tier addon scenery. On the negative side is the lack of documentation, this is the first time I've paid for an airport that didn't come with at least a brief guide... it took me several minutes to figure out that the stationary jetways were in fact SODE objects. On the balance I am not disappointed.