Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) (IATA: BOM, ICAO: VABB), formerly Sahar International Airport, is the primary international airport in Mumbai, India, and is named after the 17th century Maratha Emperor, Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosle. The Airport's IATA code – "BOM", is derived from Bombay, Mumbai's former name.
The airport is the second busiest airport in India in terms of overall passenger traffic. The airport has five operating terminals spread over an operational area of 1,500 acres (610 ha); CSIA handled 30.74 million passengers and 656,369 tonnes of cargo during FY 2011-12.
Along with Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, it handles more than half of the air traffic in South Asia. In 2010, CSIA airport was ranked the 30th busiest airport in the world in terms of cargo with 671,238 tonnes handled. In 2011, the airport was ranked the third-best in the world in the 25–40 million passengers category by Airports Council International.
Also in 2011, the airport was the 44th busiest in the world with 30,439,122 passengers handled, registering a 7.6% growth rate over the previous year.
The airport is one amongst a few airports in the world to be located within the city's municipal limits. It is situated in the suburb of Santa Cruz and the Sahar neighbourhood of Andheri suburb in the pincode area of 400099.
Mumbai International Airport Limited, a consortium of GVK Industries Ltd, Airports Company South Africa and Bidvest, was appointed to carry out the modernisation of Mumbai Airport in February 2006.
This project was to be completed by end of 2013, but this has been delayed by another year to the end of 2014. Once completed, CSIA will be capable of handling 40 million passengers and 1 million metric tonnes of cargo annually.
The construction of a dedicated six lane, elevated road connecting the new terminal with the main arterial Western Express Highway is underway.
Features
- Juhu Aerodrome is included.
- All major airport buildings included with high resolution textures and beautiful textures in the night time.
- Extremely detailed taxiways and runways.
- Custom made lines, taxiway and taxi lights.
- Custom Gmax ground texture from satellite photos will make you feel like being in the real airport
- Seasonal texture grass.
- Friendly frame rate
Enjoy your flight to/from Mumbai.
Review it now!
I just purchased this airport, especially for it's convenient price and under the good opinion about Thai's Kathmandu. Actually, I was very frightened after reading here some terrible review. The airport is very well done, but I encountered the runway sinking problems such as other guys. I followed two advices I found in the reviews, but at no avail. Considering that any of us has different pc configurations and, most of all, different add-ons, in desperation I went to the SCENERY-WORLD-SCENERY folder and deleted the two VABB...ALT.BGL & VAJJ...ALT.bgl files. All fixed, and the airport reappeared in its beauty. Delting too the awful VAJJ airport with its orrible VFR.
Just for the record, my pc configuration: Prepar3D 2.5, all the three FS Global Ultimates,FTX Global+Vector. Hoping having been of some help to other simmers.
Fulvio Arman
1. Make a copy of the APX67250.bgl file in your FSX\Scenery\0803\scenery folder.
2. Create a new folder in your Mumbai scenery directory. Call it anything you are happy with (eg VABB Terrain Fix).
3. In the new folder create a sub folder called scenery.
4. Place the copy of APX67250.bgl in the newly created scenery folder.
5. Add the "VABB Terrain Fix", or whatever you called it, to you FSX scenery.cfg (either from within FSX through the scenery library or manually yourself). It needs to be placed lower than your VABB and VAJJ scenery entries but above your terrain addon scenery entry. I placed mine immediately below the VABB entry.
That's it! Everything should now work fine.
This is a promising package, but I find it odd that they can't push an altitude adjustment to update the scenery and correct the error. The error causes the runway and taxi lines to float, and creates a sensation that the airport is below ground level. If Thai Creation wants to gain credibility, it has to behave like the major developers, especially when it comes to customer service.
I am told by the developer that the scenery is not compatible with FS global 2008
This is not acceptable to me and I hope they will help
I am waiting for a reply from them on this and hope this review will spur them on !
