This is Punta Cana, the Caribbean's second busiest airport. The fourth incarnation of TropicalSim's famous holiday destination brings the new modern passenger terminal as well as new apron, taxiways and other changes in the airport over the past few years. Even though over 5 million passengers passes through the airport yearly, there are no jetways or even air conditioning on most buildings. The oldschool way of boarding via an airstair is the norm around here. You probably already guessed, but no ILS either, however there is a plan to install this navaid in the future. The airport has experienced a very rapid growth, from 3.5 million passengers when we last released this airport in 2007 to 5.1 million passengers in 2013.
There are flights from and to Punta Cana from a wide range of world destinations in Central America, Europe, North America, South America and also the Caribbean itself.
FEATURES
Highly detailed Punta Cana Airport / MDPC
Full night illumination
Photoscenery featuring full autogen and seamless blending with the default environment
IK-Jetway or optional SODE jetway
Full night illumination
Dynamic Lighting
P3D v5 native materials custom ground
Wet ground surface effect for P3Dv5
Compatible with add-on AI traffic.
Compatible with other third-party sceneries
P3Dv5 version compatible with default and add-on P3Dv5 scenery
The scenery is not great overall. What kills me is that yhere are taxiway edge lights pretty much in the middle of a taxiway. Are they not checking for things like that before releasing a product?
Thank you for supporting the Dominican Republic sceneries. Important destinations missing yet(MDPP, MDCY, MDCR, MDCZ), and dont forget to update MDST ;-)
A particularly colorful airport--and up-to-date--rendered adequately for P3Dv5. With a bit more work, such as some surrounding scenery, or even some blades of grass, this would get the full five stars. Tropicalsim should take a look at some of the atmospheric detail devs for Colombian airports are lavishing on their products at a lower price. Night lighting is okay, although I'm not sure where it's coming from since there are no lampposts! Even so, despite a certain lack of detail, I'm very happy to add this interesting destination for charter tour flights. They included an option for SODE jetways that isn't hard to implement with a bit of fiddling around among folders. The instructions are easy to follow and the results work fine. I'm also very happy to see a dev still supporting P3D. Look for my L1011 parked right in front of the original part of MDPC, with the thatched roofs and no jetways.