This is one of those problems that is not normally visible unless you are looking for this type of thing. I did see a slight problem however as I took a close look it became apparent that many of the structures didn’t seem to be lined up quite right with the underlying ground textures. They do include some intricate detailing and advanced shading and colouring techniques to give the structures a real world look. This airport has lots of open space.Īll of the included airport structures have been recreated with an eye towards giving the simmer a visually pleasing experience and overall I must say that they are very well done. Also there are relatively few buildings considering the fact that it is such a busy airport. There are no tall structures and the colours used are muted or are earthy tones. It sneaks up on you as you make your approach. One of the things that struck me about this airport was how it seemed to blend in so well with the surrounding landscapes. The textures used for all of the hard surfaces plus roadway overpasses were very good, they were detailed and looked quite realistic. In both cases there are numerous vehicles in the photos but none in the scenery. Unfortunately that is something that is very much the case here, especially with the multi-lane N Harbor Dr roadway that is sandwiched between the airport and shoreline and some of the large parking lots. The problem with photo textures, and I see this in many airport addons, are the objects that appear in the images that have not been recreated as part of the scenery. Also the use of these images gives the developers an accurate base on which they can add all of the various structures and objects. Flying overhead you can see exactly how the area looks. They are great at higher altitudes and this is where they out shine all other ground texture types. The use of photo imagery textures certainly makes the ground look realistic but it is a double edge sword. The scenery’s ground base is comprised of high resolution photo images and high quality graphic textures. Here is a comparison of what you’ll see in FSX and after installing LatinVFR’s San DiegoAirport scenery. It is an easy read and does contain some worthwhile information.Īs far as airports go San Diego has a very simple layout with a single runway and a large passenger terminal as its two dominant features.
The manual has pages dedicated to describing the scenery’s features, the history of San Diego Lindbergh Airport, airlines that use the airport along with their destinations, general flying tips, scenery element options and finally FAQs.
The product comes with a 12 page PDF manual plus a separate aerodrome chart. So this means that if you want to gain access to the documents or any of the scenery files you will need to go to the newly created LatinVFR\San Diego_KSAN directory which is located in the FSX\addon scenery folder. I noticed that after the installation was done there was no new program group created.
There are details in the manual on which ones and how to go about doing it. If you decide that you’d like to alter your choices, some of them can be done through file manipulation. The installer also adds the airport to the FSX scenery library. It is here that you will also be given the opportunity to make choices with regards to several scenery options.
After running the installer executable it was a simple matter of adding my product serial number and selecting which flight simulator I was running. Every day more than 550 flights take off and land from here and in 2011 approximately 17 million passengers used the facilities. The airport has the current distinction of being the busiest single-runway commercial service airport in the world and the second busiest single use-runway in the world. It was also from here that he began the journey that ultimately became the first solo transatlantic flight. It was here that his aircraft, “The Spirit of St. It was given this name in honour of Charles Lindbergh, in 1928, for several reasons. The airport also goes by the name of Lindbergh Field. San Diego International Airport, ICAO: KSAN, is a public airport located approximately 3 mi from downtown San Diego in California.