Airport Lugano XP11

Lugano airport is a small international Swiss airport in the Tecino canton, between the three towns of Agno, Muzzano and Bioggio. The fascinating part of this airport is surely the breathtaking approach, probably one of the most beautiful approaches in the world.

The most frequent aircraft in Lugano is the Saab 2000 operated by Darwin Airlines offering Code-Share flights with Alitalia to destinations like Rome, Cagliari and Olbia. The most important route though is the flight to Zurich for Swiss International Airlines.

2010 saw the airport handling more than 170,000 passengers taking off from the 1.350m runway.

Features

• Highly detailed airport scenery of Lugano
• High resolution photo textures for the 3D models
• Glass reflections of glass surfaces on buildings
• X-Plane 11 ground vehicles with appropriate lanes added
• X-Life compatibility
• Revised taxi routes for better compatibility with X-Live and X-Plane's own AI traffic
• Revised ramp starts for correct placement of aircraft. The ramp starts now support the 'Show parking aircraft' feature
• Stratification of roads added for X-Plane road traffic
• Old cars in the parking lots replaced by the better X-Plane-native vehicles
• Some parking vehicles and floodlights added
• Duplicate X-Plane's own Navaid objects removed
• Unnecessary files removed
• Revised objects for 3D grass
• Possibility of switching off the 3D grass for optimum performance
• All airport buildings as they are in real life
• New vegetation details with approx 20,000 grass polygons
• Night lighting in real time
• Sloped runway
• Manual and charts