Airport Newcastle XP

Newcastle International Airport is situated in the area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, about six miles north of the city centre. Newcastle International was rated the 11th busiest airport in the UK and the second busiest in Northern England, with Manchester coming first, handling over 4.8 million passengers.

The airport is owned by seven local authorities: City of Newcastle, City of Sunderland, Durham County Council, Gateshead MBC, North Tyneside MBC, Northumberland County Council and South Tyneside MBC. Copenhagen Airport sold the stake in Newcastle to AMP Capital, which is an Australian-based investment company.

Newcastle airport was opened on 26th July 1935 and was known back then as Woolsington Aerodrome; the airport was opened by Sirt Phillip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for Air. At this time, the airport consisted of one clubhouse, one hangar, a few workshops, a fuel garage and a single grass runway with a building cost of around £35,000.

Features

• 20cm/pixel photoscenery
• Custom PBR ground textures
• Animated jetways, marshaller and VDGS (SAM plugin required)
• All tower interiors
• HD vegetation
• Animated vehicles
• HDR lighting
• Custom terrain model (car park)
• Rain and snow ground effects
• Custom Color & Season Adjustments (XP11 version, SAM plugin required):
   - Orbx TrueEarth
   - Orbx TerraFlora
   - SAM Seasons
   - Ortho4XP

New in the XP12 version

• Stand-alone, fully customised XP12 version
• Revised lighting
• Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps
• Revised orthophoto, colour-optimised for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
• Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)
• XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
• Weather effects for rain, snow and ice
• Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins
• Reworked autogen and street placement
• Revised static aircraft