Southwest Florida International Airport

Southwest Florida International Airport is located on the south-western coast of Florida and is the second busiest single-runway airport in the US, handling around 8 million passengers a year. The first plans for building this airport date back to 1973, and ten years later it opened as 'Southwest Florida Regional Airport'. In 1993 it got its present name. At the same time the runway was expanded from 8,400 ft to 12,000 ft. Since then the airport has been expanded several times, and in 2005 a new terminal building was opened after the old one had greatly exceeded its capacity.

This scenery offers a highly detailed reproduction of the real airport thanks to its 10cm/pixel aerial image and 1cm/pixel ground layout. The developer made sure to use non-repetitive textures. Baked night illumination and ambient occlusion as well as HDR lighting complete the visual impression, while static aircraft, road traffic and both animated and static apron vehicles create a lively area. Additionally, the scenery is compatible with the AutoGate plug-in, adding animated jet bridges and marshallers at all gates, as well as with the HD Mesh Scenery by Andras Fabian.

• 10 cm/pixel aerial ortho imagery covering the entire airport (approx. 8.41 sq. km)
• 1 cm/pixel custom ground detail/markings
• Baked-in, ray-traced ambient occlusion on all major buildings
• Baked-in, ray-traced night illumination on the airport terminal building
• Specular reflections and all-HDR lighting
• Accurate building heights, measured using LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) elevation data
• Designed using X-Plane 10-native methods for maximum performance
• Animated jet bridges and marshallers at all gates (using the freely available AutoGate plugin by Jonathan Harris)
• Static aircraft as an option
• Animated and static ground vehicles
• Volumetric grass
• Road traffic
• Compatible with HD Mesh Scenery v3 by Andras Fabian
• Free charts for KRSW can be found here