The overall impression I came away with was that for the most part the buildings could have been better. There are quite a few buildings at Miami a number of them along the north side of runway 8L/26R, the main terminal that is centrally located between runways 8R/26L and 12/30 and then several cargo hangars north of runway 9/27. I don’t know how they missed some of these obvious problems. These deficiencies were very obvious when taxiing to or from any of the runways. I found that in many instances they looked disjointed, they often didn’t line up and sometimes it looked as though they used the wrong type or just plain didn’t belong. I will say that the system of ground markings like the network of taxiways is complex so it must have been a difficult task to try and get them right. Those used for the taxiways however were a disappointment for me. The ground markings for the apron and parking areas I thought were well done and deserved to be acknowledged. The painted markings used on the hard surfaces get mixed marks as well. For the most part I felt that they were inferior to those found in their other FSX products. I am referring to the grassy areas, parking lots and roads within the airport boundaries. The ground textures used for all other areas of the airport appeared blurry especially at low altitudes or at ground level. The ground textures get mixed marks hard surface textures appeared to be hi resolution with realistic colouring, good detailing and signs of wear and tear and heavy traffic use. This is an airport that lots of people have been asking for in the flightsim community and so I was anxious to give it a try to see how it looked and how it performed. Installer automatically adding to FS library. Static aircraft in the maintenance areas. Landable helipad in building center of the airport (FSX) Optimized for great performance in both FS2004 and FSX. With their respective parking airline codes (according to real world data) Revised land classes for surrounding photo scenery.įully AI traffic compatible. High resolution ground textures / Custom runway-taxiways textures.Ĭustom made shadows for airport buildings. More than 44 sq miles (100+km) of photo scenery with thousands of hand placed autogen. KMIA (MIA) airport completely modeled with significant attention to detail. Within this scenery package you will have. Here are the scenery highlights as provided by the developer. I really thought this extra bit of information was a nice feature for the virtual pilot providing ready to use routes.Īn aerodrome chart is the only chart included.
Where they out do many others is by including a list of airlines and destinations plus they provide flight plans between KMIA and other LatinVFR airports. Much of what is included is typical of most product manuals.
Once you find the manual and open it up you will see that it is a 17 page PDF document. It would have been a bit more user friendly had they at least given us a desktop icon as novice users may have difficulty knowing where to look in order to find it. The manual can be found in the FSX addon scenery folder in the directory called “LatinVFR\Miami_KMIA\Docs”. To get to the manual you will need to do a bit of digging as the installer doesn’t create any program group or desktop icons for this scenery. There are no configuration options for this scenery package. The final step adds the scenery to the FSX scenery library. This same procedure is also used for updates and patches. The installer will verify this and once done the scenery will be installed.
You will be asked to enter the email address and registration code associated with your purchase.
Installation is straight forward but requires an internet connection to confirm your purchase details.
Over 35 million passengers passed through the airport in 2010 making it the 28 th busiest airport in the world. it is ranked 1 st by percentage of international flights and 2 nd by percentage of international passengers after New York’s JFK.
Over the course of decades it has seen a rise in passenger and freight traffic volumes as well as importance. In 1945 the City of Miami purchased the airfield and it was renamed to 36 th Street Airport and later to Miami International Airport. The airport originally opened in 1928 and was known as Pan American Field.
Miami International airport, ICAO: KMIA, is located 13 miles northwest of the city of Miami and is the primary airport serving south Florida.