Announced: IniBuilds Manchester EGCC (FS2024)

Apparently one of the most requested airports, in spite of Macco’s (admittedly ageing) version. Macco’s v2 never materialised… and likely now won’t.

Day 1, daaaaayyyy 1.

That is all.

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Gonna be a lotta ‘Day one’ for this!

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Updates! Nearing completion apparently!

Also, great to see the lads at Airliners Live supporting with the details!

Please join me in a farewell toast to Maccosim EGCC. It has served me well since 2021, even with numerous tid bit mods from flightsim to relogo the TCX hanger to STS and other general clutter. God speed old friend.

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Well … good that iniSounds are not the most important part of Airports …

Please have a decent AFCAD for AI traffic…. :folded_hands::folded_hands:

Trailer just dropped, meaning release is 1-2 days away…

iniBuilds Manchester | Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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My wallet is ready. Looks like they have added everything on my wishlist, would have been great to add some detail southside though, Simon Lowe with his massive brolly on a pooring day lol.

Just released.

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I bought this immediately this morning, and did a quick drone cam around. I haven’t had time to look at it in daylight yet, but it looks nice at night. There appear to be fewer internal detailed areas (think a few very detailed areas but also many areas with nothing), and less (static) people - many gates are completely devoid of them, than I was expecting, but at least it doesn’t seem to be too bad a resource hog for me. I will have a better look around and fly into/out of it later when I have more time. I’m sure the exteriors in daylight will be great, which is where it really matters. There are currently 3 optional switches in the installer so be sure to re-open the installer after you have installed it to toggle those if needed.

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Heck yes, I’ve been waiting since 2021 for this day. Amazed to see they’ve even done some southside detail. The level of detail in areas such as the airport pub, AVP and some of the terminal interiors is brilliant. Also surprised to see T1 being closed is also modelled as this literally happened earlier this week. Performance is really good, even with BATC traffic.

I do have to wonder though, what could Aether bring to the table? :thinking:

Update: tested with BATC, all seems to work well. So good to see the AI now hold short to cross 23R! Also great to see they land and use the high-speed exit on 23R!! :star_struck::star_struck:

Overall a 200% upgrade over Maccosim.

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Given that Ini appear to have paid particular attention to the exterior detail and surroundings, I can easily forgive the lack of internal development (which, knowing Ini, will be sufficient anyway). Their penchant for innovation has often resulted in performance issues so it’s good that they’ve opted to forgo a bit of the more discreet detail.

I’m just waiting to see if the Marketplace release brings a slightly better price — should either be tonight or Monday, judging by their last few sceneries.

At last Manchester EGCC my home airport and now where arriving aircraft do not disappear into the tarmac runway 23R (must be a time gate there), they actually now stick to the taxiways and arrive at a credible gate! Even the hump in 23R is still there.

My first go with this scenery and i am so far well impressed, just regret previously wasting money on the Tai version.

I landed a Fenix A320 on 23R using Beyond ATC for traffic injection of FSTraffic, now T1 was closed last week so the injection needs an update but that is minor the airlines still using T1 were correct. I used GSX for ground services and i cannot fault it, the pax had to enter the building via the apron and the route was correct, no one was sucked into an engine, Can’t fail GSX with this scenery it was excellent.

The building looked superb externally, Really sharp,

textures and colouring looked spot on. My Easyjet A320 is parked at the new pier opened last week.

Overall the best EGCC scenery so far by a country mile, just to have aircraft arriving and reaching the gate was worth the £21.50 i paid for it! Well done Inbuilds! I can spend a few hours simply plane spotting now.

Good to know. On a side note, I also do spot the latest issue with BATC - two aircraft stacked together by their side at the gate :smiley:

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Good news, collisions preventing from exploring with the Showcase camera will be removed in an update in parts like these at EGCC:


Happy with the performance of iniBuilds Manchester on my Lenovo Legion 5 laptop with an Intel Core i9-14900HX RTX 4060 hooked up to my LG Ultragear G4 27G411A-B monitor.

Here’s the iniBuilds A340 at iniBuilds EGCC:

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A lovely airport indeed!

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From this morning’s flight into EGCC

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I also like your choice of aircraft!

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Enjoying the RJ. Good fun fro short domestic hops. One day I’m going to venture beyond the UK lol.

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What traffic package are you using, is Beyond ATC the injector?