It didn’t look great in the pre-release images but sure looks good now! Amsim’s ageing and virtually abandoned rendition finally has some competition!
Bought mine off of ORBX and I must say, this is one good rendition of Madeira-did some 737-800 ops out of it already.
Any idea if this will come to the Marketplace? They are a new developer, so not sure if they are approved for the Marketplace.
Had a message from the developer this will be released for XBox in the marketplace too
From the looks it’s quite a beautiful rendition and far better than the other two available.
HOWEVER: the price is quite exorbitant for such a tiny and remote airport. As a SEP GA flyer I can only use it to fly to Porto Santo or the Canary Islands and I’m not ready to pay the same kind of money for it as for Aerosofts Frankfurt Mega Airport.
I don’t say the work the author has put into creating this level of detail it, isn’t worth paying a little extra, but there are extremely few airports in the 25,-€ range and I don’t know a single one which is this small.
Nevertheless I love Madeira. And since the overall level of detail in Madeira in FS2020 generally is quite poor, maybe some more sightseeing points like the church of Santa Cruz, the footbridge, fort, and church of Machado and other iconic buildings in Funchal, Ribeira Brava, Sao Vicente and Ponta do Sol as well as the airport and some landmarks on Porto Santo might be an option. Kind of a Madeira package. I would certainly pay for that. I would in essence pay MORE for that than 25,-€
Ordinarily I’d agree with you and I’m typically very critical of overpriced scenery. However this is one of very few small airports that’s worth its high asking price. It’s not quite perfect but I doubt anyone would be anything but very impressed with the workmanship here. Heck, even the elevators/lifts in the car-park have full interiors!
Granted, there’s no Funchal town as such but there’s a good amount of modelling some distance from the airport. It’s certainly up there with 2024’s very best.
I believe Atelic have so far been very responsive to user feedback so perhaps worth emailing them with your suggestions at support@atelic.eu.
As I said, I do not doubt the workmanship. It looks extremely good. It’s just that for a non-airline pilot the options to fly there are so extremely limited that I have a hard time spending so much money on one airport (especially since I already have the other payware one already)
Will write to Atelic. Thanks.
Yes, not as good value for a GA pilot but that’s the nature of the sim, unfortunately.
As the workings of GSX are a mystery to me. Can anyone tell me if the GSX profile (flightsim.to) for the previous amsim airport will work with this one?
I assume it won’t be long before we get a bespoke one for the Atelic if there isn’t already and I simply don’t know about it.
I found it a bit weird my passengers arriving by bus that’s all.
Thanks
ps A very nice airport but it certainly made my poor old 3080 work hard.
No, the Amsim GSX file is highly unlikely to work. I believe there’s one available in the iniBuilds store app by RW Profiles (if you have the app).
Wow thanks for that. I do have the iniBuilds app so I’ll look. I’d probably have seen it had I bought from inBuilds instead of Contrail.
edit: I’ve got that now and several others that I was missing. I didn’t even know inBuilds hosted GSX profiles.
Thanks again.
Hi there, I’ve just got this scenery but I have bumps on touchdown zone of RWY05 and half way down the runway. I have the GSX profile from RW installed. Can anyone help here please?
Solved, I had the Asobo LPMA scenery still active