Aircraft used: default and LVFR 320s
Live weather: on
With this currently being on sale following the release of the new World Update yesterday, I thought I’d give it a go (since it’s been languishing on my wishlist for a while).
DETAIL
Typical FlyTampa quality. Great textures, both buildings and airside ground, with many looking a hair sharper to me than in other FT products. It looks like there’s some custom ortho too. Scandinavian airports have a certain look to them and FT have captured the flavour nicely, with the trussed floodlights and unusual, blocky-looking jetways. The jetways have a worn look to them, feature white seals around the edges of the hoods and fit aircraft really snugly. There is a partial terminal interior and although pretty basic — and a bit dingy — it does look marginally better than some of their other airports. Unlike those other airports, however, there are no passengers, static or animated.
There are a good number of hangars and buildings dotted across the airfield but I’m a little disappointed they’ve not included the famous Flyvergrillen, a snack bar popular with aviation enthusiasts for its terrace overlooking one of the runways.
Ground textures landside are default affairs and I’ve complained about them in my other reviews of FlyTampa stuff. Some of them don’t look quite as bad here and I guess FT do it this way to bolster good performance/stability. However it’s not like I didn’t expect it when I handed my money over this morning…
The ground clutter is excellent and features lots of custom vehicles, including (but not limited to) a variety of SAS trucks and vans and some nice yellow ‘CPH’ passenger transfer buses.
PERFORMANCE
This becomes the second FlyTampa airport (following KBOS) I’ve found to be 100% stable and FPS performance is excellent too. I had the drone out multiple times earlier and each time I returned to the flightdeck, all screens were still on. I even went as far as trying to trigger black screens and a CTD but it was having none of it! Sim how you like here, it ain’t gonna fail you!
VERDICT
EKCH is what I’ve come to expect from FlyTampa and actually exceeds my expectations in the stability and performance departments. It’s not the most detailed airport ever but there’s certainly enough to make it look really pretty and a bonus is that LVFR’s statics pack works VERY well with it.
It feels very much like your typical Scandinavian airport and the custom ground clutter and vehicles really add to the immersion. Its value was significantly increased yesterday with the release of World Update XV, which of course includes the city of Copenhagen — and the city being so close to the airport makes approaches from the west that bit more interesting. Approach from the east and you’ll get a great view of the Oresund Bridge (although I’m not sure if FT modelled that or whether it was included in World Update XV).
Finally, it’s worth mentioning that this airport is another that benefits from Seafront Simulations’ Global Shipping — I made an approach to runway 30 earlier and it was superb to see a huge Maersk Lines cargo vessel just a couple of hundred feet below me, realistically churning out smoke and cutting a wake through the choppy waters!
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