Widely recognised and billed as ‘the world’s most dangerous airport’, the Tenzing-Hillary Airport is an iconic stretch of pavement that has thrilled real-life adventurers and simulator pilots for decades. With its most recent version for P3D v4, developer LimeSim, in partnership with Aerosoft, has expanded on its wildly popular ‘Lukla X – Mount Everest’ package and brought its massive Himalaya playground to P3D v4. Grab your trekking poles and some portable oxygen and let’s head to the region.
The most important feature of this package is the scope of the scenery area. With an impressive 40,000 km2 of imagery, five highly detailed airports, seven generic airports, 12 helipads scattered across the scenery area and a wide array of modelled points of interest, there is a lot to explore. The scenery package is carved up into varying levels of detail with the highest detail basically covering much of the Solukhumbu District of Nepal from Rumjatar northward to Mount Everest. Within this core area, you can expect to find a texture resolution of 2.5m per pixel and the densest collection of points of interest such as temples, bridges, people, vehicles, historical structures and other custom scener…