NEWS! - Scenery Released : St Helena Airport by Cami De Bellis

[Stephen]

NEWS! - Scenery Released : St Helena Airport by Cami De Bellis

 

 

Saint Helena is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island 1,950 km (1,210 mi) west of the coast of south-western Africa, and 4,000 km (2,500 mi) east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constituent parts of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

 

It's famous for...  In that the British government selected Saint Helena as the place of exile for Napoleon Bonaparte, after the Battle of Waterloo, his second abdication (on 22 June 1815) and his final surrender, to Captain Frederick Maitland, on HMS Bellerophon (15 July 1815). He was taken to the island in October 1815. Initially Napoleon stayed at the Briars pavilion on the grounds of the Balcombe family's home, until his permanent residence at Longwood House was completed in December 1815. He died there on 5 May 1821.

 

After a list of upgraded scenery to X-Plane 12, including VNKT - Kathmandu Tribhuvan Intl, VNDP - Dolpa Airport Nepal and La Tontouta Noumea - New Caledonia. Here is a new fully created scenery of FHSH St Helena Airport from Cami de Bellis, note the extensive interview with Cami by Dominic Smith here;

 

Developer Spotlight Feature Cami De Bellis With a celebration of Cami's 15 Years of creating X-Plane Scenery.

 

Features Include:

• Highly accurate scenery for FHSH -St Helena Airport with all buildings modeled. 
• Over 80 custom objects all with Ambient Occlusion  
• Terrain mesh created and modified to fix bump terrain and set and correct the topography of the Airport’s area 
• Custom Terrain Mesh for the entire island of Saint Helena by Maps2XPlane 
• Custom Overlay/Autogen Scenery based on CDB assets by Maps2XPlane" 
• Photo real textures on buildings, vehicles, trees… 
• Photorealistic ground textures based on a satellite image. 
• Detailed airport objects and GSE vehicles  
• Custom textured taxiways, runways, and apron  
• Custom surrounding buildings  
• Custom airport lights HD 
• Custom Overlay   
• High-resolution building textures – all in 2K and 4K  
• Excellent night effects  
• World Traffic 3 compatible 
• Native characters created specially  
• The terrain mesh is complemented with custom overlays: dense vegetation and country-typical autogen, as well as custom road networks with dynamic traffic. 
• Two fictional heliports, for those fans of helicopters. One at the beautiful Longwood House, and the other on the shores of the island’s main port; Ruperts Wharf. 

 

 

 

As Saint Helena is more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) from the nearest major landmass. Prior to the opening of the airport, the island was only reachable by sea, making it one of the most remote populated places on earth, measured as travel time from major cities. Sea journeys used to take five days from Cape Town, with departures once every three weeks.

The first consideration of an airport on St Helena was made in 1943 by the South African Air Force, which undertook a survey on Prosperous Bay Plain from October 1943 until January 1944, but concluded that, while technically feasible, an airport was not a practical proposition. From the 1960s, there was an idea to build an airport on the Island. In 1999, this was taken up by the island government.

 

The construction of the runway was finished in 2015 and the airport opened in 2016. The inaugural scheduled flight was delayed but general aviation, charter, and medical evacuation flights were able to serve the airport from May 2016.

 

The airport began scheduled commercial services on 14 October 2017, when the South African carrier Airlink inaugurated a weekly service from O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, via Walvis Bay Airport, Namibia, using an Embraer E190-100IGW, or about one and a half years after the originally expected inauguration date, and with a smaller-sized aircraft, because of wind shear problems affecting the airport. Additionally, monthly charter flights now operate between Ascension Island and Saint Helena.

 

This FHSH scenery is X-Plane 12 only

 

Images of FHSH - St Helena Airport are courtesy of Cami de Bellis

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Yes!  FHSH - St Helena Airport by Cami de Bellis is Available now from the X-Plane.Org Store here :

 

FHSH - St Helena Airport by Cami De Bellis

Price Is US$16.95

 

Requirements

X-Plane 12 (not for XP 11)

Windows, Mac or Linux

4 GB VRAM Minimum. 8 GB+ VRAM Recommended

Download Size: 1.5 GB

CDB-Library is required

Current version 1.0 (August 28th 2023)

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NEWS! by Stephen Dutton

28th August 2023

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