Stephen Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 News! - Scenery Release : KIAD - Washington Dulles International Airport by Nimbus Since the start of my simulation endeavours in the X-Plane Simulator. I saw back then eons ago as X-Plane as a giant place to fill in block by block, I called it "Building the X-Plane world one airport at a time". And throughout the years I have filled many, many of theses outsized holes with quality scenery, and it has given in return many hours of pleasure and some really great destinations to return to. But even now a decade hence there are still a lot of significant holes left yet to fill... HEAC-Cairo is one, OMAA-Abu-Dhabi, WSSS-Singapore, and any good Australian Airport that you care to mention, including YBBN-Brisbane, YSSY-Sydney, YMML-Melbourne and YPAD-Adelaide, so the search goes on... WHAT! you say, there are some good Freeware airports of those destinations in X-Plane, yes you can say good, but not in that great or the the required detailed high quality scenery that you need at the quality level. One of those significant holes is "Dulles" or to give it it's full title "Washington Dulles International Airport" or KIAD, and a few years ago Nimbus Simulations announced their version of Dulles, and also mentioned MEM-Memphis at the same time. Things get in the way, like a killing pandemic and now even a bigger killing European war, major floods and even the odd climate change disasters, but here KIAD now is, and this is very high quality "Dulles" that we can all intergrate very nicely into our North American and global network from Nimbus. Washington Dulles International Airport (KIAD), is an airport 40 miles west of America's capitol in Washington DC. Dulles is one of the three major airports in the larger Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area, with the others being Reagan National Airport and Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and by land size and the amount of facilities it is the largest of the three. Dulles is considered the region's international air hub, with dozens of nonstop international flights. Dulles also has the most international passenger traffic of any airport in the Mid-Atlantic outside the New York metropolitan area, including approximately 90% of the international passenger traffic in the Baltimore–Washington region. Also included in the package is the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, also called the Udvar-Hazy Center, which is a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM)'s annex. Features High-Definition Airport Terminals with 3D interior and people HDR lights New 4K textures with PBR materials. Night lighting Ground textures with PBR materials High quality vehicles with PBR material 3D trees Parking lots full of cars Ground markings on each gate and runway Files for empty airport or static planes Animated Airport GroundTraffic (plugin by Marginal) AutoGate plugin with custom highly detailed jetways (plugin by Marginal) Animated people inside the terminals Information screens that shows time, pressure, temperature, destination airport, departure time, delay and the amount of delay People mover Detailed tarmac textures from up close or far out High quality new vehicles and miscellaneous objects Dulles is a huge space of an airport, and this version is highly animated as only Nimbus Sim does, "I'm very excited" (very Apple) to say it is really good, more in a review will follow. The Nimbus Simulations KIAD - Washington Dulles International Airport is now available from the X-Plane.OrgStore! NOTE... there seems to be no attached Plugin download? If you have the Nimbus KATL plugin (stored or installed) it will work with the KIAD-Dulles version. All images are courtesy of Nimbus Simulations Designed by Nimbus Studios _______________________________ The KIAD - Washington Dulles International Airport by Nimbus Simulations is NOW available! from the X-Plane.Org Store KIAD - Washington Dulles International Airport Priced at US$29.95 Requirements X-Plane 11 Free Update to X-Plane 12 when available Windows, Mac or Linux 4 GB VRAM Minimum - 8 GB+ VRAM Recommended Download Size: 1.2 GB Current version: 1.0 (March 4th 2022) ___________________________ News by Stephen Dutton 4th March 2022 Copyright©2022: X-Plane Reviews (Disclaimer. All images and text in this review are the work and property of X-PlaneReviews, no sharing or copy of the content is allowed without consent from the author as per copyright conditions) All Rights Reserved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.