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NEWS! - Scenery Upgraded : KDCA Washington Airport & City XP12 by Drzewiecki Design The Polish developer Drzewiecki Design have upgraded their "Washington DC" scenery to X-Plane 12. This scenery includes not only the extensive Washington DC Cityscape, but also the nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport - KDCA, or it's old name in "National Airport", or simply "DCA". As this is an upgrade to X-Plane 12, it is priced at the full price, however at this point in time there is a US$5 saving on the scenery, great value anyway. X-PlaneReviews did a review coverage of the original Drzewiecki Design 2017 release of the Cityscape Washington DC: City Scenery Review : Washington XP by Drzewiecki Design Notable is that added to the upgraded KDCA National, is the now included more detailed terminal internal areas from the XP11 version, detail overall is also more highly developed including SAM airbridges, and all the lighting effects (city/airport) are now XP12. So this new release is not just a carbon copy of the original XP11 release. Other (lite) airports included in the package are: KADW Joint Base Andrews, KCGS College Park Airport, KVKX Potomac Airfield and W32 Washington Executive Airport. Helipads included are: White House, KJPN Pentagon Army Heliport, KBOF Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling, Sibley Memorial Hospital are all positioned over the Potomac in Maryland southeast of the central Washington area. Washington, D.C. was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1791, President Washington commissioned Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, a French-born architect and city planner, to design the new capital. He enlisted Scottish surveyor Alexander Ralston helped layout the city plan. The L'Enfant Plan featured broad streets and avenues radiating out from rectangles, providing room for open space and landscaping. He based his design on plans of cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Karlsruhe, and Milan that Thomas Jefferson had sent to him. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA, ICAO: KDCA, FAA LID: DCA), is located in Arlington, Virginia, next to the border of Washington, D.C. It is the smaller of two airports operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority that serve the National Capital Region around Washington. The airport is 5 miles (8.0 km) from downtown Washington D.C.. The airport's original name was Washington National Airport. Scenery Features A high-quality model of KDCA Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, featuring the up-to-date version with extensive details throughout the whole airport FPS-friendly design, with epic night textures, dynamic lighting and PBR materials Performance-friendly interior modeling at terminal buildings, control towers, and some hangars, static aircraft, advanced night lighting (incl. River Visual and dual PAPI), animated trains Animated jetways, VGDS, marshallers (SAM plugin) Washington D.C. city scenery included, with over a thousand landmark buildings surrounding the airport, ortho coverage and some lite airports Images are courtesy of Drzewiecki Design _______________________________ KDCA Washington Airport & City XP12 by Drzewiecki Design is available from the X-Plane.Org Store here: KDCA Washington Airport & City XP12 Price is US$30.00 Currently US$25.00 You Save: $5.00(17%) Requirements X-Plane 12 Windows, Mac, Linux 8 GB+ VRAM highly Recommended Download size: 1.5 GB Current version: 1.0 (March 14th 2024) ___________________________ News by Stephen Dutton 15th March 2024 Copyright©2024: 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