Aerosofts first MSFS airport, for free

[SirDan 471]

An airport  

Edited August 27, 2020 by SirDan

[odourboy 1,286]

Airport - Paderborn/Lippstadt - The first Aerosoft & German airport DLC for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

https://www.aerosoft.com/en/flight-simulation/news/1st-aerosoft-dlc-for-the-new-msfs-for-free

[pjs37 319]

Nice I guess they are testing the waters and seeing how things work?  Or just feeling generous.  Or both

[harrry 322]

I think that as it is the airport of their company they think it has to be in our sims so we can fly their and collect their offerings.

[ajaybala 66]

Their download link doesn't seem to be working.

[ckyliu 1,749]

I think they're testing the waters after the backlash ORBX got

[abrams_tank 7,387]

Cool!  The add-ons for MSFS are growing daily and snow balling!  You can tell how awesome MSFS will be in the future! 

Edited August 27, 2020 by abrams_tank

[DPSimulation 235]

12 minutes ago, ajaybala said:

Their download link doesn't seem to be working.

After I clicked on the link it opened a new window and took another 30-40 seconds to offer the download. If it isn't doing that they may well be overloaded?

[ajaybala 66]

8 minutes ago, DPSimulation said:

After I clicked on the link it opened a new window and took another 30-40 seconds to offer the download. If it isn't doing that they may well be overloaded?

Yup. Overloaded. connection times out every time.

[Der Zeitgeist 1,575]

If anyone installs this, make sure to check if the airport is fully functional after installation to prevent problems like we saw from another developer. Things to check:

• Does the airport appear with a star on its icon on the MSFS world map, indicating it's a handcrafted airport?
• Does the airport have arrival and departure procedures as well as approaches that can be selected by the avionics of the aircraft and can be assigned by ATC?
• Does the airport have working Tower / ATC, including all stuff that is handled by ATC inside the sim, like ground services. Do the ground services work when they are requested?
• Does the ILS work?
• Do the PAPI lights work?
• Are the runways correctly numbered?

[Tuskin38 6,438]

3 minutes ago, Der Zeitgeist said:

Does the airport appear with a star on its icon on the MSFS world map, indicating it's a handcrafted airport?

That’s a small check box in the i game editor, which is probably easily missed. It’s not automatic.

[F737MAX 5,501]

Meh.
Satellite imagery aside, the texturing doesn't look all that different from their XP version of Paderborn.
This doesn't grab my attention nor make for a good an advertisement of Aerosoft's next gen scenery.



I know this airport is free, but they really need to clone a team of Jo Sund-s!!
His upcoming EBBR looks more like the quality of airports that I want to see from Aerosoft.
 

Edited August 27, 2020 by F737NG

[SirDan 471]

Hey it's free , not like orbx charging you $$$ less quality than the default game or anything

[BackboneOne 47]

also the size of 3.6 Gb is kinda too much for that kind of airport)