Best Looking Default Airport

[andyjohnston.net 617]

Wondering what everyone thinks the best looking default airport is (so those interested don't have to go downloading or...paying for scenery.)

Friday Harbor and Courchevel are both very impressive, but I'm going to say Gibraltar, where you can wander right into to terminal waiting area.

What do you think?

 

[David Mills 4,761]

I think LAX and JFK look especially good.

[Cyrex1984 176]

Lukla

[Midnight Music 252]

I agree with Gibraltar, one of the best of the default ones.

Lee

[andyjohnston.net 617]

Oh yes, Lukla.   Should've mentioned that one as it looks really good too.

[Abriael 952]

Nagasaki and Lukla for me.

[Benjamin J 751]

This is nice! I like a topics such as this, giving some positivity and love to the default stuff. Having seen the sim since the days of FS98, I‘be been very pleasantly surprised with the overall quality of the default enhanced airports. Even back on FSX the default enhanced airports were really not very good. In MSFS it’s at a point where sometimes I skip on the third party sometimes because it’s no noticeable improvement over the default.

but, that said, I have not seen all of them, but if the ones I did I was rather taken with Zurich.

[garydpoole 183]

If 'default' includes the hand crafted airports, then I think that Heathrow is very good - certainly good enough to prevent me looking the 'new kid on the block'...

[MarkW 1,491]

I actually like Heathrow, I think they have done a great job of it.

[xender 459]

SEQM! Quito

To me that one is amazing

[MarkW 1,491]

29 minutes ago, xender said:

SEQM! Quito

To me that one is amazing

I will have to keep this in mind for a future flight.

[xender 459]

5 minutes ago, MarkW said:

I will have to keep this in mind for a future flight.

Very challenging as well

[SP2472 2,302]

Don't forget Atlanta, better than it's payware competition.

Darryl

[Chock 17,769]

City Airport, Manchester, a.k.a. Barton Aerodrome, which was added in the UK update. It's a very good replication of the real place with its 1930s-era control tower.

[Stoopy 1,571]

1 hour ago, xender said:

SEQM! Quito

To me that one is amazing

+1 and it offers a rare opportunity to fly from one handcrafted default airport into another, SPGL Chagual, Peru.  Which is very nicely done albeit very small, nestled deep in a narrow winding canyon in the Andes.  

I did that leg in my RTW trip using the PMDG DC-6 and it was a real nail-biter. Getting out the next day was even more interesting.  Would be a great flight for the Kodiak, Porter or Twotter!

Edited March 14, 2022 by Stoopy