EPKK Krakow Balice X

EPKK Krakow Balice X

EPKK Kraków Balice 2012 X is a detailed scenery of EPKK Kraków Balice airport and Kraków City in Poland.

John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice (IATA: KRK, ICAO: EPKK) is an international airport located near Kraków, in the village of Balice, 11 km (6.8 mi) west of the city centre, in southern Poland. The airport has one concrete runway, number 07/25, 2550x60m. The airport can handle such a large aircraft as Boeing 747-400.

The airport opened for civil aviation in 1964. EPKK is the second busiest airport in the country after Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport. The airport has good growth prospects, as almost 8 million people live within 100 km (62 mi) of it. The airport also has a favourable location on the network of existing and planned motorways in this region of Poland, but it faces stiff competition from the nearby EPKT Katowice International Airport in Pyrzowice and other Polish airports like EPRZ Rzeszów. In 1995 the airport's name was changed from Kraków-Balice Airport to John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice, to honor Pope John Paul II who spent many years of his life in Kraków.

In 2003, when Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair became interested in starting a service from the John Paul II International Airport, the airport authorities refused to reduce the airport fee. In response, the regional authorities of Kraków and Lesser Poland Voivodeship decided to build a new airport near the existing one, using the infrastructure of the military airbase adjacent to the shared runway. Finally an agreement was reached, and the existing airport was opened to Ryanair and other low-cost carriers such as Germanwings, EasyJet and Centralwings. Over the past number of years low cost carrier Ryanair have grown services from Krakow Airport and since May 2010 Ryanair had 20 routes from the airport. The busiest international routes are to London (Gatwick, Stansted, Luton) and Dublin. On 28 August 2007, a Ryanair flight from Shannon suffered a bird strike on its final approach and blew its front tires during landing, resulting in an airport closure for a few hours and requiring an emergency evacuation of the aircraft. There were no injuries and the aircraft sustained no further damage.

Installation:

• The installation is fully automatic

• Please uninstall all versions of included airports you may have installed before, prior to installing this product

Scenery features:

• Detailed EPKK airport and the city of Kraków with high quality photoreal ground

• Roofs covered with snow in the winter time

• Interiors modelled for the tower (tower view alligned) and the observation deck in the terminal

• All buildings textured with high quality photoreal textures

• Custom modelled people, aircrafts and trees

• Detailed autogen and mesh for the whole area

• Famous landmarks

• Custom charts and a manual are included

• Aerosoft's Airport Enhancement Services (AES) compatible

Compatibility:

• The product is compatible with UTX and VFR Poland.

Seasonal textures:

• Winter textures can be installed via the installer.

Requirements:

• FSX / FSX:SE / FSW / P3Dv1-v4
  

NOTES:

New in version v1.4:   This update provides more realistic representation of the EPKK airport

• Compatibility with: FSX, FSX:SE, FSW, P3Dv1-v4
• Removed demolished buildings
• Inserted constructed buildings (new terminal, new hotel, new tower, new military hangar and more).
• Many "invisible" things done to make that 2011 scenery work as good as it did for the last few years.
• Night lighting changed

Known issues:

• The ground layout has not been changed.
• Due to those old ground poly there is a shadow problem in P3D.
• Due to the fact of the new terminal being placed on old ground poly, gates 2, 3 and 4 are not accesible.
• The photoreal image has not been changed, the new hotel and terminal models are placed on the old image.

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