Jarrad Marshall Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Welcome to the Swiss Alps. Developed by Andreas Hegi, author of LSPN Triengen Airport, get ready to explore another challenging airport in the Swiss Alps. As a popular ski resort during the winter season, Samedan Airport (LSZS) sees a vast number of general aviation traffic and private corporate jets frequent the beautiful airport. Situated in the heart of the Engadin valley, expect unsettled winds, low-visibility and plenty of turbulence. Even the most experienced of pilots will find landing at the 5,600ft above sea-level airport tough. Samedan Airport features the same level of detail you come to expect from our airport collection. The area closest to the airport features 30cm per pixel coverage with 60cm coverage in the nearby surrounding area. Immersive 3D snow piles (in P3D only) will form during the winter seasons and you can also enjoy dynamic lighting emitting a soft white glow on the apron floor. Whether you’re exploring the region in a smaller aircraft or taking on the challenge of landing an A319 (which has happened in real-life), you will also be able to spot various custom hotels, churches and more from the villages of Samedan and St. Moritz. This unique blend of high-altitude, scenic mountains and a tough approach means that Samedan Airport is the perfect get-away from the usual busy international airports for those looking for something more exciting to try. Do you dare take on the challenge of approaching Samedan Airport? FEATURES Incredibly detailed, high definition rendition of Samedan Airport and surrounds Scenic mountain landscape with glaciers, lakes and rivers all make stunning visual approaches Realistic HD textures created from on-site photography to provide the most immersive experience possible Visually pleasing: 30cm per pixel coverage in the closer airport area, 60cm in the surrounding area Includes the villages of Samedan and St. Moritz with many custom hotels and churches - perfect for the VFR fliers Thousands of hand placed autogen trees and buildings to make the area feel alive 3D snow piles in winter (only P3D version) Seasonal variations Bonus helipad: Hospital Oberengadin Dynamic night lighting (only P3D v4) By veteran developer Andreas Hegi, author of the incredible LSPN Triengen Airport Developed for P3D & FSX, compatible with Global Base, OpenLC Europe & Vector COVERAGE MAP Stay tuned for more info and previews! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Wow! Just Wow! This is looking scrumptious indeed Great location and great looking scenery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianV Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 This is looking awesome, and beautiful with the winter season coming up! Awesome work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boetie Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Well that's a nice Wednesday evening surprise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petakas Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Amazing ! Europe's highest elevation airport. Please please release it also for P3Dv3, not all of us have upgraded to v4. HERE you can find a visual approach chart I have created for Samedan following professional pilots' (who flies there) instructions. A nice approach video ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarrad Marshall Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 3 minutes ago, petakas said: Amazing ! Europe's highest elevation airport. Please please release it also for P3Dv3, not all of us have upgraded to v4. HERE you can find a visual approach chart I have created for Samedan following professional pilots' (who flies there) instructions. A nice approach video ! It will be available for P3Dv3 too Cheers, Jarrad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petakas Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Thank you @Jarrad Marshall Here's also a retro video worth watching ! A Boeing 727 ! in Samedan from the 90's (judging from the video quality) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brito Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Nice one, for sure I'll grab it on the first instant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvdboomen Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Truly an amazing airport in one of my favorite areas to fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farman Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 WHEN, WHEN, WHEN!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasonDominique Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Holly cow !! Very nice choice for an airport, Jarrad ! Runway lenght... Ok ! Landscape...Ok ! Landing difficulty....Ok ! Never done before in P3D.... Ok ! Ideal destination for Christmas.... Ok ! Holly Cow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dario Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Wow! This airport seems amazing. I always thought that the snow piles of Kiruna should make their way to other airports, it adds so much to the realism sensation. It will be an instant buy for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Yesssss.... this is THE kind of ORBX product that I love!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripcord Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Yes I will be having a healthy large helping of this. Great choice, guys! This will be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farman Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Dario said: Wow! This airport seems amazing. I always thought that the snow piles of Kiruna should make their way to other airports, it adds so much to the realism sensation. It will be an instant buy for me! +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonhutchison Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Xplane version coming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikbenik Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 A fine 'LOWI'-quality addition for the Alps and also a descent area included. Another marvel from designer Andreas Hegi and the Orbx-staff. Looking forward to the release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wain71 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 superb addition I think, and just in time for the winter season... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTigerM Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Looks to be a nicely rendered highly detailed & challenging airport. Do the trains run? Very far? Like 5 miles out of town either way, or to St Moritz? TTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Wonderful choice! Here is a link to Samedan airport page, it has video links, so you can see what the 1% are flying these days. There are times the parking is just packed with high end jets. http://www.engadin-airport.ch/For-pilots.7.0.html?&L=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Yet another beautiful location to explore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Please make a Xplane Version too! Flying in there several times in real time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boctal Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Why not for X-Plane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosqr Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Simply beautiful !! Thank you so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveller Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Very nice place. I'll get it, when is the release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReinFlight Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 It looks really very good. Next thing I buy from Orbx. At this specific moment downloading EGPH, another superb airport. What really counts is immersion, but that's more then just good graphics of course. Airplanes, ATC, weather, etc. And today I made my first steps in AI by installing AIG AI manager and downloading some flightplans of Lufthansa, Easyjet, Aer Lingus, Ryanair. And the I went to EGNX (another excellent ORBX product). I watched the Ryanair planes landing and taking off. Great to see. Just as in real life (timetable Ryanair 2019). If you don't have any experience yet with AI then I can really recommendate AIG to you. Very easy to install and to use with the OCI (One click Installer). And it's free! Why am I writing this. Well this all counts to the total immersion and I'm just not sure if that all will be implemented in the new MSFS. In the long term yes; but maybe in 3 years or longer op perhaps. Just enjoy P3D or Xplane and maximize the immersion. By the way; AIG had not much impact on FPS on my system (GTX1080TI, dual core processor at 4,8 GHz, 16 MB RAM, SSD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mburkhard Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Perfect timing for this marvel to be released! What most of you don't know, this airport is about to get IFR procedures, finally. Up until now one could only reach this airport by cancelling IFR at PELAD, and then to follow the valley visually. Bad weather often meant for the aircraft having to divert to LSZR, LSZA or even LSZH. Now with the start of the busy winter season IFR procedures are introduced. You won't find the charts on Navigraph yet. Two approaches available: RNP Visual for RWY03: FAF at 13nm at 11800ft, resulting in a 4,49° glideslope. And: Lowest MDA at 11'400ft! RNAV GNSS for RWY21: FAF at 15nm at 13000ft, resulting in a 4,41° glideslope. Lowest available MDA: 8680ft - 15° offset to RWY track! (oh and no, the valley is not wide enough for a visual circling to RWY03 in a jet aircraft!) So RWY21 is the better choice obviously, if winds allow. But even the lowest MDA is still 3100ft above GND, 6nm from the threshold. So still somewhat restricting in bad weather. Hope the procedures get published for the next AIRAC, they'll be so cool to fly! As has been mentioned above, rather big CAT C aircraft can land there. The biggest one in recent times to have landed was an A320. But even A319s and B737 BBJs land there regularly. Perfect for that FSLabs thing or the future PMDG NG3. But all that is easy compared to what you can do with your A2A pistons coupled with RealTurb: Density altitude coupled with strong winds have been deadly on a regular basis, with GA pilots having been caught by sudden rising terrain with insufficient energy to turn around. So if you ever needed a reason to justify RealTurb, this will be it! Thanks @Jarrad Marshall for making my day with this announcement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmb Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Wouldn't the Samedan airport make a perfect fit to the beautiful IPACS Switzerland region in AeroflyFS2? Kind regards, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveller Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 43 minutes ago, mburkhard said: Perfect timing for this marvel to be released! What most of you don't know, this airport is about to get IFR procedures, finally. Up until now one could only reach this airport by cancelling IFR at PELAD, and then to follow the valley visually. Bad weather often meant for the aircraft having to divert to LSZR, LSZA or even LSZH. Now with the start of the busy winter season IFR procedures are introduced. You won't find the charts on Navigraph yet. Two approaches available: RNP Visual for RWY03: FAF at 13nm at 11800ft, resulting in a 4,49° glideslope. And: Lowest MDA at 11'400ft! RNAV GNSS for RWY21: FAF at 15nm at 13000ft, resulting in a 4,41° glideslope. Lowest available MDA: 8680ft - 15° offset to RWY track! (oh and no, the valley is not wide enough for a visual circling to RWY03 in a jet aircraft!) So RWY21 is the better choice obviously, if winds allow. But even the lowest MDA is still 3100ft above GND, 6nm from the threshold. So still somewhat restricting in bad weather. Hope the procedures get published for the next AIRAC, they'll be so cool to fly! As has been mentioned above, rather big CAT C aircraft can land there. The biggest one in recent times to have landed was an A320. But even A319s and B737 BBJs land there regularly. Perfect for that FSLabs thing or the future PMDG NG3. But all that is easy compared to what you can do with your A2A pistons coupled with RealTurb: Density altitude coupled with strong winds have been deadly on a regular basis, with GA pilots having been caught by sudden rising terrain with insufficient energy to turn around. So if you ever needed a reason to justify RealTurb, this will be it! Thanks @Jarrad Marshall for making my day with this announcement Excellent information you gave here. They will be very helpful in this new simulated flight exercise park. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkH Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Instabuy for me. And I suddenly re-started dreaming about a TE Switzerland... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romair Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Many thanks to the ORBX designer team to choose this airport for a new high level design. Images looks perfect. I hope it will be compatible with the existing, old CHPro. Of course we still hope for a new future Swiss photoscenery similar than Austria West and East. regards Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvdboomen Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Together with Saanen and Triegen, it will be more joy to fly in Switzerland. I hope Andreas will make more of them, eventually, hopefully following by an FTX region. I understood that TE was too expensive to make due to the high price of the satellite imagery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddler Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Nice addition indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbmoke Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 21 hours ago, Boctal said: Why not for X-Plane? The problem with doing it for XP is that OrbX could either have it with snow or without snow, but not both! Am I right in saying that with this addon for P3D, it being a seasonal simulator, the snow will be there in the winter but disappear during the summer months? There are no seasonal adjustemnts in X-Plane 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Count me in, day one buy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F737MAX Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 It would be rude not to get this one. So detailed, very impressive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Hegi Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Thanks for all of your comments very much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studinka_2 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Andreas, it is all wonderful work, thank yo. Consider it forXplane too, even if only with summer season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianV Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 It is an amazing airport and scenery. Terrific choice, I just enjoyed my first flight in it. Many thanks Andreas for all the work you put into it. I took a flight down to LSZL Locarno airport (mixed civil and military) and the entire flight, along the valleys was terrific. LSZL would definitely also be a good choice for a future addon in the possible Orbx Alps region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Hegi Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 21 hours ago, BrianV said: It is an amazing airport and scenery. Terrific choice, I just enjoyed my first flight in it. Many thanks Andreas for all the work you put into it. I took a flight down to LSZL Locarno airport (mixed civil and military) and the entire flight, along the valleys was terrific. LSZL would definitely also be a good choice for a future addon in the possible Orbx Alps region. Thanks for your comment, Brian! Much appreciated. Thanks for your suggestion to head next - time will tell. Cheers Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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