You may remember TropicalSim’s Rio De Janerio which was released back in 2012. At the time, the scenery was pretty good, allowing people to fly into one of the most. AVSIM Online - Flight Simulation's Number 1 Site! AVSIM Commercial Scenery Review TropicalSim Rio de Janeiro International Airport Product Information.

Let’s start along the opposite side of the terminals. With it’s dominated high light towers which spread their light on the apron during the evening and night hours, they give more then enough light to work here.

Almost next to each light tower we will find some airliners own cargo or baggage hold locations. Personally, I think it’s quite detailed although others will always want more, but it gives a very good impression what’s happening there. That was a long walk and there is still so much more to see. Dog Has Chipped Tooth. The TropicalSim website shows lots of screenshots of this airport, so we will limit this a little bit.

Our goal is to give an objective impression of this double scenery. In the mean time, we have reached the other side of the apron, where terminal 1 and 2 are located. Those are huge buildings with lots of jetways or gates if you like.

There is one difference, or at least one that’s easy to recognize, and that’s the roof of terminal 2. On top of each building are lots of those light towers but they don’t look that high because they partly fall into the terminals themself. Comparing the TropicalSim terminals with the real ones gives us a good idea of the details. Ok, we always want more but since these buildings are straightforward without complicated structures, we cannot do any more with it. The only thing what really disappoints me, and this is especially for the FS9 users, is the lack of anything driving around on the apron or lots of baggage carts standing in and around the airplane's area. Looking at those screenshots, it’s so empty except for airplanes! With permission granted to AVSIM, we are able to enter the control tower, which is more or less standing in the middle of terminal 1.

The advantage of the control tower is that we have a clear view of the whole airport. Step Up Free Download Full Movie there. Once in the tower we took several pictures, starting to the left (terminal 2) to a straight forward shot and finally a right hand look at terminal 1. While the control tower is really the official “simulated” height, the controllers don’t have any visual idea of what’s happening in front of terminal 1.

Since the simulated view is equal to the real view, we have to accept this limited view but it was sure a nice moment. Most simmers will probably stay in their aircraft or just do a walk-around-check. Our last visit is located on each other side of the airport, the cargo terminal and the VEM maintenance area. Close to runway 15/33, we find the local cargo terminals with the postal/logistic distribution centers from Correios and VARIGLOG. Some of the buildings are not bad, although I have my doubts if the flight simmer is coming and parking here, except for the cargo freaks. I think 80-90% will go directly to terminals, to find his/her parking place.

They have an average to good realism but more important, here we do find a lot of cars, buses and other vehicles. Those cars, buses and others is what is missing, in my opinion, around the terminals in FS9/FSX. The maintenance terminal from VEM (VARIG Engineering and Maintenance), is located on the other side of the airport halfway between runway 10/28. Impressive to see is the hangar from VARIG. Is has no hangar doors, but that’s normal for this region since the weather throughout the year is pretty stable and not freezing.

On purpose I made all the screenshots without the air traffic option activated. That means no additional AI aircraft are available. This option depends of course on what you want, flying online with IVAO, VATSIM or FPI or just standalone.

Let’s go for an FSX walk To convince you that the FSX TropicalSim scenery is more or less the same as the FS9 version, you will find a small collection of screenshots below. The airport scenery doesn’t look different in FSX. That means that all previous FS9 screenshots are also applicable for FSX, so that’s a quick conclusion.