GloballArt has released their 5th Southern American scenery for X-Plane. Congonhas Airport, located in São Paulo, is a continental airport serving as a key hub for South American Airlines such as LATAM, GOL and Azul. With long haul flights being moved to Viracopos International Airport when jets were being developed back in the 60s, Congonhas Airport was left serving short body aircraft only. 

Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport is well known to pilots for its short runway and dangerous approach. It is located in a heavily built-up part of the huge city and gives you the impression that you are scraping the tops of high rise buildings as you land. Paired with this is a runway that is considered the most slippery in the world and has resulted in a large number of fatal crashes. 

Features wise, GloballArt’s rendition of the airport is up to date with the current airport layout of 2021 and contains all the features you’d come to expect in a modern X-Plane scenery product. 3D wise, it contains precise modelling of the airport’s facilities, using original references, plans and other information. All this is grounded with fully custom made groundwork and taxiway signs, with AO shadow baking for all of the objects.

One thing that the scenery misses is the lack of SAM integration, opting for the aged AutoGate implementation for jetway functionality. However other animations are also driven by Marginal’s plugin suite (which includes Autogate). To produce the distinctive topography of the airport and its surrounds, the developer made use of Mesh Remixe.

Here is the full feature list below:

Scenery Characteristics                                                                                                

• Accurate replica of Congonhas Airport updated 2021.
• Precise modelling, based on original references, plans and other studies.
• Fully customized pavement, with ambient occlusion included in textures.
• Customized taxiway sign.
• Auto Gate by Marginal compatible custom jetways.
• Customized VGDS system, Congonhas.
• Controlled by Dataref Marginal Plugins.

• Static objects, vehicles and aircraft are present in the scene.
• Avenues and streets with custom and standard vehicle traffic.
• Controlled by the Marginal Ground Traffic Plugin

• HDR lighting with custom night textures.
• Custom textures with ambient occlusion.
• X-Plane standard animated traffic service.

• Custom Approach Light Systems (ALS).
• Included taxi routes for aircraft, “taxi route”.

• Compatible taxi routes configured for World Traffic (WT3) and other plugins.
• Ramp Start set for airlines.
• Terminal 1 with the rendered interior.
• New Control Tower with the interior rendered.
• Very precise mesh of fully edited terrain in the Airport area.
• Mesh Remexe Joz

Package Includes

• BR-A-SBSP Roads
• BR-B-SBSP Congonhas Airport
• BR-D-SBSP Mesh
• Instruction Manuals
  

GloballArt São Paulo/Congonhas Airport can be purchased from the X-Plane.org Store for $19.95