Iñigo Pérez de Isla, founder of PDI Sims, got into X-Plane after watching Airbus A320 tutorials. He already had some 3D modelling skills, so wanted to try flight-sim development too. He started with Prepar3D but when finding out the existence of the 737 from IXEG, Iñigo moved to X-Plane.

At the age of sixteen, Iñigo Pérez de Isla released his first scenery. The developer behind PDI Sims had been making liveries before releasing a Trout Island recreation. Iñigo has since been developing Vitoria Airport (LEVT).

"I chose it because of many things. I live near it (an hour by car) and I was in Swiftair virtual airline, Spanish main cargo carrier, that operates mainly from there, so I wanted decent scenery. Apart from that, being Spain's 4th cargo airport (after Madrid, Barcelona and Zaragoza) I thought it could be an interesting one".

PDI Sims provided us a few exclusive previews of their upcoming Vitoria Airport. The airport is located in the north of Spain, began daily operations in 2005 with Ryanair and now handles a mix of three different airlines: Ryanair, DHL and ASL Airlines Belgium.

The airport also serves as sleeping place for charter airplanes of the north and will begin twenty four hour operation very soon.

PDI Sims will focus on a smaller airport to provide more details and accuracy for his next project, it will probably be near Vitoria airport. The LEVT scenery will feature:

• 750 square kilometres of 1 meter per pixel ortho-imagery, with dynamic snow when temperature is below 0 degrees.
• 30 cm per pixel orthoimagery inside the airport.
• 5-10 cm per pixel orthoimagery in the car parkings.
• PBR implementation.
• High resolution building textures with baked in ambient occlusion (and PBR).
• Autogen for the entire ortho with landmarks.
• 3d vegetation inside the airport itself

The price tag will be between €20.- and €30.- .  PDI Sims expects to release their new airport within two months. Stay tuned for more PDI Sim. news at Threshold.