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[Brandon5730pilot 3]

MEGA AIRPORT 2010 - Progress On Southwest Airlines Terminal

SWA Terminal 95% Done

[Brandon5730pilot 3]

Just Completed the In't Terminal too!

[diamonddog_74 32]

So, does placing a couple of airports on opposite sides of a region map actually work?

If two cities, let's say they are separated by 5 city tiles with no rail or road connections in between, have aiports, does the transportation map actually show a connection path between them if they have airports?

I've never placed an airport in my regions. They're too expensive to upkeep. I'm just wondering if they actually work. I use a lot of rail. It's cheap.

[TekindusT 3,809]

@diamonddog_74: Sims won't travel from an airport to another like they do with ferries. What airports do is increasing your commercial demand and relieving some of your commercial and residential caps, if I remember well. One thing is sure, you cannot use airports to make your sims commute to other cities.

[diamonddog_74 32]

Originally posted by: TekindusT

@diamonddog_74: Sims won't travel from an airport to another like they do with ferries. What airports do is increasing your commercial demand and relieving some of your commercial and residential caps, if I remember well. One thing is sure, you cannot use airports to make your sims commute to other cities.quote>

So they're really only so you can "unlock" higher stage development levels? What if you don't have room in the city map tile for an aiport? Can you still get past those commercial and residential caps?

[TekindusT 3,809]

On this Omnibus article [link] is explained what you need in this case. I copy-paste the part you're interested in.

Or you can say goodbye to all these ugly and undersized airports with one more plugin:

 

• RH Airport Pack: https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=1864

With this pack, come some very old (year 2003) airports relotted and modded trying to make them more realistic. You won’t need them and you can delete all except one of the lots coming with this pack, which is a 1x1 airport lot. It looks like a plaza and pretends to be a Maxis airport which you can plop wherever you want in your city. Then, you simply can get rid of your Maxis airports. quote>

[MrBrightside 3]

Here's my contribution, Fairfax Intercontinental, loosely based on George Bush Intercontinental in Houston. The Runway/Taxiway layout is quite accurate, I changed the terminals however to fit the scale of SC4. I hope you like it.

Overview:

And some general shots:

I'm open to critique so if you think anything is not so realistic, please let me know ^^

[Indiana Joe 1,752]

MrBrightside, that is a ridiculously insane and awesome airport.  If there's any problems with it, they're not in the pictures you posted.

It's probably a big, risky step to put one's first attempt at creating a custom airport on this thread, but I cannot see a better way to get helpful critisism.  And besides, I just finished the basic layout so I'm swelling with pride to the point that it's affecting my brain.

Obviously there's still much to do,  but this is the small, lively Clemont International Airport:

The biggest problem I ran into was space.  I ended up having to make the main terminal 3,517 feet long and only 250 feet wide at the widest point.  Helluva walk from gate A1 to Z9, huh?

And I didn't have nearly enough room to put in all of the gates I wanted.  I had to settle for nine 747 gates and two dozen or so regional jet gates.  Like I said, a small international airport.

And I've got a LOT of scenery to fill in, but I wanted ideas for the layout more than my aesthetic sense.  If it's the worst airport you've ever seen, let me know!

[Zeddic 3]

The taxiways and runways are a bit too close to each other for comfort, especially behind the 747s. There's also usually a bit more room for maneuvering behind gates so you could maybe move the main runway 3-4 squares and the taxiway/edge of apron one square back. Also get rid of the cliff face right next to the main runway, if the move back still leaves one there. It's awfully close. And what is that weird round thing next to the runway in the upper right of the first picture? Additionally, I really can't think of a city that would have demand for so many long intercontinental flights and yet so few short flights that your gate configuration would seem appropriate. Maybe remove a few of your big gates and replace them with smaller ones. Finally, those little commercial buildings look really out of place next to the parking lot of an international airport, and I'm not convinced the casino is exactly the right scale either. So, lots of small things to improve but not too bad for a first attempt.

[Indiana Joe 1,752]

'Preciate it, zeddic. Space was definitely my biggest problem, and things are way too close together near the east-west runway. But the problem is, way out at the western end of it, it goes right along the edge of the coast (Off of any pictures). So to move it back I'd either have to shorten it or create a 1000 foot land extension into the water. Major money and it'd look kind of weird. What I should have done was planned better and put Terminal A further in, and sacrifice some parking space. I'll find a solution. (Open to suggestions, though.)

Those commercial buildings will be replaced with offices or parking. I want to keep a few of them, though; you know, car rental places, travel agencies, gas stations, you see a lot of that around airports.

And yeah, that cliff has got to go. Can't have my 747's scraping their wings every time they take off. And more domestic flights; got it.

Thanks again!

Oh, BTW:  That weird round thing at the top of the picture is the apron for the mayor's private plane.  It wasn't my idea.  See, the U-Drive-It skydiver plane that shows up with RMIP runways always started out on that spot, and would always go back to it when I tried to move it.  So instead of having it sit on the grass on a hill in the middle of nowhere, I put a little apron area right underneath it.  It leads out to the runway.

[dghh70 5]

Not bad mr. Indiana

[checoloma 8]

heres a teaser of my airport, trying real hard to make my best. having trouble with the runways

another pic

been working on this terminals on the lot editor hope you like them

been workin for weeks.  The long term parkin area and unferground parking

night shot

the helis center with some takin off, ,

the water and power center, as well as the fire and crash center

a close up of the fire and crash center

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[paulmc 393]

..A380 gate

... hangars

.. terminals

..  runaway and landing lanes and taxing lanes

... air traffic control tower

This is the Tendal International Airport , my biggest airport so far..

[dghh70 5]

checolma: You need better textures for the antanov 225. Cargo containers don't go in planes

[Simcitymaster13 27]

Dghh70: Actually there are planes make for cargo only.

[dghh70 5]

I know that. Cargo planes use palets not containers

[Brandon5730pilot 3]

----MEGA Airport 2010 FINISHED---

 

 

Terminal One

Terminal Two

Terrminal Three-International Terminal

Termianl Four

Terminal 5

*Touring The Airport*

FED EX Cargo Center

JAL (Japan Airlines) During Pushback At Int'l Terminal

More Of The Southwest Airlines (SWA) Terminal

American Airlines Taking Off

Main Baggage Claim Entrance

Airport Air-Cargo Imports And Exports

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Regional Aircraft Waiting To Takeoff On Samller Runway (9R)

Air Canada And Northwest Airlines Taxiing

Taxiing For Takeoff

Main Terminal Entrance

A380

Landing...

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Execituve Terminals

[--]

Aircraft Holding Area

Airport Roads, Hotel and Parking Garages

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Airport Overview

Well I hope you all enjoy... I worked on this airport everyday until two in the morning. I did if for you all and hope you like it. Also... I would like to challenge someone to a airport building Contest.

-Pilot Brandon Bruuschini

 

[Frdm920 50]

Work in progress but thought I'd throw up the two pics I have to here for a bit of constructive criticism:

The Main 747 Terminal (front), exclusive Concorde Terminal and Terminal 2

Same but at night

Also I've seen a lot of A380 gates in this thread but can't seem to find them anywhere, if anyone could link me to a set that'd be great! (I already have Tabi's A380 props)

[dghh70 5]

very awesome airports

[Cyclone1001 10]

Frdm920- I think it looks good, but you don't need 4 Concordes! 1 or 2 at most. The A380 gates are here http://homepage2.nifty.com/tabinohito/newpage12.html, just scroll down the page.

[paulmc 393]

@Brandon5730pilot : where do you get those prop planes in the lanes? and that one taking off? and that tower in the center of airport pavilion?

[joelyboy911 135]

This is another section of my test airport, showing some in-development content, as well as a bit of stuff you may already know. The small Air New Zealand Hangar and the Airbus A330-200 MMP are in beta-testing now, and the Air Post depot will be "internationalised" (I'll remove New Zealand Post titles, so it's more generic), then the lot will be finalised.

Overview of the Air New Zealand maintenance hangars (British Aerospace BAe-146-300, Boeing 777-200ER, Airbus A330-203)

Night-time outside the small hangar (Bombardier Q300/Dash-8-300)

Air Post centre (Fokker F27-500, Fairchild Metro III)

Night-time outside the post depot.

[dghh70 5]

joe looks like it's going to be awesome

[TekindusT 3,809]

As usual, we can't wait to see all this creations on the exchanges...

[kingdiz_55 12]

I want those planes! ) Anyway... may I please remind people NOT to post entire CJ updates as it is hard for people with slow internet connections to view them.

[Frdm920 50]

Layout of gates, all that's needed now is parking/transport, cargo area, runways and taxiways.

A1:                                      A3:                                                               A5:

Lufthansa                         KLM                                                             Pan Am

Frankfurt                           Amsterdam - Schiphol                            Panama - Tocumen International

A2:                                     A4:                                                               A6:

Lufthansa                        KLM                                                             United

Berlin- Tegel                   Saint Maarten - Princess Juliana Int     New York - John F Kennedy

A7:                                     A8:                                                               A9:

United                              Virgin Atlantic                                             Virgin Atlantic

LAX                                   London - Heathrow                                  New York - John F Kennedy

A10:                                  A11:                                                             A12:

TWA                                 Northwest                                                  Northwest

Dallas - Forth Worth    Washington Dulles Int                             Boston - Logan Int

B1:                B2:

Emirates    QANTAS

Dubai          Sydney - Kingsford Smith Int

C1:                                                C2:

British Airways (Concorde)      British Airways (Concorde)

London - Heathrow                   New York - John F Kennedy

C3:                                               C4:

Air France (Concorde)              Air France (Concorde)

Paris - Charles De Gualle      New York - John F Kennedy

D1:                                                           D5:                                     D9:                                             D13:

BMI                                                           Iberia                                 KLM                                           SAS

Manchester City/London Gatwick      Madrid - Barajas             Maastrich-Aachen                   Copenhagen

D2:                                                           D6:                                     D10:                                           D14:

Finnair                                                     PrivatAir                            AeroMexico                               SAS

Helsinki-Vantaa                                     Geneva                            Mexico City - Benito Juarez    Oslo

D3:                                                            D7:                                   D11:                                            D15:

Lufthansa                                                TAP                                  Ryan Air                                      Korean

Hamburg                                                 Lisbon                             Dublin                                         Seoul - Incheon

D4:                                                            D8:                                   D12:                                             D16:

Lufthansa                                                KLM                                 Ryan Air                                       Austrian

Munich                                                     Rotterdam/Den Haag  London - Stansted                    Vienna

E1 - E10 Excluding E5 and E8 Domestic Services (Operated by KLM and SimAir) - Numerous Destinations

E5, E8 - Private Learjet Shuttles

F1:                                              F3:               F5:                                  F7:

Air Canada                               Egypt Air     Eithiad                           Qatar

Vancouver                                Cairo           Abu Dhabi                     Doha

F2:                                             F4:               F6:

Thai                                          Turkish        Royal Jordanian

Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi    Instanbul     Amman - Queen Alia

G1:                                G3:

JAL                                Cathay Pacific

Tokyo - Narita              Beijing - Capital

G2:                                 G4:

Singapore Airlines      Cathay Pacific

Singapore - Changi    Hong Kong

[Brandon5730pilot 3]

My mega airport images are back... had a problem with photobucket. (Post is in middle of this thread topic)

[BootyMMI 9]

@joelyboy911: Got a question for you... The Air Mail Centre that you have in your screenshots, where did you find that?

[paulmc 393]

Originally posted by: paulmc

@Brandon5730pilot : where do you get those prop planes in the lanes? and that one taking off? and that tower in the center of airport pavilion?quote>

 

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[Brandon5730pilot 3]

Originally posted by: paulmc

..A380 gate

... hangars

.. terminals

..  runaway and landing lanes and taxing lanes

... air traffic control tower

This is the Tendal International Airport , my biggest airport so far..

quote>

Hey - Nice airport and runway layout...For future reference your one runway that say 35L the "L" for left dshout be at the bottom of the runway and your runway parallel to it (your 26R) should actually be called 35R. The FAA sets runway numbers by the magnetic compass heading. Im a general avaition pilot I know! Im not being mean just giving you some advice next time to make your airports look real. Look at mine for instance (middle of this topic thread) see how i make the runways realistic