About This Content

Kassel-Calden Airport is a relatively young commercial airport that was opened on April 4, 2013, located approx. 13.5 km northwest of the city of Kassel. Since January 2015, the airport has referred itself as Kassel Airport.

The airport has a CAT IIIb system on the main approach direction 27 and a CAT I system on the secondary direction 09. Landing with an airliner is particularly challenging on runway 09 due to the inclined runway.

Thanks to the technology available in X-Plane, this distinctive inclination could also be implemented in the simulator. The surrounding mesh was also adapted together with Maps2XPlane in order to be in no way inferior to the original.

Features:

• Detailed replica of the airport of Kassel-Calden

• Custom colored orthophoto (20cm/pixel)

• Custom Mesh by Maps2XPlane incl. Ortho4XP patch

• PBR ground textures

• HDR night lighting

• HD handplaced vegetation

• Adapted roads and autogen

• Custom animated approach lights

• Matching static aircraft

• Full SAM compatibility (SAM3 plugin required)

  • Marshaller

  • Custom AirportVehicles (SAM AirportVehicles required, only XP11)

  • Seasons (XP11: SAM Seasons, XP12: native XP12 seasons)

New in the XP12 version:

• Standalone, fully customized XP12 version

• Revised lighting

• Ground textures now including PBR reflections and normal maps

• Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map

  • New, additional orthophoto for the immediate vicinity of the airport (60cm/pixel)

• Reworked vegetation placement (new volumetric grass)

• XP12 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment

• Weather effects for wet, snow and ice

• Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no other add-ons or plugins

• Reworked autogen and street placement

  • Revised static aircrafts

  • New XP12 Custom Mesh from Maps2Xplane (incl. Ortho4XP patch)