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/images/notams/notams18/dieg0808/san-diego-1.jpgOrbx has announced that developer Matteo Veneziani has completed apatch for KSAN with the following changes: New airport buildings texturesAdded military ship in the San Diego military harborImproved volumetric lightingImproved jetways textureFixed crash issue at the terminalFixed cargo airplanes at gatesFixed misplaced airport terminal in FSX versionThe update should be available to owners via FTX Central. /images/notams/notams18/dieg0808/san-diego-2.jpgPurchase Orbx - KSAN San Diego International Airport for FSX/P3D
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/images/notams/notams18/dieg0808/san-diego-1.jpgMatteo Veneziani:I'm very happy to announce my new project which I've been working onsince Gold Coast Intl was launched. I've put all of myself to give toyou a much-improved version of KSAN. Using the latest optimizationtechniques this version is almost 100% new compared to the KSAN youare all currently flying. Performance increases, plenty of new detailsand a few new major features are all part of the update. /images/notams/notams18/dieg0808/san-diego-2.jpgI've taken on board all of your feedback, and have channelled thisinto the new version. I hope you all get even more enjoyment out ofthis new version! Of course, the most exciting part of this news is that KSAN v2.0 isan entirely free update for all existing users! If you haven't had thechance to try KSAN yet, now is the perfect time as the scenery iscurrently on sale. /images/notams/notams18/dieg0808/san-diego-3.jpgWhat's new in this version?First of all, I spent a great deal of time trying to understand howto improve this huge scenery, using latest techniques. This has beenachieved by re-working almost every 3D component of the airport,extensive optimisation and consolidation, whilst at the same timeadding more detail. Our testing team have all shown big performanceimprovements across the board, with a few testers even showing doublethe performance when used with Orbx FTX Global! /images/notams/notams18/dieg0808/san-diego-4.jpgWhilst the performance has been a large focus of my efforts, I haveadded many other features as requested by you: Massive optimization efforts to greatly improve performanceNew animated jetways! (CTRL-J)Far more terminal detailing (P3D only)New modelled interiors for main terminals (P3D only)Totally replaced static aircraft - new types unique to KSANUpdated ground poly (with new textures),New ground imagery (higher quality, better colors and blending)Updated and revised GSE placement and typesAdded lite versions of surrounding airports: KMYF, KNRS, KNZY, KSDM, KSEEMajor updates to POI and downtown texturesImproved autogenImproved clutter and detailsDynamic lighting (P3Dv4 only)Compatible with FTX GLOBAL, openLC North America or Southern CaliforniaFor Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Lockheed Martin Prepar3D v1-4. Source
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You Can't Believe Everything You See On The Internet By Ron Blehm (26 February 2013) Here's the deal, you may have seen this video link on YouTube? It reports to show the mid-day arrivals into San Diego's Lindbergh Field - the second-busiest, single-runway airport in the world! At first I was skeptical that it was faked! I've spent some time in San Diego and I wanted the motel closest to the runway! Sitting at the side of the pool, just off Pacific Avenue, I would have sworn that the aircraft pretty much flew over the same palm tree at the same altitude and speed. There just seemed to be too much variety in the video. I thought of the famously faked photo from Hannover Germany (above): Why is the Thompson 737 sitting there ALL DAY and why have the ground vehicles not moved? Why does the Lufthansa Regional RJ have his reversers deployed if this is departures? Does JAL really fly two 747s out of Hannover each day? Then there are observations like: VIA no longer uses Tu-154s; how old is this photo? jetBlue A320? It's a US airline Midwest CRJ? It's a US airline Northwest DC-9? It's an old US airline Southwest 737? It's a US airline And my favorite, the Air New Zealand Dash-8! This is quite obviously a sham. Anyway, I went back to YouTube and studied the video again, frame-by-frame, and a couple of things get me even still: There are a lot of 737-700s but it's plausible because: Southwest is the world's largest 737 operator and two-thirds of the fleet are -700 models! I'm not sure about the consistent lighting on the bridge. The clouds don't move but if you extract the aircraft/bridge images only, the background-overlay seems like a pretty easy trick for media types to pull off. What of the speed variations even among similar aircraft types? Is there too much GA traffic? (The producer certainly could have pulled the videos he wanted out of the raw coverage to give a spread of aircraft but in that case, where are the heavies? (San Diego does get some wide-body traffic) All-in-all it is a pretty decent job (certainly better than the faked Hannover photo!) and I guess there really wasn't as much variation as I might have initially thought. I got to thinking about these variances given the fact that San Diego's approach is tricky: 30% steeper than most Right over highly-populated areas Near to downtown - the clearance over the last parking structure on Pacific Avenue is 109 feet in real life. It's not St Maarten but it's as close as I'll ever come! (One of our test pilots (who flew real-world heavies for his career) noted that it's not really a HARD approach, it's just that you are relatively low, over populated areas, longer than at other airports as you follow the terrain down to the runway) Into a busy runway with lots of arrivals and departures vying for a slot The approach has to be precise! The video got me to thinking: "I wonder how much variation is "normal" and how a bunch of simmers would do on this approach?" So to find out, I sent out a hundred or so e-mails asking YOU to fly the KSAN runway 27 approach. Sure, I could have done this myself but I've frequented San Diego over the years (including a past feature). From a research standpoint, I wanted to see how consistent other sim pilots would be at flying this approach. Thanks I need to, at this point, send out a giant THANK YOU to my test pilots: Ken Moffin Tony Vallillo Peter Stark Jan Visser Javier Hernandez Daniel Kigera Bill Smith Jose Octavio Our test aircraft (chosen by the pilots) included: 734 735 738 744 788 A319 CV990 EMB190 762 DC-10 DC-4 XB-70 Jetstream-41 Jetstream-31 Dash-8 King Air The Test What I asked pilots to do was to simply fly the KSAN runway 27 approach in clear weather. Then they were to take a screen shot from TOWER VIEW, just 15 seconds before touchdown. I've selected just a few of the screen shots to share with you. The Results Then, I took the 20+ approaches we had and graphed out the aircraft's COG, compiling all that data into an AVERAGE APPROACH FIX which is the red "X" in the picture below. Logically the bigger and heavier planes were higher and faster at 15 seconds than those that are lighter and slower. But even so, only half of our approaches were near to that average spot. I queried the pilots and all of the landings were successful with a nice rollout and no casualties (the XB-70 and one of the EMB-190s had a higher rate of descent and actually landed just before the piano keys at the end of the displaced threshold). Conclusions According to our sim-pilot research, some variation is quite the norm, even into some place as "tight" as Lindbergh Field. Given the variety of approaches demonstrated by experienced sim pilots in calm weather, I am even more inclined to believe that the video is authentically demonstrating variations in real-world approaches to San Diego.** Feedback So, what do you think? Please use the comments box below to give your opinion(s) about the validity of this demonstration. **The author's belief about this video may NOT reflect the opinion of ANY of our test pilots! Ron Blehm pretendpilot@yahoo.com