Aerosoft Mt. Everest Airports Vol. 1 - Lukla

Gateway to Mount Everest and World's Most Dangerous Airport; an airport so full of extremes that it is not only known by hardcore aviation enthusiasts anymore but has become a phenomenon among influencers, travel bloggers and documentaries.

Truth be told: There are airports that are higher. There may be airports that have a shorter runway. There even may be airstrips somewhere that have an even worse upwards slope of the runway. Or others that have a mountain wall at the end of its runway. What makes Lukla stand out is a combination of all those factors in one single airport!

Not enough thrill for you? Count in weather as a factor. No navigational aids. Limited documentation of approach and take-off routes. An uncontrolled airspace with fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.

This package is a newly developed version of "Lukla - Mount Everest Extreme" by the same developer: one of our most popular sceneries of the past two decades that has won many awards – among them the Simflight Award. This new version is setting the bar even higher again. More details, more animations, more of the real Lukla!

Features:

• Detailed 3D terrain model of Lukla airport with high-resolution photorealistic textures
• Newly constructed Lukla Helipad with terminal building
• Newly constructed terminal extension with interiors
• Recently erected Tenzing-Hillary statue and gardens right next to the runway
• Lots of animated people, animals, creek along the runway
• Animated ground service ATV
• Realistic night lighting
• Various typical sounds
• Detailed manual
• CONS: No flat runway ;-)

Disclaimer: The screenshots and the video are from the MSFS 2020 version, so there may be visual differences in MSFS 2024.

• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024
• OS: Windows 10 / 11
• Processor: Intel i5-4460 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or better
• Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570 or better
• Video Memory: 2 GB VRAM
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Free hard disk space: 4 GB

Installation runs via Aerosoft One, this requires an internet connection and an Aerosoft user account!

More information about Aerosoft One can be found in the User Guide or in the FAQs.

Version 1.5.0 | MSFS 2024

• Native vegetation (grasses, trees, bushes, partly swaying in the wind)
• Updated LODs
• Update of the brightness of the touchdown markers
• Many minor bug fixes and updates
• Special features in the MSFS 2024 version:
  • Simobjects vehicles do not work on 3D terrains (in MSFS 2024)
  • Simobjects people and animals only sporadically
  • An extremely high-resolution elevation model is only a few centimeters directly below the 3D model
  • Side effects of this:
    • Detailed native grass can now be used (seeing through)
    • AI aircraft are now spawned a the parking positions, but apparently do not take off and land at the airports. The spawned models are usually not very realistic for Lukla, but this cannot be influenced
    • Taxi guidance works now
    • Tighter, more performance-friendly vegetation
    • In certain lighting conditions, the ground model "rolls up" on approach (caused by the fact that the ground terrain and 3D terrain are rendered differently and are now so close to each other)