Aerosoft Airport Zagreb

Fly to Croatia’s capital with Aerosoft Airport Zagreb for the Microsoft Flight Simulator. This highly detailed scenery brings you to Zagreb Airport, named “Franjo Tuđman” after Croatia’s first president.

The Aerosoft Airport Zagreb DLC comes with all detailed 3D modeled and PBR as well as normal textured terminals, airport buildings and facilities including the complete military area of LDZA. Immerse yourself in this place that fits seamlessly into the MSFS environment with custom orthophoto maps that show the current situation on the ground.

Lots of little details around the airport are animated, e.g., the windsocks, air and ground radar antennas and custom jetways. Near the airport there is an old wooden chapel of the Wounded Jesus from 1758 and renovated in 1896. In the distance, you can spot the TV tower on the hill Sljeme and the ruins of the medieval fortified town Medvedgrad.

All the parking codes, navaids, ground marking, and taxiway layouts are based on recent charts. The slope of the runway was made according to the airport technical documentation.

Features:

• Franjo Tuđman Airport" (LDZA) with all the buildings and service facilities, translucent detailed new terminal buildings with interior designs. Complete military area with hangars and buildings. TV tower "Sljeme" and old ruins of "Medvedgrad" are included
• A custom orthophoto that covers altered parts of the original Bing satellite image
• Terraforming with correct elevation of the entire airport and its surroundings adapted to the elevation of the surrounding terrain according to MSFS
• The actual slope of the runway according to the technical documentation of the airport
• Slight slopes of the apron towards the drainage channels
• Detailed ground markings based on recent charts of parking stands and new taxiway layouts including recent changes of taxiway layout
• AFCAD with correct GATE and Parking positions and a functional animated custom Jetway with each GATE
• Custom animated windsocks
• Animated radar antenna
• RNW Edge, Approach lights and PAPI custom model
• Custom taxiway signage
• Realistic night time dynamic lighting
• complete PBR + normal texturing of all objects and ground
• Most models and textures based on photos taken at the airport
• Static aircraft and vehicles
• Custom Catering Truck and Boarding Stairs
• Customized airport services according to the type of parking position
• Realistic navigational aids (ILS, VOR/DME, NDB, ATIS). AFD optimized, frequencies and approaches adapted based on recent charts

Reviews:

Conclusion by FilbertFlies:

• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024
• OS: Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher
• Processor: Intel i5-8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
• Video Memory: 4 GB
• Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 | AMD Radeon RX 590
• Free hard disk space: 2 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 2.5.1 (MSFS 2024 compatibility)

• Installation of the "missing" approach light holders on the runway 22 approach for the MSFS 2024 version
• Re-visibility of runway edge lights objects in MSFS 2024 version
• Setting the Gate Number on the central VDGS panel
• Correction of airport light intensity
• Correction and reduction of the speed of movement of airport vehicles
• New GS ILS antenna on runway 04
• Correction of the fence on the military part

Version 2.5

• New stationary facilities
  • A completely new Croatian Air Force base built for the new squadron of French Rafale 3F fighter jets. It consists of 5 new buildings including hangars, a technical repair shop, a training center and other buildings
  • New runway approach lights for direction 22
  • New centerline light housings
  • New touchdown zone light housings
  • Solar panels on the roof of the technical workshop
  • New apron lights on taxiway T
  • Security kiosk at the entrance to the airport area
• New or modified stationary vehicles
  • Airbus A220-300 with Croatia Airlines livery
  • Rafale 3F military fighter with HRZ livery
  • Mercedes-Benz Tourismo Bus with Pleso transport livery
  • Catering truck (BTA and MZLZ livery)
  • Boarding stairs MZLZ livery
  • MZLZ towing vehicle
  • Cobus 3000 with STIX livery
• New animated vehicles
  • Mercedes-Benz Citaro with ZET livery
  • Mercedes-Benz Tourismo Bus with Pleso transport livery
  • Catering truck (BTA and MZLZ livery)
  • Boarding stairs MZLZ livery
  • MZLZ towing vehicle towed by original ASOBO trolley
  • Cobus 3000 with STIX livery
  • Firefighter Panther 6×6 ZAG livery
• Animated objects
  • Animated ramp at the entrance of the new auxiliary road to the construction site for the reconstruction of Taxiway F, which raises and lowers depending on the proximity of the camera view
  • Animated ramps at the entrance and exit to/from the parking area, which raise and lower depending on the proximity of the camera view
  • Animated ramps at the entrance and exit to/from the parking area, which raise and lower depending on the proximity of the "Pleso prijevoz" bus transfer to the passenger terminal platform
• Partial changes to the asphalt surface of the runway and taxiways, as well as horizontal lines according to the latest satellite image from August 2024, with the expected completion of work on Taxiway F by the end of 2024
• Completely changed all remaining default runway lighting, as well as visually improved all other horizontal lighting with custom objects
• Customized Airport service at the parking position for the Catering truck, boarding stairs and towing vehicle with trolley
• Minor minor repairs and renovations of individual objects, as well as changes to some textures of already existing objects and the removal of objects that we no longer have at the airport (rental car containers, MiG 21 and Mi 8, An-32

Version 2.4.0

• The animated Panther6x6 fire truck that moves from one fire station to another
• Adaption to the latest MSFS update
  

Version 2.3.0

• A new complex of buildings under construction on the military part of the airport for the needs of accommodation, service and maintenance, as well as pilot and technical staff training
• Enhancement of light effects of taxi and approach lights
• Improving the visibility of taxi signs at a distance
• New Follow Me car (Peugeot 208)
• Animation of the old and new Follow Me car driving around the airport region
• Implementation and fitting of the original MS TV tower within the scenery with improved lighting instead of the old TV tower
• Partial correction of irregularities in the display of generic objects in the area of the city of Velika Gorica and the wider region around the airport when the photogrammetry display is ON, as well as a partial correction of terraforming around the underpass, which is not possible in that display due to technical limitations and is a consequence of the CU5 upgrade of the simulator
• Several minor corrections to existing building models