sim-wings Barcelona

Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (LEBL) is the international commercial airport of Barcelona, Spain. With almost 50 million passengers (2023), it is the second largest airport in Spain and the seventh largest in Europe. It serves as a hub for Air Nostrum, Ryanair and Vueling.

For this expansion, a custom aerial image was used, which was extensively adapted and color-corrected for a realistic representation and thus seamlessly connects to the default simulator landscape. The numerous buildings and facilities that have been recreated in the scenery include the newly constructed jetways at Terminal 1.
Animated boarding bridges, numerous static objects such as apron vehicles and realistic dynamic lighting at night bring the airport to life.

Features:

• Highly detailed scenery of the international airport Barcelona "Josep Tarradellas - El Prat" and the immediate vicinity
• All buildings and service facilities
• Realistic 3D terrain made from DEM (elevation data) with sloped taxi- and runways
• Custom aerial image for the airport, elaborately color-corrected and retouched
• Up to date runway, taxiway, apron and stands layout (2024)
• Custom taxiway lights, with some made to work in one direction only (at one-way rapid exits for instance)
• Custom and accurate taxiway signage
• Extremely detailed airport buildings, Terminal T1 and T2 with interior airside
• Terminal T1 has recently constructed southern connection buildings and jetways
• Animated jetways, static jetways at alternate parkings
• Aerosoft VDGS safegate system
• Many custom-made static apron vehicles and cars
• Realistic night time dynamic lighting
• Car bridges added to upper highway system
• Replaced MSFS default street overlays with custom ones
• MSFS SDK materials (PBR)
• Enhanced Harbour at approach site with custom objects like tanks, cranes and vessels
• Replaced "spiky" photogemetric cranes at Barcelona harbour with 3D models

• Microsoft Flight Simulator (Version 2020 & MSFS 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
• DirectX: DirectX 11
• Video Memory: 2 GB VRAM
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Free hard disk space: 3.7 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 1.2.0:

• Aerial image color matched to TIN
• Altitude model adapted to TIN so that the TIN 3D buildings are not "flattened" and are closer to the airport
• Transitions from airport to TIN adjusted
• TIN from default scenery (at parking lots) excluded
• TIN now removes duplicate port objects such as buildings and oil tanks and adjusts the rest, such as cranes
• FS2024 compatibility: dynamic taxiway lights: slight flickering fixed
• Scenery now FS2024 compatible, not "native" FS2024

Version 1.1.0:

• Changed rapid exit R1 to new shape and taxiwaypath
• Ground layer optimization (color and grafic)
• Removed overlapping taxiwaylines on ground signs
• Added two new concrete paved parking postions (PP200 and PP247)
• Added boxes with yellow parking postion number signs to jetways (to those having these in reality)
• Texture and model changes at terminal T1 jetway connection buildings, added parking position numbers to these buildings
• Ground level floor of Terminal T1 partly repositioned and enhanced with handling baggage carousels
• Small enhancement of Terminal T1 roof
• Corrected jetway hoods at terminal T1 (were moving to wrong side)
• Changed color of some ground lines (less saturation)
• Added bridge at Llobregat river
• Additional flatten of default mesh bleeding through default buildings at port area. Partly substituted with own buildings
• Removed labeling "Gate A" (AFCAD)
• Added fence around the airport
• Removed some trees near taxiway
• Small corrections of ground height model at T2
• Enhanced assignment of airline codes to parking positions

Version 1.0.1:

• Enhanced Harbour at approach site with custom objects like tanks, cranes and vessels
• Replaced "spiky" photogrammetric cranes at Barcelona harbour with 3D models