Drzewiecki Design - KDCA Washington Airport & City XP12

Washington, D.C. was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1791, President Washington commissioned Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, a French-born architect and city planner, to design the new capital. He enlisted Scottish surveyor Alexander Ralston helped layout the city plan. The L'Enfant Plan featured broad streets and avenues radiating out from rectangles, providing room for open space and landscaping. He based his design on plans of cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Karlsruhe, and Milan that Thomas Jefferson had sent to him. L'Enfant's design also envisioned a garden-lined "grand avenue" approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) in length and 400 feet (120 m) wide in the area that is now the National Mall. President Washington dismissed L'Enfant in March 1792 due to conflicts with the three commissioners appointed to supervise the capital's construction however L'Enfant is still credited with the overall design of the city.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA, ICAO: KDCA, FAA LID: DCA), is located in Arlington, Virginia, next to the border of Washington, D.C. It is the smaller of two airports operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority that serve the National Capital Region around Washington. The airport is 5 miles (8.0 km) from downtown Washington D.C.. The airport's original name was Washington National Airport. Congress adopted the present name to honor President Ronald Reagan in 1998. The airport served almost 24 2million passengers in 2019.

Flights into and out of the airport are generally not allowed to exceed 1,250 statute miles (2,010 km) in any direction nonstop, in an effort to send coast-to-coast and overseas traffic to Washington Dulles International Airport, though there are 40 slot exemptions to this rule. Planes are required to take unusually complicated paths to avoid restricted and prohibited airspace above sensitive landmarks, government buildings, and military installations in and around Washington, D.C., and to comply with some of the tightest noise restrictions in the country.

There are currently five scheduled international routes, which are to cities in Canada, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. Reagan National is a hub for American Airlines, which is Reagan National's largest carrier. American Airlines also has near-hourly air shuttle flights to New York LaGuardia Airport and Logan International Airport in Boston. Delta Air Lines also operates near-hourly air shuttle flights to New York LaGuardia Airport, which are all operated by Delta Shuttle.

Reagan National Airport has some of the strictest noise restrictions in the country. In addition, due to security concerns, the areas surrounding the National Mall and U.S. Naval Observatory in central Washington are prohibited airspace up to 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Due to these restrictions, pilots approaching from the north are generally required to follow the path of the Potomac River and turn just before landing. This approach is known as the River Visual. Similarly, flights taking off to the north are required to climb quickly and turn left. The "River Visual" is only possible with a ceiling of at least 3,500 feet (1,100 m) and visibility of 3 statute miles (4.8 km) or more. There are lights on the Key Bridge, Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, Arlington Memorial Bridge and the George Mason Memorial Bridge to aid pilots following the river.

SCENERY FEATURES

• A high-quality model of KDCA Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, featuring the up-to-date version with extensive details throughout the whole airport
• FPS-friendly design, with epic night textures, dynamic lighting and PBR materials
• Performance-friendly interior modeling at terminal buildings, control towers, and some hangars, static aircraft, advanced night lighting (incl. River Visual and dual PAPI), animated trains
• Animated jetways, VGDS, marshallers (SAM plugin)
• Washington D.C. city scenery included, with over a thousand landmark buildings surrounding the airport, ortho coverage and some lite airports

INSTALLATION
For manual install please refer to “Mac and Linux manual install” files attached to the product. They provide a detailed instruction on the manual install of the product. The automatic (Windows only) install requires only to remove conflicting products from the sim. Before proceeding with the manual install it is required to remove any versions of the included airports you may have installed before.

• X-Plane 12
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 / 11 (64bit), Linux or macOS 10.15+
• Processor: Intel Core or AMD Ryzen CPU with at least 4 cores
• Memory: 8 GB RAM (16 GB RAM or more recommended)
• Graphics card: Vulkan 1.3-capable graphics card (AMD/ Nvidia) with at least 6 GB VRAM (8+ GB recommended)
• Free hard disk space: 2 GB, SSD highly recommended

If you have already purchased Washington for X-Plane 11 in the Aerosoft Shop, the following upgrade option is available:

• Washington XP11 › KDCA Washington Airport & City XP12:
  DL › $21.75  (Price may deviate depending on your local sales tax [VAT])
  Just add the product to the shopping cart and the discount will be automatically deducted.

To do this, you must be logged in to your customer account you used to purchase the other version.

Version 1.1:

• Apart from KDCA, the following airports and heliports are landable: Sibley Memorial Hospital DC52, MedStar Washington Hospital WH6, Georgetown Hospital DC09, Walter Reed Emergency Heliport 60MD, S Capitol Street 09W, US Park Police DC03, Washington DC Police DC12, White House helipad XKWHH, Pentagon Helipad KJPN, Washington Executive/Hyde W32, Potomac KVKX, College Park KCGS, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling XK009Q, Andrews AFB/NAF KADW, Spirit of Washington DC04
• Airport vehicle paths have been fixed so handling vehicles are now driving correctly
• Marine One Hangar, overlapping helicopters fixed
• Helipads ensured to be landable (solid surface)
• Fixes to the White House model
• Fixed Sibley Memorial Hospital mesh
• Textures upgraded in KDCA South Terminal
• All 2D trees replaced with 3D trees