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TropicalSim – KABQ Albuquerque International Sunport Airport v1.1.0
MSFS 2020

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Works with MSFS 2024: Unknown
Works with MSFS 2020: Yes – Native
Albuquerque International is the primary international airport serving the US State of New Mexico, the Albuquerque metropolitan area, as well as the larger Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas CSA, handling 5,467,693 passengers in 2018. It is located in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, between the Rio Grande river and the Sandia Mountains, east of Old Town Albuquerque and Barelas, 3 miles (5 km) southeast … read more of downtown Albuquerque.

The airport serves as a focus airport for Southwest Airlines and is also served with domestic commercial flights by Advanced Air, Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Boutique Air, Delta Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue, and United Airlines. Cargo airlines serving the airport are FedEx Express, UPS Airlines, Empire Airlines (a FedEx Feeder carrier), Ameriflight, and South Aero. The airport is designated as Class C airspace.

The airport continues to share its runways with Kirtland AFB, which also handles rescue and firefighting operations. An Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) installation, the host unit is the 377th Air Base Wing (377 ABW). Flying units at Kirtland AFB consist of the 58th Special Operations Wing (58 SOW) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and the 150th Fighter Wing (150 FW), an Air Combat Command (ACC)-gained unit of the New Mexico Air National Guard.

Product Note:

Due to MSFS ground photogrammetry engine, it’s common to face a few jagged edges on some airports borders/corners. As you may know, if photogrammetry is set to OFF they disappear.
So far the SDK does not provide a tool to handle this properly, and this issue will be present when photogrammetry is ON, whether you use a default or add-on airport.
It’s not a big deal, it shows over a small area, but it’s there. So it’s a user’s choice to set photogrammetry ON or OFF to enjoy the flight.

Features:

• Highly detailed Albuquerque Intl’ / KABQ
• Full night illumination
• Native MSFS Dynamic Lighting
• Functional animated jetway
• Seamless integration with default MSFS scenery
• Usage of MSFS SDK FlightSim Materials + PBR
• Usage of MSFS SDK native gITF models
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36 thoughts on “TropicalSim – KABQ Albuquerque International Sunport Airport v1.1.0
MSFS 2020

  1. All of the main gates in terminals A and B are set to 30 meter wingspan so nothing bigger than a small regional will fit. IE – no 737 or bigger. All the gates should be able to hold a 737 and be 36 meter.

  2. You never got on that plane walter, matter of fact your mother didn’t even know you had cancer, yea, and that money that i thought we were caught up from, gretchen and elliot never gave you a dime mhm yea

  3. My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane Albuquerque New Mexico 87104

    1. not true at all. i just checked it out and this is a pretty good scenery. only thing it’s lacking is a modelled interior of the terminal.

      1. That’s good then. We don’t need modelled interiors eating up frames. You cannot even get inside anymore.I hope every dev now stops doing modelled interiors.

        1. I like those modelled interiors, and they barely eat any GPU, just upgrade your RAM, lmao. I hope devs won’t listen to people who do not want them

    2. Not sure what scenery you are referring to.. FeelThere scenery doesn’t improve airports imo, tropicalsim took time to model which looks exactly how it does in real life. Yes it would be nice to have a modeled interior however in real life the glass is hard to see through anyways so having a modeled interior wouldn’t really matter here. This airport is well worth the money IF you were to pay for it. They did a great job on this airport stop trolling.

      1. Maybe the version I downloaded was corrupt, I’m getting mismatched textures, a few areas where textures aren’t loading so it’s a big blue box and just general looks horrible. I will redownload.

          1. Hey what do you mean by rename you modelib files/materiallib folders? Is there a readme I can follow?

    3. Thank you so much! I like it even if i think 23 euros is too much for this airport. It is very enjoyable thanks to the nice photogrammetry around. It feels good.

    4. wondering if anyone is having an issue with this airport where the taxiways are duplicated? There’s double taxi lines and everything

        1. You’re right, thank you. Your comment made me realize I had another KABQ installed on top of this one…

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