Lelystad Airport is located 3,5 NM south of the city of Lelystad and 23 NM east of Amsterdam. It’s located right in the center of the Netherlands and a perfect location to start from for a scenic flight in this beautiful country.
With 103.000 flights (2018), Lelystad Airport is the largest general aviation airfield in the Netherlands and the busiest in terms of flight movements after Schiphol Amsterdam Airport. The airfield is popular with flight clubs and flight schools and serves as a major training center for both fixed wing and rotary aircraft.
Lelystad Airport is also home to the national aviation museum Aviodrome, which host the annual FS Weekend. The museum has a great number of aircraft on static display. Most prominent is the former KLM Boeing 747-200SUD, which dominates the skyline of the airfield.
Although they do not operate scheduled flights out of the airfield, Lelystad Airport is the base of AIS Airlines. The airline has its maintenance facility and crew training center located on the south west side of the airport.
Detailed exhibition Aviodrome
The national aviation museum Aviodrome provides a wide variety of aircraft on static display, as well as a replica of the 1928 Schiphol terminal building.
Modelled interiors
On 31 March 2015, parliament and the Dutch government approved the Schiphol Group’s expansion plans for Lelystad Airport. Although the works has almost been completed, there are no commercial flights departing from the airfield as of yet. The new terminal building has been modelled to its current state.
Custom static aircraft
The scenery counts numerous high quality static aircraft with real world registrations based at at the airfield.
Other features
- High quality and accurate rendering of EHLE Lelystad Airport
- HiRes and detailed aprons and ground markings
- Highly detailed model, including interior of the new terminal building (not yet in use) on the north side of the airfield and air traffic control tower
- HiRes Physical Based Rendering (PBR) textures
- 30 cm per pixel ortho imagery
- Custom taxi, runway and approach lighting systems
- Custom static aircraft at the outdoors display of the aviation museum and many static aircraft of real world registrations based at Lelystad Airport throughout the airfield
- Custom car pack of greatly optimised, high detailed vehicles for optimal performance
- Custom 3D animated objects, including windsocks, flags and air condition units and gates
- Includes a custom GSX Profile
Planned features for the future releases
- 3D animated people
- Open hangars
- Option of switching between current and future version of the airport, with the terminal on the north side of the airport in use
- And much more
Available since
2024-04-05
Version
v1.2.0
Supported Simulators
for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Supported Operating System
Windows
Installation Method
Contrail App
Download Size
3.23 GB
Installation Size
6.71 GB
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Review by Gewinton
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v1.0.2
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v1.2.0
Review by Ed van Duijn
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v1.0.3
| current version is
v1.2.0
Maybay i may suggest an improvement; there is a blue tow truck driving erratically on the runway near aviodrome. Could that be removed?