Welcome to Florida's West Coast!
Verticalsim’s biggest destination yet, Tampa Intl. The biggest airport on Florida’s West Coast is served by over 21 airlines, and 3 cargo airlines. It’s stunning picturesque approach is well known. Its location is perfect for both those seeking short and long flights. Experience the handcrafted & detailed surrounding areas while flying into one of America’s best airports. KTPA was crafted with performance in mind, while also taking advantage of the MSFS SDK’s features.
- Animated passengers with “half-interior” airsides/terminals
- 2023 taxiway layout
- Proper AI routing, vehicle pathing, airline codes
- Custom taxisigns per real-life taxisign plots
- Custom airport lighting (i.e. centerline lights, hold-short, Wig-Wags, etc.)
- Blend of custom & photorealistic texturing for the best of both worlds
- Animated HVAC fans, flags, and trams
- Handcrafted mesh with taxiway bridges
- High-resolution 0.5ft/Color Graded Imagery
- Surrounding area landmarks (Raymond James, International Plaza, Grand Hyatt, etc.)
Available since
2023-02-16
Version
v1.5.0
Supported Simulators
for Microsoft Flight Simulator
Supported Operating System
Windows
Installation Method
Contrail App
Download Size
1.05 GB
Installation Size
2.64 GB
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Review by Tom
of
v1.5.0
There are two major issues though. When they made the jetway to better fit PMDG doors now Fenix door is sticking out of the shroud. PMDG 737 was known to have a door positioning issue so that's sort of an unnecessary update.
Terraforming at the airport is pretty terrible but that's mostly on MSFS SDK rather than the devs. It would've been fine if they just model the terrain on and around the runways and make other parts of the airport mostly flat.
Review by Shaun
of
v1.1.0
| current version is
v1.5.0
Review by Robert
of
v1.0.0
| current version is
v1.5.0
My small issues come with the jetway texturing and the gate ground markings. They are just blurry, which really stands out compared to all of the other awesome stuff this airport gives you. Especially when the rest of the signage in and around the airport is so crisp.
It also would have been nice to have some of the landside roads be redone, but that doesn't bother me all that much given how well the rest of the airport is implemented. The interior of the terminal buildings is also well done, if lacking with life from lack of people.
Overall this gets that near-perfect score. If VS can clean up the textures of the jetways and the gate markings on the ground, this is a 5. In any case, it's still a must-buy and totally worth the price I paid.