29Palms - LGSA - Chania Airport MSFS 2024

This scenery is a realistic representation of Chania "Ioannis Daskalogiannis Airport" (LGSA) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

Chania, Crete International Airport (ICAO: LGSA, IATA: CHQ) is located in western Crete, 14 km north-east of the city of Chania, in the Akrotiri peninsula. It is named after Ioannis Daskalogiannis, the leader of the revolution of the Sfakia region in 1770.

LGSA airport serves both civilian and military activity. The civilian area is located northern of the runway and is operated by Fraport since 2018. The southern airport area serves the Hellenic Air Force.

It has a single, 3.348 m / 10.982 ft long asphalt runway, designated 11L/29R which can serve aircraft up to Boeing 747, C-5 Galaxy and Antonov AN-124. Two main taxiways connect the operation fields with the runway. The southern taxiway can be used as a runway with designation 11R/29L when the main runway is not operational.

The civilian airport serves domestic and European flights. The traffic increases sharply during summer period with more than 100 flights per day. Some of the airlines visiting the airport are AEGEAN Airlines, Sky Express, Ryanair, Wizz Air, Transavia, TUI, British Airways, Norwegian, SAS, Finnair, EasyJet etc.

Features:

• Realistic depiction of the airport layout and objects
• Highly detailed and accurate custom ground polygons representing the most recent layout of the apron
• Highly detailed 3D objects and textures, on the runway, taxiways, apron, terminal and vehicles parking area
• Full depiction and accuracy of the Terminal building
• Optimized interior of the Terminal building with walk-through capability
• Improvement of the vegetation (density, tree form and size) inside the airport and in the surrounding area
• Custom animated flags at the parking area
• Custom animated windsocks
• Fully customized dynamic lights
• Sloped runway

Credits:
Thanks to the following developers for their permission of following items usage

• EKO Fueltrucks 3D object: Emilios, FlyTampa
• Animated flags: Giannis Dermitzakis, FlyTampa
• Part of static and animated people: George, FlyTampa

• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
• OS: Windows 10 / 11
• Processor: Intel Core i7-10700K | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X or better
• Graphics: GeForce RTX 2080 | AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or better
• VRAM: 8 GB 
• RAM: 16 GB 
• Free hard disk space: 2.5 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.