Airport Manchester XP

Explore the Airport Manchester – the largest British airport outside the London metropolitan region.

Thanks to high-resolution ground textures and HDR night lighting, this add-on for X-Plane renders a realistic and modern recreation of the airport at every time of day. The textures also feature physically correct lighting and reflection effects. Animated service vehicles, marshallers, and jetways bring the virtual Airport Manchester to life.

Features:

• HD ground textures including PBR
• Custom HDR night lighting
• Custom static aircrafts
• HD vegetation
• Animated service vehicles
• Animated jetways, VDGS, marshaller (SAM plugin required)
• Seasonal textures (SAM Seasons required in XP11)
• Full Orbx compatibility (Orbx TrueEarth required)
• Compatible with default AI Traffic and World Traffic 3
• Added SAM Colors support (XP11)
• Added Vulkan ready ground traffic (compatible with SAM AirportVehicles)
• Added airport specific ground vehicle liveries (requires SAM AirportVehicles, only XP11)

New in the XP12 version:

• Standalone, fully customized XP12 version
• Revised lighting
• Revised ground including PBR reflections and normal maps
• Revised orthophoto, color optimized for XP12, including autumn/winter version and normal map
• Revised vegetation placement (New volumetric grass)
• Leverages XP12's new 3D vegetation for forests, trees and bushes for seamless integration into the environment
• Weather effects for wet, snow and ice
• Full support for native XP12 seasons, with no additional add-ons or plugins
• Revised autogen and street placement
• Revamped parking lots with lots of additional static cars as well as lighting and vegetation
• Revised ground transport

• X-Plane 12 / X-Plane 11
• 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: 3.35 GB, SSD highly recommended

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.