The developer iniBuilds continues their development of sceneries, with the first scenery to be announced this year being another airport in London, this time, the main base for easyJet – Gatwick. The team has announced this scenery through their Discord server earlier today.
About London Gatwick Airport
London Gatwick is the second-largest international airport serving the capital city of the United Kingdom, London. Located approximately 50 kilometres away from the city centre, it serves as the main hub for easyJet and a secondary hub for British Airways. By passenger traffic, it is the eighth busiest airport in Europe.
The airport initially opened as an aerodrome in the 1920s and has been in commercial use since the 1930s. As with any other British airfield, it was majorly used by the Royal Air Force during World War II. After the war, the airport returned to civilian operations. During the first decade of the new Millennium, all transatlantic flights to London ended here, due to the Bermuda II agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States. This agreement then ended in 2009, with most transatlantic flights returning to Heathrow.
Currently, the airport has two terminals, and only one operational runway, making it the largest single-runway airport in the world. As mentioned, easyJet and British Airways are the largest operators from this airport, with flights across the whole of Europe, including major hubs and smaller airports. Speaking of flights that go beyond the European continent, passengers and pilots can get to destinations like Cape Town, Boston, Tunis, Doha, Phuket, Cancún, and Accra, to name a few.
What We Know About iniBuilds Gatwick
PrinceHubert from the iniBuilds team mentioned that during this stage of development, iniBuilds is looking for individuals that can gather information about this airport for development purposes, to ensure the highest level of accuracy. Despite that, the community has already been given three different previews, showing the airport’s surrounding area in the simulator.
The previews show the “Welcome to London Gatwick” sign, that welcomes passengers on the roundabout when exiting for South Terminal. The next shows a similar sign near the North Terminal upon exiting the roundabout next to the rapid transit system.
The last one shows an advertisement for Uber in an unknown location around the airport. Speaking of unknown things, there is no official feature list yet, and we the iniBuilds team didn’t inform the community whether a version of this airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is going to come out as well.
If you would like to read more about iniBuilds, make sure to take a look at our coverage of their recently updated Airbus A350 for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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