Sky-Additions has recently released their rendition of Paris-Vatry Airport (LFOK) for Microsoft Flight Simulator. It serves the champagne region in Northeastern France and is close enough to Paris (135km) to be considered by Ryanair as one of the Parisian airports. As of 2018, the airport had a yearly average of 61,826 passengers.
It was built as an air base in 1953, housing fifty fighters in three large hangars. When France withdrew from the integrated NATO structure in 1967, the Americans left the base, leading to its closure. The French Air Force then used it for training until the early 2000s, when it was sold to civil interests and converted into a civilian airport.
Besides handling occasional passenger traffic, it’s also a training pilot site for many airlines, such as Air France, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, KLM, Transavia, Transavia France, and Swiss. Airbus has also used its relatively long runway for aircraft testing.
It’s served by Ryanair, with flights to Marrakech and Porto.
The scenery features an accurate rendition of the airport, with an up-to-date layout, a custom GSX profile, detailed environmental elements, realistic airport vehicles, custom ground markings, and more.
It’s available on SimMarket for roughly $9.64, requiring at least 120.97 MB of free hard disk space to install.
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