Greetings Captains!
It's been a little over a month since release and I'm humbled by the immense amount of support received by the community. KSFO:CE has easily become Flightbeam's #1 seller since starting back in 2009.
With great support comes great updates, and while my wishlist is quite long to improve KSFO even more, I've started off with some high priority items, in no particular order:
All-new highspeed taxiway Tango This brand-new construction was just completed in June and is a complete taxiway re-work, which shifted the prior high speed taxiway T into a new layout, which dramatically altered the taxiway layout directly in front of the E gates.
Flightbeam re-visited the airport airside and we've completed the work, reflecting the real airport. Fresh, dark asphalt now waiting for your aircraft to taxi over.
New Vehicles
We've got rescue ready on standby, with accurately marked trucks, matching the real airport. We'll leave it up to you to discover the rest.
Significantly Improved Runway Textures and Decals
All runway textures have been significantly improved with double the texture resolution and added decals. Runway grooves have been added to match the real airport.
Also, a big blunder that slipped into version 1.0 was an entire layer of hand-painted tire gum that got swept underneath another layer, and therefore was never seen. Please excuse the mistake! Now you may land on much more glorious layer of tire gum, hand-painted to match the real airport!
In addition, all tire markings now have significantly more resolution, and less pixelation.
New Flora
To appease the screenshot Gods, there's a variety of new flora, hand placed around various taxiways. Makes for some fine images and realism!
There's so many more little improvements made, not listed above.
You can find the entire changelog here:
New taxiway layout (high speed taxiway T and surrounding area)
Tweaks to shoreline
G gates improved jetway length to reach PMDG 777
Some shrubs, grass added to various ground areas
Taxiway decal resolution improvements
Improved runway textures, with added grooves to match real airport and other enhancements
New, detailed fire trucks added to airport fire stations
Improvements to runway lighting, particularly light positions
Many other improvements and additions
KSFO update v1.1.1 is available now via Contrail. Available for Marketplace users in 1-2 weeks (this is the current standard time for Microsoft processing)
Coming in KSFO version 1.2:
Custom Taxiway Lighting
Fully modeled taxiway lighting, with custom lights. LOD'ed, Directional, colored properly and dynamically lit with light bounce on surface.
many other surprises....
Thanks for your support and happy flying!
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