Singapore FS9 Review

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Singapore Airport

Product Information

Publishers:ImagineSim

Description: Complex scenery add-on.

Download Size:48 MB

Format:Download

Simulation Type:FS9

Reviewed by: Gary YipAVSIM Staff Reviewer - September 27, 2010

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ention Singapore Airport to any passenger and visions of cleanliness, tranquility, ease of use and comfort spring to mindconsistently voted the top airport in the world to use by passengers. As well as the outstanding facilities in the airport,ngapore Changi is home to Singapore Airlines, also accustomed to its fair share of customer satisfaction awards and

colades. It is no wonder why many travelers on the kangaroo route choose to stop over in Singapore on their longurneys to Australasia. As a result of this, Singapore is home to many exotic aircraft and airlines and being one of the bigancial and tourism capitals of south east Asia, it sees passenger movements of around 37 million a year.

hen looking at Singapore airport from a pilots perspective, images of large wide-bodied aircraft dominating the ramp comind as well as the recent wealth of A380 aircraft. Singapore represents everything we expect of a large international hth long runways, an abundance of gates, multiple terminals, extensive cargo facilities and a myriad of instrumentocedures all designed to make getting into and out of the airport a breeze.

ng well in the middle of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Singapore also gets a lot of weather phenomenonsigned to put pilots to the ultimate test. Tropical thunderstorms are commonplace in Singapore and CB clouds are the ope of cloud you are likely to see. Typhoons can mean that wind speeds can blow you way off course and make thingseresting as well as adding some heavy rain to the mix just to make sure that you sweat during your approach!

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s no wonder why ImagineSim have chosen Singapore as an airport to work on to make a high quality scenery upgrade ght Simulator. Founded in 2004, ImagineSim have developers with over ten years of experience working in Flight Simuloducts and produce great quality add-on sceneries for FS9 and FSX.

mongst their catalogue include the recent Hong Kong, Atlanta, Newark, La Guardia, Denver and Nassau airports to nameew. All of them are FS9 compatible with most being compatible with FSX also. At the time of writing this review, SingapImagineSim is for FS9 only, but after speaking with an ImagineSim member, they are aiming for an FSX release by thethis month (September).

Test System

Intel Core 2 6400 @ 2.13GHz

2GB RAM

ATI Radeon X1300 Graphics card

Windows Vista Home Premium 32

edition

CH Products Yoke

Saitek Cyborg X Joystick

Flying Time:16 hours

stallation and Documentation

is standard nowadays, the product comes via a simple download which is aroundMB. To install, you will need your purchasing details to activate the installation ande product which therefore means that you must be connected to the internet duringe installation. Purchasing options are via Flight1 or SimMarket. There is a demorsion which is free to try before you buy but if you download this before deciding torchase, you must uninstall the demo version before you install the full version.

e installation itself is straight forward and runs so that you dont need to do any clean, such as activate the scenery in FS afterwards. As always, a read of thecumentation is needed. This is a short guide to the scenery itself includingstructions on the docking system, a chart showing the airport overview and somendy FAQs if youre having any problems.

dly, there are no airport charts included (other than the airport overview) for flying with so it is up to you to source youwn navigation charts.

ngapore Changi Airport

ngapore Changi airport is situated on the south eastern side of Singapore. The main airport has 3 terminals and a budgeline terminal, an extensive cargo terminal as well as 2 parallel runways both of which have enough tarmac to satisfy theaviest and largest jets around.

rminal 1 is the oldest terminal at Changi. It opened in July 1981and has undergone a few upgrades within its lifetime toprove passenger facilities. These facilities give Singapore its famous tranquil and comfortable appeal for transit passengere facilities such as rooftop swimming pools, day rooms and shops are welcomed by those passengers facing the long

urneys between Europe and Australasia.

rminal 1 is home to many international airlines such as British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Emirates. The H shape issigned to maximize gate space so as a result, the small area has enough capacity for 29 aerobridge gates as well as anditional 16 remote stands. Terminal 1 is currently undergoing more upgrades to bring it in line with the new Terminal 3 cently upgraded Terminal 2.

An overview of terminal 1. Theincluded AFCAD means that gates

and terminals allocations for airlinesare true to life as seen here with theOneWorld alliance partners (Cathay

Pacific and Qantas) sharing arelatively quiet terminal 1

rminal 2 is the main base for Singapore Airlines and is the most recently upgraded out of the 3 main terminals. It was

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icially opened in 1991 and houses more amenities to make passengers feel more relaxed including a rooftop garden, indrden and cinema. The introduction of this terminal was reason for the Skytrain to be built which is designed to takessengers effortlessly between terminals, again in an effort to make transiting a much more relaxed affair.

Overview of terminal 2 with a fewA380 gates showing 3 aerobridges][wsss7.png caption Terminal 2 is

home to Singapore Airlines. Theincredible detail in the aerobridgescan clearly be seen here and the

majestic ATC tower in thebackground is well modeled

rminal 3 is the newest main terminal to grace the tarmac at Changi and is a wonder of modern glass architecture. The v

ain terminal area is flooded by natural light indoors to enhance the area. Since it became operational in 2008, Singaporerlines has moved most of its long haul flights to this terminal including A380 flights to take advantage of the 8 new A380tes in Terminal 3, in addition to the 11 A380 capable gates in Terminals 1 and 2.

The new extension on the end ofterminal 3. Annoyingly here, thegates and windows on the main

terminal do not match up but thedetail within the textures is

incredible.

Terminal 3 was built with the A380in mind and includes 8 A380 capablegates. The Crowne Plaza hotel is very

accurately modeled as well as themain hall itself

ocking System

e docking system at an airport is one of the most important aspects of flying as after a 13 hour flight from London, youtired and exhausted and looking forward to going home, but the hardest part of flying is reserved until the very end...trking! Thankfully, ImagineSim has created a very easy to use parking guidance system that will accurately and preciselide you onto the line. I find it easier to describe with pictures so here you go...

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These images show you how the docking system works if you are on theline. The green bar in the middle indicates that you just need to keep

straight and just like a set of traffic lights, as you turn into the gate, checkfor the green light. As you approach the amber light illuminates to tell you toprepare yourself and the red and amber lights are illuminated together when

you are close to stopping and the green bar extinguishes. As you edgeforward, as you reach the appropriate mark, the red light on its own is your

cue to stop and set the brakes.

This is what you see when you parktoo close. An embarrassing call thepushback tug is required to get you

back on the mark!

And this is the end result! The hugeA380 is parked to within an inch ofthe mark and bang on centerline

The guidance continues to give you indications when you stray too far leftor right of the centerline to get you back on course as indicated in these two

pictures

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e airport upgrade does not come with any form of moving jetway. Instead, what the developers have done is let all the ork be done by Aerosofts AES program for FS. This is a cost effective way of making your airport sceneries become mucore realistic and adds moving jetways, custom pushback and a host of other features. The ImagineSim Singapore sceneS compatible and can be enabled for a few AES credits. With this in place, you can see that even A380s get the full serv

atment at the gate.

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Singapore Changi is home to many of Singapore Airlines A380s and withAES enabled, they get the full A380 service complete with 3 air bridges atthe A380 gates within the scenery

erformance

e scenery as youd expect from ImagineSim is of very high quality and designed to make your simming more fluid with rformance. This Singapore add-on is true to its word and with my dated system, flying complex aircraft such as the PMD7-400 aircraft, I gained a not perfect but perfectly useable 20fps in the virtual cockpit.

is was on final approach where most of the airport is visible. During taxi in the virtual cockpit, I saw 24fps average and cockpit view it was even better with fps reaching my limited 30fps. The team at ImagineSim is clearly geared towardstting good performance for the majority of users and has sacrificed some of the scenery detail in order to get that extra

rformance.

is includes the gate details such as those seen in the previous picture where compared to its real world companion, thetes are not custom for every gate. As an owner of a dated and sluggish system (as well as lacking the confidence to oveck my system) I am very appreciative of these small details and the result is scenery which looks as good as it can be aly perfectionists would be critical of the small differences with the real world.

w that I have talked enough about the scenery, the old adage of a picture is worth a thousand words springs to mind aat end, here are some screenshots that express the beauty of Singapore as well as night time shots.

An overview of the airport. Can becompared with this image.

The ATS catering centreNo need to figure out whose home

this is!

The details in the scenery can be seen here with the bridge that crosses the main road into the airport as well asmoving airport vehicles and the landside terminal area

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The Cargo Terminal, the satellite imagery of the landside terminal area andthe surrounding perimeter complete with moving vehicles on the perimeter

roads

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Short Final into runway 02L. NiceChristmas tree runway lighting!

ummary / Closing Remarks

erall, the impressive credentials that ImagineSim have are testament to their products and this latest release will not leu down. It provides accurate and spectacular scenery to add to an otherwise desolate and bare default airport and in suautiful country such as Singapore.

ngapore itself is a country that I love and keep wanting to visit again and again and the airport is a great reflection on tuntry. Clean, organized, beautiful and comes with that gracious Asian hospitality and I am sure that I am not the only oo feels these sentiments.

s great to finally have a scenery add-on that delivers on details but what ImagineSim do fantastically is that they do noe sight of the importance of performance and they remember that not everyone owns the latest processor or graphics cle to cope with the increasing complexity of flight sim add-ons. So thank you ImagineSim!

What I Like About Singapore

Great details and complexityEasy to install and setupMinimal strain onperformanceGreat night lighting

AES compatible

What I Don't Like About Singapore

Lack of navigational charts.

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