![]() ![]() Imagine Sim have produced a busy commercial airport in great detail that in real life is still being finished with completion due in mid 2010. It is visually stunning and leaves the stock FSX airport way behind. The three major terminals are faithfully reproduced and add AI traffic together with animated vehicles and the whole place becomes alive. I experienced some loss of fps with this add-on but it still remained smooth throughout the test. To get around and have a look at the airport I used a nifty little device from OrbX - “BOB”. BOB allows you to wander all around the airport at ground level so that you can look at all of the buildings and AI planes there. I was even able to drive into the car park which was full of AI cars. The manual is small and concise having 13 + 1 (frontispiece) pages. It covers system requirements, support details, PC optimisation, product features, airport information, parking and docking and frequently asked questions. It does not mention any support for Windows 7 but I can confirm that I had no issues running this software in Win 7 HP 64-bit. There is no mention of FSX SP1/Sp2/Acceleration, so one presumes that the software will run on all 3 versions. I recommend reading the manual, (which will not take very long) as it is a mine of information. ![]() Very easy a relatively small exe files which expands (after inserting a serial number) into an Imagine Simulation folder in FSX. The airport was started in 1939, on 500 acres of a former ranch being progressively upgraded in the intervening years. Terminal C was built circa 1965, and in the 1990’s, San Jose International Airport expanded resulting in the opening of Terminal A. In 2009 Terminal A, the North concourse were renovated and almost completed by the end of 2009. A new terminal B is due for completion in mid 2010. The airport has three paved and lit runways: 12L/30R and 12R/30 and 11/29. Each year it handles over 200,000 aircraft operations and up to 11 million passengers.  All of the airport features have been modelled by Imagine Sim in great detail including the car parks (complete with parked cars) and security cameras. The population is approximately 1 million, with the greater metropolitan area containing approximately 7million residents. San Jose is the third-largest city in California and the tenth-largest in the USA it is located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, (aka Silicon Valley). IMAGINE SIM – KSJC SAN JOSE INTL, USA FSX - The Silicon Reviewīackground: (Courtesy Wikipedia and sjc.org) Imagine Sim are renowned for their quality add-on airports and KSJC is no exception. It is extremely well detailed, accurately modelled and fits in exceedingly well with the default FSX scenery. The night visuals are stunning, and the whole package is a vast improvement on what is offered in FSX. I experienced some mild impact on frame rates but even so my simming experience was still extremely smooth. I could never go back to the default airport having flown in this one.
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