LOWI - Innsbruck Airport

Innsbruck Airport, also known locally as "Kranebitten Airport", is the largest international airport in Tyrol, located in the western parts of Austria. The airport, named after the city and river that it is located right up against, is located in the "Wipp Valley", surrounded by vast mountains, which makes this airport unique in every way.

Offering both challenging approaches and departures, with tight turns and limited space to manoeuvre, INN is a must-have in your community-folder, whether it be for a local VFR-flight or IFR - helicopter or airplane!

 

As Asobo's "handcrafted" version of Innsbruck was horrible, to say the least; with wrong, curved, taxiways, a bumpy runway, wrong frequencies, wrong elevation data, wrong approach-light set up, misplaced objects, buildings and ground-markings, missing spawns at parking-spots (including the helipad), with lots more to add to that list, I decided to create it myself.

I built this "enhancement" (which in reality is a completely custom remodelling of the existing airport from scratch), using some of the stock assets from Asobo's version, accompanied by some of my own assets, including custom textures from the real airport. As a result, this add-on is very limited in file-size, whilst maintaining a high-quality and realistic rendition of the airport and its surroundings.

 

Package includes:

• A completely reworked airport with accurate elevation-data, custom heightmaps as of 2024-data, slope angle of the airport area and runway, lightsources (including some custom emitting lights on the edge-lights), system-buildings and structures (including the localizer and other towers) custom apron-details, a minor amount of occupants on the apron-area to optimize for VATSIM/IVAO flights, correct taxiways, holdingpoints & custom taxiway-/holdingpoint signs and textures, accurate runway data (with custom wear & tear and markings) and service-ways, approach-light-system (inlcuding the well-known "rabbit"-strobes), ground-vehicle routing & available ground-service decided by the parking-positions and aircraft type, realistic airport object- & building placement (with placehold-buildings aside of the handcrafted terminal-building with the control-tower and the car-park-building), accuracte fuel-box & GA-area, accurately built fenced test-bed next to the maintenance-hangar on the western part of the main apron, accurate windsock placement with added custom windsock-lighting, and much more.
• Helipad, "LOJO", in the south part of the airport, by "Flugrettung"-buildings, with accurate & custom textures, windsock (lighted), etc.
• A redesign of the "Kranebitten" beach by the threshold of runway 08 with custom heightmaps and accurately placed objects, water and vegetation.
• Added car-parkings around the airport and a highlighted placeholder for a supermarket by the threshold of runway 26 with solar-panels on top of the roof.

 

Note: This add-on has been built - and is best enjoyed - with the available regional-updates for Austria and Asobo's "handcrafted" version of LOWI installed.

 

While this is compatible with MSFS24, in theory, I would not recommend using this add-on with it as MSFS24 already includes a decent rendition of LOWI in itself and it will cause some models and assets being doubled. I am working on improving the MSFS24-version as well though - stay tuned!

*This does not add custom buildings or airport-objects (other than the custom-buildings included in Asobo's "handcrafted" version), but includes "placeholders" of buildings and objects included in the base of MSFS, aimed to be of accurate and similar size and look despite which version of MSFS the end-user has. Custom objects and buildings may be added in the future, if I deem this to be "worth my time" in terms of my time spent on it vs. the benefit.

 

 

GSX Profile:

If using GSX there is a freeware profile available for the scenery - check out Bouba74's GSX pofile.

 

 

 

I HIGHLY recommend using Tatami's "Yet another ground marks fix" or something similar, for a more realistic look to the apron-markings.

Thank you Frederico (aka Mamu82) and WombiiActual for your assistance and great amount of tutorials in making this add-on!

 

Enjoy!

 

/ VALROK

 

Please leave some feedback - especially if there is something I could improve!

 

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Installation:

DELETE the old "vr-airport-lowi-innsbruck"-folder from your community-folder (if you have a previous version of this)
Unzip the main file: "vr-lowi-innsbruck-enhancement"
Read the text-file: "README"
Drag and drop the unzipped folder: "vr-lowi-innsbruck-enhancement" into your "community"-folder of MSFS

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Changelog:

V1.1

• Raised the "Bauhaus-building", by the threshold of runway 08, slightly above the ground to make up for the missing actual building.
• Added missing powerlines and fixed some of the existing ones around the airport.
• Added anti-collision-lights in the immediate vicinity of the airport, with the correct cycle, as per published data in the airport charts.
• Added the well-known "rabbit"-approach lights and extended strobes at the extended centerline of runway 26.
• Adjusted amount and placement of the solar cells on top of the supermarket, and removed some auto-generated streetlights around this, by the threshold of runway 26.
• Adjusted some missing vegetational key-landmarks around the airport (mainly by "Axams").
• General minor additions/corrections to the scenery in general.

V1.01

• Added light to the sign on top of the terminal & anti-collision lights to the tower and other structures.
• Added "Simple Touchdown Zone Light" on the runway.
• Added a placeholder for the "Church Axams" (Pfarrkirche Axams), with added light-sources, used as a visual cue on approach for runway 08.
• Minor tweaks to parking-spots, taxiways, the test-bed, objects and alignment of parked stock-aicraft.
• Fixed GA-parking spots generating AI-airliners in some cases (tweaked the sizes of the parking spots for the AI to better interpret the aircraft type allowed at the specific spot).

V1.0

• Initial release.

 

Known "issues":

• Elevation data and the interpretation of such within MSFS can be a pain. Your MSFS might be interpreting the data different than others' on a day-by-day basis. Restart your flight/sim and/or clear your cache if you encounter issues with elevation data.
• AI-aircraft tend to taxi with a high ground speed, which makes it difficult for them to make tight turns on the apron; which results in them overshooting in a tight turn.
• AI-ATC like to call out a slightly "funky" taxi-route, including crossing the runway you are departing and THEN holding short. This is due to a technical solution to the location of the intersection of taxiway A & B. The AI-aircraft will taxi correctly AFAIK, but the instructions could seem "off".
• AI-ground vehicle will occasionally drive onto the runway in order to reach the GA-apron (north), if the runway is not occupied. I have not been able to limit their movement, as their paths must be linked to the taxiways. If you know of a solution to this, do let me know.
• The boarding-stairs (and the push-back trucks) available on the main parkings (stand 1-10) are white and not yellow as they are in reality. The fuel-truck is the largest one, no matter the size or type of aircraft requiring refuelling. If you know of a way to script what asset is to be used for the different ground-services, locally (that doesn't overwrite the ground-services of the whole region), do let me know.
• The "rabbit-lights" off the threshold of runway 26 are constantly flashing - and not only in low-vis conditions. This is due to a limitation of the lighting engine within MSFS, which only allows for SimObjects to be animated/controlled by the special conditions. Hopefully I can animate this to follow true procedure at some point with some work-around.

 

Note: You may, of course, not transfer, distribute or alter any files within or use any files for your own creations without prior written approval by me.

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LOWI - Innsbruck Airport

Enhance your simulation experience with the LOWI - Innsbruck Airport add-on, which offers a comprehensive remodelling of the airport to address inaccuracies in the default version. This add-on provides correct elevation data, custom textures, realistic lighting, and meticulous attention to the airports surroundings. Included are features such as a fully operational helipad and improved parking arrangements, creating an authentic representation of one of Austrias most unique airports.

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