Large scale review incoming! When you see just how well done this project is and how much it covers, you will quickly understand why. As many of you well know, I don’t screw around when it comes to my reviews and Taxi2Gate’s LTBA is no exception. What is perhaps most amazing about this product is not that we finally got the high quality rendition of LTBA that we all have been waiting for so many years to get, we got it in such a short period of time! It’s the first large scale project on record to have ever been delivered in just 3 months! This at a time when it takes FSDT over year to complete just 1 airport. How was this possible?

May 30, 2017 - Below are a list of add-ons we know will work in Prepar3D v4. I can confirm that UT2 v2.09 works 100% in P3D v4 with some. Taxi2gate; KSEA, LTBA, KMCO, KSTL & OTHH work flawlessly! $700 - 100% complete.

What I can tell you is Taxi2Gate is quickly working it’s way to being one of the largest and best flight simulation development teams in the business. A team hardly anyone was paying attention to a year ago. T2G has come a very long way over the past 5 years and it’s very easy to see in the depth and quality of their most recent projects just how hard these guys are working. I even feel just a little bit of pride having stuck with and promoted this team over the years.

It’s very easy for me to see the where serious potential lies even very early on. Thus, I am extremely excited about today’s destination. These days, It’s not enough for developers just to deliver the airports in heavy demand, they are delivering these airports with their surrounding city environments as well. Shtampi dlya chercheniya a3 i a1.

Realism in flight simulation scenery and aircraft developments are more realistic today than ever before. When you get down and close up, you see just how much effort is going into Taxi2Gate projects. From the transparent interior modeled terminals, to the crisp ground textures, to the high resolution photo images, it’s no wonder why the community now holds their expectations much higher for this development company and consider them among the very best in the business. Come with me to one of the world’s most unique and cosmopolitan cities and together let’s discover what makes this project, this team, so damn good.

Ever since FSDG Thessloniki was released and AirDailyX announced Taxi2Gate would be developing Ataturk, I have dreamed of doing the LGTS-LGTA sortie. Back in the early days of FS9, this was a route I flew on a regular biases with the popular freeware LTBA and LGTS from the Greek Airports Team. Actually, LGTS marked a midway point for me bouncing between GAP’s own Athens airport. I hated long flights and much preferred shorter flights that kept me working with the limited time I always had at the computer.

Back then, enjoying the 3 freeware airports was plenty for me to get my FS jollies. How could I have ever imagined what the future could behold? Looking now at FlyTampa’s Athens, FSDG Thessaloniki, and now Taxi2Gate’s Istanbul, it’s hard to imagine our little niche flight simulation hobby going anywhere but up. Back when Microsoft announced the end of FSX support and subsequent termination of the ACES development team, I found myself very worried about the future of our little hobby. I began to accept the thought that FS9 would have to carry me the next 15 years. The thought of me migrating to FSX, (what I consider to be a half completed platform), always felt out of the question.

I even briefly began to allow myself to assume that FS developers would eventually stop developing all together and move onto other games where the real money is. A sort of tapering off of high end payware scenery developments. I even believe Aerosoft became a bit freaked out by Microsoft’s announcement as they shortly thereafter began to cement themselves into bus and train simulators in an effort to somehow remain a viable publishing company. It was when they announced the development of their own Aerosoft flight simulator, did a beacon of light start to shine through.

But alas, it would be short lived as the publisher bean to align itself with X-Plane instead. A platform so beyond me, I would rather create a cardboard box cockpit and fly by the seat of my imagination. That was mean. I do respect X-Plane fans, I just don’t understand them. So FS9 it was to remain for me with it’s many, many, many various freeware and payware addons. But by all means, don’t allow me to speak in too much of a past tense manner. I still love and use FS9.

But as addons continue to improve to the limitations of FSX, the least attractive FS9 looks and ultimately, it’s FS9’s uncompromising performance that keeps me gravitating back to the old platform time and again when P3D pisses me off with it’s often bitchy OOM personality. But the ultimate truth has arrived. The worlds best developers are getting tired of developing for FS9. As a result, many of us able to enjoy the more advanced platforms have to make serious compromises. No ai traffic, minimum water settings, and typically zero clouds. The funny thing is, it’s not our systems struggling to generate the simulation, it’s the simulator limitations that are killing our flying experiences.