NEW DOHA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

[Patrick]

HI,

Maybe FLY TAMPA can develop NEW DOHA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
It would be a huge HUB in the next few years.








Thank you for listening

[JoMoRo]

Hi all,

a release of the coming new Doha International Airport would be great.

I think there are a lot of very interesting arabian Airports like Doha (Qatar), Amman (Jordan), Beirut (Lebanon), Cairo (Egypt), Kuwait and many more which would be worth to be released, because these scenery are even not available as freewares.

I think the release of the great Dubai Airport could be a first step into a trend to work on exotic Airports.

So, let we hope

Bye

JoMoRo

[P.Rostron]

Its a copy of VHHH/Hong Kong! lol

[Anas Toumi]

It's the same engering , at the moment Doha airport sucks .. There aren't any gate , 1 runway without 2 way ILS ..

Bahrain is better , Gates and 2 runways ( OBBI )

[CSTT-KLAS]

Hello
I am agree that you are the Doha next scenery for flytampa .

thank you CSTT-KLAS

[newmanix]

A good quality Beirut is already in development.


http://www.leborsim.com/olbax.html

[Mage]

a release of the coming new Doha International Airport would be great.

I think there are a lot of very interesting arabian Airports like Doha (Qatar), Amman (Jordan), Beirut (Lebanon), Cairo (Egypt), Kuwait and many more which would be worth to be released, because these scenery are even not available as freewares.

I think the release of the great Dubai Airport could be a first step into a trend to work on exotic Airports.

I wouldn't expect Martin to do any further arabian airports for several reasons.

The most important one is that these airports are changing radically (even Dubai is quite different to Martin's scenery now). I'm helping with one airport (as you probably know) but even with that, the new part is going to make this scenery a bit obsolete come 2012. There's no point trying to make a likeness of shifting sands (pun intended) that these airports and their grand building projects represent.

Cairo - however, yes, I can see that as a definitely good idea for a scenery. Its close enough to Europe to reach on a 3/5 hour flight (even less if you're in Greece). The airport there is a shambles, though, no grand architecture, its a clutter of functional buildings and aircraft wrecks, and with the better aircraft ranges it is overflown from Europe more than it is ever visited, so even HECA has the air of a backwater airport. I like the airport (and have been through it a few times) but it isn't exactly a hive of activity, and with all the fiddly details, it would represent a lot of work to achieve something that looks very ordinary.

The other main point is marketability. Who buys flightsim and where do they live? The answer to that is people with enough disposable income to spend it on things like computer systems and flightsim, and with decent internet for downloading addons, and in some respects a climate that favours spending a fair amount of time indoors (!), so Northern Europe and the US are the main markets, and most people there want to fly to places they know, that are close by. So while distant airports might seem exotic, with the middle eastern hubs they are often 1-airline airports (I know that's a simplification, but Europe and the US have several sizeable carriers competing at each major airport, and with respect to Qatar - there's just one). This is an AI-centric point of view, I know, but part of the variety. For many people that care about the traffic, its a considerable factor in deciding whether to purchase one airport over another.

The final main point (there are lots of minor ones) is a lack of local photographs, which cripples any effort to make a realistic airport. Even in security-conscious airports in the US and EU there are enough people passing through with cameras to cover all kinds of angles from which a designer can make informed guesses, and enough uniformity of architecture to be able to get photos of similar looking buildings (maybe in the middle of a city) and use them to make a convincing imitation of the airport. Many middle eastern airports have distinctive architecture and a distinctive look (thanks to the dust and the light etc) and so the only way to make something remotely realistic is to have images from the place itself. And cameras on airports are forbidden - for example someone getting Abu Dhabi images would have to be very discreet, although with the airport's extensive building work and many aircraft out at remote stands, it means pax are presently getting a lot of airside access that they might not get at any other time.

For me, in Europe, the best ME airports to visit are Damascus, Beirut, Amman and Cairo. There are some very nice N African airports now out there (Algiers is pretty nice) that are also a short-ish hop from Europe. Perhaps, bearing in mind the FS "demographic", the N African airports would be done in preference to the Gulf States, places like Tripoli.