About This File
Arequipa 2021 (SPQU for XP) v2.0
Rodríguez Ballón International Airport (IATA: AQP, ICAO: SPQU) is an airport serving Arequipa, the capital of Arequipa Region and Peru's second largest city. This airport and Cusco's Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport are the main air hubs in southern Peru. It is named for early Peruvian aviator Alfredo Rodríguez Ballón.
It is the main air gateway for tourists visiting the city of Arequipa, nearby ruins, and the Colca Canyon, the world's second deepest canyon (only behind Cotahuasi Canyon, also in Arequipa). The airport's passenger traffic has grown very rapidly since the airport was granted in concession as part of 6 airports in the southern part of Peru to Aeropuertos Andinos del Perú (es). As of the end of 2017 passenger traffic was 1,689,921 as reported by CORPAC, Peru's national airport corporation. The current terminal has already excedeed its planned capacity (around 1.5 million passengers) and it is expected that the airport will reach 2 million passengers on or before the year 2020.
The runway is paved its entire length, which includes a 440 metres (1,440 ft) displaced threshold on Runway 28. There is high terrain (volcanoes) north and east of the airport. The Arequipa VOR-DME (Ident: EQU) is located 0.72 nautical miles (1.33 km) west of the Runway 10 threshold.
The airport is currently operated by the consortium "Aeropuertos Andinos", who reshuffled and modernized the existing facilities. The installation of two boarding jetbridges and the expansion of the main hall, are among the work carried out by the consortium. The hall and the first jetbridge entered in operation on 20 September 2013.
The airport handle domestic flights operated by, LATAM Perú, SKY Airlines from/to Lima, Cusco and Viva Air from/to Lima, also JetSmart from/to Santiao de Chile.
XP Scenery tested on XP 10.51 and XP11. It´s an FSX Converted Scenery using FSX2XP. Credits to Josh Nuñez and Helio Regalado for the FSX scenery used for this upload, we have permission from them to use and modify their previous work.
Included: SPQU Terminal with moving Jetways, and Ground Service, The Military Terminal "Ala Aérea FAP N°3" for Military cargo Ops, OSM based traffic and autogen, Night textures, HDR Lights.
Added in v2.0:
1. LOD16 Photoscenery of Arequipa City and Volcano Areas.
2. LOD19 Photoscenery of Airport surroundings.
3. Animated Marshallers and jetways. SAM Suite Plugin
4. New Terrain Ortho4XP Tile and patch, which depict the particular elevation for this aerodrome, THIS IS NOT A FLAT SCENERY
Needed libraries:
FAIB_Aircraft (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/29079-the-faib-aircraft-library/)
3D_people_library (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/26611-3d-people-library/)
NAPS_library (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/30478-naps-library/)
MisterX_library (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/28167-misterx-library/)
OpensceneryX (https://www.opensceneryx.com/)
PPLibrary (https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/37088-pavement-paintings-library-pplibrary/)
Recommended libraries
X-America SimHeaven (https://simheaven.com/simdownloads/x-america/)
Required plugins:
SAM Scenery Animation Manager - Suite
INSTALLATION:
1. If you have SPQU 2017 XP v1 (Previous version) installed, please DELETE IT COMPLETELY before copying this folder.
2. Unzip, copy and paste SPQU XP 2021 folder into your Custom Scenery folder.
3. Download and move y_PER_ECU_Overlay folder into your Custom Scenery folder. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am-5eIkoX4Fs2FnEt4_iIJ230F9z?e=hC7Rsf
4. If you have previous Ortho4XP tiles for grid -17-072 DELETE IT COMPLETELY
5. Download and move zOrtho4XP_-17-072 folder into your Custom Scenery folder. https://1drv.ms/f/s!Am-5eIkoX4FsyngtuO86mj3sZUH7
Have fun.
Credits:
Jorge Chin (SPQU v1.0)
Josh Nuñez and Helio Regalado (FSX SPQU scenery converted using FSX2XP)
Edited by Angel Alpaca
