Trondheim-Værnes X V2
Aerosoft GmbH 2017
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English
The airport itself dates back to the 1914, the plan at the time was to
establish an Air Service for the Norwegian military and the Værnes
area was chosen to strengthen the defense capabilities of central and
northern Norway. The first flight took place the 26. of March 1914
with an Maurice Farman 7 nicknamed Olav Tryggvessøn. Grants were
issued by the Norwegian government but also by civilian contributers
in the area and the military presence kept growing at Værnes.
In 1940 the airfield was surrendered to Germany during WW2 and
started seeing major expansions to accommodate the bombers and
fighters now stationed there. A wooden runway was built to replace
the grass strip currently used, this was later replaced with three
concrete runways. After the war ended the airfield was returned to
the Norwegian Military.
After the war civilian flights were flown to Hommelvika with sea-
planes, located just to the south-west of Værnes. In 1952 SAS started
operating regular flights to and from Værnes and civilian traffic
increased drastically. With the increase of jet traffic the runway was
extended into the fjord, the airport facilities were improved and a new
terminal building was completed in 1965. But due to the heavy
increase of charter traffic during the 60’s and early 70’s the capacity of
the newly finished terminal was soon exceeded. What’s now knowns
as Terminal B was constructed to try and cope with the passenger
growth but it was also soon too small, it was then decided to move all
international flights to Terminal B and build yet another terminal to
handle only domestic flights, this terminal still serves as Trondheim’s
main terminal, Terminal A. After Terminal A was built in 1994 no major
expansion was done except for a new Control Tower in 2005. In 2014
the first part of a 50 year plan to handle expected passenger growth
was completed, Terminal A was extended 75 meters to the west and a
new Terminal, called “Terminal West” was added. Terminal West
serves as a commuter terminal, mainly seeing Wideroe traffic.
Currently Værnes is the fourth largest airport in Norway, seeing
60,934 air movements and 4,4 million passengers in 2015. The
airports serves as a major hub for Norwegian, Scandinavian Airlines
System (SAS) and Widerøe. The busiest route is between Trondheim
and Oslo, usually seeing an aggressive competition between the
different airlines, especially after Oslo’s airport was moved from
Fornebu to Gardermoen. Never before could low-cost airlines acquire
sufficient slot-times to compete with the already established airlines
such as SAS and Braathens. This resulted in the Trondheim – Oslo
route becoming the 4th busiest in Europe during the late 90’s, seeing
39 flights per day operated by three different airlines. The route is still
the 6th busiest in Europe, serving 1,9 million passengers in 2015.
Scenery Features
• Fully compatible with FSX (SP2 or ACC) / FSX SE / P3Dv3/v4
• Includes a highly accurate recreation of Trondheim Airport,
Vaernes.
• Highly detailed models of airport terminal and buildings.
• Photo-realistic building and ground textures.
• Densely placed ground equipment and service vehicles.
• Highly detailed custom terrain model with taxiway bridges over
roads and railroad.
• Terminal interior included.
• Photo-real scenery covering airport and vicinity.
• Landmark buildings and bridges in the vicinity of the airport
included.
• Seasonal textures included.
• Winter ground model with highly realistic ice and snow effect.
• Custom runway and approach light effects.
• Highly realistic night time effects.
• Vicinity animations. (Train and custom road traffic.)
• Animated service vehicle traffic.
• Visual Guidance Docking System included. (SODE required in
P3D)