29Palms - LGSA - Chania Airport

This scenery is a realistic representation of Chania 'Ioannis Daskalogiannis Airport' (LGSA) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

Chania, Crete International Airport (ICAO: LGSA, IATA: CHQ) is located in western Crete, 14 km north-east of the city of Chania, in the Akrotiri peninsula. It is named after Ioannis Daskalogiannis, the leader of the revolution of the Sfakia region in 1770.

LGSA airport serves both civilian and military activity. The civilian area is located northern of the runway and is operated by Fraport since 2018. The southern airport area serves the Hellenic Air Force.

It has a single, 3.348 m / 10.982 ft long asphalt runway, designated 11L/29R which can serve aircraft up to Boeing 747, C-5 Galaxy and Antonov AN-124. Two main taxiways connect the operation fields with the runway. The southern taxiway can be used as a runway with designation 11R/29L when the main runway is not operational.

The civilian airport serves domestic and European flights. The traffic increases sharply during summer period with more than 100 flights per day. Some of the airlines visiting the airport are AEGEAN Airlines, Sky Express, Ryanair, Wizz Air, Transavia, TUI, British Airways, Norwegian, SAS, Finnair, EasyJet etc.

Features

• Realistic depiction of the airport layout and objects
• Highly detailed and accurate custom ground polygons representing the most recent layout of the apron
• Highly detailed 3D objects and textures, on the runway, taxiways, apron, terminal and vehicles parking area
• Full depiction and accuracy of the Terminal building
• Optimised interior of the Terminal building with walk-through capability
• Improvement of the vegetation (density, tree form and size) inside the airport and in the surrounding area
• Custom animated flags at the parking area
• Custom animated windsocks
• Fully customised dynamic lights
• Sloped runway