VNLK Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Lukla

VNSB Syangboche

Made with X-Plane v10.35 Search the Download Manager if you use an older version of XP.

This scenery does not work with Alpilotx HD Mesh v.3 An HD Mesh version is impractical at this time.

XP Rendering Options settings must have ‘runways follow terrain contours’ checked ON for this scenery to appear correctly.

Lukla is the starting point for trekkers and climbers to explore Sagarmatha National Park and Mt. Everest.

Runway length is about 1700 ft (527m) Elevation is 9100 ft (2843m)

Runway slope averages about 10 degrees.

In RL it's used mostly by DHC-6 Twin Otter and Dornier D0-228. There are also helicopter services and a Yeti airlines Pilatus TurboPorter service between Lukla and Syangboche.

Syangboche airstrip also slopes.

The tents at Everest base camp are about 4km NE of Gorak Shep. There are also a few tents at Camp IV - South Col.

All towers, tea houses, hotels, bridges, stupas, etc, are custom objects in local style as close to their actual locations as XP terrain permits.

There are some graphics anomalies, as part of rwy24 end is below XP terrain level: that part of your aircraft below ground is invisible.

For VNLK to show correctly Global Shadows should be OFF. Use 3d on aircraft shadow detail to avoid shadow at rwy 24 end..



Thanks to: daveduck, helgo, propsman, vonhinx for help in flying underground.

Big thank you to Marginal for Overlay Editor, Sketchup to XPlane converter, XPublish.

Static aircraft thanks to: Pablo, Cami de Bellis, URF.

Flags adapted from Austrian Flags by AXDG

This version has many new and more detailed local objects.

The VASI and REIL appear on newer photos but their actual position and angle is unclear.

Uses some OpenSceneryX items (mostly forests) and a few ruscenery objects but these are not essential.



When starting from Lukla set your location to Rwy 24 Start or an Apron Start.

The 3 nm final approach puts you behind a mountain about to crash.

To practice approaches:

Select rwy06 3 nm final approach

Immediately hit pause

Select Local Map and move your aircraft directly over the river, heading upriver.

Close Local Map

Save Situation



Known Issues:

The curving Lukla rwy and flat aprons are made with XP objects with several hard surfaces. This may cause slow frame-rate problems.

If you have a broken Lukla rwy, see Igor4U comment on page 5.



NEW IN VERSION 10.35

Helipads now at Namche, Tengboche, Dingboche, Pheriche, Gorak Shep, Thame, Kongde, Phakding. Unmarked helipads at Gokyo and Chukhung.

Follow the Trail along the Dudh-Koshi between Lukla and Syangboche.

Updated and more detailed towers, hotels and other objects, thanks to new info on Google street view

(The Kobelco digger -an older but similar model- at Syangboche is real. It shows on Google Street View)