![]() The airport is located 20 km (12 mi) north of downtown Rio de Janeiro. Rio is also in the news for other reasons lately, the Football World Cup has been won and done, but in 2016 is the turn of the behemoth Olympic & Paralympics Summer Games to grace the city, and SBGL - Galeão will be again at the forefront of the public reception point for the city. So any X-Plane scenery that can at least fulfill even a slight longing of flying to Rio de Janeiro was always going to be a big deal, it is and here is the main destination for any arrival in that Southern Continent's most vivid city in Rio de Janeiro/Galeão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport. I never got to Rio (well not yet anyway) but many others have been crossed off the BOAC list, but the dream lives on. India, Hong Kong, Egypt, South Africa, Japan and Australia, They infused early a dream of world traveling that is still my deepest desire and love.īut for a wannabe jetsetter Rio was the big one, visions of coming into land past the gaze of the "Christ the Redeemer" iconic statue was right at the top of one of my biggest set of bucket list of destinations, the holy grail of travel. Airline posters of the day (I have a fair collection) where of these exotic destinations. And at the same time aircraft became fast and global through Jet propulsion and the VC10's, Boeing 707's and DC8's now ruled all hemispheres and the Jetset were on the move in their thousands. Nothing was more exotic or remote in the 60's than Rio de Janeiro, it was the sounds of the music that brought it into context or the refrains of Bossa Nova "new trend" which is a lyrical fusion of samba and jazz. Fly from Congonhas (SBSP) to Santos Dumont (SBRJ) in the Boeing 737.Scenery Review : SBGL Rio de Janeiro Intl by Richard G Nunes Scenery Try one of the frequent scheduled flights between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (~ 45 min), where you have a beautiful view of the Atlantic coastline and the mountains. Remark that the ATC in FSX will only give straight-in visual approaches. ![]() Due to the peninsula with the Sugar Loaf mountain in front of runway 2, there is only circling approaches to that runway, and the area of manoeuvring is limited because of surrounding hillsides. The main runway is only 4400 feet long, yet used by e.g. The airport is rather small but served by many annual passengers. ![]() It is located close to the city downtown and it has an excellent view to the mountains and the bay. Was Rio's first airport and today the second largest. ![]() the Christ the Redeemer statue, the Sugarloaf mountain, the Maracanã stadium, and various beaches. The two major city airports are Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport (SBGL) and Santos Dumont Regional Airport (SBRJ). The city has a beautiful scenery with its mountains and beaches. ![]()
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