Build 25324195

Up close, not just from above

This update brings you closer to your airport than ever before: look out from the tower cab, chase departing aircraft, take your own photos – and watch new buildings come to life as busy construction sites.

🔭 Tower View

Right-click your tower and choose “Tower View”: the camera flies up into the cab. From there you oversee the apron, taxiways and runways like a real air traffic controller.

• Look around by dragging with the right mouse button or with WASD, the mouse wheel zooms

• A subtle cab frame with ceiling and floor gives you a real tower feeling

• ESC or “Back” returns you to the normal view

🎥 Follow Camera

Click a plane, then “Follow”: the camera moves right behind the aircraft and stays with it – while taxiing, during the takeoff roll and in the climb, until the plane disappears into the clouds.

• Drag with the right mouse button or use WASD to rotate around the plane, the mouse wheel changes the distance

• A bar shows the flight number and current status

• Works from both 2D and 3D view, and with landing planes too

• ESC takes you back to your previous view

📷 Photo Mode

The new button at the very bottom of the left bar hides the entire interface – leaving nothing but your airport.

• Choose any time of day, from sunrise to night – it only applies to the photo, your game time stays unchanged

• Depth of field with adjustable strength, a click into the picture sets the focus

• The camera can get closer and lower to the ground than usual

• “Save photo” stores the image as a PNG in Pictures › Pixel Airport Tycoon

• The game is paused meanwhile (can be turned off), H hides the photo panel, ESC leaves the mode

• Combined with the follow camera, the followed plane automatically stays in focus

🏗️ Construction Sites

New buildings no longer just pop up – in 3D view they are now actually built.

• The building slowly rises out of the ground, hidden behind tarps or construction netting with scaffolding

• A tower crane works next to it, swinging over the site and lifting loads – large buildings like Terminal 4 get up to three cranes

• At night, red warning lights blink on the cranes

• At the end, the tarp drops with a small cloud of dust and the crane retracts

• Depending on size, construction takes about 12 to 32 seconds, faster at higher game speed

• The building is fully operational during construction – so you don't lose any time

Have fun building, watching and taking photos – feel free to share your best airport shots in the Community Hub!