It’s not every week that a developer hands simmers a route that feels like an expedition in itself. But that’s exactly what happened when iniBuilds launched Cape Town International Airport (FACT) and Wolf’s Fang Runway (AT98) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, two sceneries released almost back-to-back that are meant to be flown as a pair.
Cape Town is already one of Africa’s busiest aviation hubs, a logical stop for travelers heading anywhere from Johannesburg to London. In the sim, the new iniBuilds version gives FACT a full 2025 treatment: hand-made ground textures, over 180 custom buildings and vehicles, HD jetways, and even a 12-meter DEM mesh that covers Table Mountain and the surrounding Cape Peninsula. Your approaches should now frame the iconic cliffs in much sharper detail.
The scenery is available as a single package, priced at £14.99. iniBuilds describes it as a premium rendition of Cape Town, complete with an official GSX profile, iniManager support, and an up-to-date airport layout that reflects 2025 data.
So far, so good. Another big airport in the bag. But iniBuilds didn’t stop there. Just today, a couple days later, they released Wolf’s Fang Runway (AT98), and this one is completely free. Wolf’s Fang is a strip of ice in Antarctica, built and operated in the real world by White Desert. If Cape Town is the busy gateway, Wolf’s Fang is the surreal destination at the end of the line.
Wolf’s Fang is not an airport in the traditional sense. It’s a 3,000-meter blue-ice runway carved into a remote corner of Queen Maud Land, flanked by rugged mountains and… not much else. iniBuilds’ version focuses on exactly that: a hand-crafted runway with custom snow and ice textures, footprints, vehicle tracks, tents, static aircraft, and lighting adapted for polar conditions. It’s minimal by design, because in reality that’s all there is.
The pairing is what makes this release interesting. Most scenery launches are stand-alone: you get a big airport or a regional strip and that’s that. Here, iniBuilds is clearly encouraging simmers to fly the 2,600-nautical-mile hop across the Southern Ocean, something operators like Hi Fly do each season. That means a long-haul airliner departure out of Cape Town, and a visual approach onto one of the world’s most extreme runways — no ILS, no VATSIM controller to vector you in, just the ice, the wind, and your own skills.
It also happens to mirror reality. Each Antarctic season, Hi Fly operates an Airbus A340-300 between Cape Town and Wolf’s Fang, carrying scientists and tourists into the continent. And with iniBuilds themselves developing a detailed A340 for MSFS 2024, simmers will soon be able to recreate this very route with the same aircraft type that tackles it in real life.
