Aerosoft Mega Airport Barcelona X Operating instructions

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Mega Airport

Barcelona

Erweiterung zum /

Add-on for

Add-on para

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

Handbuch

Manual

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Content

Introduction .............................................................19

System requirements ......................................................... 19

Minimum for FSX: ..................................................... 19

Minimum for FS2004: ............................................... 19

Installation ......................................................................... 20

Removing Barcelona X ............................................... 20

Barcelona ..................................................................21

Aeropuerto de Barcelona “El Prat” ............................ 21

Technical advice ....................................................... 23

for FSX ................................................................................ 23

Selection of Airports .................................................. 23

Performance ............................................................. 24

Visibility of Objects .................................................... 24

AI Trafﬁc ................................................................... 24

Dynamic Ground Trafﬁc (AESLite) .............................. 25

Photorealistic ground and third party mesh terrain as

well as autogen in FSX and ground handling ............. 25

Coastlines and roads with Ultimate Terrain X ............. 25

Static Aircraft ............................................................ 25

Technical advice ....................................................... 26

for FS2004 .......................................................................... 26

Selection of Airports .................................................. 26

Performance ............................................................. 27

Visibility of Objects .................................................... 27

AI Trafﬁc ................................................................... 27

Dynamic Ground Trafﬁc (AESLite) .............................. 28

Photorealistic ground and third party mesh terrain..... 28

Coastlines and roads ................................................. 28

Static Aircraft ............................................................ 28

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Introduction

Thank you for buying the scenery Barcelona X.

The included airport has been visited to ensure the most realistic

reproduction possible. It has been most important to us to recreate the

special atmosphere of the airport.

Always, Happy Landings in Barcelona X.

Thorsten Loth / Manfred Spatz

I would like to thank Oliver Pabst for AESLite and his technical support,

Mike Strasser for making the AFCAD ﬁles and Rainer Duda for

customizing the roads and coastlines.

System requirements

Minimum for FSX:

• Processor with 2.8 Ghz or faster

• 350 MB free space on your hard disk

• 1024 MB RAM

• CD-ROM drive

• 3D video card with at least 512 MB

• Microsoft Flight Simulator X (with Service Pack 2 or

Acceleration Pack)

Minimum for FS2004:

• Processor with 2.8 Ghz or faster

• 220 MB free space on your hard disk (FS2004 version)

• 512 MB RAM

• CD-ROM drive

• 3D video card with at least 256 MB

• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (with Update 9.1)

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Installation

When using Windows the set-up routine for Barcelona X will start

automatically.

After you have chosen your preferred installation language, the welcome

screen appears and you will be presented with some important information.

The installation programme will attempt to locate the correct path of

Microsoft Flight Simulator X or Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. If this

path cannot be successfully located or you wish to install to another

location you will have to enter the correct path to your installation of

the ﬂight simulator manually. In order to do this, click on “Browse”

and navigate to the correct path.

Before the installation programme starts to copy the ﬁles onto your

hard disk, you will be presented with the all installation details.

The installation programme will now copy all of the Barcelona X ﬁles

onto your hard disk and subsequently register the scenery in the

scenery library. A backup copy of the original Scenery.cfg will also be

made (Scenery_CFG_Before_BarcelonaX_was_installed.cfg). The necessary

adjustments for the AI Trafﬁc in Microsoft Flight Simulator will be

automatically carried out.

Removing Barcelona X

In order now to fully remove Barcelona X click on the “Start” Button

on the Windows task bar, choose “Settings” and then “Control

Panel”. Here you will see an icon named “Software”. Double click on

this icon to open it and you will see a list of all installed programmes.

Locate “aerosoft’s - aerosoft’s BarcelonaX- FSX” or “aerosoft’s -

aerosoft’s BarcelonaX- FS2004”, click once with the left mouse button

and then click on the “add-remove” button. The de-installation

program will now begin to remove the Barcelona X ﬁles from your

hard disk. Entries in the FS scenery library will also be removed.

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Barcelona

Aeropuerto de Barcelona “El Prat”

Barcelona is the political and economic metropolis of Catalonia. On

the one hand, the city is partially situated between the mountain

range of Collserola (here we have the uniquely designed tower which

is located on the Tibidado hill) and the sea, on the other hand, between

the rivers Besòs in the northeast and the Llobregat in the southwest.

The main source of income of Barcelona are the metal-, the automobile

industry and the textile industry. A very important aspect of Barcelona

is the trade which is promoted by one of the most active harbours at

the Meditterranean Sea. Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city with many

cultural treasures and sights, such as the buildings of Gaudí or the

sculptures of Miró. The city was completely reconstructed because of the

Olympics in 1992 and offers everything that the heart can desire.

The international airport El Prat is near the district “Prat de Llobregat”

and 12 kilometeres away from Barcelona’s city centre. Before the

Olympics in 1992 the terminal was rather unremarkable but due to the

work of the architect Ricardo Boﬁll it is now an impressive and

practical airport which is still expandable in the future. The expansion

of the terminal with the module M5 is already ﬁnished and was put

into service in 2004. In addition, there is the module M0 next to the

segment “C”. Since 1992 there is the “Puente Aereo” (airlift to

Madrid) from where approx. 60 ﬂights a day go back and forth

between Madrid and Barcelona only with Iberia. Furthermore, Air

Europe and Spanair serve a “Puente Aereo”.

The terminal with the name T1 in the south of the area was inaugurated

by the Spanish Prime Minister on the 16th of June 2009. The startup

ran smoothly.

The most important airlines were moved gradually in the new and

large terminal 1 to ease the passengers’ trip. Here, even the airbus 380

can dock on easily. The expensive construction of 1.3 billion Euros by

the architect Ricardo Boﬁll has a size of 544.000 square meters and is

supposed to be connected to the public railway system in 2014.

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The “old” terminal, which is solely called T2, serves most of all for

low-cost airlines or small international airlines.

The cargo area is expanded continually as well as the logistics area for

air cargo behind it. Already integrated in the construction is a large Iberia

hangar for the maintenance of the airplanes.

You will ﬁnd further information on:

http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?SiteName=BCN&c=Page&cid=10455

69607459&pagename=subHome

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Technical advice

for FSX

Selection of Airports

If you want to start a ﬂight directly from the airport, just ﬁll in the

ICAO-Code under “Select Airport”:

Barcelona Airport LEBL

Note: We did not add a new “old style” entry at the “search addon

scenery”. Please use the method described above.

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Performance

To achieve a framerate as high as possible within Microsoft Flight

Simulator X, please note the following:

• Reduce the AI Trafﬁc to 30-50% to limit the aircraft displayed

on the apron.

• Due to the amount of autogen objects in the area switch this

option off or to reduce it step by step.

• Reduce the amount of 3-D clouds in the display settings.

• Reduce the amount of visible (3D) clouds in the display settings

of FSX.Try to switch the FSX to windowed or full screen view

(ALT+ENTER). Very often you´ll see an extreme change in

performance. Find out what´s best for your system.

Visibility of Objects

To optimize the framerate we had to reduce the visibility of some

objects at the airports of Barcelona X as there are simply too many of

them. This should not affect you while you are in the cockpit-view.

Sometimes - depending upon the angle - as you come closer, a

building or airplane appears very sudden. This is normal and is done so

to increase the performance.

The whole appearance of the airports is programmed and modeled to

ensure the best possible frame rate when ﬂying from the view of a

pilot, in cockpit view. Fast movements as in “SLEW” mode are possible

but will not result in an optimum performance.

AI Trafﬁc

The AI-trafﬁc of FSX is customized to our scenery.

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Dynamic Ground Trafﬁc (AESLite)

The entire vehicle trafﬁc at the airport recognizes aircraft and will stop

to give way. This technique is based on AESLite and is part of the

scenery.

Photorealistic ground and third party mesh terrain

as well as autogen in FSX and ground handling

To get the best possible resolution of the terrain and airport scenery

set the texture sizes for ground (terrain) and custom objects to massive

i.e. the highest possible value. If you notice problems on older systems

(blurred textures, extensive loading times...) lower the settings step by

step.

To get a better frame rate on slower computers, put the vehicle

density of sparse and the ground transport service to “minimum“.

Coastlines and roads with Ultimate Terrain X

The coast lines and the roads are consistent with the use of UTX with

the aerial view of Barcelona Scenery.

Static Aircraft

When ﬂying online the option for static aircraft might be useful to you.

During installation you can select if you want to install the static aircraft

or not. If you install these take a cautious approach of the amount of AI

trafﬁc you choose. It should be very low, e.g. 5% or not at all to make

sure you´re not guided to an occupied parking position.

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Technical advice

for FS2004

Selection of Airports

If you want to start a ﬂight directly from the airport, just ﬁll in the

ICAO-Code under “Select Airport”:

Barcelona Airport LEBL

Note: We did not add a new “old style” entry at the “search addon

scenery”. Please use the method described above.

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Performance

To achieve a framerate as high as possible within Microsoft Flight

Simulator 2004, please note the following:

• Reduce the AI Trafﬁc to 30-50% to limit the aircraft displayed

on the apron.

• Due to the amount of autogen objects in the area switch this

option off or to reduce it step by step.

• Reduce the amount of 3-D clouds in the display settings.

• Reduce the amount of visible (3D) clouds in the display settings

of FS2004.Try to switch the FS2004 to windowed or full screen

view (ALT+ENTER). Very often you´ll see an extreme change in

performance. Find out what´s best for your system.

Visibility of Objects

To optimize the framerate we had to reduce the visibility of some

objects at the airports of Barcelona X as there are simply too many of

them. This should not affect you while you are in the cockpit-view.

Sometimes - depending upon the angle - as you come closer, a

building or airplane appears very sudden. This is normal and is done so

to increase the performance.

The whole appearance of the airports is programmed and modeled to

ensure the best possible frame rate when ﬂying from the view of a

pilot, in cockpit view. Fast movements as in “SLEW” mode are possible

but will not result in an optimum performance.

AI Trafﬁc

The AI-trafﬁc of FS2004 is customized to our scenery.

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Dynamic Ground Trafﬁc (AESLite)

The entire vehicle trafﬁc at the airport recognizes aircraft and will stop

to give way. This technique is based on AESLite and is part of the

scenery.

Photorealistic ground and third party mesh terrain

To get the best possible resolution of the terrain and airport scenery

set the texture sizes for ground (terrain) and custom objects to massive

i.e. the highest possible value. If you notice problems on older systems

(blurred textures, extensive loading times...) lower the settings step by

step.

Due to technical limitations of FS2004 the resolution of the terrain

textures is limited to approx. 4,7m/pixel.

Aditional third party Mesh has no inﬂuence to the scenery of Barcelona

itself.

Coastlines and roads

The coastlines and roads have been customized to match the Barcelona

scenery. Please select if you are using the Add-on „Ultimate Terrain

Europe“ or FS2004 Standard Version when installing.

Static Aircraft

When ﬂying online the option for static aircraft might be useful to you.

During installation you can select if you want to install the static aircraft

or not. If you install these take a cautious approach of the amount of AI

trafﬁc you choose. It should be very low, e.g. 5% or not at all to make

sure you´re not guided to an occupied parking position.

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