Aerosoft Mega Airport Paris Aéroport Charles De Gaulle User manual

Flight Simulator

Add-on for Microsoft

and FS2004!

Handbuch • Manual • Manuel

Paris Aéroport Charles De Gaulle

sim-wings/Aerosoft GmbH 2008

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Developed by: sim-wings

Software development: Thorsten Loth

Nellenbachstraße 56

88662 Überlingen, Germany

Aerosoft GmbH

Airport Paderborn/Lippstadt

33142 Bueren, Germany

Tel: +49 (0) 29 55 / 76 03-10

Fax: +49 (0) 29 55 / 76 03-33

E-Mail: [email protected]

Internet: www.aerosoft.de

www.aerosoft.com

All trademarks and brand names are trademarks or registered of their

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Add-on für / for / pour

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

und / and / et

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

Paris CDG X

Aéroport Charles de Gaulle

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Content

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

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

For FSX ..................................................................... 19

For FS2004 ................................................................ 20

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

Installation options for FSX ........................................ 21

Established Scenery entries from Aerosoft “France 2“

or

“old Version Paris CDG“ in FS2004 ........................... 22

Other AFCAD ﬁles ..................................................... 22

Removing Paris CDG X .............................................. 22

Using Paris CDG X in FS ...........................................23

Using in FSX ....................................................................... 23

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

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

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

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

Dynamic Ground Trafﬁc (AES Lite)and FSX ground Traf-

ﬁc ............................................................................. 25

Animated FSX Jetways............................................... 25

Opening Hangar Doors ............................................. 25

“Aerial View” Setting ................................................ 26

Textures Display Setting ............................................ 26

“Seasonal Tool“ for trees ........................................... 26

FSX, CDG and the DX10 Preview ............................... 27

Using in FS2004 .................................................................. 28

Selection of Airports .................................................. 28

Performance ............................................................. 29

Visibility of Objects .................................................... 29

AI Trafﬁc ................................................................... 29

Dynamic Ground Trafﬁc (AES Lite) ............................. 30

Jetways ..................................................................... 30

Opening Hangar Doors ............................................. 30

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Introduction

Thank you very much for purchasing our new szenery of the airport

Paris-Charles De Gaulle (CDG). As always we have been gathering a

lot of information, shot many photos to ensure to create a realistic

model of this airport. Paris CDG has undergone major restructuring

works over last couple of years. All new installations, buildings,

taxiways as they were in 10/2008 have been modelled.

Always three greens for “Paris CDG“.

Thorsten Loth

A special thanks to bei Oliver Pabst for his efforts and help and also a

big thank you to Mike Strasser for creating the very complex f AFCAD

ﬁles.

System requirements

For FSX

In order to run “Paris CDG X “ with FSX without any problems your

system will have to meet the following minimum system requirements:

Minimum:

Processor: 3,2 GHz or faster•

250 MB free space on your hard disk•

min. 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)•

DVD-ROM drive•

3D video card with min. 256 MB•

Microsoft Flugsimulator X •

(with Service Pack 2 or Acceleration Pack)

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For FS2004

In order to run “Paris CDG X (FS9)“ with FS2004 without any problems

your system will have to meet the following minimum system requirements:

Minimum:

Pentium 2,4 GHz or faster•

240 MB free space on your hard disk•

min. 512 MB RAM•

DVD-ROM drive•

3D video card with min. 256 MB •

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004•

Installation

You have to be logged in with administrator rights before you start the

installation of “Paris CDG X”.

Insert the DVD “Paris CDG X” into your DVD drive. On most systems this

will start the setup automatically. If it does not, navigate to your DVD

and double click ’Setup.exe’. After selecting the language and the

license agreement (you will have to accept those to continue) you will

be asked to enter the serial number. You will ﬁnd this number on the

DVD box. The code needs to be entered EXACTLY as it is given.

Please keep this serial number at a safe place. You will need it if you

want to install the program again.

Please choose the ﬂight simulator version you want to install “Paris

CDG X” into. If you want to install it for both version of ﬂight

simulator ﬁnish the installation for one version ﬁrst. Run the installation

program again and choose the other one.

After you have chosen your prefered installation language, the welcome

screen appears and you will be presented with some important

information.

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The installation program will attempt to locate the correct path of

Microsoft Flight Simulator. If this path cannot be successfully located,

or you wish to install to another location, then 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 program starts to copy the ﬁles onto your hard

disc, you will be presented with the all installation details.

The installation programme will now copy all of the Paris CDG ﬁles

onto your hard disc and subsequently register the scenery in the scenery

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

“Scenery_CFG_Before_PARISCDGX_was_installed.cfg“.

Installation options for FSX

During the installation of FSX, you can choose between an installation

with a standard FSX runway (“RWY Default“) or a custom one runway

(“RWY Custom“).

The reason for this is the following:

The ground shadow of old (FS2004, FS2002) AI-trafﬁc aircrafts crops

up conﬂicts in the “Custom RWY“ option with the illuminator of the

landing runway. This means that you can not see some old AI-aircrafts.

To avoid such conﬂicts you can either switched off the plane shadows

if “Custom RWY“ is installed or you choose during the installation of

Paris CDG X the option “Default RWY“.

If your AI-trafﬁc only based on current FSX models or you just use the

default FSX-AI trafﬁc, you can select “Custom RWY“ option.

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Established Scenery entries from Aerosoft “France 2“

or “old Version Paris CDG“ in FS2004

The installer will automatically uninstall all contingent older versions

of Paris CDG. However, it may happen it won’t work correctly. Please

check the scenery library (click on “SETTINGS” or “APPROACH”

when starting) if the entry ParisCDG2005_SC or France2-ParisCDG or

similar is removed or deactivated. If necessary please remove the check

next to the entry for deactivating. Now you have to close the menu

completely and start the FS2004 new to assume the changings.

Other AFCAD ﬁles

AFX or AFCAD ﬁles are used to setting up the taxiway layout for AI

trafﬁc. Possibly you use an AI trafﬁc addon that installs additional AFX

(AFCAD) ﬁles for Paris CDG. Please remove any other existing AFX

(AFCAD) ﬁles for LFPG“Paris CDG X“ (most named: AF2_LFPG.bgl or

similar. LFPG = ICAO code for Paris CDG) except the ﬁles included in

this Scenery.

Removing Paris CDG X

In order now to fully remove Paris CDG 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 Paris CDGX - FS2004”, click once with

the left mouse button and then click on the “add-remove” button.

The deinstallation program will now begin to remove the Paris CDG

ﬁles from you hard disc. Entries in the FS scenery library will also be

removed.

Note

At this time AES Lite is not compatible with the Acceleration Pack

powered by the VistaMare module. Therefor AES Lite will not be

installed if Acceleration Pack is found on your system. We are working

on a solution and will offer an Update as sson as this is solved.

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Using Paris CDG X in FS

Using in FSX

Selection of Airports

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

4-Letter-Code under “Select Airport“:

Charles-De-Gaulle LFPG

Note: We did not add a new “old style“ entry at the “search add-on

scenery“. Please use the method described above.

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Performance

To achieve high frame rates within Microsoft Flight Simulator X, please

note the following:

Reduce the AI Trafﬁc to 20-40% to limit the aircraft displayed •

on the apron.

Reduce the setting for Autogen-Objects in the display settings.•

You can also turn down the scenery complexity from “extremely •

dense” to “dense” to “normal” and to “very sparse” to

accelerate the simulator some more. This may result in some

scenery elements not appearing on the screen.

Take advantage of the FSX in full screen mode (ALT+RETURN). •

On many systems, this brings a signiﬁcant speed increase.

Visibility of Objects

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

objects at the airport of Paris CDG 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 suden. This is normal and is done so

to increase the performance.

The whole appearance of the airport is programmed and modelled to

ensure the beswt 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 for FSX has been adapted to our scenery.

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Dynamic Ground Trafﬁc (AES Lite)

and FSX ground Trafﬁc

Dynamic ground trafﬁc at the airport consisting of cars, buses etc. is

controlled intelligently. That means that vehicles recognise aircraft on the

ground approaching and stop to let them by. This technique is based on

the AESLite programme developed by Oliver Pabst and is a part of this

scenery.

Switch the FSX ramp trafﬁc off in order to avoid overlapping.

This will also increase the speed.

Animated FSX Jetways

There are animated jetways in Paris CDG X that are based on the FSX

function. You can have the jetway dock to your aircraft by pressing

CTRL+J.

FSX jetways will work but with the following FSX inherent limitations:

If there is more than one jetway at a parking position, only one •

will be animated in each case.

The stationary jetway types (terminal 2) cannot be animated •

using this technique and therefore remain static.

In the case of smaller aircraft types (737, A320, CRJ...) the •

wheels underneath the jetways will be pushed into the ground

during the docking procedure. This also happens with the

standard jetways and is caused by FSX itself.

Opening Hangar Doors

You still have the chance to open the hangar doors with the help of

tuning in frequencies in your NAV2 radio. These hangars can be found

in the Air-France Maintenance area. Put in 112.00 into NAV2.

To close the doors simply select a different frequency. Keep in mind that

it might take a while until the doors move.

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“Aerial View” Setting

The aerial view of Paris CDG X has a resolution of ca. 0.6m/pixel in

FSX. In order to display it in FSX in the highest resolution, adjust the

display settings for the ground textures to 0.6 meters. Otherwise the

aerial view will be displayed with a lower resolution!

Textures Display Setting

Please set the resolution for Global Texture to Very high. Otherwise the

building textures will be displayed at a lower resolution.

“Seasonal Tool“ for trees

This is a programme that enables you to make use of seasonal textures

on 3-D objects in FSX since the simulator itself does not support this

function. If it bothers you to have green trees surrounding the airport

during the autumn and winter months, then you can use the Seasonal

Tool to change them. This programme can be found under START/

PROGRAM FILES/AEROSOFT/MegaAirportCDGX.

This tool simply changes the summer textures to the appropriate

season and for this reason, you must use the programme for each

seasonal change as required.

Ground textures change automatically according to the season.

However, photo-realistic FSX ground textures do not recognize snow

and this means that the surface of Paris CDG X will have no snow

during the winter. (by default there is no snow in FSX in the winter).

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FSX, CDG and the DX10 Preview

If you are running FSX under VISTA and have a DX10-capable graphic

card, you have the possibility to activate the so called “DX10 Preview”

mode.

As the name suggests, this mode is only a preview of what could be

possible with DX10 and teh ﬂight simulator, if DX10 were a ﬁnished

product.

At the moment there is no documentation on this mode for add-on

developers and has a large number of limitations that make it impossible

to create scenery such as Paris CDG X with the same quality as DX9

offers. For this reason, Paris CDG X is only partially compatible with

the DX10 preview. You are able to ﬂy to Paris CDG X with the DX10

Preview switched on during the day but unfortunately at night, some

textures will not be displayed.

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Using in FS2004

Selection of Airports

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

4-Letter-Code under “Select Airport“:

Charles-De-Gaulle LFPG

Note: We did not add a new “old style“ entry at the “search add-on

scenery“. Please use the method described above.

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Performance

To achieve high frame rates within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004,

please note the following:

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

on the apron.

Reduce the setting for Autogen- Objects in the display settings.•

As the many Autogen objects will be reduced it will result in

higher frame rates.

You can also turn down the scenery complexity from “extremely •

dense” to “dense” to “normal” and to “very sparse” to

accelerate the simulator some more. This may result in some

scenery elements not appearing on the screen.

Visibility of Objects

To optimise the framerate we had to reduce the visibility of some ob-

jects at the airport of Paris CDG 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 suden. This is normal and is done so to increase

the performance.

The whole appearance of the airport is programmed and modelled to

ensure the beswt 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 for FS2004 has been adapted to our scenery.

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Dynamic Ground Trafﬁc (AES Lite)

The dynamic ground trafﬁc of cars, buses etc. is run by an intelligent

logic. Vehicles approaching aircraft will stop to avoid a crash. This

technique and logic is based on the AES Lite system, developed by

Oliver Pabst and is part of this package.

Jetways

We have not included moving jetways in Paris CDG as the combination

with the program AES (www.aerosoft.com) has shown much better

results in simulating the operations.

Opening Hangar Doors

You still have the chance to open the hangar doors with the help of

tuning in frequencies in your NAV2 radio. These hangars can be found

in the Air-France Maintenance area. Put in 112.00 into NAV2

To close the doors simply select a different frequency. Keep in mind

that it might take a while until the doors move.

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