Sim-Wings Trondheim-Vaernes X v2.0 User manual

Brand: Sim-Wings

Model: Trondheim-Vaernes X v2.0

Type: User manual

Sim-Wings Trondheim-Vaernes X v2.0 is an add-on software to Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Prepar3D V3 and V4 that offers a highly detailed rendition of Trondheim Airport, Værnes in Norway. It accurately recreates the airport's buildings, ground textures, taxiways, and terminal interiors. The product includes realistic lighting effects, animated vehicles, and seasonal texturing. It promises an immersive experience for flight simulation enthusiasts seeking detailed scenery in their virtual flights.

Trondheim-

Vaernes 2.0

Add-on for Microsoft

Flight Simulator

and Prepar3D V3

Manual

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Developer / Entwickler: Jo Erlend Sund, Simen Nygaard

Manual / Handbuch: Jo Erlend Sund, Simen Nygaard, Aerosoft

Handbuch

Manual

Trondheim-

Værnes X V2

Airport Paderborn/Lippstadt

D-33142 Büren, Germany

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

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

E-Mail: [email protected]

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Add-on for

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• Animierte Jetways (SODE)

• Animiertes Passagier-Boarding an den Jetways (SODE)

• Enteisungsservice während der Wintermonate (SODE)

• Animierte Hangar-Tore (SODE)

• Eigene Animation der Windhose (SODE)

• Embedded runway guard lights (SODE)

• SODE-Features können über das mitgelieferte Konﬁgurati-

onstool deaktiviert werden

• Szenerie-Konﬁgtool enthalten, um die Performance auf

möglichst vielen Systemen zu optimieren

• Verschiedene Texturauﬂösungen enthalten, um die Perfor-

mance zu optimieren.

• Kompatibel mit AI Trafﬁc-Paketen

• Statische Flugzeuge als Option enthalten

Flughafen-Daten

Name Trondheim Airport, Værnes

ICAO ENVA

IATA TRD

Lat 63.4575N

Long 10.9241E

Höhe 17m / 56ft

RWY TORA (m) ASDA (m) TODA (m) LDA (m)

09 2699 2699 3059 2446

27 2699 2699 2999 2469

Frequenzen

Services Call sign Frequency

ATIS Værnes Information 127.550 MHZ

GRD Værnes Boden 121.600 MHZ

TWR Værnes Tower 119.400 MHZ

133.750MHZ

278.925MHZ

APP/DEP Værnes Anﬂug / Radar 118.600MHZ

240.500MHZ

375.225MHZ

APP/DEP Værnes Director (nur IFR) 119.150MHZ

Navigationshilfen

Typ ID Frequenz

LOC RWY 09 TO (- ---) 110.300 MHZ

GP RWY 09 (3° Glide Path) 335.000 MHZ

DME RWY 09 (Paired LOC

RWY 09)

TO (- ---)

LOC RWY 27 TD (- ---) 109.900 MHZ

GP RWY 27 (3.4° Glide

Path)

333.800 MHZ

DME RWY 27 (Paired LOC

RWY 27)

TD (- -..)

NDB Flornes FLR (..-. .-.. .-.) 380 KHZ

NDB Malvik GRK (- ---) 326 KHZ

NDB Gråkallen GRK (--. .-. -.-) 358 KHZ

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Installation

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

installation. After you have chosen your preferred installation lan-

guage, the welcome screen appears and with some important

information and the license agreement. Please read it carefully.

You will be asked to insert your email address and the product key.

Please insert them exactly the way they were written in the conﬁrma-

tion mail you received of our online shop. The installation program will

attempt to locate the correct path of Microsoft Flight Simulator. If this

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

location, then you will have to enter the correct path for installation

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 all the installation details. The

installation program will now copy all 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.

Uninstall the scenery

To uninstall the scenery, click on the Windows „Start”-button. Then

select „Settings” und „control panel”. Go to „Software” or „Pro-

grams“, and double click. You will see a list with all installed programs.

Select the program you want to uninstall and follow the instructions.

System requirements

In order to run “Trondheim-Vaernes X V2“ without any problems your

system will have to meet the following minimum requirements:

• Microsoft Flight Simulator X with Service Pack 2 or Acceleration

or Microsoft Flight Simulator X Steam Edition or Lockheed

Martin Prepar3D V3 or V4

• Dual Core Processor with 3 GHz

• ca. free space on your hard disk

• 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)

• 3D graphics card with 1GB

Airport history

Trondheim Airport Værnes, located in Northern-Trøndelag in the

municipal of Stjørdal serves as the city of Trondheim and the surround-

ing areas’ main domestic and international airport.

The airport is partially owned by the Norwegian Military and expanded

during the cold war to serve as a NATO airﬁeld. Most of the military

presence has now been moved to other airﬁelds and bases although

it’s not uncommon to still see military ﬂights there. Værnes is the

second oldest airport in Norway.

The area’s recorded history stretches back to the viking age, being one

of the main centers of power for the Trøndelag area. When Harald

Fairhair climbed to power as the ﬁrst king of a united Norway the

power center was moved to Lade, located in what now is Trondheim.

After Norway adapted Christendom, (usually contributed to Olaf ll

conquests) churches were built to replace the now hedonistic rituals

and practices performed in the Norse religion.

One of these were Værnes Church. Still standing today it’s the oldest

preserved stone building in Norway, located south-east of Værnes

Airport.

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The airport itself dates back to the 1914, the plan at the time was to

establish an Air Service for the Norwegian military and the Værnes

area was chosen to strengthen the defense capabilities of central and

northern Norway. The ﬁrst ﬂight took place the 26. of March 1914

with an Maurice Farman 7 nicknamed Olav Tryggvessøn. Grants were

issued by the Norwegian government but also by civilian contributers

in the area and the military presence kept growing at Værnes.

In 1940 the airﬁeld was surrendered to Germany during WW2 and

started seeing major expansions to accommodate the bombers and

ﬁghters now stationed there. A wooden runway was built to replace

the grass strip currently used, this was later replaced with three

concrete runways. After the war ended the airﬁeld was returned to

the Norwegian Military.

After the war civilian ﬂights were ﬂown to Hommelvika with sea-

planes, located just to the south-west of Værnes. In 1952 SAS started

operating regular ﬂights to and from Værnes and civilian trafﬁc

increased drastically. With the increase of jet trafﬁc the runway was

extended into the fjord, the airport facilities were improved and a new

terminal building was completed in 1965. But due to the heavy

increase of charter trafﬁc during the 60’s and early 70’s the capacity of

the newly ﬁnished terminal was soon exceeded. What’s now knowns

as Terminal B was constructed to try and cope with the passenger

growth but it was also soon too small, it was then decided to move all

international ﬂights to Terminal B and build yet another terminal to

handle only domestic ﬂights, this terminal still serves as Trondheim’s

main terminal, Terminal A. After Terminal A was built in 1994 no major

expansion was done except for a new Control Tower in 2005. In 2014

the ﬁrst part of a 50 year plan to handle expected passenger growth

was completed, Terminal A was extended 75 meters to the west and a

new Terminal, called “Terminal West” was added. Terminal West

serves as a commuter terminal, mainly seeing Wideroe trafﬁc.

Currently Værnes is the fourth largest airport in Norway, seeing

60,934 air movements and 4,4 million passengers in 2015. The

airports serves as a major hub for Norwegian, Scandinavian Airlines

System (SAS) and Widerøe. The busiest route is between Trondheim

and Oslo, usually seeing an aggressive competition between the

different airlines, especially after Oslo’s airport was moved from

Fornebu to Gardermoen. Never before could low-cost airlines acquire

sufﬁcient slot-times to compete with the already established airlines

such as SAS and Braathens. This resulted in the Trondheim – Oslo

route becoming the 4th busiest in Europe during the late 90’s, seeing

39 ﬂights per day operated by three different airlines. The route is still

the 6th busiest in Europe, serving 1,9 million passengers in 2015.

Scenery Features

• Fully compatible with FSX (SP2 or ACC) / FSX SE / P3Dv3/v4

• Includes a highly accurate recreation of Trondheim Airport,

Vaernes.

• Highly detailed models of airport terminal and buildings.

• Photo-realistic building and ground textures.

• Densely placed ground equipment and service vehicles.

• Highly detailed custom terrain model with taxiway bridges over

roads and railroad.

• Terminal interior included.

• Photo-real scenery covering airport and vicinity.

• Landmark buildings and bridges in the vicinity of the airport

included.

• Seasonal textures included.

• Winter ground model with highly realistic ice and snow effect.

• Custom runway and approach light effects.

• Highly realistic night time effects.

• Vicinity animations. (Train and custom road trafﬁc.)

• Animated service vehicle trafﬁc.

• Visual Guidance Docking System included. (SODE required in

P3D)

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• Animated jetways. (SODE)

• Animated passenger boarding at jetways. (SODE)

• Deice service available during winter season. (SODE)

• Animated Hangars doors. (SODE)

• Custom animated windsock. (SODE)

• Embedded runway guard lights. (SODE)

• SODE features can be disabled via included scenery Conﬁgura-

tion Tool.

• Scenery Conﬁguration Tool included to optimize performance

on a wide range of systems.

• Different texture resolution sets included to optimize perfor-

mance.

• Compatible with AI trafﬁc packages.

• Static Aircraft included as an option.

Airport Data

Name Trondheim Airport, Værnes

ICAO ENVA

IATA TRD

Lat 63.4575N

Long 10.9241E

ELEV 17m / 56ft

RWY TORA(m) ASDA(m) TODA(m) LDA(m)

09 2699 2699 3059 2446

27 2699 2699 2999 2469

Frequencies

Services Call sign Frequency

ATIS Værnes Information 127.550 MHZ

GRD Værnes Ground 121.600 MHZ

TWR Værnes Tower 119.400 MHZ

133.750MHZ

278.925MHZ

APP/DEP Værnes Approach / Radar 118.600MHZ

240.500MHZ

375.225MHZ

APP/DEP Værnes Director (IFR only) 119.150MHZ

Navigational Aids

Type ID Frequency

LOC RWY 09 TO (- ---) 110.300 MHZ

GP RWY 09 (3° Glide Path) 335.000 MHZ

DME RWY 09 (Paired LOC

RWY 09)

TO (- ---)

LOC RWY 27 TD (- ---) 109.900 MHZ

GP RWY 27 (3.4° Glide

Path)

333.800 MHZ

DME RWY 27 (Paired LOC

RWY 27)

TD (- -..)

NDB Flornes FLR (..-. .-.. .-.) 380 KHZ

NDB Malvik GRK (- ---) 326 KHZ

NDB Gråkallen GRK (--. .-. -.-) 358 KHZ

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Technical advice

Compatibility with other Third Party add-ons.

Compatibility issues with other add-ons usually occur when multiple

AFCAD ﬁles are active for one airport. The AFCAD ﬁle creates the

layout of the airport and has general information including elevation,

runways, taxiways and parking positions.

Many non-airport add-ons includes custom AFCAD ﬁles, e.g. AI trafﬁc

add-ons packages and Landclass/Terrain packages are known to

include these kinds of ﬁles.

It’s critical to only have one AFCAD ﬁle active at the time, failing to do

so could result in incorrect display of the airport, such as levitating AI

trafﬁc and terrain mesh graphical artifacts.

Included with this scenery is a Conﬁguration Tool, this tool will do a

automatic search for ﬁles that

could cause the scenery to display incorrectly.

To read more about this tool see the “Conﬁguration Tool” chapter.

Animated Jetways

The scenery features animated jetways, to utilize this feature SODE is

needed and the appropriate settings has to be applied in the Scenery

Conﬁguration Tool. Passenger boarding animations are also included,

to see these these animations the “airport level of detail” settings in

the Conﬁguration Tool has to be set to High. If a lower Level of detail

is selected the jetways will still be animated, but the passengers will

not be displayed. For the jetway to attach correctly, the aircraft xml ﬁle

needs to include correct exit information, for more information on this

please see the SODE user manual.

Animated Hangar Doors

Three of the hangars at Værnes includes animated hangar doors,

these are activated via the SODE menu. Two of the hangars are located

to the south-east of Terminal B, “Helitrans” and “Værnes Aeroclub”.

The third “Rely” is located next to the de-ice platforms at the far east

of the airport.

De-Ice Service

The scenery includes custom De-Ice animations during the winter

season, this feature requires SODE to be displayed. To use the feature

taxi to the De-Ice platform (M1) located to the east of the terminals.

The animation is triggered via the SODE menu.

Sim Object Display Engine (SODE)

To see all the features included with this scenery SODE is required, if

you do not wish to use SODE you can disable these features via the

conﬁguration tool included with the scenery.

SODE is used to change seasonal textures and trigger animations

depending on certain conditions, if SODE is disabled you will have to

change the seasonal textures manually through the conﬁguration tool

and certain features are disabled. See list bellow for more detail.

Feature SODE enabled SODE disabled

Seasonal models and

textures

Changes automati-

cally.

Changed via the

conﬁgtool

Animated Jetways Supported Animations disabled

Windsocks Reacts to wind speed

and direction

Static model

Embedded RWY

guard lights

Visible during low vis

and night

Disabled

Hangar Doors Animated Always open

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Feature SODE enabled SODE disabled

De-ice Service Supported during the

winter season

Disabled

VGDS (FSX) Supported Supported

VGDS (P3D) Supported Disabled

Runway and

Approach Lights

Changes automati-

cally depending on

visibility and time of

day

Always on, or only

on during night,

changed via conﬁg-

tool

PAPI lights (FSX) Enabled Disabled

PAPI lights (P3D) Enabled Enabled

When SODE is enabled the conﬁguration tool needs to know the

correct path to the “SODE Common Data Folder” by default the path

should be: “C:\ProgramData\12bPilot\SODE”

(NOT to be confused with the SODE folder located inside “Program-

ﬁles (x86)”)

If the path to the SODE Common Data Folder is missing or incorrect a

warning will be displayed, use the folder icon in the conﬁguration tool

to choose the correct path.

FSX/P3D Scenery Library

The Scenery Library inside FSX or P3D is used to add or remove

sceneries, after installation of this scenery is complete an entry for

“Vaernes V2.0” should be added to the list.

The order these add-ons are sorted is critical to ensure that they

display correctly.

A rule of thumb is to have add-ons that cover large areas, such as

Terrain Mesh or Land-class bellow add-ons for airports. When add-ons

are installed or in some cases updated they can move to a higher

priority in the scenery list, make sure to check your scenery library after

you install or update an add-on to ensure that the scenery priorities

are still correct.

Conﬁguration Tool

The scenery includes a Conﬁguration Tool to allow you to adjust the

amount of details and enable or disable certain features in the scenery,

below you’ll ﬁnd a summary of the options available.

SODE

This check-box enables or disables the SODE speciﬁc features included

with the scenery, for more details regarding the features that are

effected please see the “Sim Object Display Engine (SODE)” chapter in

this manual.

FTX Norway

This check-box is for users that have FTX Norway installed. This will

change the dates the photo real ground textures changes seasons,

since these are different compared with the default scenery.

Animated Jetways (SODE)

This check-box enables or disables animated jetways, this check-box

requires SODE to be enabled.

Animations

This setting adjusts the amount of animated objects that are displayed

(cars, ground equipment, ﬂags, trains etc.)

Airport Level Of Detail

This setting adjusts the amount of detail displayed at the airport, a

lower setting reduces the number of objects displayed and the level of

detail of those.

Passenger boarding through jetways are also effected by this setting,

to see passenger boarding the setting must be set to “high”.

Vicinity Level Of Detail

This setting adjusts the number of custom objects loaded for the

surrounding area.

Model Textures

This setting allows you to change between different sets of texture

resolutions for the building and ground models.

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Night Textures

This setting allows you to change the light map resolution for the

buildings and ground textures.

Ambient Occlusions

This setting allows you to change the resolution of the prebaked soft

shadows for the ground textures.

Specular Maps

This setting allows you to change the resolution of the specularity

textures for the models and ground textures, these are used to

calculate the specular highlights (often seen on windows and metallic

objects)

Static Aircraft

This option allows you to enable or disable static aircraft at some of

the terminal gates.

If this option is enabled the parking positions where static aircrafts are

placed will be disabled and user or AI trafﬁc can’t park there. (Static

Aircraft are not placed at parking positions with jetways.)

Administrator Rights

For the Conﬁguration Tool to work properly it has to run with adminis-

trator rights, if you do not have the proper administrator rights for

your windows user right click the “Aerosoft - Vaernes v2 – ConﬁgTool.

exe” ﬁle and select “Run as administrator”.

SODE Common Data Path

When SODE is enabled the conﬁguration tool needs to know the

correct path to the “SODE Common Data Folder” by default the path

should be: “C:\ProgramData\12bPilot\SODE”

(NOT to be confused with the SODE folder located inside “Program-

ﬁles (x86)”)

If the path to the SODE Common Data Folder is missing or incorrect a

warning will be displayed, use the folder icon in the conﬁguration tool

to choose the correct path.

Search for conﬂicting scenery ﬁles

The conﬁguration tool will run an automatic search in the simulators

main directory for ﬁles that could cause compatibility issues. This

search happens when you click “Install selected”, if any ﬁles are found

a window will be displayed giving you the option to automatically

disable the ﬁles by renaming them to “.off”.

If you wish to reactivate the ﬁles open the “Recovery” folder located

in the conﬁgtool directory. Inside you’ll ﬁnd recovery ﬁles with time

stamps, run the ﬁle as an administrator and it will revert any changes

done by the conﬁguration tool.

If you do not want the conﬁguration tool to automatically disable the

ﬁles; select “No” when the window appears. A log-ﬁle named

“SceneryConﬂictLOG.txt” will be created in the Conﬁguration Tools

main directory, this ﬁle includes all the possible conﬂicts found and it’s

recommended to go through these and disable the appropriate ﬁles.

After the “Install selected” button is pressed it’s normal for a short

delay while the tool completes it’s search. This should not be more

than a few seconds, but could vary depending on your computer

speciﬁcations and amount of add-ons installed.

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