Aerosoft German Airports 2 2012 User guide

Brand: Aerosoft

Model: German Airports 2 2012

Type: User guide

Aerosoft German Airports 2 2012 is an add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and FS2004 that enhances the realism and detail of four major German airports: Dortmund, Hannover, Cologne-Bonn, and Leipzig/Halle. The scenery includes accurate recreations of airport buildings, ground textures, and surrounding areas, as well as custom AI traffic and static aircraft.

With German Airports 2 2012, you can experience the following features:

Realistic airport environments with detailed buildings, ground textures, and surrounding areas
Custom AI traffic and static aircraft for a more immersive experience

With German Airports 2 2012, you can experience the following features:

Realistic airport environments with detailed buildings, ground textures, and surrounding areas
Custom AI traffic and static aircraft for a more immersive experience

Add-on for Microsoft

Flight Simulator

and FS2004!

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Manual

German Airports 2 - 2012

Aerosoft GmbH 2011

Developed by: German Airports Team

Manual: Peter Hiermeier / Günter Zehnel

Installation: Andreas Mügge

Airport Paderborn/Lippstadt

D-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

German

Airports 2

Add-on for

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

and

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

2012

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Content

Starting Off ................................................................6

System Requirements .......................................................... 6

Copyrights ............................................................................ 7

Installation ........................................................................... 7

Removing “German Airports“ ..................................... 8

Credits .................................................................................. 9

New in this version ............................................................ 12

Using German Airports sceneries in Flight Simulator X..... 13

The airports .............................................................. 14

Dortmund Airport .............................................................. 14

Hannover Airport .............................................................. 17

Cologne-Bonn Airport ....................................................... 20

Leipzig/Halle Airport ......................................................... 22

Appendix ..................................................................27

Dortmund Airport layout limitations .......................... 27

AGNIS (docking guidance system) ............................. 28

Ground Trafﬁc ........................................................... 28

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

Static aircraft ............................................................. 29

Compatibility with other FSX Add-ons ....................... 29

Rainer Duda‘s “German Rivers“ in FS2004 ................ 30

Compatibility with Aerosoft “Scenery Germany 3”

and “WorldCup Stadiums” ....................................... 30

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Starting Off

System Requirements

To fully enjoy the scenery “German Airports 2“ we recommend the

following

For FSX:

• Microsoft Flugsimulator X with Service Pack 2

• Pentium IV 2.6 GHz,

recommended Dual Core processor with 3 GHz

• 1.2 GB MB free memory on your hard disk

• 2 GB RAM

• 3D graphic card with 256 MB, recommended 512 MB

Our “German Airports 2“ is compatible with

Service Pack 2 /Acceleration Pack for FSX and DirectX 9.

Using DirektX 10 Preview in FSX is not recommended.

For FS2004:

• Microsoft Flugsimulator 2004

• Pentium 2.6 GHz or higher

• 1.2 GB free memory on your hard disk

• 512 MB RAM

• 3D graphic card with 128 MB, recommended 256 MB

Copyrights

This software, the manual, documentation, video images and all the

related materials are protected by copyright laws. The software is licensed,

not sold. You may install and run one copy of the software on one

computer for your personal, non-commercial use. The software, the

manual and all related materials must not be copied, photocopied,

translated, reverse engineered, decompiled or reduced to any electronic

medium or machine legible form, neither completely nor in part,

without the previous written permission of AEROSOFT GmbH.

Installation

Installation of German Airports 2-2012

Before installing GAP2-2012 you need to uninstall previous versions of

GAP2. After inserting the DVD GAP2-2012 into your drive the setup routine

should detect any older versions of GAP2. Please conﬁrm to uninstall the

previous version. Then call up setup again to install GAP2-2012.

You have

to be logged in with administrator rights before you start the installa-

tion of “German Airports 2”. Insert the CD-ROM “German Airports 2“

into your CD drive. On most systems this will start the setup automatically.

If it does not, navigate to your CD 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 German

Airports 2 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 selected

your prefered installation language, the welcome screen appears and

you will be presented with some important information and the license

agreement. Please read it carefully.

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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 if you wish to install to another location 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 routine will ask if you would like to install the static

aircraft. It is not recommned to install the static aircraft if you want

to use the AI-trafﬁc of Flight Simulator or other AI-trafﬁc add-ons like

MyTrafﬁc as all parking positions will be blocked by the static aircraft.

The installation program will also check for some other installed add-ons,

It may take some minutes.

The installation program will now copy all of the “German Airports 2”

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_Dortmund_was_installed.cfg). The necessary

adjustments for the AI Trafﬁc in Microsoft Flight Simulator will be

automatically carried out by the installation program.

Removing “German Airports“

In order to fully remove “German Airports 2” click on the “Start”

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

Panel”. Here you will see an icon named “Add and Remove programs”.

Double click on this icon to open it and you will see a list of all instal-

led programs. Locate “aerosoft’s - German Airports 2“, click once with

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

The deinstallation program will now begin to remove the scenery

“German Airports 2“- ﬁles from your hard disc.

Entries in the FS scenery library will also be removed.

Credits

Designing and building such a scenery is a very complex process which

can only be achieved with the help of many people and enthusiasts.

We would therefore like to thank all our helpers who were kind

enough to provide us with photographic material, advice as beta

testers or with small programs which enhance this scenery. All these

people ensured a creation of this scenery as close to the original as

possible.

Thank you to Matthias Bachmann from Geocontent for providing

us with the aerial photos of all the airports included in the scenery

package.

The “Dynamic Airport Enhancement Services“ and a new designer tool

which we used the ﬁrst time with this scenery, have been developed

by Oliver Pabst based on the Intelliscene Technology by Maurizio M.

Gavioli, VistaMare Software (“AES Lite for GAP-EDLW by Oliver Pabst,

quick thumbs up, to take over this part of the EDLW scenery.

The basics of some static aircraft have been designed by Marcel Felde.

To overhaul the surroundings of this scenery in FS2004 we have used

the program Ground2K4 by Christian Fumey. Thank you very much for

your permission to use this program.

Another thank you goes to Lee Swordy for his program AFCAD which

creates and adapts AI trafﬁc to this scenery.

The AFCAD-ﬁles were created by author of this scenery and were

optimized by Oliver Pabst.

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Special thanks for supporting us to design the airport

Dortmund to:

• All the employees of the Airport Dortmund.

• William Lennox from Aerosoft for providing us with photographic

material of the airport Dortmund.

• The beta testers of the scenery “German Airports 2 - Dortmund“:

Frank Seifert, Marco Butze, Peter Fuss, Hans Hartmann, Alexander

Metzger, Oliver Papst, Gerhard Wiesner, Rainer Duda and all

the others helped us to create this scenery.

• Rainer Duda who did a great job testing the beta versions.

He helped us to solve a lot of problems.

• Sascha Normann who provided us with some information

about creating the elevated apron in Dortmund.

Many thanks to all people providing us to create the Hannover

airport scenery:

• Mr. Iwert from the Hannover Airport for supporting our photo

research.

• Marco Butze who assisted us with some technical details of the

airport Hannover.

• The beta testers of the scenery „German Airports 2 - Hannover“:

Frank Seifert, Marco Butze, Peter Fuss, Hans Hartmann, Alexander

Metzger, Oliver Papst, Gerhard Wiesner, Rainer Duda.

For their help creating the airport of Cologne/Bonn thank you to:

• Kay Grossman and Stefan Schweizer for providing us with

photographic material of the airport Cologne-Bonn. Please

have a look at Stefan‘s very interesting web site:

www.stevens-va.de

• To the beta testers of the scenery “German Airports 2 -

Cologne-Bonn“ :

Frank Seifert, Marco Butze, Peter Fuss, Hans Hartmann, Alexander

Metzger, Oliver Papst, Gerhard Wiesner, Rainer Duda, Klaus

Mosch, Holger Schräpel.

We thank the following people for assisting us to design the

scenery of Leipzig/Halle:

• Steffen Lindemann, who created the basic models of the taxi

way bridges and provide us with a lot of pictures.

• Thanks to Oliver Pabst for designing the motorway trafﬁc and

the train trafﬁc and for the AFCAD Files.

• The beta testers:

Klaus Mosch, Rainer Duda, Frank Seifert, Gerd Wiesner

(www.edfh-cc.de), Andreas Maurer, Gianni, Andreas Hempel,

Holger Schräpel, Alhard Horstmann, Marco Butze

• and all the very freindly ladies and gentlemen of the visitors

service of the airport Leipzig/Halle.

At last we want to thank these people supporting us designing

Munster/Osanbruck:

• Mrs. Rose-Beckert from the Munster/Osnabruck Airport for

supporting our photo research.

• Marco Butze who assisted us with some technical details of the

airport Munster/Osnabruck.

• Klaus-Peter Werlitz for supporting us with high quality photo

images of the airport. Klaus-Peter, you have done a great job.

• and the beta testers of the scenery “German Airports 2 -

Munster/Osnabruck“:

Frank Seifert, Marco Butze, Peter Fuss, Hans Hartmann,

Alexander Metzger, Oliver Papst, Gerhard Wiesner, Jens-Albert

Schenk, Rainer Duda

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New in this version

• Every airport has 3d runway lights and 3d approach lights

according to the current DFS charts. We have also considered

the varying distances of the centerline lights (as in EDDV North/

South runway).

• Each airport now has animated windsocks.

• All airports in this package are now supported by AES

• Animated trafﬁc (AES-Lite) at each airport. Conﬁguration via

the Trafﬁc-Tool

• AES-Lite comes with new vehicles which now have ground-

shadow-textures.

• Autogen for FS9 and FSX-Version has been optimized at every

airport

• Compatibility optimization for AI-Trafﬁc of WOAI. Shadows in

FSX for WOAI models are now visible

• EDDK Cologne: New Germanwings apron, FedEx Cargo Area

and Cologne Cargo Center with new buildings

• EDLW Dortmund, terminal expansion west

• EDDV Hannover changes:

o The jetways have been updated; old red jetways have

been replaced by new jetways

Hannover: The old tower has been painted with the

currently visible “Germanwings” advert. On the Terminal

B between Gate 7/8 and 11/12 bus entrances have been

added.

Cat I holding positions and runway 09C/27C holding posi-

tions are now equipped with “RWY guard lights”according

to the current DFS Charts. Holding positions at the relevant

taxiways have been updated with markings and TWY signs

o New Hangar 16 north of the car park. ACC-Columbia

Jet-Services including an apron entrance.

Using German Airports sceneries

in Flight Simulator X

FSX brings some new technical options. We have gone and adapted

the new possibilities for our airport sceneries resulting in a few

changes we had to make compared to FS2004.

To ensure a fairly good frame rate we decided not to use the bump

mapping and reﬂection features.

Runways:

To display the runways as real as possible we have designed them

using several layers which would not allow us to use the water and

rain effects. Depending on your view point and in some rare occasions

it can happen that the aircraft shadow will not be dispayed properly.

Weather, Time and Day:

Various weather, daytime and seasons variables are no longer available

in FSX for the scenery designer, e.g. the windsock in the GAP2 sceneries

no longer moves according to the wind direction. Also the textures

of trees of the airport environment will not be selected automatically

according to the season. To therefor insure the proper textures we have

devloped and added this little tool called “seasons“. With this tool you

are able to select and install the correct textures prior to starting FSX.

To open this little program click on “Start - Programs - Aerosoft -

German Airports 2- Dortmund - Seasons“.

Select the correct season. Start your Flight Simulator.

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The airports

Dortmund Airport

General information

In the spring of 1925, the Air Trafﬁc Corporation Aero Lloyd of

Dortmund started a regular ﬂight schedule service to Berlin. In 1926

the Dortmund Airport Corporation was established and took over the

ﬁnancial responsibility for the airport from the town. Dortmund at this

time was established in German aviation. By the commencement of

the Second World War the airport “north of the village of Brackel“

was constructed on the recommendation of the incumbent Mayor.

During the War the military took control of the airport and all civilian

ﬂights were ceased. After the Second World War, the network of the

airpost ﬂights (runs) of the German Air Company included Dortmund.

The Royal Air Force (RAF), then took control of the destroyed airport,

restored it and commenced operations.

In 1953, German Glider Operations were resumed from Dortmund.

In 1955, control of the airport was returned to Germany authorities.

However, Dortmund airport was no longer in the Lufthansa network

because its aircraft needed a 2000-meter long runway for safe

landings/takeoffs and extending the runway was not feasible. Instead

the airport was used to house a British Missile Battery.

Dortmund’s Civilian Aviation Authorities instead located an old grass

airstrip belonging to the Air Sports Club. The prerequisite for the

development of regular air trafﬁc at the airport in Dortmund was

the construction of an asphalt runway. In the beginning the asphalt

runway was a converted road used by transport vehicles until 1983.

The road was closed to vehicles and re-designated as a runway and

the area was renamed “Ruhrgebiet“.

In 1987, the departure building was extended and the runway

widened. In 1993, the length of the runway was extended to today’s

standards and ﬁve years later the new Tower and Cargo Center were

constructed.

In 1998 the new tower and the Cargo Center were opened. The

foundations of the new check-in building were laid.

In 2001 the airport celebrated ist 75th birthday and passenger

numbers broke the million barrier for the ﬁrst time. The new terminal

was ﬁnished.

2004 the low cost carrier easyJet began operating from the airport.

Passenger numbers rose to 1.18 millionen.

In 2005 more than 1.7 Millionen passengers ﬂew from Dortmund.

Technical information

Airport: Dortmund

ICAO-Code: EDLW

Location: 5.4 NM E of Dortmund City

Coordinates: N51° 31.1 / E007° 36.7

Elevation: 424‘ / 130 m

Runways:

RWY 06 / 24: 2.000 x 45 m, Asphalt

Navigationseinrichtungen:

RWY 06: ILS: 109.15 IDWE 060°

RWY 24: ILS: 110.30 IDWW 240°

DVOR/DME: 108.65 DOR

NDB: 357 DWI

Frequencies:

ATIS: 125.12 MHz

Dortmund Tower / Turm: 134.17 MHz

Dortmund Ground / Rollkontrolle: 121.82 MHz

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Statistics

Take offs/landings in 2006: 43.514

Passengers in 2006: 2.019.000

Cargo in 2006: 8.388 t

Destinations in june 2007:

Almeria, Ankara, Antalya, Barcelona, Berlin-Tempelhof, Bilbao, Breslau,

Budapest, Bukarest, Burgas, Danzig, Dresden, Edinburgh, Faro,

Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha,

Jerez de la Frontera, Kattowitz, Kos, Krakau, Las Palmas/GranCanaria,

Leipzig-Halle, Lissabon, London-Luton, Madrid, Mahon/Menorca,

Malaga, Monastir, München, Murcia, Nizza, Nürnberg, Oviedo-

Asturias, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Posen, Prag, Rom-Ciampino,

Santiago de Compostela, Sevilla, Stuttgart, Teneriffa-Süd, Thessaloniki,

Valencia, Varna, Warschau, Westerland/Sylt, Wien.

Hannover Airport

General information

Opening date: April 1952

Management company: Flughafen Hannover-Langenhagen Ltd.

This airport attracts passengers from North and Central Germany with

a population density of more than ten million.

Projects:

The following projects were completed in the 1998 Business Year for

EXPO 2000:

The opening of Passenger Terminal “C“;

The ofﬁcial opening of Parking Garage 3; and

The completion of the Underground Subway Station

Technical information

Airport: Hannover

ICAO-Code: EDDV

Location: 6 NM north of Hannover

Coordinates: N 52 27.6 / E 009 41.0

Altitude: 183‘ / 56m

Runways:

RWY 09C / 27 C: 780 x 22.5 m, asphalt, for aircraft to 5.7t , VFR

RWY 09 L / 27 R: 3800 x 45 m, concrete, IFR CAT IIIb

RWY 09 R / 27 L: 2340 x 45 m, concrete, IFR CAT I

Capacity of the parallel runways : 50 movements per hour IFR.

Taxiways:

12 taxiways, high speed taxiway

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Navaids:

RWY 09 L: ILS 108.30 IHNE 092°

RWY 27 R: ILS 108.90 IHNW 272°

RWY 09 R: ILS 108.70 IHSE 092°

RWY 27 L: ILS 109.50 IHSW 272°

DME: 113.95 HAD

DME: 116.90 HBD

NDB: 320 HA

NDB: 358 HW

NDB: 332 HAE

Frequencies:

ATIS: 132.125 / 115.20 MHz

Hannover Tower: 120.17 / 120.225 MHz

Hannover Ground: 121.95 MHz

Airport area:

915 ha

Passenger terminals:

Three compact triangular- shaped elements A, B and C with an

working area of app. 75.000 sqm.

Horizontal seperation of arrival and departure levels, each with

seperate driveways.

Connecting buildings between terminal A and B as well as B and C

with shopping arcarde.

Check-in: decentral in halls A and B, central in hall C.

A total of 88 Check-in counters, 20 passenger ramps, 3 departure bus

gates.

Capacity: up to 8 million passengers per year. Underground railway

station

Cargo:

Cargo Centre capable of handling 60.000 tons yearly.

Logistic halls and equipment for the handling and loading of special

freight. Air freight forwarders, customs. Automatic freight handling

procedure ALFA.

General Aviation:

Separate terminal (GAT 1) for privat and business aircraft with all

essential check-in-facilities, from the coffeebar to the complete ground

service. Separate apron with parking positions for small aircrafts.

Meteorological equipment:

Runway observation building: preparation of weather reports. Equipment

to determine runway visibility, cloud height in accordance with ICAO

category CAT III as well as wind direction an speed.

Additional landing aids:

Airport scan radar (ASR), NDB, DME.

Apron:

20 docking positions at the terminal building and 13 additional aircraft

clearance positions at the apron.

2 positions near the building for commuter aircrafts.

Other facilities and workshops:

5 small aircraft hangars, 3 large aircraft hangars, fuel storage tanks,

refuelling service, catering service, customs, police station, police

helicopter ﬂeet of Niedersachsen, ﬂight schools airport workshops,

aircraft engine maintenance workshops, Hapag-Lloyd technical base.

Statistic

movements in 2005: 88.935

passengers in 2005: 5.637.391

cargo in 2005: 6.057 t t

air mail in 2005: 10.322 t

airlines1998: 48 destinations

Airlines:

airlines: 110

destinations: 290

countries: 109

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Cologne-Bonn Airport

General information

Although Cologne has a long history and tradition with ﬂight, the

history of the right-hand side of the Rhine River Airport, Cologne/Bonn

begins after the Second World War.

In 1906 the citizens of Cologne established the “Club for Aviation“,

which in turn was initiated by the suburb Bickendorf, situated on the

left-hand side of the Rhine, to build a runway for zeppelins. A couple

of years later the Butweilerhof Airport was constructed. The airport,

affectionately known as “Butz“, developed into a substantial airport,

and by 1936 it was second on the airport priority order list right

behind Frankfurt a.M. Airport. After the Second World War the “Butz“

Airport was used as a Sport Flying Club until the 1980‘s.

The Cologne/Bonn airport situated on the right-hand side of the Rhine

River was built after the Second World War in the area of the Wahner

Heide. Prior to 1938, the German Military had an Air Station situated

here. Directly after the war, the British expanded the German Military

Airport for their use. In 1950, they permitted civilian airlines to use

the airport. During this period the young Federal Capital of Bonn,

the economically driven metropolis of Cologne and the main regions

of both cities were expected to become involved with international

aviation, but could not since between 1952 and 1957 the British Royal

Air Force was using the airport. After 1957 air trafﬁc at the airport

increased steadily requiring a permanent expansion of the airport and

its facilities. Among the German airports, the airport Cologne/Bonn is

presently sixth on the destination list.

The most popular German destinations are Berlin, Munich and

Hamburg. There are daily European ﬂights to Paris, Zürich and London.

The airport tourist agencies offer short and long distance ﬂights to

southern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea and to North Africa.

The Cologne/ Bonn airport accommodates jet aircraft with the capacity

to carry full passenger and fuel loads to any destination in the world. It

also has the reserve capacity to handle much higher trafﬁc densities.

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Aerosoft German Airports 2 2012 User guide

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Model: German Airports 2 2012

Type: User guide

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Realistic airport environments with detailed buildings, ground textures, and surrounding areas
Custom AI traffic and static aircraft for a more immersive experience

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