Aerosoft Berlin Brandenburg Operating Instructions

Aerosoft

Mega Airport

Berlin-Brandenburg

Aerosoft Mega Airport Berlin Brandenburg 1.10

CONT E NTS

CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................................................. 1

INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................................... 2

COPYRIGHTS ........................................................................................................................................................... 2

CREDITS................................................................................................................................................................... 3

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ........................................................................................................................................ 3

CONTACT SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................................ 4

INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL ............................................................................................................................... 4

FINDING THE AIRPORT IN FSX ................................................................................................................................. 4

VFR GERMANY COMPATIBILITY .............................................................................................................................. 4

MANAGER TOOL ..................................................................................................................................................... 5

FSX DISPLAY SETTINGS ............................................................................................................................................ 7

GRAPHICS MENU ............................................................................................................................................... 7

SCENERY SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................................... 8

TRAFFIC SETTINGS ............................................................................................................................................. 9

AIRCRAFT AND WEATHER SETTINGS ............................................................................................................... 10

PREPAR3D V2.2 DISPLAY SETTINGS ...................................................................................................................... 11

GRAPHICS MENU ............................................................................................................................................. 11

SCENERY SETTINGS ......................................................................................................................................... 12

LIGHTING SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................................ 13

TRAFFIC SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................................... 14

WEATHER SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................................ 15

INFORMATION FOR BERLIN BRANDENBURG INTERNATIONAL ............................................................................ 16

RADIO COMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES ....................................................................................................... 16

RUNWAYS ....................................................................................................................................................... 16

NAVIGATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 16

VOR + DME ...................................................................................................................................................... 16

ILS .................................................................................................................................................................... 17

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT NAVAIDS AND TEMPELHOF AIRPORT ........................................................ 17

GATES AND STANDS ............................................................................................................................................. 18

NON AVAILABLE GATES/STANDS USING ATC .................................................................................................. 18

NOMENCLATURE ............................................................................................................................................. 18

STOP POSITIONS AND AIRCRAFT TYPES .......................................................................................................... 18

ABOUT PREPAR3D ................................................................................................................................................ 21

F.A.Q. .................................................................................................................................................................... 22

APPENDIX A : MAP BER/SXF AREAS ...................................................................................................................... 24

APPENDIX B: CHARTS ............................................................................................................................................ 25

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INT R O D UCTION

Say what you want but Berlin Brandenburg International airport's conception was not without problems.
Scheduled to open in 2010 it now looks like 2016 might be possible if there are no new problems. The delays,
which weigh heavily on the proverbial German reliability, had many causes, not all of them under control of

the management. It’s located next to Schönefeld airport and when completed will replace Schönefeld

and Berlin Tegel Airport as the main airport for Berlin.

This special scenery project shows the current situation of the airport (as in early 2014) but using the
management tool you can open the new airport and see the bright future this airport most certainly has (set
by default).

The fact the airport is not open right now made the development a bit easier. Sascha Normann had the great
fortune not only to have a complete tour of the airport to make photos but also a few aerial tours with
maneuvers permitted by the tower that would never be possible over an operational airport this size!

It all adds up to an airport that is not like most others. It is absolutely state-of-the-art, using all the new
technology available. The combined efforts of LimeSim and 29Palms, both highly respected development
teams are behind this project. It’s some of the finest work Aerosoft has published and we are happy to
introduce you to Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt International Airport.

COPYR I G HTS

The manual, documentation, video images, software, and all the related materials are copyrighted and cannot
be copied, photocopied, translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine legible form, neither
completely nor in part, without the previous written consent of AEROSOFT. THE SOFTWARE IS FURNISHED «AS
IS» AND IT DOES NOT COME FURNISHED WITH ANY GUARANTEE IMPLICIT OR EXPRESS. THE AUTHOR DECLINES
EVERY RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTINGENT MALFUNCTIONS, DECELERATION, AND ANY DRAWBACK THAT
SHOULD ARISE, USING THIS SOFTWARE.

Copyright © 2014 AEROSOFT/ LimeSim / 29Palms. All rights reserved. Microsoft Windows, and Flight Simulator
are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other Countries.
All trademarks and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners. Copyrights
are serious stuff. If you find any pirated copies of this software please notify us at [e-mail]. We
will make sure reports of copyrights violation are rewarded.

Aerosoft GmbH
Lindberghring 12
D-33142 Büren
Germany
www.aerosoft.com

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CRED I T S

Concept: LimeSim
Modelling of BER Terminal area: LimeSim
Modelling of bridges/VFR objects: LimeSim
Modelling of SXF airport area: 29Palms
Modeling of all other structures: 29Palms
Modelling of ground layout: LimeSim
Rwy/Twy/Approach-Lights: Oliver Pabst / LimeSim
AESLite Train, road and apron traffic: Oliver Pabst
Mesh terrain: LimeSim
Autogen placement: LimeSim
AFCAD: LimeSim
Management Tool: 29Palms
Aerial imagery source: © Astec GmbH
Aerial imagery editing: LimeSim / 29Palms
Static ground vehicles and people: 29Palms, Aerosoft and associated developers
Project Management: LimeSim, Mathijs Kok (Aerosoft)
Manual, documentation: LimeSim, Mathijs Kok (Aerosoft)
Installer: Andreas Mügge
Testing: Several good folks who will all be getting a copy

Thanks to:

 Pilots of the Aerolight Flugschule in Strausberg for an excellent job flying us over a busy airport in

ultralights with open windows while explaining our wishes to the tower and doing the right turns
when needed.

 Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS). Their tower controllers in BER for permitting us to do unusual

maneuvers to get the right shots. And their office guys for giving is the input needed to make this
airport as realistic as possible.

 Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH for their “VIP” airport tour and supplying further information

needed.

 FS legend Mike Strasser (FS Magazin) for providing valuable input and feedback in creating AFCAD

files.

 And last but not least: The fantastic guys from VATSIM Germany for supplying us with charts for BER

that actually don't exist yet!

SYS T E M REQUIREMENTS

 3.0 GHz CPU (Intel Core2 Duo advised)
 4 GB RAM
 Direct X 9 compatible Graphics Card with minimal 1 Gb memory
 Microsoft FSX (with SP2 or Acceleration), Prepar3D 1.4 or Prepared 2.2
 Windows XP, Windows VISTA, Windows 7, Windows 8 (fully updated), 64 bit version highly

recommended

 Adobe Acrobat® Reader 8 minimal to read and print the manual (1)

(1)

Available for free, download at: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

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CONT ACT SUPPORT

Support for this product is done by Aerosoft. We prefer to do support on the support forum for one simple
reason, it is fast and efficient because customers help customers when we are sleeping.

Aerosoft forums: http://www.forum.aerosoft.com/

We feel strongly about support. Buying one of our products gives you the right to waste out time with
questions you feel might be silly. They are not.

INS T ALLATION AND REMOVAL

Installation is simple. Unzip the file that you downloaded and start the exe file you downloaded and follow the
instructions on your screen. Make sure FSX is closed and we do advise you to reboot your system before
installing. Make sure you are logged on as Administrator on the machine! After installing it can help to
defragment your hard disk. Do note that the files are personalized on installation. When you share them with
others you also share personal details.

After installation has finished the Aerosoft Launcher will can be installed. This is fully optional but will assist
you in managing and updating Aerosoft products.

Removal should never be done manually but only using the software removal applet you will find the Windows
Control panel.

FIN D I N G THE AIRPORT IN FSX

You will find the airport using either the city name (Berlin) or the airport ID (EDDB).

VFR G ERMANY COMPATIBILITY

When installing, “Mega Airport BER” will look for an installed version of “VFR Germany – East” and will install
the respective files to make both add-ons compatible.

In case you install “VFR Germany- East” after you installed “Mega Airport BER”, you will need to make sure a
few files are swapped. This can be done easily by using the “VFR Germany Compatibility” tool provided in the
Windows Start Menu (Aerosoft | Mega Airport BER ).

Please note you should not use the season switch in the Manager Tool to switch to winter when using “VFR
Germany – East”. The “VFR Germany” products do not contain any winter textures, which would make BER a
while “island” within the VFR Germany landscape.

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MANA GER TOOL

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There are many elements of this scenery that you can toggle on or off. You can find the Manager Tool in the
Windows Start Menu (Aerosoft | Mega Airport BER) or you can start it via the Aerosoft Launcher.

 BER active: This setting enables you to activate the BER areas of the airport and the respective

navaids (ILS) which have not been put in service yet (April 2014). This is the scenery's default setting.
If you deactivate this option, all structures within the BER area will visually show as they currently are
and only the SXF part will be used for aviation. There will be a fence across the main BER apron and
only BER's north pier parking positions will be available. In addition those around the actual SXF
terminal of course. See Appendix 1 to get a better idea of the areas covered.

 Texture Max Load: FSX only! Not needed for Prepar3D, see settings chapter!) Mega Airport BER uses

textures at a higher (HD) resolution textures than you can load them in FSX by default. Therefore we
highly suggest that you set Texture Map Load to 2048 to have the best visual experience. Higher
settings like 4096 won't make any difference for Mega Airport BER.

 Ground Lighting: Set to “Half” by default. Ground lighting has a major impact on FPS even on high end

systems. Which is the reason why you should not use the “Full” setting unless you really want to.
“Full” will show each taxi light at its real world position and there are plenty of those...

 3D Grass: Although it looks really good, 3D grass will take up a lot of FPS so it is best left off on

systems that are not very powerful.

 Season Switch: Please use this switch to activate winter textures when flying during the months of

December, January and February so they merge perfectly with the surrounding snow landscape (not
recommended for VFR Germany users since there are no winter textures in that product).

IMPORTANT! Once you make any changes to the settings in FSX, FSX will reset your TML settings made in
the Manager Tool to 1024 or lower! Therefore it is highly recommended to shut down FSX after you made
your setting changes, open the Manager Tool, set TML back to 2048 and restart FSX. This will ensure that
both your new settings made and TML=2048 will be used by FSX.

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 AES Lite: (FSX only! See chapter “About Prepar3D”) Will let you toggle on/off traffic around the

aprons, roads as well as trains on the extensive network around the airport. Note: The DX10 option is
only intended for daytime use and will make all vehicles compatible to the DX10 Preview mode
available in your FSX. They won't however show properly at night.

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FSX D I S P L AY SETTINGS

In order to change your scenery settings, go to Settings -> Display. All settings that are important to see this
scenery correctly are marked in red. All other settings are to your own liking.

IMPORTANT! Once you make any changes to the settings in FSX, FSX will reset your TML settings made in the
Manager Tool to 1024 or lower! Therefore it is highly recommended to shut down FSX after you made your
setting changes, open the Manager Tool, set TML back to 2048 and restart FSX. This will ensure that both your
new settings made and TML=2048 will be used by FSX.

GRAPH ICS MENU

 We advise to keep Target frame rate set to Unlimited when your hardware is not very fast. If you see

your frame rate wildly fluctuating and over 50 fps we advise you to limit the frame rates to 40. This
will allow FSX to calculate a few things in advance.

 Global texture resolution has to be to Very high.

See the advice at the beginning of this chapter. This is the TML setting. The slider can't go beyond

“very high” (1024 pix) while the Manager Tool provided can (2048 pix recommended)

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SCE N E RY SETTINGS

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 Level of detail radius should be set to Large to have nice crisp ground textures outside the areas

covered by concrete and asphalt.

 Mesh is important for this scenery. Set Mesh Complexity to 100 and Mesh resolution to 1 meter.
 Texture resolution should be at least 15 cm or less to get the best resolution of the textures.
 Special effects details should be on High to see all the special animations.
 Scenery complexity can be set to Normal. All the airport's structures will be shown at that setting.
 For best results we recommend to set Autogen Density to Extremely dense to show every single

house around the airport. If you do airliner flights (meaning no VFR flying around the airport) we
recommend to bring it down a bit, e.g. Normal.
IMPORTANT: If you encounter “Out of Memory” (OOM) crashes, we recommend to move this slider a
bit further to the left since autogen uses a lot of memory!

 Also, do make sure that ground scenery shadows box is Off, since all 3D objects have built-in shadows

for better performance

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TR AF FI C SE TTIN GS

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 Traffic settings as shown are advised. This will make the project look best and will avoid

problems.

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AIRCRAFT AND WEATHER SETTINGS

Aircraft and weather settings are not very important for a scenery but for completion we added the settings
our testers found to be most suitable.

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PREPAR 3 D V 2 .2 DISPLAY SETTINGS

In order to change your scenery settings, go to Options → Settings → Display. All settings that are important to
see this scenery correctly are marked in red. All other settings are to your own liking.

GRAPH ICS ME NU

 We advise to keep Target frame rate set to 40. This will allow P3D to calculate a few things in

advance and will avoid wildly fluctuating fps.

 Global texture resolution has to be High

This is the same as the TML setting in the Manager Tool and for P3D does not need to be altered
in the Manager Tool individually.

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SCE N E RY SE TTINGS

 Level of detail radius should be set to Large to have nice crisp ground textures outside the areas

covered by concrete and asphalt.

 Mesh is important for this scenery. Set Tessellation factor to Ultra and Mesh resolution to 1

meter.

 Texture resolution should be at least 15 cm or less to get the best resolution of the textures.
 Special effects details should be on High to see all the special animations.
 Scenery complexity can be set to Normal. All the airport's structures will be shown at that

setting.

 For best results we recommend to set Autogen Density for both vegetation and buildings to

Extremely dense to show every single house around the airport. If you do airliner flights
(meaning no VFR flying around the airport) we recommend to bring it down a bit, e.g. Normal.

IMPORTANT: If you encounter “Out of Memory” (OOM) crashes, we recommend to move this

slider a bit further to the left since autogen uses a lot of memory!

Aerosoft Mega Airport Berlin Brandenburg 1.10

 Also, do make sure that ground scenery shadows box is Off, since all 3D objects have built-in shadows

for better performance

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LIGHTING SETTINGS

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 HDR Lighting should be switched off since this causes the scenery to be unrealistically dark and pitch

black at night.

 Scenery shadows for scenery objects can be turned off since this scenery comes with shadows

rendered into the textures to allow a better performance.

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TRAFFIC SETTINGS

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Traffic settings as shown are advised. This will make the project look best and will avoid problems.

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WEATHER SETTINGS

Weather settings are not very important for a scenery but for completion we added the settings our testers
found to be most suitable.

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INF O R M ATION FOR BERLIN BRA ND ENBURG INTERNATIO N A L

 Airport: Berlin Brandenburg International “Willy Brandt” (before opening: Berlin-Schönefeld)
 Country: Germany
 City: Berlin
 ICAO ID: EDDB
 IATA ID: BER (before opening SXF)
 Time: UTC+1(+2DT)
 Location: 52°21'43"N (52.362137) 13°30'00"E (13.500070)
 Elevation: 148 feet (45 meters)
 Type: Civil
 Magnetic Variation: 003° E

RAD IO CO MM UN I CATION FRE Q UE N CIE S

 Tower 120.025 / 119.575
 ATIS 123.775
 Ground 129.5

RUN WAYS

 Runway 07R: 4000 x 60 meters (13123’ x 197’ feet) Concrete

o Lights: W VRB LIH/LIL PAPI-L (3.00°)

 Runway 07L: 3000 x 45 meters (9843’ x 148’) Asphalt , displaced threshold

o Lights: W VRB LIH/LIL PAPI-L (3.00°)

NA V IG ATION

VOR + DME

ID: BER
Name: BERLIN BRANDENBURG
Frequency: 114.100
Range: 80NM
Location: 52°20'31"N (52.342014089) 13°27'15"E (13.454047143)

ID: SSD
Name: SCHONEFELD
Frequency: 114.400
Range: 195.05NM
Location: 52°22'28"N (52.374525145) 13°30'13"E (13.503672034)

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Runway: 07R
ID: IBSE
Frequency: 109.7
Range: 25NM
Glideslope: 3°

Runway: 25L
ID: IBSW
Frequency: 109.5
Range: 25NM
Glideslope: 3°

Runway: 25R
ID: IBNW
Frequency: 109.9
Range: 25NM
Glideslope: 3°

Runway: 07L
ID: IBNE
Frequency: 110.7
Range: 25NM
Glideslope: 3°

ILS

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT NAVAIDS AND TE MPELH O F A I R P O R T

The Berlin Airspace has changed a lot since the initial release of MS Flight Simulator X. Therefore some changes
to the navaids available were necessary. Although a developer should never make changes to another airport
than the one he is working on we needed to make some changes to Tempelhof airport. That is that old historic
airport north of BER (within city limits) that has sadly been closed a few years ago despite its long history
(famous for the Berlin Air Bridge).

Unfortunately the new BER south runway and BER VOR will use the same frequencies as they were in use by
Tempelhof and still are in FSX. Therefore we went ahead and removed those ILS and VOR navaids from

Tempelhof. And while we were at it we closed its runway for traffic and marked them with an “X” to keep

things as realistic as possible.

Btw: “Removing” is not the right term here to be precise. FSX does not allow us to remove existing navaids.
Therefore we had to “orphanize” them. Which means we moved them away from Tempelhof and set them to

a test frequency of 108.0 (ILS) and 110.0 (VOR). Unless you use that test frequency, you won't see those old ILS
navaids anymore but they are still visible in the FSX Map window a few miles north (they don't serve a purpose
there).

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B16

C05A

D17

26

B09A

C07A

D18

23

B11A

C09A

D19

20

B13A

C11A

D20

52

B08

C14

D02

56

B05A

D03

58

B03A

D04

B01A

D05B

D05

D06

D07 D08

D21

D20

D13A

D13B

D14

D15

D16

D09 D10

D11

GAT E S AND STANDS

NON AVAILABLE GATES/STANDS U S I N G A T C

To avoid conflicts between AI aircraft and your aircraft we were not able to add all gates and stands that
overlap with others to the AFCAD file. Although they are all visually there, FSX's ATC will never guide you to the
following gates and stands (which also means you won't be able to select them as start location in the airport
menu):

NOMENCLATURE

To match FSX's nomenclature all gates and stands with a letter extension were renamed as in the following
sample (again: This only affects the ATC and airport menu. Visually their letters and numbers painted on the
ground will show as in real world):

B15A → B151
B15B → B152

STOP POSITION S AN D AIRCRAFT TYPES

The following list of nose wheel stop locations at the gates may help you to find the right gate for your aircraft
type. This will be of particular interest for pilots participating on online sessions when all gates can be used
without interfering AI traffic.

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Please note this list only contains gates and stands within the BER aprons, not for the SXF apron. The visual
placement of the stop positions at SXF is based on an internal list provided by the airport, which we are not
allowed to share with others. While the BER locations are based on our own aerial shots taken in autumn

2013. Interestingly those locations have changed 2-3 times in the past years even though the airport wasn't
open yet!

A01-A12:
STOP 1: MD80/90
STOP 2: A321,B717,MD87,CRJ700/900,B734,B738,B739
STOP 3: A320,B733,B737,ERJ170-195,F100
STOP 4: A318,A319,B736,B735,RJ70-100

B01-B07, B09-B15:
STOP 1: A320,A321,F100,B733-B739,ERJ170-195
STOP 2: A318,A319,RJ70/85/100,MD80/90

B01A:
STOP 1: A346,A351,B764,B748,B733
STOP 2: B744,B789,A359
STOP 3: A333,A358,A342-A345,B757,B763,B772,B783,B788
STOP 4: A332,B762
STOP 5: A300,A310

B05A,B07A,B11A,B13A,B15A:
STOP 1: A346,B748,B773,A351,B764
STOP 2: B744,B789,A359
STOP 3: A333,A358,A342-A345,B757,B763,B772,B783,B788
STOP 4: A332,B762
STOP 5: A300,A310

B07B, B15B, D05B, D13B:
STOP 1: A380

B08,D12:
STOP 1: B763,B783
STOP 2: A300,B762
STOP 3: A310,B757
STOP 4: A321,B734,B738,B739
STOP 5: A320,F100,RJ70/85/100,MD80/90,ERJ170-195,B733,B737
STOP 6: A318,A319,B735,B736

B09A:
STOP 1: A346,B748,B773,A351,B764,A380
STOP 2: B744,B789,A359
STOP 3: A333,A358,A342-A345,B757,B763,B772,B783,B788
STOP 4: A332,B762
STOP 5: A300,A310

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B16:
STOP 1: A321,A320,B733,B734,B737-B739,MD80/90,F100
STOP 2: RJ85,RJ100,B735,B736,ERJ170-195
STOP 3: A318,A319,RJ70

C01-C02:
STOP 1: MD80/90
STOP 2: A321,B717,B734,B738,B739,MD87,CRJ700/900
STOP 3: A320,B733,B737,ERJ170-195,F100
STOP 4: A318,A319,B735,B736,RJ70-100

C03:
STOP 1: A345
STOP 2: B744
STOP 3: B764,B772,B789
STOP 4: A333,A343,A358,B763,B783,B788
STOP 5: A332,A342,B762
STOP 6: A300,A310,B753
STOP 7: B752,MD80/90
STOP 8: B321,B717,MD87
STOP 9: A320,B733-B739,F100,RJ70/85/100,CRJ700-1000,ERJ145,ERJ170-195
STOP 10: A318,A319

C04,C12,C13:
STOP 1: B753,B763
STOP 2: A300,B762
STOP 3: A310,B752,MD80/90
STOP 4: A320,A321,F100,B733-B739,B717,MD87,ERJ170-195
STOP 5: A318,A319,RJ70/85/100,CRJ700-1000,ERJ145

C05A,C07A,C09A,C11A,C14A:
STOP 1: A345
STOP 2: B744,B764,A359
STOP 3: B763,B772,B789
STOP 4: A332/333,A342/343,A358,B753,B783,B788
STOP 5: - not used ­STOP 6: A300,A310,B752,B762

C05-C11,C14:
STOP 1: A320,A321,B733-B739,MD80/90
STOP 2: ERJ170-195
STOP 3: A318,A319,RJ70/85/100,CRJ700/900,ERJ145

C15:
STOP 1: - not used ­STOP 2: B753,B763,B783
STOP 3: A300,B752,B762
STOP 4: A310,A321,B717,B734,B738,B739,MD80-90
STOP 5: A320,B733,B735-737,ERJ145,ERJ170-195,F100,CRJ700-1000
STOP 6: A318,A319,RJ70-100

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D01,D03A,D05A,D07A,D09A,D11A,D13A,D15A,D17A,D19A,D21A:
STOP 1: A346,B748,B773,A351,B764
STOP 2: B744,B789,A359
STOP 3: A333,A358,A342-A345,B757,B763,B772,B783,B788
STOP 4: A332,B762
STOP 5: A300,A310

D02-D11,D13-D21:
STOP 1: A320,A321,F100,B733-B739,ERJ170-195
STOP 2: A318,A319,RJ70/85/100,MD80/90

E01-E16:
STOP 1: MD80
STOP 2: A318-A321,B737
STOP 3: OTHERS

E17-E19:
STOP 1: MD80,MD90-10
STOP 2: A318-A321,B737
STOP 3: OTHERS

ABO U T P REPAR3D

Unless otherwise mentioned all information regarding FSX (MS Flight Simulator X) in this manual do apply to
Prepar3D as well. Please be aware of the following limitations concerning Prepar3D:

 Prepar3D does not support AESLite, meaning you won't see any ground traffic at and around the

airport as you see it in FSX.

 Ground night lightning in Prepar3D 2.2 is slightly different to the FSX version since it uses different

lightning techniques compared to Prepar3D 1.4 and FSX. We did our best to match color tones to the
FSX version.

 Prepar3D 2.2: Transparent windows around the BER terminal are not always shown in the right order.

Same applies here: We did our best to solve this issue and make sure it's barely visible (if at all).

 Prapar3D 2.2 won't load some foglight effects around apron lightpoles when you save a flight at BER

and load same flight. However all effects appear as they should when you fly in from another airport
or load the airport through the airport menu, which is usually done. Bug has been reported to the
Prepar3D 2.2 developer team.

 On some systems Prepar3D displays runway- and taxilights unusually large when HDR lightning is

turned off. This a general problem with all those lights in Prepar3D and not limited to BER. We
informed the developers of Prepar3D (currently V2.2) and hope this will be solved soon.

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Aerosoft Mega Airport Berlin Brandenburg 1.10

F.A .Q .

Q: When selecting EDDB in FSX's airport menu and clicking OK it shows “Berlin Brandenburg Helipad” instead!
A: This depends on your start location which can vary by winds and your own selection. Once this is closer to

the helipad than the airport's center, FSX will show the helipad as your selected choice. However this will not
have any influence on your actual start location. You will still start your flight at the location you selected –
don't worry!

Q: Is this add-on DX10 compatible (FSX only)?
A: Yes, with some exceptions. After switching to the DX10 Preview mode in FSX you need to activate the DX10

mode for ground traffic in the Manager Tool provided. This will ensure that all animated ground traffic will
show correctly during daylight but they still won't show right during the night.
DX10 manages VAS memory in FSX much better than DX9, which will enable you to fly in and out of the airport

using rather high settings without any “out of memory crashes”. This again comes with a cost: Lower

resolutions of the textures show earlier than in DX9, which for example makes the 3D grass looking less crisp.
Also keep in mind that switching to the DX10 preview mode (as well as all other setting changes made within
FSX) will reset your TML settings made in the Manager Tool. If you like high resolution textures, make sure to
set it back to 2048 in the Manager Tool after you closed FSX. After that go ahead and restart FSX.

Q: Is this add-on compatible with other add-ons in the area?
A: Our beta testers have tested the add-on with FTX Global, UTX Europe and other add-ons and didn't report

any problems. For VFR Germany please read the respective chapter in this manual. For “Night Environment
Germany” we suggest you set it to a lower priority in your scenery library than BER. So that Night Environment

won't illuminate roads around the airport that are actually dark at night.

Q: There seem to be issues with the airport lighting at day/night transitions. Is this normal?
A: No but it isn't curable. FSX sometimes has its own ways of switching day/night textures. If you face any

texture or scenery problems, open the scenery library and click OK (or use the "refresh scenery" shortcut) to
reload scenery and textures or restart FSX entirely (recommended).

Q: Why is Berlin Tegel (TXL / EDDT) still active after I activated BER? Shouldn't it be closed then and all AI traffic
rerouted to BER?
A: While compiling this manual it hasn't been decided yet if and when TXL will be closed. Furthermore scenery
add-ons cannot influence the routes that AI traffic flies in FSX.

Q: I know that Berlin Tempelhof airport (THF / EDDI) has been closed, but why did you have to close it in FSX
too? I'd like to keep it open!
A: For BER to work properly we had to close THF airport since BER's south runway shares the same ILS
frequencies that THF had back in its old days. You can reactivate THF by removing the file AF2_EDDI.bgl from
the folder FSX\Aerosoft\AFD\Scenery\. But this will be at your own risk since this has not been tested and it
will cause the BER south runway's frequencies will not work anymore!

Q: Why is AI traffic at some locations stopping a few meters before the actual hold short line?
A: Because of a FSX limitation that allows hold short nodes only to work within a certain distance from the

runway.

Q: When using the docking guidance systems at the gates the STOP position they guide me to doesn't
correspond with that shown on the ground!
A: Another FSX limitation. This is because a scenery can't know what aircraft type you are flying and therefore
doesn't know the perfect stop position for the aircraft you're using (which is the same even if you use AES

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