Aerosoft Maastricht-Aachen X Instruction Manual
Aerosoft
Maastricht
-Aachen X
Aerosoft Maastricht-Aachen X 1.01 Manual
CO N TEN TS
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 2
COPYRIGHTS ......................................................................................................................................................... 2
CREDITS ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ...................................................................................................................................... 3
CONTACT SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 3
INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL ............................................................................................................................. 3
FINDING THE AIRPORT ......................................................................................................................................... 4
CHARTS ................................................................................................................................................................. 4
DISPLAY SETTINGS ................................................................................................................................................ 4
GRAPHICS MENU .................................................................................................................................................. 4
SCENERY SETTINGS ............................................................................................................................................... 5
TRAFFIC ................................................................................................................................................................ 6
AIRCRAFT AND WEATHER SETTINGS .................................................................................................................... 7
INFORMATION FOR MAASTRICHT - AACHEN AIRPORT ......................................................................................... 8
RADIO COMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES ............................................................................................................. 8
RUNWAYS ............................................................................................................................................................. 8
F.A.QS. .................................................................................................................................................................. 9
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IN TRODUCTION
Maastricht Aachen airport has its roots in the Second World War when the US Engineer Corps created
Advanced Landing Ground Y-44 as a front line airport for fighter bombers and recce aircraft. Directly after the
war is was still busy as the road network of the Netherlands was severely damaged. But when car travel
became easier it was decided to keep the airport open and to turn it into a regional airport. It was steadily
upgraded and EUROCONTROL decided to us the airport as its base. It’s now doing very well with growing
passenger and freight amounts.
The moment the low cost airlines started to operate the airport got a huge boost. Located close to the Belgium
and German border and close to many major cities it attracted companies like RyanAir and GermanWings. To
increase the multinational idea the airport was renamed from “Vliegveld Beek” to Maastricht-Aachen Airport.
With good success as more than half the passengers are now German.
CO P YRIGHTS
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 © 2012 AEROSOFT/ Andras Kozma. 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 support@aerosoft.com. 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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CREDITS
Concept: Aerosoft
Programming/ modeling: Andras Kozma
Project Management: Mathijs Kok (Aerosoft)
Manual, documentation: Mathijs Kok (Aerosoft)
Installer: Andreas Mügge
Testing: Several good folks who will all be getting a copy
Special thanks to Mark Honing for the detailed photo shoot of the airport!
SYS TEM REQUIR EM E N TS
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU (Core 2 Quad advised)
2 GB RAM
Direct X 9 compatible Graphics Card with minimal 512 MB
Microsoft FSX (with SP2 or Acceleration), Lockheed Martin Prepar3D
Windows XP, Windows VISTA, Windows 7 (fully updated)
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
CO N TACT SUPPO R T
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.
IN ST A LLATION AND R EM OVAL
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 (or FS2004) 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 (but do not do so if you have installed it on a SSD). 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 start and it will be installed (or updated). See
Appendix A for a detailed explanation.
Removal should never be done manually but only using the software removal applet you will find the Windows
Control panel.
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FINDING THE A IR P O RT
You will find the airport using either the airport name (Maastricht Aachen), the city name (Maastricht) or the
airport ID (EHBK).
CH ARTS
We have added the most current charts for this airport to this manual as Appendix B. Please note you can
always find them at http://www.ais-netherlands.nl/aim/111201-120112/eAIP/html/index-en-GB.html. Of
course the charts in this manual should never be used for real aviation!
DISPLAY SETT I N G S
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 and need to be shown. All other settings are to your own liking.
GRAPHICS M EN U
We advise to keep Target frame rate set to Unlimited when your hardware is not very fast. If you see
your framerate wildly fluctuating and over 50 fps we advise you to limit the framerates to 40. This will
allow FSX to calculate a few things in advance.
Global texture resolution has to be to Very high.
As this project is easy on FPS you most likely will be able to activate Lens flare that adds some nice
sun effects.
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SCENERY SE TT I N GS
Mesh is important for this scenery. Set Mesh Complexity to 100 and Mesh resolution to 5 meter.
Settings below 5 meters will cause problems.
Texture resolution should be at 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.
For best results we recommend to set Autogen Density to Normal.
Water effects are best set very low because there is no pure blue tropical water around.
Also, do make sure that ground scenery shadows box is left ticked, since all 3D objects have built-in
shadows for better performance
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TR AF F IC
Traffic settings as shown are advised. This will make the project look best and will avoid problems.
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AIRCRAFT A N D W E AT HER 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. Note that 3d clouds can have a profound effect on frame rate.
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