Madrid-Barajas International Airport Scenery for Flight Simulator 2002
by: David Jiménez Lynch and Jose M. Barruezo Aguirre
Part of FSmadridfreeware´s collection: "Scenery Madrid Airports"
This is FSmadrid´s most ambicious project up to the moment. "Barajas 2002" is the best Madrid-Barajas International Airport scenery ever made for Flight Simulator. A high detailed and high quality scenery that reflects with total reality what the Airport looks like today.
Index:
1. The Airport
2. The Scenery
3. Future versions
4. Installation
5. Photos
6. Contact us
7. Legal and Copyright notes
1. The Airport
Madrid-Barajas is Europe´s fith largest aiport at the moment, with more than 34 million passengers in 2001, after Heathrow, Frankfurt, Charles de Gaulle and Schipol. Barajas was the only one of them that experiemented an increase in it´s traffic (a 3.5%) in 2001. Over 477,000 aircraft and 193,241 Tons of cargo passed through the airport that same year.
It´s situated just 13km NE of the city centre, in the District of Barajas, connected to it by special bus lines and Metro´s line 10. You can now check your baggage in at Metro´s Nuevos Ministerios Station, in the heart of Madrid´s main financial district, and be at the airport in just 10 minutes by subway. By road: off of highway N-II or A-10. Strategically located near the airport are Madrid´s main fairground and convention complex: IFEMA at el Campo de las Naciones and the city´s future Olympic ring.
Madrid-Barajas Airport counts with three terminals: T1 for international flights, T2 for the ones to EU´s Schengen countries and domestic flights and T3 for Iberia´s "Air Shuttle" between Madrid and Barcelona and regional flights.
North of the terminals is the the world´s largest airport related construction site and Europe´s largest civil infrastructure building project. It´s the NTA (New Terminal Area) which will be the future Terminal 4. A modern modular built building with 38 fingers and 174 facturation desks. Over 35 million passengers will be able to pass through the terminal alone. A satellite building is also part of the NTA, located on the other side of runway 18R-36L it will have 26 fingers and an underground shuttle train will connect it to the main terminal building. When the new T4 comes into service, in 2004, Barajas will handle 70 million passengers. The two new runways that will also be built will allow 120 aircraft movements per hour. Surely by then the airport will climb positions in Europe´s airport ranking list.
more info at: http://www.fsmadrid.com/nta.htm
On the farthest East end is Iberia´s main maintenance centre called "La Muñoza", with one of the largest hangars in the world. On the South end of the airport is the cargo area: Madrid Air Cargo Centre, with terminals for the top logistic carriers and Iberia Cargo´s terminal.
2. The scenery:
It´s taken over 6 months to develop this scenery, both Jose Manuel and I wanted to make a scenery that Madrid-Barajas deserves. Up to the moment no one has made one of this airport this detailed and so close to reality.
We worked with the ground characteristics that Jose Manuel´s "Lemd2k" scenery already had and added some improvements to them. The night textures and the control tower are job of Jose Manuel while I worked on textures, terminals, buildings and the ground-side as well as the static scenery.
The tools I used are Airport 2.06 build (116 upgrade) and EOD (Easy Object Designer). Both are excellent programs and not too hard to use. I also used dptxv11 which is great for searching your FS textures and BMP2000.
I´d like to thank the following people for their contribution to this scenery: Nacho Tremiño and Joaquin for the airport´s AFCAD files, Angel Alba for the excellent hangars of La Muñoza, Demetrio Hernández for his advice and help due to his great knowledge of the airport and especially thank you to Jose Manuel Barruezo for sharing his work, all of his help and his patience.
3. Future Versions:
The following versions of Barajas 2002 will contain these improvements:
-New ground textures for the ramp and taxiways
-Modified static scenery
-New objects and higher detail
-Moving objects, like clocks and elevators
-Update on the situation of the construction of the NTA
-Sign up at FSmadridfreeware´s e-mail service to know when the new versions come out-
4. Installation:
a) Unzip Barajas2002.zip
b) Place the file "Barajas 2002" in the FS "Scenery" folder
c) Go into FS and include the new Barajas 2002 folder in the scenery library
d)For the AFCAD file there are two options:
1. If you want static aircraft: simply open AFCAD v1.2.2 (or higher), click on "import airport" and select the file LEMD1.txt that comes with Barajas2002.zip, once open click on "save" and then "yes" to overwrite it. 2. If you don´t want any static aircraft: first you have to remove from the "Scenery" folder in the "Barajas 2002" folder the files Estat1.bgl and Estat2.bgl and then open AFCAD v1.2.2 (or higher), click on "import airport" and select the file LEMD.txt that comes with Barajas2002.zip, once open click on "save" and then "yes" to overwrite it. -Required Textures. Collections: "Airport" textures and "VOD" textures. Available at www.flightsim.com and other FS generic websites.
-The scenery complexity changes if set on "very sparse" (terminals and other significant buildings), "normal" (the full scenery but not as many static planes) and "dense" or "very dense" (full scenery)
5. Photos:
Top left: T2 in front and T3 in the back. Top right: Construction site of the future T4 Bottom left: Night view of Madrid Air Cargo Centre. Bottom right: Iberia A-340 at T1
6. Contact us:
David Jiménez: fs_madrid@hotmail.com
Jose M. Barruezo: jbarruezo@terra.es
7. Legal and Copyright notes:
Copyright and Distribution:
This file is released as Freeware.
As freeware you are permitted to distribute this archive subject to the following conditions:
- The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents of the archive.
- Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed or modified is prohibited.
- The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another archive without the prior permission of the author is
prohibited. Neither is the modification of any file from this archive permited and used in a different one.
- No money may be made from the distribution of this file.
The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected.
Copyright 2002 by David Jiménez Lynch and Jose Manuel Barruezo.
All Rights Reserved.
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