Zrich Freeware by Richard Mohler (c) 2002
Version Beta V3.5
FULL VERSION, incl. Update


GENERAL

This scenery is made especially for online flying within IVAO and shall not be used in any kind of commercial activity. The goal of this scenery is not, to have the best possible representation of Zrich, as this would by far be to complex for me and is beyond my experience level. Others are invited to try if they like! The reason for this scenery is, that with the default scenery by Microsoft no reasonable parking and ground movement is possible. There are some commercial products available, but their use is limited, therefore making Zrich unatractive within IVAO. We want to change that! Certainly this cenery is also welcome for the use in any other online networt like Vatsim or others.

With this present scenery it is possible to move around the airport in a realistic layout of the taxiways and runways. The limitations within the scenery are by now the buildings. They are representative and good enough to recognize Zrich, but they are centainly not good enough for commercial use. Most important though was, that an aircraft landing in Zrich is able to find it's Gate, or an aircraft taking off from Zrich has some reasonable taxiways. For reason of simplicity, not all gates are shown, this due to the fact that most FS airplanes are slightly too big. There are no double Gates, therefore simplyfing the task of the ground controller.

Some people might miss the ILS for Runway 32.... Well, if you do you just outed yourself as absolutely outdated. This ILS (although part of the standard Microsoft scenery) was only used during the summer season of 2000 during the repairs on Runway 28. Although the installations are still present, the ILS itself has been turned off.


CHARTS
Charts are available, but in order to limite the size of the file, I decided not to add them to this download. They are still in the old download, which you hopefully have...


INSTALLATION
Copy the contained files into your Scenery or ADD SCENERY folder. Run Flight Simulator and add the scenery to the database.
Have fun!


AFCAD
An AFCAD file is provided, named Zrich Freeware.txt .


CHANGES
Bothe terminals A and B have a new layout (tahnks to Louis Sinclair's FSDS) and are more representative now. Night lighting textures have been added, also on parts of the tarmac area. I decided not to integrate more taxilines, as this might be confusing for the user. Also the forests, bushes and treelines have recieved an upgrade.

I have tested the scenery with both the standard mesh and the Swiss Mesh by LAGO. It should not present any problems with other meshed, but you might find some strange looking cliffs around the airport, depending on the mesh quality. Some Beta Testers reported poblems with some of the grass textures. Apparently this has to do with the setup of their graphics card. We did not find a solution for their problem yet, but a dimminuation of the accuracy of the scenery might help.

The changes should have no effect on the framerate compared to the old scenery. Nevertheless, I recommend you to not use much more than 20FPS anyway, since your eye won't notice the difference...


SUPPORT
Support is simple! There is NONE! I don't have the time to give any support, so why bother. As said, it is a freeware in the purest sense of the word.


Richard Mohler


PS: some words about copyrights and so....
The scenery is made with Airport for Windows 2.60, most of the objects are made with Easy Object Designer (EOD). SOme objects are made with Louis SInclair's FSDS. Thanks to the teams and persons who made these programmes. The Safegate System found at all Fingerdocks is a freeware macro for which I thank it's designers (it was made for NL2000).

And some words about liability:
I decline any! You install and run this scenery at your own risk. So back up anything you might have to overwrite BEFORE!

And: Distribution of this scenery is fully limited. You are NOT allowed to upload it anywhere without my prior consent, and since you don't have my e-mail address, this means: don't even try!!!!!