Berlin Beta!

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi all,

Mike Stevens has been working hard on his scenery for East Germany, but he's also been working on Berlin. With this new version of Tempelhof along with an update for Tegel and an edited AFCAD file for Manfred Jahn's very nice Gatow scenery, we now have all the major Berlin airports backdated! The Tempelhof scenery is a collaboration with Juergen Seidel, who did the original terminal and textures (completely reworked by Mike).

Here is an overview of Mike's Tempelhof airport:

A very impressive edifice! The cargo/charter area is nearest to us, the airlines (BEA and PAA) area in the middle, and the USAF area furthest away. (There usually aren't that many charter and USAF aircraft present.)

Next is the the front of the terminal, equally impressive. Note the famous Berlin buses, complete with advertising banners and accurate route numbers/names:


The USAF parking area - keep in mind that this was really an Air Force base that they allowed the airlines to use - originally civilians couldn't even use the main front entrance!:

The MATS traffic here is part of an updated traffic file, available in the new AI package update (see the relevant thread).

Finally, here is the charter area. Again, much of this is generated using the new AI traffic/aircraft update:

Note the new Autair Viking, along with an ex-TCA Overseas DC-4m.

The beta version is available below; the final version will later be uploaded to AVSIM.

Although I didn't get any pictures of it, Mike has also improved his Berlin Tegel scenery with some of the details seen here (like the buses and rotating flags), along with an updated AFCAD file and other touches. You can download the beta version here, before it's uploaded to AVSIM. Tegel was the French airport in Berlin, and features Air France aircraft.

Finally, if you don't have it already, Manfred Jahn's Gatow scenery is available, and Mike includes an updated AFCAD for the airport in the Tempelhof package to add parking spaces and backdate the tarmac and taxiways. Gatow was the British airport in Berlin.

We've also added more trooping traffic into Gatow in the new AI update. Shown here are a British United Viscount and an Overseas DC-4m.

You can download them here:

Berlin Tempelhof: www.calclassic.com/Temp/Tempelhof_1962.zip

Berlin Tegel update: www.calclassic.com/Temp/Tegel_61.zip

Berlin Gatow by Manfred Jahn: library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=gatow+jahn&CatID=root&Go=Search

Please let us know of any problems here in this thread. Note that the elevation problems at Gatow are a known problem, and may not be fixed.

Thanks,

[tcreed]

WOW..!! nice work Mike..!!!

rgds
t.creed

[Wolfgang]

Double woow.

A real labor of love

Thank you Mike for this excellent work

Wolfgang

[eddiejez]

Hi
that looks good ! will give it a blast

[Dennis the menace]

The Tegel update is important, it fixes mistakes in the AFCAD. Please update this if you currently have Tegel 1961.

We now have Pan Am's DC-7C Berlin-New York bi-weekly service in the 1962 traffic. It didn't last very long. By 1964 Pan Am was sending 707s into Tegel three times a week on it's New York run. Normal inter-german Berlin service remained at Tempelhof until 1974. The Russians complained when Pan Am started it's Berlin - New York service, but Pan Am would not back down.

Included in Templehof are maps of the air corridors to and from West Berlin. Remember, these corridors are only 20 miles wide. The minimum altitude is 3000 feet, and the maximum altitude is 10,000 feet. Stray from this and you will get shot down. It happened to a Pan Am 727 in 1966 that was on a night mail flight. There extends outwards from the center of Berlin a 25 mile diameter flight zone you can fly in and position your approach, other than that, East Germany is off limits. Keep in mind, the normal approach to Berlin is from the east, towards the west. Every time I flew to Berlin that's how we landed.

At Tempelhof you will have to fly carefully to avoid the apartments on approach and takeoff. The C-97 barely makes it, but that's all part of the excitement!

Here is a map of Tempelhof from 1950. You can see the brand new 1949 asphalt center runway, and some of the old center taxiways built during the Berlin blockade.

Mike

[Maarten]

Hey Mike,

Thanks an awful lot. That must have been the job of your life. I've just finished downloading all the zipfiles plus the accessories I wasn't sure I had already.
I'm afraid I won't make it anymore flying tonight (have to get up in 8 hours from now) but I'll certainly try the whole place out tomorrow.

Cheers,
Maarten

[eddiejez]

Hi
this scenery is real beautiful only thing is i have telegraph poles across the airfield at Tegal there are not on the runway but close to should they be there ?
rgds Edd

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi Edd,

Reduce your Autogen to Dense or below, and they'll go away.

Hope this helps,

[eddiejez]

Hi Tom and Mike
thanks you were correct and they have gone ,like all the ai c54's and c47's at tempelhof

rgds Edd

[Dennis the menace]

The autogen should be dense, or below, for all Calclassic sceneries.

Mike

[Maarten]

I'm very, very impressed. A true masterpiece. Thank you so much.

Cheers,
Maarten

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi,

I've uploaded a new version of the Tempelhof package with a very minor update. Included is a new flatten file for Gatow, which makes the "cliffs" a little less abrupt.

Hope this helps,

[johnfromoz]

Beautiful! Only a quick look tonight and I suspect I need to check out the new traffic updates but I've got a week off from Friday, and I guess I will be flying round Germany.