Scenery

XPIH Dublin, Ireland

Release 2.6 - 20 February 2008

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Summary

This package provides a 3D depiction of Dublin Airport and some landmarks around the city of Dublin, Ireland. The main features include:

  1. •Accurately placed and detailed set of 3D objects for Dublin Airport including terminals, piers and jetways, hangers, control tower and other airside buildings and taxiway signage and apron light stands.

  2. •Numerous VFR-relevant 3D objects for the city area.

  3. •A comprehensive manual including installation instructions and charts.


Requirements

This is a DSF Overlay package requiring X-Plane v8.64 or v9.00 or higher for all features.This package also requires OpenSceneryX v1.6.0 or higher for some enhancements but the main features will work without it.


Release History

Release 2.6 (20th February 2008) for X-Plane v8.64 / v9.00 & higher

  1. •Improved/new objects at Dublin (EIDW) for Pier D and Skybridge, North Terminal and Old Terminal buildings and, elsewhere, Kish Lighthouse, Poolbeg power station and antennae on Kippure and Three Rock mountains.

  2. •Totally revised and up-to-date airport layouts in apt850 format including all appropriate signage and markings for Dublin (EIDW), Weston (EIWT), Baldonnel (EIME), Newcastle and Ballyboughal.

  3. •Package enhancements with OpenSceneryX features.

  4. •Minor repositioning, resizing and splitting of all objects, all upgraded to OBJ8 format and internal reorganisation of the package.


Release 2.5 (11th November 2006) for X-Plane v8.30 & higher

  1. •Converted scenery format from ENV to DSF Overlay.

  2. •Terrain texturing from previous releases not included (pending availability of tools to apply these textures).


Release 2.1 (11th November 2006) for X-Plane v7.00 & higher

  1. •Terrain textures converted to PNG and transparency for sea and rivers added.

  2. •Packaged as single zip file.


Release 2.0 (22nd February 2003) for X-Plane v6.50

  1. •Accurately placed and detailed set of 3-D objects for Dublin Airport including terminals, piers and jetways, hangers, control tower and other airside buildings and taxiway signage and apron light stands.

  2. •Accurately placed photo-realistic terrain textures for the city of Dublin and associated urban areas.

  3. •Accurate and DAFIF-compliant runway/taxiway layout for Dublin Airport - EIDW, Dublin Weston - EIWT, Baldonnel Casement Aerodrome - EIME, Newcastle - EINC and Ballyboughal.

  4. •Accurate and highly detailed taxiway centreline network for Dublin Airport, including all stands and turns, and Baldonnel Casement Aerodrome.

  5. •Numerous 3-D objects for the city area representing structures that are readily visible from the air.


Release 1.0 (16th February 2002) for X-Plane v5.66

  1. •First package for X-Plane v5 with some basic ground textures and terrain adjustments.

About the Airports

There are several airports in the area covered by this scenery package. The largest and busiest, by far, is Dublin International (EIDW) on the northern edge of Dublin city. This is a hub for several airlines including Aer Lingus, Aer Arann and Ryanair and is a regular destination for dozens of others. The airport is in the middle of a series of major developments and this release reflects the state of the airport in early 2008.

Casement Aerodrome at Baldonnel (EIME), to the west of the city, is the main base of the Irish Air Corps, the air force branch of the Irish Defence Forces.

Just north of Baldonnel is Weston Airport (EIWT), a general aviation airfield on the banks of the River Liffey that has undergone redevelopment recently to cater for more corporate traffic. Further out from the city, Grange Gorman (EIGN), a grass strip field west of Pollaphuca Resevoir, is home to the Dublin Gliding Club and another grass strip, Kilrush (EIKH), lies to the south west. Newcastle (EINC) is a private grass airstrip right on the coast, 25 miles south of Dublin. Gormanston (EIGM), a small airfield on the coast north of Dublin is an ex-military facility, now closed but still intact. Finally, another general aviation facility is Trim (EITM) some distance inland from Gormanston.

About the City

The city of Dublin is located on a shallow bay on the Irish east coast. Dublin Bay is bounded by the Howth Head peninsula to the north and Dalkey to the south. Breakwaters of Dublin Port and, on the southern shore, Dun Laoghaire harbour stretch out into the bay. The low, sandy Bull Island lies in the north west corner of the bay. This island and its surrounding mudflats is a major wildlife refuge and also hosts a couple of golf courses. The 600ft twin chimneys of the Poolbeg power station on the southern side of Dublin Port dominate any view of the bay and are an oddly celebrated landmark.

The coastline north and south of Dublin Bay consists mainly of sand or shingle beaches with the occasional interruption by a rocky headland. Portmarnock, Swords and Rogerstown estuaries form inlets immediately north of Howth Head while, further north, the town of Drogheda sits on the larger Boyne River estuary.

My home town of Bray lies on the coast twelve miles south of Dublin in the lee of Bray Head which rises steeply to 700ft out of the sea.

South of Dublin the Wicklow Mountains rise to just under 3,000ft. These old, rounded hills are covered in forest and upland bogs. Lakes nestle in the valleys, the largest being the man-made Pollaphuca Resevoir in the western foothills.


Acknowledgements & Copyright

Textures for some Dublin Airport buildings are based on textures from a freeware Dublin scenery package for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 by Terry Gaffe (Such derived textures are named with the prefix ‘TG_’). Ship objects and textures based on freeware objects created by Byron Brooks. Boundary facades adapted from facades created by Jonathan ‘Marginal’ Harris (These will be moved to OpenSceneryX in future releases). OpenSceneryX library, managed by Austin Goudge, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

All original objects initially designed for Release 2.0-2.5 using ObjectMaker by Christian Franz. New and updated objects created using Blender and XPlane2Blender by Jonathan Harris. Overlay DSF files assembled using Overlay Editor by Jonathan Harris. Airport layouts edited using World EDitor (WED) by Laminar Research.

Thanks to Ivan Finnegan for supplying the Gormanstown airfield chart. Thanks to Robin Peel for assistance and never-ending work with maintaining and improving the X-Plane airport database. Thanks to Ben Supnik at Laminar Research and Jonathan Harris for trouble-shooting assitance and advice. Thanks to Graham, Nick and the members at the Irish Flight Simulator Design group and forum for advice, resources and the odd sanity check.

Files hosted online by X-Plane.org.


License Agreement

The author of this scenery package is Cormac Shaw.

The laws governing this copyright, ownership and rights to the package are those of Ireland. Any precedence over Irish law by other laws is subject to the laws of the Irish state. The author retains the right to legally protect the scenery package as seen fit. By being a freeware product does not dilute or alter the conditions set down by this document or the rights to this scenery package as mentioned herein.

All original terrain textures, 3D object models, original object textures and the included manual are copyrighted to Cormac Shaw, 2002-2008. No part of this copyright claim overrides the rights asserted and conditions specified by authors or copyright holders of materials and/or software used in its creation. These authors are listed in the Acknowledgements section above.

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