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Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 CONTENTS COPYRIGHTS ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 CREDITS................................................................................................................................................................... 3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ..................................................................................................................
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 NEUMAYER STATION III (GERMANY) .................................................................................................................... 29 SANAE IV (SOUTH AFRICA) .................................................................................................................................... 29 NOVOLASAREVSKAYA (RUSSIA) ............................................................................................................................ 30 PATRIOT HILLS ......
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 COPYRIGHTS 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.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 Disclaimer: Please note that although we have done our best to investigate information about real world Antarctica and flight operations, this manual is NOT supposed to be understood like a “Bible on Antarctic Flying”! Therefore we cannot be held responsible for information that is incorrect but we would be more than happy about your feedback if you know more than we do.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 ABOUT FLYING IN ANTARCTICA Much of the following text has been written by D. Hardie who was flying Twin Otters in Antarctica for a few seasons during the last years. He was the most valuable supporter of “Antarctica X”. Based on his input and knowledge we created this scenery as close to the “real thing” as we could get. Flying in Antarctica is probably one of the most exhilarating environments on our planet.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 FLYING AS A PILOT To fly in the Antarctic several extra skills are honed which are different from every other part of the world. Firstly the ability to drag skis is important. The technique involves landing in a suitable area, and then dragging the skis along the surface with just the right balance of power to keep the aircraft flying. The purpose of this is to dislodge any snow surface and expose any crevasses beneath thus ensuring the area is safe to land on.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 Some flights, the pilot is able to carry fuel for the entire round trip, -usually a three hour endurance, plus an hour of reserve fuel. Others, the fuel must be taken along as fuel drums, which are then deposited, so that they can be used on the return journey. The Twin-Otter will carry three 40 gallon fuel drums inside- or 300lbs of fuel-per drum.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 RADIO REPORTS -FLIGHT FOLLOWING No formal air traffic control exists as such. The position and therefore potential search area of an aircraft is radioed into base every 30 minutes until touchdown, so that the flight-follower is aware of where an aircraft is. No ground radar exists, so positions are plotted on a large plotting chart at the home base. Once on ground, the time of next call is transmitted before shutting down the aircraft.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 then relay messages from other aircraft, provides updated in-flight weather reports, as well as logistical information to the pilots. The Flight Follower provides an Air-Ground Radio Information service which effectively provides all information that could be of help to air operations as well as boating operations around Rothera.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 The frequency is generally used as a chat frequency between pilots (reports can be made of icing conditions in flight), but respect is made also so that it is not cluttered up with irrelevant chatter, when another aircraft may need it for transmitting some important information. The other frequency which is monitored is 121.5 MHzthe international distress frequency, and no transmissions may be made on this except for an emergency situation.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 Radio strength is graduated in five increments from one being the weakest and barely audible to five, being the loudest and clearest radio signal. There is no measure of this in the cockpit and is purely a subjective assessment done by the pilot. Aircraft: "Rothera Traffic this is VP-FBB entering and backtracking runway three six". Rothera: "V-BB, roger, there is no known traffic to affect you, report ready for departure.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 know the general area the pilot is operating in at any one time, as there is no radar surveillance. The flight continues, and once VHF comms is lost, the position reports are made on the HF radio equipment, which are usually much noisier with static background hissing and crackles.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 BRITISH FERRY FLIGHT FROM CANADA TO ANTARCTICA This is a flight done by the BAS Twin Otters every season. If you want to re-fly this in Flight Simulator we highly recommend reading the recommendations for add-on sceneries and the “Flying in Antarctica” and “Flightplans” chapters. Please note that the Flightplan files supplied with “Antarctica X” do not exactly match the flights described here as the flight route can vary slightly from year to year.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 On a clear day the view is enjoyable, flying over the forests of Canada -watch out for the view of the Rocky Mountains to the west, and then over the canyons and badlands into the US Border , passing some Native American Indian Reservations and down into Casper itself. Watch out for the site of the Little Bighorn Battlefield on your left as you pass Billings and head towards Sheridan.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 distant volcanoes look quite serene when seen on the approach into Puerto Montt. Watch out for the Very Large Telescope on the hilltop at Cerro Paranal-they look like four large white cubes on the ridgeline, and also the recently famous Chilean volcano at Puyehue-Cordon Caulle. When you arrive at Puerto Montt, park here.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 AIRCRAFT, “AIRLINES” AND COMMON FLIGHT ROUTES Considering the number of government organizations and private tour operators actively flying in Antarctica it is not easy to gather some reliable information about who’s flying what down there. Still this list is probably the most complete available yet. What we describe here are the usual routes flown.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 The German Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) operates another Basler BT-67, called “Polar 5” and a DO228 called “Polar 2” within the DROMLAN Network, which are a regular visitor of the Japanese and South African bases as well. The German Research ship “Polarstern” carries a BO 105 helicopter. http://www.awi.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 and least expensive way for mere mortals to reach Antarctica by air. http://www.aeroviasdap.cl/antartica.html Probably the biggest private tour operator in Antarctica is Adventure Network International (ANI). They offer various all-inclusive trips to their own base at Patriot Hills using an Ilyushin-76TD. From here Twin Otters are used to fly climbers to the Mount Vinson Base camp for example or a Basler BT76 to fly other paying adventurers to the South Pole.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 FLIGHT PLANS We have added a set of of real-world flight plans to this product. To open them, just click “Flight Planner” in FSX and “Load”. All flight plans can be found in the following folder and its subfolders: FSXmainfolder\Aerosoft\AntarcticaX\Flightplans\ Please note that these flight plans only represent small fragments of flights done in Antarctica (in fact only those we could get waypoint information for). Most others are mentioned in the previous chapter.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 Intercontinental flightplans to/from Antarctica (and aircraft models) Christchurch_to_McMurdoIceRunway.PLN (C17A Globemaster III, LC-130H Hercules, C-141 Starlifter) The usual supply route for the US Antarctic Programme. Hobart_to_McMurdoIceRunway.PLN (A319-115LR) Route usually flown when the ice at Wilkins Aerodrome is not suitable for Airbus landings because of heavy melting. Hobart_to_WilkinsCasey.PLN (A319-115LR) The usual supply route for Australia’s Airbus.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 HISTORY AND FURTHER READING OF ANTARCTIC AVIATION The early history of Antarctic Aviation has been covered thoroughly in Malcom Mellor’s Notes on Antarctic Aviation, which can be downloaded for free from the US Army Corps of Engineer’s website: http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/library/crrelreports/CR93_14.pdf Although quite out-dated this is probably the best lecture on Antarctic Aviation and also contains a lot of information on other areas of Antarctic Aviation than history.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 and was nowhere to be seen in Christchurch the airline informed the authorities. Search aircraft departed from McMurdo following the DC-10’s flight route but found nothing at first until one saw some debris at Mount Erebus’ slopes, which – of course – was not to be supposed the on original route. What followed was an extensive recovery but there were no survivors. 237 passengers and 20 crew lost their lives on the cold continent that day.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 th 17 January 2003 – NSF Bell212 helicopter crashes in Dry Valleys with sling load Sourced from the Aviation Safety Network: “The pilot's continued operation of the helicopter with an unstable external load, which resulted in damage to the cargo hook assembly, adjacent throttle controls, and subsequent loss of engine power, precipitating an emergency descent and impact with terrain.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 highest airspeed that the first officer called out during the takeoff run was 60 knots, about 3 to 5 seconds prior to the crash. The airplane sustained damage to the underside of the nose, the tail wheel collapsed, both main landing gears separated and both propellers were damaged. PROBABLE CAUSE: "The captain's decision to lift off before attaining a proper airspeed, resulting in a loss of control during take-off.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SCENERY We went through great lengths to get this scenery as real as it gets. One of the major problems has been to find suitable data. Data that is taken for granted in all other places of the world just isn’t available for Antarctica or very, very, very difficult to obtain because every nation holds its own piece of data.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 landclass: This field is displayed as a nice square in the USA or Europe. 1.2km long, 1.2km wide. The same field at the equator (let’s say in Kongo) is displayed about 1.2km long but about 1.4km wide, meaning it’s stretched a bit! Why is that you may ask? The circumference at the equator is longer than further north or south meaning that the tile is stretched to the sides.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 Note that the ship anchors at the ice shelf north of the bases, which is quite a distance away from there. In case of Halley Twin Otters support unloading the ship because of the long distance between the anchoring point and the base. They shuttle in a low altitude between the ship and the base following the tracks of the vehicles (tracks are possibly to be added in a later version of Antarctica X) USGC HEALY The USGC Healy is a famous US Coast Guard Ice Breaker based in Seattle.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 NZIR – ICE RUNWAY The ice runway is the closest to McMurdo itself and is the first to be active each season. All fixed wing flights operate from here in the early season (see scenery tool). The ice runway offers quite some spectacular views from the dorms in McMurdo with all the large and small aircraft taking off and touching down so close to the base.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 became best friend of that bird returning here every year from Mallorca (the bird, not the employee!). That same employee also places lights on the drums along the runway if there is an aircraft approaching in the dark. If you keep looking you will find a small zodiac steering to and from a group of islands to the southwest where it will meet a group of Orca whales. Higher up on the glacier is a long emergency skiway marked by drums.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 NOVOLASAREVSKAYA (RUSSIA) For short called “Novo Airbase”, this is a major hub for the Dromlam Network and although under Russian flag it is run by their contractor called ALCI (Antarctic Logistic Centre International). The long ice runway is located south above the Schirmacher Oasis, a 25km long and 3km wide ice free plateau with many freshwater lakes.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 ADVISED DISPLAY SETTINGS To change your scenery settings, go to Settings -> Display Note: All other settings not mentioned here are up to you. They don’t actually affect the scenery very much. Keep in mind to do your settings with care otherwise you may overload your system. GRAPHICS MENU Global Texture resolution should be at Very High to get the full detail in textures (aerial image, building walls etc.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 AIRCRAFT MENU Aircraft shadows should be activated because they help you a lot to estimate your altitude over white surface with few other reference points. There is no reason why Aircraft landing-lights shouldn’t illuminate the ground.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 SCENERY MENU Ever seen that? Yes, with most systems you can max out all scenery settings in Antarctica! Scenery complexity can be reduced a bit if you struggle with performance around McMurdo, which is extremely detailed. This will remove the static aircraft. We recommend keeping Land detail textures deactivated. They usually add some structure to the ground surface making it easier for you to figure out your altitude when you land with an Ultralight or other small aircraft.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 TRAFFIC MENU: Ships and ferries has to be set to a minimum of 10%.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 SCENERY TOOL The “Antarctica X Scenery Tool” allows you to do some modifications to the scenery in seconds without having to rename or edit files. Info boxes give you additional information about what you are doing. This chapter explains what is done in detail when using the tool’s various features.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER ADD-ONS Dirk Stuck Designs – Antarctic Stations “Antarctica X” is currently NOT compatible with “Dirk Stuck Designs – Antarctic Stations” because the 3D models of this product are not placed at their actual locations. It is not known if it will be compatible in the future. Scenery of Chile V9 by Juan Lucero (Flightsim.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 brown rocks and white snow), it creates color glitches along the line where both colors meet. In most cases this is a faint greenish/blue line where snow meets rock. We did our best to solve this issue but you might still discover them at high resolution aerial imagery areas like Casey and McMurdo. Q: Sometimes I see small waterbodies in the very far distance that disappear when getting closer! A: The reason is more or less the same as in the previous question.
Limesim Antarctica X 1.00 realistic). Unfortunately FSX technically doesn’t see them as ice/snow anymore after that and disables that effect. As we think a small price to pay for realistic flight (or rather taxi-) dynamics. Q: Why are there trees on the rocks around Casey, Marsh and possibly some other bases? A: Only one beta tester reported those trees showing on his system.
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SAWB ID Davis Plateau Mawson/Rumdoodle Skiway Base Marambio Name Australia Australia Australia Australia Argentina Operator 71°57'1.88"S 66°41'32.00"S 66°16'56.34"S 66°16'57.28"S 68°28'20.14"S 67°45'13.36"S 64°14'18.71"S Latitude 57°50'34.99"W 58°59'9.17"W 23°16'7.90"E 111°31'33.36"E 110°31'31.46"E 110°31'56.27"E 78°50'22.66"E 62°45'58.04"E 56°37'42.
NZIR1 NZWD NZPG NZIR AQ90 AQ85 AQ80 AQ75 EGAR AQ16 AQ71 AQ70 AQ66 AQ15 AQ60 AQ45 SCPZ SCGC Siple Dome CTAM Camp McMurdo Heliport McMurdo Williams Field Skiway McMurdo Pegasus Ice Runway McMurdo Ice Runway Halley Station Skiway Sky Blu Runway Fossil Bluff Skiway Rothera Emergency Rothera Wasa/Aboa Skiway Sanae IV Helipad Sanae IV Skiway Vostok Progress Skiway Druzhnaya-4 Skiway levelvolasarevskaya (levelvo Air Base) Patriot Hills Union Glacier USA USA USA USA USA US
