EDRY - Airport Speyer/Ludwigshafen
Including Technology Museum and Surroundings
NEW Update 1.05:
- reduced tree height near RWY 34 threshold to more realistic height according to feedback from real-life pilots flying out of EDRY
- added custom follow-me-car near the tower
- added new hangar "Halle 2" built in 2023 next to the FLight Academy Speyer (north-western part of the airport). Old hangar has been torn town, removed it from the scenery.
- added new, more detailed model of the MFG Speyer Hangar
- added some additional signs
Planned for next update: complete rework of the area around the tower, new custom models for tower and the new "Flight Restaurant Speyer" north of the tower. Probably some rework of the surroundings north of the airport. Next update hopefully Fall 2023.
Scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator
Created by TGD Design - Fabs79, May 2022; based on the EDRY Scenery for FSX/P3D, created by the FlightPort Team (Thomas Roehl and Jörg Dannenberg).
Permission to use and convert the FlightPort objects and models was explicitly obtained from the original authors, and Thomas Roehl accompanied the MSFS conversion from beginning to end.
Installation:
Copy the tgd-edry and tgd-edry-apt-aerial folders into your Community Folder
About the airport:
The "Flugplatz Speyer/Ludwigshafen" is one of the oldest airports in Germany. Opened in 1913 to service the aircraft manufacturing company "Pfalz-Flugzeugwerke",
it saw many changes over the years. From 1971 the airport had a sealed runway, which was first extended in 1986 and again in 2011. Today, the airport features a
1677 metre asphalt runway and is home to several flight schools and aeroclubs, as well as a business jet company. It serves all kind of GA, Ultralight and glider
operations, and is also th FBO for chemical industry company BASF´s own business jet, a Falcon 2000, which has its own hangar located at the northeastern end of
the airport. Unlike many other airports, it thrived throughout the Corona crisis, and several new hangars and service buildings were built in recent years.
About the scenery:
This scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator is based on the FSX Speyer scenery created by well-known developer team FlightPort, aka Thomas Roehl and Joerg Dannenberg, which not only
featured a highly detailed rendition of the airport, but also of Speyer Technology Museum and some POIs around the airport (Cathedral, bridges, industrial areas).
With Thomas´ and Joerg´s permission, I converted the original FSX scenery files to the MSFS format, but I also created a lot of new content to reflect the changes the airport has undergone since
2015 when the original FSX scenery was released.
Limitations:
Due to the nature of converting an FSX scenery, there are some limitations to keep in mind when using this scenery:
- most models are direct conversions of the FSX models and are kept relatively simple, so there´s no interior modeling, no fancy PBR textures - the FSX engine couldn´t deal with too many high poly models and didn´t have a PBR engine.
- some buildings saw some changes in real life which are not yet reflected in this scenery, especially the Tower which looks a little different now than its scenery counterpart.
With that said, there is still a lot of features and content for you to explore in this scenery (Features marked with an * are new additions not present in the FSX original)
Scenery Features:
- Very accurate and up-to-date representation of EDRY - Airport Speyer/Ludwigshafen, Speyer Technology Museum and the surrounding area.
- * New 40 cm/pixel aerial image from around 2019 (newer than BING or Google aerial image) provided by Geoportal Rheinland Pfalz (official government imagery of the federal state)
- * completely reworked ground polys, aprons, taxiways to most accurately reflect the actual ground layout, based on aerial photos from April 2022.
- * custom ground textures: washed out old runway markings (from before the runway extension in 2011), washed out parking numbers in the eastern part of the airport and many more.
- correct painted lines and ground markings
- correct taxiway and information signs
- correct runway night lighting with displaced green threshold lines
- Custom Airport Buildings: Hangars, Tower, Airport Restaurant (Bistro Meridian)
- * NEW: Three Hangars on southeastern end of the airport (built from scratch in Blender, those new models also have PBR textures)
- * NEW: Hangar at the northeastern end of the airport next to the BASF hangar
- * NEW "Airside Individual Hangar" on the southwest side of the airport
- Custom Static Aircraft, some of them featuring real-life liveries of local flight schools and aeroclubs
- Custom 3d people, some static, some animated
- * Visibility of some objects dependent on Time of Day and Weather Conditions; e.g. 3D People models will not be shown before 10 a.m. or after 6 p.m. or in rainy / snowy conditions
- Custom night lighting and emissive textures
- Highly detailed Speyer Technology Museum with dozens of custom modeled aircraft, ships and signs
- Improved surroundings: Custom models added to Refinery and Industrial Area, added Speyer Cathedral ("Dom zu Speyer"), Memorial Church, St Joseph Church and A61 road bridge.
Special Thanks to
Thomas Roehl (TiAr) and Joerg Dannenberg, original authors of the FSX EDRY Scenery, for the permission to convert their beautiful work to MSFS
Thomas Roehl again for continuing support and beta testing throughout the project
Andreas Maurer, Steffen Zuleger and Oliver for advice and beta testing
Jens Oehlrichs for airport and aerial photos
Rainer Kunst (aka Simmershome) for advice and permission to use his custom taxi lights
For Credits to the authors of the individual models I used for this scenery, please see the included readme for details
Aerial Image sourced from Geoportal Rheinland Pfalz, provided by the Landesvermessungsamt Rheinland-Pfalz,
©GeoBasis-DE / LVermGeoRP 2021, dl-de/by-2-0, www.lvermgeo.rlp.de [Daten bearbeitet].
I hope you enjoy this scenery!
Best Wishes,
Fabian
CaptainMoonlight
Snoopy7412
The_Flying_Freja
kapazunder33
It looks great! Thank you!
johe2312
Absolute Top-Freeware-Scenery mit so viel tollen Details, vielen Dank dafür!!!
flexxair
Ganz fantastische Arbeit! Allein die Liebe der Details beim Musuem...superb. Und auch der Platz selbst, vielen lieben Dank!
adiwan99
wonderful scenery.
Sehr schöne Szenerie.
Ich war schon ein paar Mal im Technikmuseum und kann es jetzt auch virtuell besuchen!
Danke für die tolle Arbeit!
Wencu90
Einer der beste Freeware Scenery fur mich!!! Das ist meine lieblings flugplatz in DE😊 Ich bin im Speyer 2 Jahre gewohnt und besuche jetzt auch oft meine Mutter und ich kann jetzt auch online nach Speyer fliegen, mit wirklich sehr geile Scenery!!! Vielen, vielen Dank!!! 😉
Andreas17
Klasse
skyranger320
Hallo fabs79, klasse Umsetzung, vielen Dank für deine Speyer Szenerie. Sehr gut gelungen! Happy landings
FlyLikeAnEagle
Sehr schöne Umsetzung von Speyer, gefällt mir optisch gut. Es sollte aber ein wenig an der Performance gearbeitet werden, im Vergleich zu den meisten anderen Plätzen frisst dieser hier doch einiges an Leistung. Werden hier keine LODs verwendet?
fabs79 author
Erstmal zu den LODs, nein es wurden keine verwendet, weil es einen erheblichen Mehraufwand bedeuten würde und ich das für eine Freeware die ich in meiner wenigen Freizeit mache nicht leisten kann. Ich denke auch dass 99% der Freeware die hier verfügbar ist keine LODs nutzt, zumal auf kleineren Plätzen die Polygonzahl im Vergleich zu einem internationalen Airport verschwindend gering ist und außerdem die Polygonzahl bei einer modernen engine und mit einer modernen Grafikkarte das geringste Problem ist. Meine Betatester haben auch keine wesentlichen Performanceprobleme berichtet. Tu mir einen Gefallen: teste mal EDRY ohne jede weitere Addons und schick mir mal einen Screenshot mit dem FPS Counter einmal mit meiner Szenerie aktiviert und einmal default ohne jedes Addon, um einschätzen zu können wie groß der Einfluss der Szenerie tatsächlich ist.
2 years ago
aurel42
Love this scenery. I fly in VR, so I have to put a focus on performance, and the image quality in a consumer VR headset isn't comparable to a 4K screen, so I didn't even notice recycled FSX/P3D textures. Thank you, and thanks to the Flightport guys!
Malcolm1971
Sehr schön gemacht. Danke und weiter so. 5 Sterne
duro55
Großartig gemachter Flugplatz und Umgebung. Definitiv 5 Sterne wert!
Danke!
RO55BA
Einfach Spitze !! Auf die Autobahnbrücke warte ich schon seit dem Anfang !! Jetzt ist Speyer komplett !
Danke !!!
fabs79 author
Ja, es ist schon erstaunlich wie so eine Brücke das Landschaftsbild dominieren kann, kannst dich bei Thomas und Jörg bedanken, dass sie die Brücke damals für den FSX modelliert haben, ich hab nur ein Road Material drauf geklatscht damit die Autos drüber fahren, der Rest der Brücke ist nicht von mir. 🙂
2 years ago