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COORD 20. Right coordinates, wrong position? Why latitude and longitude are never enough to accurately define your position. To assume they do is a common mistake. More parameters are needed. The enclosed PDF document explains what and why and with the program you can do some coordinate transformations. Based on the EPSG database (www.epsg.org). New version with more datums and list mode. Program by Christian Grimsel.

FSX Scenery--Calden Airport, Germany. This is the first in a series of planned updates and improvements of Calden scenery. The update adds more wind farms and corrects all windmill heights to a more reasonable value. Needs CALDEN2.ZIP to be installed. By Christian Grimsel.

FSX Scenery--Calden Airport, Germany. This is the second in a series of planned updates and improvements of the Calden scenery. The update adds representations of an office building and hotel in Kassel's West-end and St.John's church in Calden. All built from library objects. Although intended as an upgrade of the existing scenery (CALDEN2.ZIP) it should also work without it. By Christian Grimsel.

FSX Scenery--Calden Wind Farms And TV Tower, Germany. Places windfarms and Essigberg TV tower in the area surrounding Kassel-Calden airport. Uses generic wind turbines for the wind farms and a simple Gmax model for the tower. No night textures. Contains excludes for autogen scenery. Aligned with the default scenery. By Christian Grimsel.

FSX Scenery--Kassel Calden Airport, Germany, with wind farms and TV tower. Replaces default airport buildings and adds windfarms and Essigberg TV tower to the area surrounding the airport. Mostly uses Gmax models with some generic buildings and library wind turbines for the wind farms. No night textures or effects included. Contains necessary exclude files. Aligned with the default scenery. By Christian Grimsel.

FSX Scenery--Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, UK. This is a fake! A copy of Canterbury Cathedral at the location of Lincoln Cathedral. But the two resemble one another quite a bit in shape and proportions. The Cathedral is aligned with Horizon's VFR scenery. SBuilderX 3.13 was used to place the object and compile the BGL. By Christian Grimsel.

FSX/P3D Model Of The Augustinum, Kassel (Germany). Simple model of the Augustinum, Kassel (GER). Three towers of the Augustinum Senior Citizen Residence in the West of Kassel (GER) on the slope of the Habichtswald Mountains. The towers form a prominent landmark in the area. Should be compatible with FSX and P3D (up to version 3.4). Build with SBuilderX 3.15. By Christian Grimsel.

The two tall buildings of the Kassel incineration plant are a well visible land mark in Kassel's East. They may not be 100% accurate, but show what is visible from the outside of the plant. The new version adds some smaller buildings and chimneys visible when approaching the plant from the south.
 
For more information please read the README.TXT file contained in the ZIP-archive.
 
The previous upload had an incomplete zip-archive. The readme.txt file was missing.

MSFS - (almost) no trees on Outer Hebrides The Microsoft flightsimulator places quite a number of trees on the Outer Hebrides. This add-on scenery removes most of them, except for some woodland on North Uist and Lewis. This should be nearer to the real landscape you see when looking at photos or when flying over the Outer Hebrides at low altitudes. By Christian Grimsel

At the western end of the Beauly Firth lies the little town of Beauly (French "beau lieu" meaning "beautiful place") with its 13th century Valliscaulian priory. This scenery replaces the default building with a more accurate representation of its remains.
 
This new version does not provide any new buildings or other features. I is only a recompilation to ensure compatibility of the add-on with today's - and future - versions of the SDK and the simulation.
 
By Christian Grimsel

Juist is one of the eastfrisian islands separating the open North Sea from the Wadden Sea towards the eastfrisian mainland.
Juist is an island formed by dunes, about 17 km long, but less than a kilometer wide. It can be reached from Norddeich by a tide dependent ferry or by plane. In fact, Juist airfield is one of the busiest in Lower Saxony.
Juist is covered by the default scenery in a rather simple way. But two commercial add-on packages cover the island:
- the "East Frisian Island" scenery of Stairport/Aerosoft, which greatly improves the airfields and adds some buildings.
- the "Landmarks of Germany - Niedersachsen & Bremen" package of FSDG, which adds the lighthouse.
My scenery add-on tries to provide compatibility with both of these packages.
In detail:
 - trees are removed from the south side of the island and around the airfield (Stairport scenery) but added around lake Hammer
 - the default "Domaene Bill" and "Domaene Loog" buildings are replaced by more realistic 3D models with night lighting
 - the round houses on the tanks of the sewage plant as well as a multi-storey building near the east end of the main village are removed. A glass house standing on the site is added.
 - landing stages, ships and boats are added to the harbour; the sight-seeing tower at the harbour entrance is added. It does not exist in the default scenery and exists only as a very generic model in the Stairport add-on. Now in both cases my tower is displayed.
 - the non-operational Juist lighthouse is added (non-operational means, that it is not allowed to shine towards the sea, its lamp has to shine land-ward - 6 sec on, 6 sec off).
 - the "second" light house introduced by FSDG is removed.
 - the island church has been added to the main village.
 - some horses are placed onto the meadows
 - a white line visible east of the Juist village is removed as well as possible
 - corrections are applied to the dune promenade (non-existing houses removed, night lights added)
 - the water tower has been added
 - the former train shed has been added. In the previous century Juist did not have a harbour (which was built in the early 1980's only), but a pier with engine driven trains for the transportation of people and goods. The train shed (called the "Black Hut" or "Black Pad" - "Schwarze Bude") is a building which remained. The train shed was only necessary for the stairport version of my scenery (where the default building has been removed for whatever reason), but once created I also added it the the default version.
 
The senery comes in two versions, one for users of the the "East Frisian Island" scenery of Stairport, and one for users of the default / FSDG scenery. Only one can be used at a time.
 
For more information please read the README.TXT file which can be found in the archive.
 

This add-on performs several corrections to the distribution of vegetation of the default scenery and adds a photo-realistic water tower. Current version 1.3.0 does not provide any new buildings of features but is a maintenance version with adjustments and a re-compilation to ensure future compatibility. The scenery is compatible to the commercial East Frisian Island scenery version 1.4 of Stairport.
 
By Christian Grimsel.

Spiekeroog is one of the Eastfrisian Islands separating the open North Sea from the Wadden Sea towards the Eastfrisian mainland.
 
This add-on performs several corrections to the distribution of vegetation of the default scenery. The senery is compatible with the "East Frisian Island" scenery version 1.4 of Stairport.
This new version is just a re-compilation of the previous version and does not contains any new features. Re-compilation is performed to ensure future compatibility.
 
For further information please read the README.TXT file contained in the archive. In this README.TXT I forgot to mention that you need to delete an existing previous version of this scenery from the community directory before you copy the new version to the community directory.

By Christian Grimsel
 

MSFS 2020 - Kassel (GER) Sewage Plant Improvement V1.1.0 MSFS 2020 Scenery - Kassel Sewage Plant Improvement, Germany. This scenery add-on adds the three sewage gas towers of the Kassel sewage treatment plant. The egg-shape towers of a height of about 42 m collect gas for the production of electricity and are well visible from the air. This new version corrects the missing gangway connecting the towers and provides general improvements. By Christian Grimsel

This scenery add-on adds the three sewage gas towers of the Kassel sewage treatment plant. The egg-shape towers of a height of about 42 m collect gas for the production of electricity and are well visible from the air.
 
Version history
V1.0.0 Initial version
V1.1.0 Corrected version
V2.0.0 Adds 6 clearing tanks and a chimney, removes a non-existing building
 
Please read the README.TXT contained in the archive file for further information.
 
By Christian Grimsel.
 

Kassel Wilhelmshoehe train Station Version 2.1. Train Station completed in 1990. This new version is mainly a recompilation but also provides some added detail.
 
For more information, please read the README.TXT file contained in the archive.
 
By Christian Grimsel

Krukenburg Castle is situated on a hill above the village of Helmarshausen, today part of Bad Karlshafen, in Northern Hessia (GER), north of Kassel-Calden airport. It is quite special in the way it was build. Central part of the castle is a church, built between 1107 and 1126. Its layout consists of four cross-shaped wings around a central rotunda, This design follows the layout of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The abbot of the Helmarshausen Monastry - Wino - had brought the necessary architecural plans from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem around 1030.
This scenery removes vegetation from the castle site and adds a model of the castle remains.
 
For more information please read the README.TXT file contained in the zip-archive.

Set on a large natural mound, Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest, todays remains consist of a 13th-century round tower built by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, inside an earlier circular shell-keep. It is a very windy place and probably not too pleasant to stay at at that time.
 
The default scenery places a round multi-story building at the site of the castle. The add-on replaces it with the tower and the shell-keep and adds the remains of two gate houses. This new version does not add any further buildings or remains but updates the way, materials, textures and terra forming rectangles are treated. The tower is now illuminated at night.
 
For further information please read the README.TXT file contained in the archive. In this README.TXT I forgot to mention that you need to delete an existing previous version of this scenery from the community directory before you copy the new version to the community directory.

By Christian Grimsel
 

Set on a large natural mound, Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest, todays remains consist of a 13th-century round tower built by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, inside an earlier circular shell-keep. It is a very windy place and probably not too pleasant to stay at at that time.
 
The default scenery places a round multi-story building at the site of the castle. The add-on replaces it with the tower and the shell-keep and adds the remains of two gate houses. This new version does not add any further buildings or remains but updates the way, materials, textures and terra forming rectangles are treated. The tower is illuminated.
 
This version makes the scenery compatible to the commercial Great Britain South scenery of Orbx. This means: if you are using the previous version 1.1.0 of my scenery and you are not using the Orbx scenery, then you do not need to download this new version. There is no added benefit for you.
 
For further information please read the README.TXT file contained in the archive.

By Christian Grimsel
 

Mittelplate is a drilling and production platform in the German sector of the North Sea, near the island of Trischen offshore Friedrichskoog (Schleswig-Holstein). It produces Germany's largest oilfield.
Mittelplate is a complex, densely packed installation. Compared to the real structure, my model is very simple. Phantasy as much as knowledge was used to design it. Nevertheless, with the prominent drilling rig and living quarters it resembles the real thing.
 
For more information (installation, "how to find", legal) please refer to the readme.txt file contained in the archive.
 

Pevensey is the place, where William the Conqueror landed in Britain in 1066. He found the remaints of a roman castle, besieged and burned in 491 by the Anglo-Saxons and re-fortified by Harold Godwinson in 1042. When he landed, he found the castle undefended, as its garrison had moved northward to fight Norwegians who had invaded England there. In the coming centuries, the castle was repeatedly under attack.
 
The scenery replaces the default scenery and adds the castle walls and the remains of the towers. This new version does not add new buildings, but uses rectangles and polygons to improve the blending of the add-on into the default scenery. It also updates the way, materials and textures are treated.
 
For further information please read the README.TXT file contained in the archive. In this README.TXT I forgot to mention that you need to delete an existing previous version of this scenery from the community directory before you copy the new version to the community directory.
 
By Christian Grimsel

The three towers of the Augustinum Senior Citizen Residence are situated in the West of Kassel (Germany) on the slope towards the hills of the Habichtswald. The towers with their coloured facade elements form a prominent and well visible landmark in the area.
Version history:
1.0.0 - initial version
1.1.0 - added night textures
1.2.0 - recompilation using modified materials; cars added to the car park
 
For more details please refer to the readme.txt
 
By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS 2020 Scenery Cromarty Firth Bridge (Scotland) Version 1.2 MSFS 2020 Scenery--Cromarty Firth Bridge (Scotland) Version 1.2. This scenery adds the Cromarty Firth Bridge connecting Inverness to the north via the A9, thereby avoiding the round-trip via Dingwall. This new version of the add-on is compatible with Orbx commercial Great Britain North scenery. It comes with updated texturing and removes some terrain spikes to be seen from the distance which were created by terraforming rectangles used in the previous version. Please read the installation instructions in the README.TXT file. By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS 2020 Scenery--Beauly Priory, Scotland. At the western end of the Beauly Firth lies the little town of Beauly (French "beau lieu" meaning "beautiful place") with its 13th century Valliscaulian priory. This scenery replaces the default building with a more accurate representation of its remains. By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS 2020 Scenery--Bergshausen Motorway Bridge SE of Kassel. This scenery replaces the default Bergshausen bridge of the A44 at Fuldatal south east of Kassel (Germany) with a custom made model showing the characteristic steel structures supporting the bridge. The current bridge, planned in 1934 and build from 1959 onward is no longer suitable to support modern traffic and will be rebuild further to the south at some time in the future. By Christian Grimsel.