FSX / P3D scenery

FSX The Thames Barrier P3D Scenery

The Thames Barrier comes to life as a detailed static landmark, accurately placed downstream of central London to match its real-world position and scale. Designed for FSX and compatible with Prepar3D v4/v5, it requires Orbx EU England regional scenery, adding a recognizable flood-defense feature to VFR flights across the Thames corridor.

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Flight Simulator X Prepar3D

The Thames Barrier, UK, for ORBX EU England, v1.0. This scenery adds the Thames Barrier to ORBX EU England Regional scenery package. The Thames Barrier is the world's second-largest movable flood barrier and is located downstream of central London, United Kingdom. Its purpose is to prevent London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the sea. It needs to be raised (closed) only during high tide; at ebb tide it can be lowered to release the water that backs up behind it. Not tested with default FSX or any other setup. You must have ORBX EU England regional scenery to use the compiled scenery files as intended. By Bryan Wallis.

Aerial view of The Thames barrier.

Aerial view of The Thames barrier.

What is in the Package:

  • Static Object for the Thames Barrier.
  • A placement file that properly positions the barrier to its approximate real life location.

Compatibility:

You must have commercially available regional scenery addon Orbx EU England installed for this scenery to work as intended. The scenery has not been tested with default FSX or UT Europe. This scenery package will work with Lockheed Martin's Prepar3D in the same way as FSX as long as you have used the dual installer provided by Orbx to install into P3D.

Installation:

  • Unzip this package to a temporary location or directly into your FSX Addon Scenery folder.
  • Copy the "Thames Barrier" folder or cut and paste into your "Addon Scenery" folder or wherever you save your addon sceneries. Add (activate) this folder to your scenery library the usual way. NOTE: This scenery layer MUST be located in a priority above all Orbx scenery in the scenery library.
  • This scenery must be above all of your FTX Orbx scenery folders in priority. If you have set an insertion point using FTX Central, you will not have to worry about this folder location accidently moving to a lower priority with any future installation of Orbx scenery.

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thames_barrier.zip
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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D scenery
  1. Extract the downloaded archive

    Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
  2. Place scenery in Addon Scenery

    Create a folder under FSX\Addon Scenery\ containing scenery and texture sub-folders.
  3. Activate in Scenery Library

    In FSX, go to Settings → Scenery Library → Add Area. Higher priority means it overrides lower entries for the same location.
  4. Always read the included readme

    Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.

Finding the scenery

Use these coordinates to fly directly to this location once the mod is installed.

FSX / Prepar3D coordinates (or generate a flight plan)
51.48890000,0.03780000
Decimal degrees
51.488900°, 0.037800°
Degrees, minutes, seconds
51° 29' 20.040" N 0° 02' 16.080" E

Launch FSX or Prepar3D and use Flights → Load to open the downloaded .pln file. Your aircraft will be positioned at this location.

What’s inside this archive

The archive thames_barrier.zip has 17 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

This list displays the first 500 files in the package. If the package has more, you will need to download it to view them.

Filename/Directory File Date File Size
File ID.txt01.26.13862 B
README First!!.txt01.26.132.60 kB
Scenery01.26.130 B
Thames_Barrier.bgl01.22.131.39 MB
Thames_Barrier.txt01.22.13174 B
Thames_Barrier_btfw.bgl01.22.13140 B
Texture01.22.130 B
thames_barrier0.dds01.22.132.79 kB
thames_barrier1.dds01.22.13464 B
thames_barrier2.dds01.22.131.45 kB
thames_barrier3.dds01.22.13168 B
thames barrier 2.jpg01.26.13109.50 kB
thames barrier.jpg01.26.13172.00 kB
thumbnail.jpg01.26.1339.85 kB
Thames Barrier01.26.130 B
flyawaysimulation.txt10.29.13959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url01.22.1652 B

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