FSX Royal Air Force Tangmere Scenery

Scenery Royal Air Force Tangmere (EGUT) UK for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Horizon VFR Photographic Scenery Generation X (Vol. 1) only. The south coast of England was once the United Kingdom's air defence front line. One of the most famous airfields in Fighter Command at that time was Royal Air Force Tangmere. The station played a leading role in the Battle of Britain and later spearheaded the Allied counter attack in northern France. This scenery represents the airfield in its final post-WW2 form and includes custom made objects, autogen trees and animated scenery objects for the local area. By Trevor Clark and Ted Harrison.

Important Note
For this scenery to function correctly it is necessary to download additional free objects and textures via the internet, please see the installation instructions in this document as to where to find and install them.

The South Coast of England was once the United Kingdom’s front line of air defence. One of the most famous airfields in Fighter Command was Royal Air force Tangmere, the station played a leading role in the Battle of Britain and later spearheaded the allied counter attack in northern France. Many famous names were associated with Tangmere including the legendary legless ace Sir Douglas Bader. After WW 2, it was upgrade with tarmac runways and concrete blast shelters for the next generation of jet fighters.

Airfield scenery and documentation by Trevor Clark, background photo mask, blast pen models and testing by Ted Harrison.

It is freeware and must not be used or copied for reward or uploaded to file sharing/hosting sites anywhere without our written approval.

Installing this scenery…….
It is essential that you download and install a range of 'Third Party' scenery libraries.
These downloads need to installed AND activated within FSX (via the settings/Scenery Library/Add Scenery method) before they will appear.

Please Note…If you have the scenery of the neighboring RAF Thorney Island installed already, you can skip these downloads and move straight to Step Two.

Step one….
No Royal Air Force airfield in MSFS is complete without the wonderful collection of buildings by Ted Andrews. As they make up 90% of this scenery please download and install the following items…..

Just search for 'Ted Andrews' and you will find all the following files!
Scenery files.....

rafbldV2.zip
rafdombl.zip
rafwrli.zip
rafopbld.zip
rafhanli.zip
rafsmbld.zip

to be unzipped and the contents put into a new folder called 'scenery'...

And also this one texture file....
tedsraft.zip
to be unzipped and the contents put into a new folder called 'texture'...

Put both your new 'scenery' and 'texture' files into another new folder (I suggest you call it something like 'Ted Andrews Scenery) that you will now create and place this into the 'Add-On Scenery' file within FSX. Activate as any new scenery, before use, via the add Scenery method.

We have also used items from the great collection of British scenery by the UK VFR group. Install and activate as with Ted's files above, but (unlike Ted's) all the files required are in a single download.

Name: ukvfr.zip Size: 44,781,123 Date: 02-28-2008 Downloads: 1,669
FSX UK VFR Add-ons. A scenery set required by many add-on sceneries, made easy to download and set up for FSX. Some of the libraries don't work with FSX but the majority are okay. Uploaded with permission from Alan Fidler. By Neil Birch.

Step Two…..
Installing RAF Tangmere add-on scenery itself……

Once you have installed the above files, copy the file included in this zip called ‘RAF Tangmere’ into your FSX add-on scenery file; it will be something like this ….
C\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Addonscenery\RAF Tangmere, depending on what letter drive you have your FSX installed. C drive is the most common.

You must then activate the scenery by selecting (within the menu of FSX) settings-scenery Library- Add Scenery. A box will be displayed showing your FSX folder. Click on add-on scenery to open this file and then highlight (with your mouse) the folder called ‘RAF Tangmere’. Whilst high-lighted, click OK. The simulator will take a few minutes to build a new data base and will the return to the menu page.

One installed the airfield can be found in the ‘Go to’ menu under either its code EGUT or by the name RAF Tangmere.

Step Three….
Extra Autogen Trees (Optional)….

In addition the trees in and around the airfield, I have made an extra set of autogen trees that add a bit of interest to the surrounding area.

To install these trees, place the entire contents of the file called ‘TangmereTrees’ into the drive where you keep your Horizon VFR Gen X folder, following the path below…
*F:\VFR-Gen-X-2.0\Volume1\Area3\2.4m Photo\texture

*My scenery is on F drive (it is better if you have the option to install all the Horizon VFR X scenery on a DIFFERENT drive to FSX and your Windows operating system, but not essential.), yours may well be on C:\

Please Note…
If FSX is running, you may need to re-start it to see the trees.

More optional Extras…..
As with my previous sceneries, I have included some extra files that will give users with faster computers even more ‘eye candy’ both on and around the airfield. These two scenery files will provide the following….

EGUT Meteorlineup.bgl this file added to the main Tangmere scenery folder will give you a line up of Meteor F8 fighters of 74 Sqn RAF and two visiting Meteors of the RNethAF on a NATO visit. If you want any AI to use the main parking line up or intend to start your flight from these parking places, please do not install the file.

EGUTextrastuff.bgl this file will add items such as local farms and greenhouses around the airfield circuit.

Airfield Information (data fictional)
Comms…
Approach…121.275
Tower ……119.775
Navaids….
NDB (EGUT) …471.00
ILS/DME Rwy 06…109.750
ILS/DME Rwy 24…110.750

Because of the way autogen is created, the trees in the above file should have little impact on frame rates.

Performance Issues?
With just the standard airfield as set out in Step 2, most users should be able to run this scenery at reasonable frame rates. Reducing any auto gen trees to a ‘normal’ setting may help. If you are reading this several years from now (early 2010), you should be able to use all the ‘extra files’ I have provided.

The scenery has not been tested using default scenery, and will not work in any other simulator other than FSX. Not tested in DX10.

Trevor Clark and Ted Harrison

Complementing Files & Dependencies

This add-on mentions the following files below in its description. It may be dependent on these files in order to function properly. It's possible that this is a repaint and the dependency below is the base package.

You may also need to download the following files:

• ukvfr.zip

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