FSX / P3D scenery

FSX Canal du Midi Scenery

Canal du Midi scenery brings UNESCO-listed waterways and southern France towns into sharper focus with an accurately traced canal, revised landclass, and added lakes, roads, ponds, boats, and tree-lined banks. Designed for Microsoft Flight Simulator X, it also refines Béziers, Carcassonne, Castelnaudary, and Toulouse, plus nearby villages along the route.

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France

Flight Simulator X Prepar3D

Images & Screenshots

2 total

A red and white ultralight trike flies above a patchwork of fields, rivers, and scattered buildings near a coastline.

A cockpit view shows a lake and patchwork fields below, with a river winding through farmland and a gun sight in the foreground.

Scenery Canal du Midi of River l'Herault, town of Toulouse, France. This canal was built by Pierre Paul Riquet under Louis XIV (1666). It is now a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Canal du Midi is located in the south of France and straddles the departments of Herault, Aude and Haute Garonne. By Clauze Norbert.

Screenshot of glider flying over Canal du Midi.

This canal was built by Pierre Paul Riquet is filed under Louis XIV (1666) World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Canal du Midi is located in the south of France straddles the departments of Herault, Aude and Haute Garonne. He is not represented in FSX.

This scene was designed for FSX, it has not been tested with FS9.

In addition to the route of the canal, the land classes have been changed along its course. Towns / villages planted instead of agricultural areas by default. They were changed so that one noticing more separately the following cities:
- Homps, Argens Minervois, Roubia, trebes, Marseillette, Puicheric, La Retorde, Olonzac, Argeliers, Cers / Port Soleil, The Batiste Anjou and Vias.

Has been placed:
- The Lake Jouarres.
- Some alterations were made in Beziers, Carcassonne, Castelnaudary and Toulouse (to the old airfield).
- It was added some roads and ponds found along its route.

Installation:

The scenary includes 2 folders:

- 1) 1 folder (Canal du midi (Avec Occitania)) for users of the addon in its version 6 Occitania = Canal du midi.BGL and LC_CanalMidi.bgl and optional the file Canal_objets.bgl

- 2) 1 folder (Canal du midi (Sans Occitania)) for not having installed simmeurs Occitania-VFR-B6 = Canal du midi_SO.Bgl and LC_CanalMidi.bgl and optional the file Canal_objets.bgl

- The optional file Canal_objets.bgl place by place trees along the canal, some olive groves, and boats in the water stations. You can remove it if you wish.

- Place the Canal du Midi folder (with Occitania) or (no Occitania) depending on your installation folder:
Microsoft Flight Simulator X / Addon scenery /
- Declare the scenery in your addon-library of scenery.

Thanks to the authors for the free software.

CLAUZE Norbert

Flying over Canal du Midi.

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File information

Filename

canal_du_midi.zip

File size

868.07 KB

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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D scenery

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.
Place scenery in Addon Scenery

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

In FSX, go to Settings → Scenery Library → Add Area. Higher priority means it overrides lower entries for the same location.
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)

43.60470000,1.44420000

Decimal degrees

43.604700°, 1.444200°

Degrees, minutes, seconds

43° 36' 16.920" N 1° 26' 39.120" 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 canal_du_midi.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
Canal du midi	10.08.10	0 B
Canal du midi (Avec Occitania)	10.06.10	0 B
scenery	10.08.10	0 B
Canal_du_midi.BGL	10.08.10	92.54 kB
Canal_objets.bgl	10.06.10	145.56 kB
LC_CanalMidi.bgl	10.07.10	975 B
Canal du midi (Sans Occitania)	10.08.10	0 B
scenery	10.08.10	0 B
Canal_du_midi_SO.BGL	10.08.10	91.55 kB
Canal_objets.bgl	10.06.10	145.56 kB
LC_CanalMidi.bgl	10.07.10	975 B
Canal du midi.jpg	10.07.10	360.93 kB
Canal du midi_3.jpg	10.07.10	323.92 kB
lisez moi.txt	10.08.10	2.39 kB
read me.txt	10.08.10	2.27 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B