************ LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget **************

by Wolfgang Gersch Volker Boehme and Rui Cristina

wollie12@gmx.de
v.boehme@web.de

Version 2, 01/2011, for FS2004 only.


************** History of Le Bourget Airport ************

Le Bourget airport north of Paris is one of the world's oldest airports. 
It dates back to the early days of World War One,
when land was seized for a military airfield. 
The airport opened for commercial operations in 1919. 
Possibly the most significant historical event was 
Charles Lindbergh's landing there after his historic 
solo transatlantic flight on Mai 21st, 1927.

The airport was rebuilt several times. 
Civil engineers Terrisse und Rumpler and architect Henri Decaux 
designed the original airport. 
The characteristic 5 hangars north of the terminal building 
were completed by 1922. 
With the rapid growth of aviation, the original terminal buildings 
were soon aoutdated and a new terminal was designed by Georges Labro. 
It was completed in 1937, in time for the Paris Wold Fair. 
By 1938, it Le Bourget was handling 140,000 passengers.

Severely damaged during World War Two, it was quickly repaired 
and opened again for cililian traffic, handling 600,000 passengers in 1953. 
However, the further growth of aviation led to an increasing 
use of Orly airport, south of Paris, and civilian traffic 
was gradually transferred there. 
With the opening of Charles de Gaulle airport in nearby Roissy, 
Orly was closed for airline operation. 

It is still used for business flights, as a maintenance base 
and for some military flights - the airfield has always been used 
by the military as well. 
The Paris airshow (Salon international de l’aéronautique et de l’espace) 
is held at Le Bourget bi-anually. 

The 1937 terminal building still exists and now houses the 
Paris aerospace museum (Musée de l'air et de l'espace) with a 
remarkable collection of vintage aircraft.

Internet links:
http://www.euonair.european-heritage.net/uk/fr-intro.htm - 
A web site about the history of Le Bourget

http://www.museedelair.org/  - The aerospace museum at Le Bourget


************** General **********************************

We have produced this scenery to provide taxiways and details 
as they were around 1960 in Paris le Bourget

We've also included new parking to allow the AI aircraft to taxi 
correctly at the new (old!) airport. 

AI propliner traffic matching this scenery is available separately 
from www.calclassic.com (AI Aircraft page).
 
If you do not have another airport texture addon, I suggest that you 
download and install airland1.zip from AVSIM or elsewhere.
It increases frame rates while adding detail to 
the concrete and asphalt aprons, taxiways, and runways.

Airstairs object originally by John MacKay, 
simplified for AI use by Tom Gibson.  Thanks again! 




************* IMPORTANT **********************************

This scenery uses some EZ-Scenery Librarys, which should 
be downloaded and installed.

For simplifying this process I have uploaded an library
package to Flightsim.com which contains all needed libraries
for our backdated airports.

http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=150800


Produced using Sketchup, Gmax, EZ-scenery, ExcBuilder by Paavo Pihelgas and
SBuilder by Luis Sá.
Airport surfaces created with AFCAD2, by Lee Swordy - thanks Lee!

You may want to print out these instructions and check off each 
step as you finish it.

************* ATTENTION ************************************


Prior installing this airport, make sure you deactivate and
delete any older version of Le Bourget.



    INSTALLATION

1.  Quit FS2004 if running.

2.  Unzip this LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget file archive into a temporary folder.     
    You will find this text file and a folder called 
    LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget.

3.  Copy the LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget folder to your FS2004/Addon Scenery 
    folder.

4.  Start FS2004, and go to the Settings/Scenery Library choice on the 
    opening screen.  If you are currently flying, press Escape (Esc) and        
    then End Flight to get to this screen. 
    Look at the top portion of the list. 
    If there is no LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget area listed there, 
    click on the Add Area button. Double click the ADDON SCENERY folder 
    and then Click the LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget folder once.  Click OK.
    

5.  If you have not already installed the EZ-Scenery and 
    Rwy12 Static Objects Library 
    (look for a Static Objects Library layer in this list), 
    please download and install it.
    

6.  If you have any other addon scenery for Paris Le Bourget , uncheck
    the scenery's Active box to inactivate it.  
    Or if you wish to use it as well, 
    move it's entry above the LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget scenery areas 
    and leave it checked. 
    Parts of Le Bourget Airport may not appear in this case.

7.  Click OK.  Quit and restart FS.

8.  If at the main screen, choose Create Flight at the left, 
    select desired items, and press Fly Now.  
    Choose Options/Settings/Display. 
    Under Scenery Objects set the Scenery Density to Dense or less 
    (setting to Very or Extremely Dense will display modern jetways 
    at default airports).  
    Also, set the Autogen Density to Normal 
    (any higher will display telephone poles in odd places at 
    various airports); this will also  simulate the less dense 
    cities found in the era.  Click OK.

    If you have a less powerful computer and you get low frame rates, 
    try setting the Scenery Density to Normal or lower.  
    This will remove detail objects and improve the frame rate.

9.  If you later want to fly in the modern era, just go into the Scenery        
    Library (Settings/Scenery Library) and click on the Enabled box next 
    to the LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget entry until the red check mark is removed      
    to deactivate the 1960 scenery.
    (do not deactivate the Static Objects Library layer).  
    Activate any other inactivated addon scenery areas for Heathrow.         
    Click OK.  
    You must restart FS after you do all of this.

    Reverse this process again to go back to LFPB 1960 Paris Le Bourget.



NOW TOUR YOUR NEW SCENERY!


AI Traffic for this scenery (and the world), and lots of classic 
airliners can be downloaded free from Tom Gibson's Classic Airliner 
web site at - http://www.calclassic.com  

Thank you very much Tom Gibson and Mike Stevens !!




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Now the legal stuff:

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