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Dubai International Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator

Version 2.0 "Dubai Rebooted"


DUBAI INFORMATION

Dubai is located on a sheltered harbor/cr eek and has been one of the principal
ports on the Persian Gulf region since the 1870's. Dubais econom y f lourished
f rom pearls and inter national sea trade. W hen oil was discovered in 1966,
Sheikh Rashid utilized the revenues f rom the oil to spur inf rastructure
development in Dubai. The largest man- made harbor in the world was
constructed at Jebel Ali, and a f ree zone was created. Dubais econom y is
highly diversif ied, with oil taking a back seat to the construction and tourism
industr y as well as tr ade and manuf acturing. Attractions include a f uturistic
skyline with remarkable architecture f eaturing the tallest building in the wor ld,
the Burj Khalif a (829.8m 2,722 f t).W orld-class tennis tournaments, PGA Golf
tours, regattas, horse races, desert rallies and one of the worlds largest air
shows attract millions of visitors to the city each year. Dubai has become the
wealthiest internat ional cit y in the middle east, with only one quarter of the
populat ion consist ing of native Emir atis.

AIRPORT INFORMATION

Dubai International Airport was est ablished in 1959 and has been on a steady
expansion course ever since. The f irst phase of the Airport s expansion plan
was completed in the year 2000 with the Sheikh Rashid Terminal. The unique
structure consists of shimmering blue-green glass and alum inum panels and
measures 800 meter s in length and stand s f ive stor ies high. The 2nd phase of
expansion began in early 2002 and was completed in 2008. The passenger
terminal is made up of Terminal 3 located under the aircr af t ramp areas and 2
stretched sat ellites ( Concourses 2 and 3). Both Concourses are similar in
architecture to the original Sheikh Rashid Terminal. In September 2012, the
Concourses have been renamed to make it easier f or passengers to navigate
though the air port. Concourse 1 became Concourse C. Concourse 2 become
Concourse B and Concourse 3 become Concourse A.

As of October 2012, Dubai Airport ranks 11th wor ldwide by passenger traff ic
and 8th by cargo traff ic. Dubai is the hub f or Emirates, the lar gest airline in the
Middle East, operat ing over 2500 f lights per week to 122 dest inat ions across 74
countries. Emir ates f leet consists of mostly wide body aircraf t and includes 26 x
A330- 200, 6x A340-300, 78x Boeing 777-300ER, 12x Boeing 777-300 as well as
26x A380-800.

For more inf ormation visit:


http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai
http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_I nternational_Airport
http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Em irates_Fleet

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SCENERY COVERAGE

FlyTampa- Dubai comes with a extended Photo-Scener y that covers most of the
cit y of Dubai. Many of Dubais f amous highrises and other landmarks have been
modelled. Note that some areas of Dubai are under heavy construction. In such
areas, not all buildings are up to date. The map below is showing the rough
coverage area. Cust om 3D buildings have been placed in the darker area only.
The f urther you move away f rom this dar ker area, the sparser the Scener y will
become.

HELIPORTS

FlyTampa- Dubai includes 18 landable Helipads (FSX only). You will f ind most located on
building roof tops along Sheikh Zayed road. Furthermore, ther e are helipads on various
buildings along Dubai Creek as well as the Dubai Hospital and on the Burj Al Arab Hotel.
You will also f ind a private helipad on Gr eenland, the only inhabitated mini- island of The
W orld artif icial archipelago. Helipad locations ar e marked red in the map above. Also
included is the Sk yDive Dubai landing strip located by the base of the Palm island.

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DUBAI AIRPORT DIAGRAM (OMDB)

N O T F O R R E A L W O R L D N A V I G A T I O N
A dd i ti o n al c har ts c a n be do wn l o ad e d f r om :
ht tp :/ / www.f l yt am pa . or g/ d wl /O MD B .p df

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RUNWAYS AND APPROACH

Runw ay Lengt h Surface ILS-ID Freq

12R 14590 f t asphalt 4 Light PAPI IDBE 110.9

30L 14590 f t asphalt 4 Light PAPI IDBW 111.3

12L 13123 f t asphalt 4 Light PAPI IDBL 110.1

30R 13123 f t asphalt 4 Light PAPI IDBR 109.5

AIRPORT COMMUNICATIONS

ATI S 131.7

Dubai Ground 118.35, 118.85

Dubai Tow er 118.75

Dubai Appr oach 124,9, 127,9

Dubai Departure 124,45

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QUESTIONS AND ANWERS

After installing FlyTampa-Dubai, FS still loads the default Airport.

Please add FlyTampa-Dubai to your scenery database by clicking


<SETTINGS> <SCENERY LIBRARY>. There click the <ADD AREA> button
and choose the f older /Addon Scenery/FlyTampa-Dubai. If you are running
Vista or W indows7 64Bit, please have a look at this tutorial:
http://www.f lytampa. org/support_if rame.html#2

Seams or lines in Airport Ground Textures.

Some small seams can appear in the airport ground textur es. This can be
minim ized by t weaking the Texture Filter ing settings (Anisotr opic-Filter ing)
in FSX's display Sett ings and the graphics card drivers.

FSX default service vehicles at the gates are missing.

The def ault vehicles were excluded because they can't be made aware of
surrounding buildings, result ing in possible vehicles half way inside building
walls, collisions with our jetways and custom apron clutter.

FSX parking spots are Ramp Military instead of Gate.

This is related to the issue mentioned above. At this moment we have no


method to exclude the def ault vehicles that appear on ever parking type
Gate. As a workaround we use parking type Ramp Militar y which does
not trigger any def ault vehicles.

Performance is low in FSX

Please see the Recommendations sect ion f urther ahead in this document.

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QUESTIONS AND ANWERS

Airport ground appears grey at night.

This happens in DX10 mode. Unf ortunately DX10 is only a incomplete


"Preview Mode" in FSX and not all f eatur es are supported when running
DX10. Recommended solution is to turn off the DX10 Preview checkbox
under FSX's Display settings.

Papi and runway lights are not bright enough or too bright and runway
lights do not come on during daytime/fog.

Dubai uses our own custom runway Lighting system. W e created new Halo
textur es f or Lights which look somewhat dif f erent f rom the def ault FSX
light ing. Note this custom Lighting is not aff ected by global Halo
replacement texutres from Addon such as REX and others. Unf ortunately
this cust om light ing method will not detect f og situations dur ing dayt ime.

Cant obtain clearance when holding at the runway entrances.

The hold-marking in this scener y have been placed at their real- world
positions, which in some instances can be too f ar f rom the runway f or the
FS engine to process. The solut ion is to taxi closer to the runway unt il
clearance can be obt ained.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

FSX Graphics Display Settings should be within the green marked areas. Red
may result in either poor visual qualit y or poor perf ormance.

Air line Traff ic has most impact on perf ormance at Dubai. Depending on the
Time of Day, there can be over 100 Aircr af t on the apron, which can
dramatically decrease perf ormance.

W ater Eff ects at Max 2.X can also result in a considerable perf ormance hit
and trigger a Bug wit hin FSX wher e Special Ef f ects such as Sand Dust, Strobes
and Floodlights stay active af ter changing to a Time when such eff ects should
be hidden.

EMB Ser ies HDR Bloom Plugin will improve the lighting in Flight Simulat or
without much impact on perf ormance. W e highly recommend t his instead of
using the "Bloom" setting in FSX.
http://f orums1.avsim .net/topic/248307-adaptive-lighting-eff ect-f or-
f sx/page__hl__ENBSeries

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RECOMMENDATIONS

FS W ater Conf igurator (FSW C) is a f ree tool that lets you cust omize the FSX
water without impact ing perf ormance.
http://www.str ikingsof tware.com/f swc.sht ml

LINKS

FlyTampa scener ies f or Micr osof t Flight Simulator


http://www.f lytampa. com

FlyTampa updates
http://www.f lytampa. com/downloads.htm l

FlyTampa support
support @f lytampa.com

Off icial Dubai International Air port website


http://www.dubaiairport.com

Off icial Skydive Dubai website


http://www.sk ydivedubai.ae

NOTES & CREDITS

This product including all f iles contained within this package is copyr ight
FlyTampa ( www.f lytampa.com). The inf ormation provided within this document
and the FlyTampa- Dubai scener y package is not intended f or real world
navigation. All trademarks and/or logos mentioned and/or displayed within this
scener y package are propert y of their respective holders and are being used
solely wit h the purpose of representing realit y. Installer developed with
Nullsof ts NSIS.

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