Wonderful Madeira Cristiano Ronaldo airport “Wonderful Cristiano Ronaldo airport” depicts the airport on the island of Madeira, Portugal, In the Atlantic Ocean. The airport (ICAO code LPMA) deserves the city of Funchal. https://skyvector.com/LPMA The scenery features : ✔ Accurate mesh depicting the typical terrain variations at the Madeira airport ✔ Accurate airport layout, upgraded from the Laminar Research Gateway (see credits) ✔ Custom 3D elements to get a taste of the real airport : custom control tower, custom walls and signs on the terminal building, custom warehouses and fire brigade typical roofs, runway 05 archways, runway 23 platform with pillars. ✔ Curved lead-in lights starting from the visual reference point GELO on the coast. ✔ Night illumination ✔ Factory added at GELO ✔ Lightweight (about 165 Mo) ✔ Compatibility with simHeaven X-Europe ✔ Source files for ground heights. There is no satellite imagery on our scenery, also known as “orthophotos”. However the user can easily add some because we distribute the specific elevations data needed. Crafted in X-Plane 12.07. We kept things simple by adjusting the balance between using the generic building bricks (offered by WED for the Gateway) and designing custom 3D objects. Installation 1) Drop all files and folders into : X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/LPMA – 0 – Documentation X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/LPMA – 1 – Madeira airport X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/LPMA – 2 – Madeira roads X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/LPMA – 3 – Madeira terrain 2) Open scenery_packs.ini and declare in this order of priority, from top to bottom : SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LPMA – 1 – Madeira airport SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LPMA – 2 – Madeira roads SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LPMA – 3 – Madeira terrain Alternative installation for simHeaven X-Europe This scenery was built for the default X-Plane 12 environment. However this variant of the installation process allows to nevertheless show simHeaven buildings (https://simheaven.com/simdownloads/x-europe/) in our scenery. 1) Drop all files and folders into : X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/LPMA – 0 – Documentation X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/LPMA – 1 – Madeira airport X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/LPMA – 2 – Madeira roads X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/LPMA – 3 – Madeira terrain 2) This time, in scenery_packs.ini, declare the madeira airport on top, but please declare Madeira roads and Madeira terrain below X-World Europe layers. SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LPMA - 1 - Madeira airport/ SCENERY_PACK *GLOBAL_AIRPORTS* SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-1-vfr/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-2-regions/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-3-details/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-4-extras/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-5-footprints/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-6-scenery/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-7-forests/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-8-network/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Vegetation_Library/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LPMA - 2 - Madeira roads/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LPMA - 3 - Madeira terrain/ SimHeaven buildings Our airport & terrain Credits Terrain model I used a 1" Digital Terrain Model (DTM), based on precise LiDAR elevation sources. Its horizontal resolution is ca. 20 x 30 m (1"), and the vertical resolution is 1 m. This DTM is open, free and without charge. It is licensed using the licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Sonny, the author, allows to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material. Sonny’s website is here : https://sonny.4lima.de/ Sonny spent hundreds of hours of his leisure time to collect Opendata source files, get in contact with national public authorities, search for errors, plug gaps within the data, compile and resample the result in integrative files offered for download for free. Consider a donation, thank you ! Manual adaptation of the terrain elevation to LPMA airport JOSM patch initially from X-Plane.org user shizumaat, but almost fully modified by me. Charts Charts comes from Portugese eAIP, sourced October 2023 (https://ais.nav.pt/onlineeaip-en/ ). X-Plane Airport layout The native X-Plane 12 airport from the Laminar Research gateway was used and modified. It was built by Jan Vogel, flyingpauls, Michael Minnhaar, darkgo and Pedro Magueija. What I did is to upgrade this base scenery, and include my own custom elements, designed in the software AC3D to underline the peculiarities of LPMA. But that works only with the exact mesh with which the scenery was build upon ! Satellite imagery for testing on the developer computer (not distributed) We don’t distribute satellite pictures (our scenery works autonomously without), but tests were made with imagery from Sentinel-2 cloudless (https://s2maps.eu) by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2021). Sentinel-2 cloudless 2021 by EOX IT Services GmbH is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Adding Orthophotos We do NOT make use of satellite pictures in our scenery. However, you may upgrade our scenery with satellite pictures thanks to Ortho4XP. You need to install a patch used to produced the exact mesh required for this scenery. This scenery cannot be used without our custom mesh. Ortho4XP will produced the accurate mesh only if our specific patch is added in the directory “Patches” of Ortho4XP. You will find the required sources for Ortho4XP in LPMA – 0 – Documentation/Sources for Ortho4XP.zip. Extract the full folders and file : Patches/+30-020/+32-017/LPMA.patch.osm into : Ortho4XP-master/ to obtain Ortho4XP-master/Patches/+30-020/+32-017/LPMA.patch.osm You will also need a terrain model. Please extract Sonny’s Digital Terrain Models : Custom_DEM/N32W017.hgt Custom_DEM/N32W018.hgt into : Ortho4XP-master/ to obtain Ortho4XP-master/Custom_DEM/N32W017.hgt Ortho4XP-master/Custom_DEM/N32W018.hgt In Ortho4XP, use the configuration described in Ortho4XP_configuration_madeira.txt If you change road_level, purge small_roads.osm in Ortho4XP-master/. This scenery was checked with “road_level = 3”, every other setting may produce undesirable terrain spikes. The X-Plane scenery file (called DSF) that you want to change is on Latitude 32 and Longitude -17 (that part contains the airport at Santa Cruz). You may want to change also the DSF on Latitude 32 and Longitude -18 for the rest of the Island. That’s optional. The scenery was designed with Ortho4XP in mind, so this is perfectly compatible with satellite imagery up to “zoom level” 19 in the airport area. Note : if you compile a scenery using Ortho4XP, the new files will go into yOrtho4XP_Overlays instead of “LPMA – 2 – Madeira roads” and into zOrtho4XP_+32017 instead of “LPMA – 3 – Madeira terrain”. Therefore in your scenery_packs.ini, you may inactivate our two custom folders to use Ortho4XP ones. Our airport & terrain Imagery It is possible to load simHeaven improments and ortho tiles while keeping my improvements at the airport. This time, the scenery_packs.ini will resemble to : SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LPMA - 1 - Madeira airport/ SCENERY_PACK *GLOBAL_AIRPORTS* SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-1-vfr/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-2-regions/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-3-details/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-4-extras/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-5-footprints/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-6-scenery/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-7-forests/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Europe-8-network/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/simHeaven_X-World_Vegetation_Library/ SCENERY_PACK_DISABLED Custom Scenery/LPMA - 2 - Madeira roads/ SCENERY_PACK_DISABLED Custom Scenery/LPMA - 3 - Madeira terrain/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/yOrtho4XP_Overlays SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zOrtho4XP_+32-017 <---- the terrain you make with ortho4XP with the mandatory LPMA patch and the mandatory digital terrain model from sonny. Airport and approach charts Via Nav Portugal : https://ais.nav.pt/online-eaip-en/ Via Eurocontrol EAD website : https://www.ead.eurocontrol.int
