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Condor 2 Airports - Construction Guide Xavier Delaborde © 2019 Version 1.0 en - 2019-09-16 Page 3/132 Table of Contents Avertissement/Warning: ...................................................................................................... 2 Table of Contents................................................................................................................................ 3 Foreword ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Tools ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Goals and Prerequisites ...................................................................................................................... 7 Condor 2 and scenery folders .......................................................................................................... 8 Condor 2 Objects .......................................................................................................................... 13 Airport operation with Condor 2 ................................................................................................... 16 Main Advices:............................................................................................................................ 17 The Tow planes ballet ............................................................................................................... 18 Tow planes take-off towing a glider, in Condor 2: ............................................................... 18 Tow plane landing and taxiing on the airport towards its parking place. ............................. 19 Wings 3D : ........................................................................................................................................ 22 Basic operations............................................................................................................................ 22 Conventions of the information line extended to the whole document: ........................................ 23 Primitives adapted to airports modeling ....................................................................................... 25 Creating the "EPiste" primitive .................................................................................................. 25 1 - Geometry cleaning: ....................................................................................................... 27 2 - Edges must be "Hard": .................................................................................................. 27 3 - Eliminate the bottom face ............................................................................................. 27 4 - Change Name ................................................................................................................ 27 5 - Standard "UV Mapping" ................................................................................................ 27 6 - Creating a primitives folder for airports and Saving the primitive Episte. ....................... 29 Creating the Hangar primitive ................................................................................................... 29 Shortcuts adapted to the creation of airports................................................................................ 30 Creating the H Hotkey ............................................................................................................... 31 Creating the N Hotkey ............................................................................................................... 32 Creating the K Hotkey ............................................................................................................... 32 Creating the J Hotkey ................................................................................................................ 32 Last Resort: ............................................................................................................................... 33 List of defined Hotkeys .............................................................................................................. 34 Modeling LOKL Lienz-Nikolsdorf Airport ............................................................................................ 35 Condor 2 Airports - Construction Guide Xavier Delaborde © 2019 Version 1.0 en - 2019-09-16 Page 4/132 1 / Gather strong documentation with UTM projection plans........................................................ 35 Photos....................................................................................................................................... 35 Maps and Drawings ................................................................................................................... 38 A Google Earth satellite photo ................................................................................................... 39 Qgis 2.18 Las Palmas ................................................................................................................. 41 QGIS 3.6 .................................................................................................................................... 44 Runway Official Data ................................................................................................................. 45 2/ Creating Airports in Landscape Editor. ...................................................................................... 46 How Landscape Editor works for airports .................................................................................. 46 Creating a new airport in Landscape Editor ............................................................................... 47 3/ Load, Scale and Place Maps and Drawings in Wings 3D. ............................................................ 49 Creating the Standard Reference for Scaling .............................................................................. 50 Inserting the Google Earth Map "LienzGEMax" .......................................................................... 52 Scaling and Orienting ...............................................................................................................