You need a good mesh. Please see chapter mesh for more.
Extract everything in a new folder of your choice and navigate to Burg_Teck.
If you want to have ridge lift copy Teck_ridge_lift_02.BGL for FS2002 or Teck_ridge_lift_04.BGL for FS2004 into the folder Scenery. Important: only one, the right one! If you want to use the Teck in both programs, please make separate folders. To activate, make the wind blow at 270/10kts.
If your Mesh makes the Castle Teck flying, also copy Unterberg.BGL into the folder Scenery. Better look at www.cr-software.com and get the good Freeware-Mesh there.
Than copy the hole folder Burg_Teck into the folder Addon Scenery of your FS2002/2004.
Now copy the folder Teck_Flights into the folder Flights of FS2002/2004.
Start FS and open the scenery library, then click add scenery, search Burg_Teck und click o.k. FS2004 has to be started again.
Chose flights, Teck_Flights and enjoy
If you dont want to have flying buzzards, you dont need the files Vogel_fam_dyn.bgl and Vogel_fam_raw_dyn.bgl. But if you want them, activate dynamic scenery in your FS.
If you want to deactivate the ridge lift, choose any wind, but not from the west (recommended 270°/10kts). Or deactivate the file Teck_ridge_lift_02/04).bgl.
You can do it by changing the file extension from .bgl e.g. to .blgx.
If you like the castle you can go to www.cr-software.com, there you can get a freeware-package by different autors with scenerys for southern Germany (inclusive my Teck). I think you will like them as well.
General
If you drive or fly eastbound along the Autobahn A8 from the airport of Stuttgart, you will see a castle on your right hand side after about 13 NM. It is the castle Teck on the top of the mountain Teck at the northern ridge of a highland called Schwaebische Alb (N48° 35.3, O 09° 28.2, TGO VOR Radial 103 Dist. 8.6NM, 775 m MSL). It is one of the important landmarks for VFR flying in that region.
2 NM northwest you find the good known airfield Hahnweide, home of 8 aeroclubs and a flying school. The Hahnweide is known for the biannual meeting of vintage aircraft, sailplane- and model-aircraft-chmapionships.
Thanks to CR-Software you can buy the airfield Hahnweide for FS2002/2004, but the castle Teck is missing. And I did not want to stay a flightsimulator consumer only. So I choosed the castle Teck to create my first scenery.
Mesh
The castle Teck was build on the top of a mountain of the northern ridge of the highland called Schwaebische Alb. The ridge is a sharp step. About 1200 ft to 2500 ft MSL. It means, that the scenery is useless without a proper mesh. As far as I know, there are 4 possibilities:
1. The mesh SRTM_3ARCSEC.bgl, see website of CR-Software (Freeware).
www.cr-software.com
2. The mesh FM_allemagne of Nanucq Faitmain, e.g. at Avsim (Freeware),
www.faitmain.com, www.SurClaro.com
3. The mesh Germany Scenery 1 (Payware),
www.vfr-germany.de
4. The mesh by Lago (Payware).
www.lagoonline.com
For 2. (or any other mesh, with the castle teck being airborne) please copy the file Unterberg.bgl into the scenery folder.
Ridge-Lift
When the wind is blowing from the west, the eastern ridge of the Teck-mountain gives ridge lift to birds, model-aircraft and sailplanes. You sail in front of the windows of the restaurant, enjoying each others sight. For having this pleasure in your simulator use Teck_Hangwind02.bgl for FS2002, respectivly 04.bgl for FS2004. I made them with Thermiek by Max Roodveldt, a wonderfull tool for virtual sailors (www.fszwever.com). Let the wind blow, 10 kts at 270° and you are feeling like an eagle. Enjoy the flight Ridge Lift in Front of Castle Teck in the folder Teck_flights. They are made with Dynkit2.03 by Konstantin Kukushkin and FSDyn! by Ariel Cimino.
Buzzards as Dynamic Scenery
For not being alone, a pair of buzzards is flying with you, teaching their kid to fly. So show him how to do it. The name of the files are Vogel_fam_dyn.bgl and Vogel_fam_raw_dyn.bgl in the scenery folder. You have to activate dynamic scenery in your simulator.
Credits
At first I have to thank Microsoft for the Flight Simulator. There may be a lot of reasons to criticize Microsoft, but we should be thankful for the great program called flightsimulator. Isnt it fantastic to fly all over the world for very little money and not leaving ones armchair? It is the same with Gmax by Discreet. Here you can even create your own world.
I also have to thank CR-Software. At last someone made the effort to construct Hahnweide and some other airfields of the region for FS2002/2004 to make this part of the world suitable for VFR-flying. You are angry that it is not freeware? Think about the details. Would you work so many hours for nothing? Wife and children also take flightsimulation easier if there is a little reward. Many thanks also for the support by Christoph Rieger of CR-Software. Especially for letting me use the textures of German-VFR-airfields. He also made the basics for the flying buzzards and the installation device.
Also many thanks to the other authors of the mesh files, because a building is nothing without its surrounding. A special thank you to Nanucq Faitmain who provides Europe and northern Africa with meshes as freeware. Of course I respect those in particular who make our hobby richer for free. Here I have to mention Arno Gerretsen of the NL2000 Team. Without his help it would have been impossible to get seasonal textures accepted by Gmax. Without the ingenious freeware program Thermiek by Max Roodveldt there would have been no ridge lift. Many thanks for Dynkit2.03 by Konstantin Kukushkin and FSDyn! by Ariel Cimino. At last my thanks to the many gifted free- and payware-authers, whose work made my flight simulator even more beautiful. They inspired me to try it myself. What a feeling to step out of role of the consumer and give a little back to the community.
I have to thank Dr. Peter Boesch for the aeriel photos. Without them, the rocks with the cave would not have been possible.
Copyright and Distribution
This archive is freeware, please dont try to make money with it. Also the conditions of usage of Gmax (Discreet) and Thermiek (Max Roodveldt) dont allow any commercial use. Any usage or distribution of this archive or a part of it in the context of any commercial use requires the written permission of the author.
Any usage of the textures requires the written permission of CR-Software.
This Author (Me), or any other persons or organisations listed on this file, are not responsible for any problems or damage resulting from the installation of these files.
Comments are welcome. You are free to distribute the hole archive but only without any modification and making any charge with it.
