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The Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower for FS2002/FS2004
Copyright B.Semmens 8 November 2005
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Compressed File Name: spinktwr.zip
Method of Installing: Manual
Installing File: None
Type of Software: Freeware
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This zip scenery file is VFR Photographic and FSTerrain Scenery compatible with Flight Simulator FS2002/2004.

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The Spinnaker Tower
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The Spinnaker Tower, which was a £25 million joint UK Millennium Commission, Portsmouth City Council and Berkeley Festival Waterfront Company Limited sponsored project, opened in October 2005 and, as an international landmark, has transformed the water front of Portsmouth Harbour on the South Coast of England.

The Tower was originally designed by 'Scott Wilson Advanced Technology Group' at Basingstoke, Hampshire using Lusus Civil & Structural Analysis Finite Element Software at the London office for Category III checking of the original design.

The Tower is a concrete, steel and composite structure that rises 170 metres from the sea adjacent to Gunwharf Quays. It is constructed upon a 3m thick pile cap and founded on 84 piles, and comprises two inclined slip-formed hexagonal concrete shafts 6m across, which merge into a single shaft at 70m. Two crossed bows, fabricated from 10.8m long & 1.5m wide structural steel box sections, rise from the ground, cross between the shafts at 35m and rise to connect with the shaft again at 120m. The bow varies from 10-12m in depth at the base and top of the tower, reducing to 2.5m at the centre. A grid of I-section steel beams span between the concrete tower, steel bows and frontal rib beams at each level to support the thick 150mm concrete floor slabs. One shaft contains an internal express lift, the other shaft a panoramic external lift up the seaward face of the tower. The tower has three high-level trapezoidal tourist viewing platforms that vary in size from 18m x 14m down to 12m x 4.7m for the highest deck. The platforms are situated at heights of 100m, 105m and 110m and offer extensive views over Portsmouth Harbour, Gosport and the Solent.

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Location
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The Spinnaker Tower is adjacent to Gunwharf Quays at co-ordinates N 050:47.77’ W 001:6.48’. The nearest International Airport is Southampton (EGHI). Easiest way to see the tower is to take off from RNWY 20 and climb out on a heading of 200 deg and at 500ft change your heading to 130 deg. After 3-4 minutes, depending on your airspeed, you should see the Tower on the horizon. Although there does not seem to be any Portsmouth scenery associated with the default FS2002 (or with available scenery downloads), the Tower can be clearly seen in Portsmouth Harbour with VFR, non-3D, scenery (best viewed at 2,000+ ft).

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Installation
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1. Unzip the compressed file 'spinktwr.zip' into a temporary folder. You should now have the following files in your temporary folder:

Spinktwr\
...... file_id
...... Spinnaker Tower.doc (this document)
...... Spinnaker Tower.txt (text document)
...... spktower.jpg
...... \scenery
...... \texture

2. The 'Spinktwr\' folder and its sub-folders must be copied into the ... \Addon scenery folder of FS2002.

i.e. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\Addon scenery\Spinktwr\

(This will be the C:\Flight Simulator9\... scenery folder if you are using FS2004.)

3. Inform FS2002 of the new addon scenery by registering it with FS2002 (FS2004). When you fly next you should see the new Spinnaker Tower at Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth (UK).

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Notes
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* Night lighting (using L1 SCASM code criteria & _LM texture files) have been included in this scenery.

* Other Southern England scenery (VFR Photographic and FSTerrain Scenery compatible with Flight Simulator FS2002/2004 except early versions flagged +) by the author include:

Module 1: Soton2k2 (Southampton Western Docks) soton02a.zip (Freeware)+
Module 2: DocksE (Southampton Eastern Docks) soton02b.zip (Freeware)+
Module 3: Woolston (Woolston Area) soton02c.zip (Freeware)+
Module 4: Wshore (Weston Shore Area) soton02d.zip (Freeware)+
Module 5: Marchwood (Marchwood Military Port Area) soton02e.zip (Freeware)+
Module 6: Hythe (Hythe Area) soton02f.zip (Freeware)
Module 7: Calshot (Calshot Spit) soton02g.zip (Freeware)
Module 8: Sotonwater (Southampton Water) soton02h.zip (Freeware)
Module 9: Esso (Fawley Oil Refinery) soton02i.zip (Freeware)
Important Information on Freeware/Payware Issues sotoninf.zip (Freeware)

* Scenery Modules 1-5 above were 'updated' in January 2005 in order to make them VFR & FSTerrain compatible: -

Module 1: Soton2k2 (Southampton Western Docks) Update Sotonud1.zip (Freeware)
Module 2: DocksE (Southampton Eastern Docks) Update Sotonud2.zip (Freeware)
Module 3: Woolston (Woolston Area) Update Sotonud3.zip (Freeware)
Module 4: Wshore (Weston Shore Area) Update Sotonud4.zip (Freeware)
Module 5: Marchwood (Marchwood Military Port) Update Sotonud5.zip (Freeware)

All my scenery can be found at the SurClaro site.

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Acknowledgement
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Thanks are owed to Lusas for their 'Case Studies' Web article providing information & technical detail about the Spinnaker Tower. This article provided the necessary design and technical specifications for the development of this 3D-Single Scenery Object for FS2002/FS2004. Copyright of this Web article remains with Lusas 2004-October 2005; E-mail: webmaster@lusas.com. Thanks also to J. Broughton for his FS People macro set.

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Copyright & Legal Issues
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This scenery has been created with the aid of the freeware utility design tools, Airport 2.60 FS Scenery Designer; Build 155; SCASM Scenery Assembler v2.88 (32) for Airport v2.60; Easy Object Designer II 2.0.50; BMP2000 (Extended-Bitmap Editing Utility); DXTBmp (16 Bit Texture Manipulator) v4.00.45 and Microsoft Software Flight Simulator 2002 and as such is itself freeware. Many thanks for these well known utility design tools.

All scenery and texture files are FREEWARE and are not for commercial use unless prior permission is granted from the author - please obtain the author’s permission if you wish to use or adapt any components of these zip files in order to avoid copyright infringement. Copyright remains with the original development author (B.Semmens).

You cannot modify, distribute or sell any of these file(s) or produce a CD-version of this scenery file(s) for profit (or any of its components or component parts in any modified form) without the development author’s expressed permission.

You may not 'dis-assemble', ‘reverse engineer’ or ‘extract’ any of the scenery *.bgl files or design models without my express permission. Selling and/or adapting any of these files is strictly prohibited. All rights and trademarks are reserved and remain the sole property & copyright of the original author(s) and publisher(s).

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Disclaimer
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The author provides this SOFTWARE and any (if any) support AS IS and with all known or unknown faults and without guarantee or warranty of any kind, either, direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, expressed, implied or statutory.

The SOFTWARE, as far as is known, is virus free having been developed under the watchful eye of Symantec’s Norton Systems Works and Spyware software. However, THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY OF OR ARISING OUT OF USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND SUPPORT, IF ANY, REMAINS WITH THE USER and IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER TO HARDWARE AND/OR INSTALLED SOFTWARE.

Readme_spktwr.txt spinktwr.zip B.Semmens. 8 November 2005