Gravity EDDS v0.3

Gravity EDDS v0.3 - 2021-02-27

This update provides new buildings, a new aerial image, completely redone terraforming and many bug fixes.

Massive thanks goes out to:

• titan2002 (Outstanding airport design in general)
• Pilot1106 (Excellent fire station and BVD buidling)
• wodecffb (Excellent GAT objects & ILS Antennas)
• Fipspilot (Superb work on the ground marks & aerial imagery)

Buildings:

• Added Fire Station
• Added tunnel portal for B313 road
• Added Ground Handling Service Hangar
• Added following small Buildings Around the GAT and Fire Station:
  • red and yellow Gate
  • grey pillars (a lot of them)
  • Ticket Machine
  • Gate "Feuerwehr" Building
  • BBQ place (season for that is starting soon)
  • gas bottles storage
• Added ILS and Localizer antennas (both runways)
• Added runway guard lights (wig-wags)
• Copied the Lufthansa Technik Hangar to the DC Aviation Hangar place as a placeholder

Ground textures:

• Updated grass texture all over the airport
• Added surrounding aerial map
• Added following ground marks on the north apron:
  • 15/30 km/h limiter
  • 07-25 and 25-07 runway marks
  • Give way sign
  • priority road sign
  • no stopping sign
  • plane crossing sign
  • 40-48 parking marks
• Added the Cargo Apron including all stands (100s and 200s)

Other:

• Fixed multiple terraforming bugs
• Fixed blue taxiway edge light bug (due to latest update)

Gravity EDDS 0.2

Gravity EDDS v0.2 - 2020-11-14

This is a huge update with a lot of new stuff: New buildings, landscape, jetways and a lot of fixes to the NavData.
Stay tuned for more content in the future. And as always: Enjoy your flight!

Many thanks to our team members: @titanier2002 @firedevil79 @Fipspilot @pilot1106 @CommanderStone

General Airport

• added realistic slope to the runway
• added simple terraforming around and on the airport
• added heightmap preparation for B312 tunnel
• added placeholder for the spotter hill
• updated ground textures at GAT and around the main apron
• updated approach lights

Taxiways

• added taxiway L2 and L3
• added taxiway hold short lines
• added taxiway signs "GA2" and "GA3" on GAT entry
• added enhanced centerlines on all holding points
• updated multiple runway exit lines
• updated closed taxiway marks for old X taxiway
• fixed taxiways within GAT
• fixed taxiway connections between GAT and tayiway N
• fixed taxiway centerline from K to Y (crossing holdingpoint RW07)
• fixed most of the taxiway signs

Parking

• added parking spots 24A, 26A and 28A
• added new apron layout for 40s parking spots (now 40-48, before 40-46)
  • This incorporates the new apron layout as constructed at the moment (in real life, finished approx. 2021)
• updated parking spots 9 to 74 from GA parking to "gate parking"
• updated vehicle streets around the main apron

Airport facilities

• added fuel truck support for all airliner and GAT parking spots
• added AI traffic connections for all airliner and GAT parking spots
• added taxiway edge lights
• added scenery objects all over the main apron and GAT
• added white and red edge lines for all parking spots on the main apron
• added multiple light masts
• added walls between fire department and holding point 25 and behind the GAT
• added jetblast fences west of position 9 and near the GAT

Buildings / Terminal

• added Lufthansa Technik maintenance hangar
• added maintenance garage (east of the GAT)
• added GAT Terminal building
• added GAT hangar 1 and 2
• added temporary jetways (will updated with new terminal building)

NavData / Approaches

• added VOR DME approaches
• added ETASA on ETASA 2H and KRH on KRH 5B departure routes
• added STG waypoint to all approach procedures
• added tansitions for runway 07 and 25
• added FI07 to ILS 07 approach
• added FI25 to ILS 25 approach
• updated names for BADSO 2A, TEKSI 5A and REUTL 5A STARs
• updated ILS course from true heading to magnetic heading
• fixed waypoints DS030 and DS033 on ROTWE 7H departure
• fixed waypoints DS552 and DS532 on KRH1W arrival
• fixed waypoints for TEKSI 5A STAR
• fixed coordinates of waypoint DS531
• removed GPS approaches (does not exist in reallife)
• removed NDB DME approaches (does not exist in reallife)
• removed waypoints DS411 and DS512 from ILS approaches

Known issues

• missing ground textures (due to 1.10.11 patch)
• flickering building windows
• windsock not lighted
• taxiway signs "ils cat 3 hold short" have a wrong / between II and III
• taxiway signs "TORA distance" have missing meter letter

Gravity-EDDS v0.1b

Changelog

Bugfixes

• changed ISTE frequency to 109.5 from 110.9
• fixed CTD for RNAV07
• fixed CTD for GPS07
• fixed CTD for NDBDME07
• fixed CTD for ILS 25 + 07

Transitions

• Transitions for RNAV Runway07
• Transitions for RNAV Runway25
• added Transitions BADSO,KRH,LBU,REUTL, TEKSI, NOSBU and IBIRU

Departures

• added departures for Runway 07 ABTA4H, DKB4H, ETAS2H, GEBN6H, KRH2H, KUNO2H, OKIB4H,ROTW7H,STG2H,SUL3H,TAGI2H,TEDG2H,VESI2H
• added departures for Runway 25 DKB9B, ETAS4B, GEBN7B, KRH5B, KUNO2B, OKIB4B, ROTW5B, STG1B, SUL3B, TAGI4B, TEDG1B, VESI4B

COM frequencies:

• changed COM frequencies to current EDDS AIP_18JUN2020

Waypoints:

• fixed / added some missing waypoints for transitions

Known Issues

• procedure "NDBDME 07 & NDBDME 25" waypoints seem not to fit
• procedure GPS 07 and GPS 25 to be checked if valid for the airport or not, waypoints seem not to fit

Comments

There is still a lot to come and this is only a small part of what is going on in the background. Stay tuned for further updates!

gravity-EDDS First release

This is our first official release for the Stuttgart Airport in Germany.

ICAO Code: EDDS
IATA Code: STR

Due to the early stages of developement, you might have bugs and unrealistic elements in the scenery.