                         M i c r o W I N G S
          D A L L A S / F O R T   W O R T H   S C E N E R Y
                         V e r s i o n   1.1


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THANK YOU
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MicroWINGS would like to thank the following individuals and companies 
who helped in one way or another to make it possible for MicroWINGS to 
provide our membership with this scenery:

   BAO, Ltd.  - Especially Hugo Feugen, Bruce Artwick, Paul Donlan, Steve 
                Setzler, Dan Weber, and Fred Kerr.
   Kikiware   - Laemming Wheeler
   Microscene - Stacy & Ed MacDonald
   MicroWINGS - Bill Higgins
   MicroWINGS - Robert MacKay

SIZE
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98 by 71 (statute) miles, making up some 6,958 square miles! This is the 
entire area covered by the Dallas-Ft. Worth VFR Terminal Area Chart.

AIRPORTS
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See the DFW_APTS.TXT file for the complete, detailed listing of airports
showing their ID, Desc/Name, Lat, Lon, Elevation, Magnetic Variation,
Runway Numbers, Runway Lenghts and Widths, and their ATIS/CTAF Frequencies
and range. The airports included in this scenery were selected generally
on the basis of if their runway lengths are 3,000 feet or longer.

ATIS/CTAF FREQ's
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The ATIS and CTAF frequencies (there is one for every airport in the
scenery!) can be found in the DFW_APTS.TXT file. The file prints nicely,
in landscape mode, on most laser and dot-matrix printers.

VOR's and ILS's
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The default FS5 scenery already has the VOR's covering the DFW area, except
for one which was made active just this year (1995) by the F.A.A., called
COWBOY (CVE) on frequency 116.2. COWBOY is located between the DFW and Love
Field airports. This new VOR *is* included in the MicroWINGS DFW Scenery.

ILS Frequencies included in the scenery are as follows:

   Airport               ID     Freq    Rwy  Type
   --------------------  -----  ------  ---  -------
   ADS-Addison           I-ADS  110.10  15   ILS/DME
   ADS-Addison           I-TBQ  110.10  33   LOCALIZER
   DAL-Love Field        I-DAL  111.50  13L  ILS/DME
   DAL-Love Field        I-DPX  111.70  13R  ILS/DME
   DAL-Love Field        I-LVF  111.70  31L  ILS/DME
   DAL-Love Field        I-OVW  111.50  31R  ILS/DME
   RBD-Redbird           I-RBD  108.50  31   ILS
   DFW-Dallas/Ft. Worth  I-LWN  109.50  13R  ILS/DME
   DFW-Dallas/Ft. Worth  I-FLQ  110.30  17L  ILS/DME
   DFW-Dallas/Ft. Worth  I-JHZ  111.35  17R  ILS
   DFW-Dallas/Ft. Worth  I-CIX  110.55  18L  ILS
   DFW-Dallas/Ft. Worth  I-VYN  111.90  18R  ILS/DME
   DFW-Dallas/Ft. Worth  I-RRA  110.90  31R  ILS
   DFW-Dallas/Ft. Worth  I-PKQ  110.30  35R  ILS/DME
   DFW-Dallas/Ft. Worth  I-BXN  111.90  36L  ILS/DME
   AFW-Alliance          I-UPE  110.15  16   ILS/DME
   AFW-Alliance          I-JVX  110.15  34   ILS
   FTW-Meacham           I-FTW  109.90  16L  ILS/DME


FLIGHT SERVICE STATION
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The MicroWINGS DFW scenery offers an operational Flight Service Station
(FSS) frequency. By tuning in the Fort Worth FSS, on 122.60, you can
obtain the current weather conditions around the DFW scenery area.

BUILDINGS
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This scenery has various buildings scattered throughout the scenery. 
Generic buildings line the side(s) of Central Expressway (75), LBJ
Freeway (635), Stemmons Freeway (35E) near downtown, and along the
North Dallas Tollway (north of 635). A generic downtown setting with
generic buildings is depicted for the downtown area of Fort Worth.
Specific (non-generic) buildings in the scenery include:

   Building                         General Location
   --------------------------       ------------------------------
   Renaissance Tower (Ewing Bldg)   Downtown Dallas
   Nations Bank Plaza (Green Giant) Downtown Dallas
   Lincoln Plaza                    Downtown Dallas
   Hyatt Regency Hotel              Downtown Dallas
   Reunion Tower                    Downtown Dallas (Next to Hyatt)
   Trammel Crow Center              Downtown Dallas
   Allianz Financial Center         Downtown Dallas
   One Main Place                   Downtown Dallas
   Bryan Tower                      Downtown Dallas
   One Ferris Plaza                 Downtown Dallas
   Union Station                    Downtown Dallas
   Braford Plaza Hotel              Downtown Dallas
   Terminal Annex                   Downtown Dallas
   School Book Depository           Downtown Dallas
   Earl Cabell Federal Building     Downtown Dallas
   Fountain Place                   Downtown Dallas
   First Baptist Church             Downtown Dallas
   Texas Commerce Tower             Downtown Dallas
   City Hall & Fountain             Downtown Dallas
   Southland Center                 Downtown Dallas
   Cotton Bowl Stadium              ESE of Downtown Dallas
   Campbell Center                  75 and NW Highway
   Spectrum Center East & West      SE of Addison Airport
   Oryx Building                    NE corner of 635 & Tollway
   Telenet Building                 West side of Tollway near 635
   Spring Valley Building           NW of Spring Valley & Tollway
   Texas Stadium (w/Hole covered)   183 and 114, SE of DFW
   SimuFlite Training Center        SW area of DFW Airport
   DFW Terminals 2W, 2E, 3E, 4E     DFW Airport
   DFW Towers (three total)         DFW Airport
   DFW Hyatt Hotel (East & West)    DFW Airport
   DFW Hangars (six total)          DFW Airport
   ADS Buildings (twelve total)     Addison Airport
   ADS Tower                        Addison Airport
   RBD Buildings (two total)        Redbird Airport
   RBD Tower                        Redbird Airport
   DAL Terminals                    Love Field Airport
   DAL Tower                        Love Field Airport
   AFW Buildings                    Alliance Airport
   AFW Tower                        Alliance Airport
   FTW Buildings (five total)       Meacham Airport
   FTW Tower                        Meacham Airport

ROADS
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Roads included in the DFW Scenery include complete or partial sections of: 
Central Expressway (75), LBJ Freeway (635), Stemmons Freeway (35E), the
North Dallas Tollway, E. Grand / 78, 289 to downtown, 183, 356, 114, 348, 
175, 80, 45, North West Highway, 342, 67, Harry Hines, Mockingbird, 
Addison airport roads, Loop 820, Loop 12, 20, 30, 303, 287, 121, 25, 377, 
199, downtown Dallas streets, DFW airport roads, Alliance airport roads, 
Meacham airport roads, 35W, Hillcrest, Coit, Keller Springs, Midway, 
Lovers, Beltline, Marsh, Webb Chapel, and Campbell.

CITY OUTLINES
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Outlines and textures for the following Cities and Towns are included in
the MicroWINGS DFW Scenery: Irving, Dallas (White Rock, Reinhardt, 
Highland Park, University Park, Carrolton, and Richardson), Balch Springs,
Mesquite, Weatherford, Denton, Arlington, and major sections of Ft. Worth.

LAKES
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The lakes included in the scenery are: White Rock Lake, Lake Ray
Hubbard, Bachman Lake, Las Colinas Lake, North Lake, Vilbig Lake (Irving),
Lake Weatherford, Lake Bridgeport, Lake Grapevine, Lake Lewisville, Eagle
Mountain Lake, Lake Arlington, Marine Creek Lake, and Lake Worth.

RIVERS
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Rivers and creeks that can be seen in the scenery include the: Elm Fork
River, Trinity River, White Rock Creek (north and south of White Rock
Lake), Muddy Creek, Mountain Creek, and Village Creek.


WORKING WITH 5.1's CD-ROM SCENERY
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5.1's CD-ROM based scenery includes an area for Dallas that has the runways
for the DFW Airport. When you have this section of the CD-ROM enabled, it
will take precedence over the MicroWINGS DFW Scenery (the same goes for any
other add-on scenery area that competes with the CD-ROM based scenery). In
order to see the MicroWINGS DFW scenery instead, you must pause the 
simulation and disable the CD-ROM's N. America scenery. This method to disable
the CD-ROM in order to see add-on scenery is documented in the FS5.1 Read Me
file as shown below...

  "In using scenery products in conjunction with the CD-ROM, turn off the 
  scenery area file for the specific areas, e.g. when flying in Japan, turn
  off the Asia scenery area, when flying in the Caribbean turn off NAmerica."


NOTAM's
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The following airports are not at their "real" world elevations. Due to a 
limitation in FS5's scenery building when using photo-realistic airports, 
nearby areas around a photo-realistic airport must be at the same elevation 
as the photo airport. Since the following airports are very close to a photo 
airport, their elevation has been set to the same as the photo airport's
elevation.

Saginaw (F04) is at 710 MSL (real world elev is 770 MSL)
Flying Cap Valley (F59) is at 603 MSL (real world elev is 638 MSL)
Air Park Dallas (F69) is at 643 MSL (real world elev is 695 MSL)

EASTER EGGS
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o  Photo's of full motion simulators in the windows on the SimuFlite building.
o  Photo of the inside of a simulator when you taxi into the SimuFlite building
   through the front, center section (photo appears on back wall).
o  See through airport Tower cabs with lit interiors at night.
o  Detail on DFW's three towers.
o  Multi-faceted Fountain Place building in downtown Dallas.
o  Reunion Tower's steel lattice work and night lights in downtown Dallas.
o  Illuminated fountain pool in front of City Hall building in downtown Dallas.
o  Hole in the middle of the Texas Commerce building in downtown Dallas.
o  68 parked aircraft of assorted types and colors at the six photo airports!
   Color combinations depict aircraft from American, Delta, Southwest, etc.
o  Illuminated windows at night on the DFW Terminal buildings.
o  Custom night lighting effects on the buildings in downtown Dallas.
o  Detailed downtown Dallas streets.
o  Flight Service Station (FSS) frequency.
o  ATIS or CTAF information and frequency for *every* airport in the scenery.
o  69 runways to land at in the scenery!
o  Parked-At-The-Terminal situations in World Airports to make realistic
   Learjet and Airliner starts (where reverse thrust is needed to back away).
   This is available at DFW and Love Field.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF DFW SCENERY
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o  Taxiway lights become further spaced apart when airborne to dullen their
intensity when viewed from the air (much more realistic) and to help increase
the frame rate.

o  Taxiway polygons disappear when in the air to reveal the much more realistic
photos of the taxiways. They appear again when on the ground to aid in taxing
around the airports (since the taxiway photos become too pixelized up close).

o  Very effective use of scenery complexity switches enabling not just more
scenery but more feature to scenery such as road lights at night, etc.

TIPS FOR IMPROVING FRAME RATES
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Turn Ground Shadows off
Turn Textured Clouds/Sky off
Turn Gradient Horizon off
Use lower settings for Scenery Complexity
Do not use scenery smoothing
Turn building textures off (try this last!)

DFW_TOUR.FSP
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This file is a flight path file for use with BAO's up-comming Flight Shop
product. When compiled into an adventure, it will take you on a nice flight
around the Dallas/Fort Worth Scenery.

COPYRIGHT
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The scenery, all related files, and materials are

     Copyright (c) 1995 by MicroWINGS, Inc.
             All Rights Reserved

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