Aerosoft Offshore Landmarks: North Sea

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In 2030, 65% of the North Sea will be an industrial zone. Over 70% of the electricity for countries surrounding the North Sea will be generated by the massive offshore wind parks. The North Sea is the biggest work site on the planet, where ships costing billions of dollars place and remove wind turbines and platforms. Thousands of people work there in often atrocious conditions. What used to be an ‘empty’ sea is now filled with platforms, wind farms and other structures. Aviation plays a huge role in this developing industry. Over 90% of European helicopter traffic is dedicated to the offshore industry.

That is why we believe a scenery covering the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea makes sense. With the simulator fully supporting helicopters, a new territory to explore is available!

All the objects are placed in exactly the correct position using databases collected over many months. The ships are all located where they were on Jan 20, 2022, at 12:00 GMT. This means that every ship is in a ‘logical’ position. So, a cargo ship could be at an anchorage waiting for a port dock to become available, a small fishing vessel going to its fishing ground or a construction ship placing pylons for new wind turbines.

Features:

• Over a billion polygons
• Fully usable crew boat (designed to be used with outside view only)
• 388 new heliports
• 196 new airports (ICAO codes)
• 78 new NDB stations
• 741 new ships with helideck or winch locations
• 72 new substations (part of a wind park) with helidecks
• All objects with extensive LOD support, emissive and dynamic lights
• Most objects will have some form of animation
• Fishing Industry
• Trawlers
• Factory Ships
• Seiners
• Shipping Industry
• Container ships
• Bulk carriers
• LNG tankers
• Oil tankers
• Chemical tankers
• Fruit juice tankers
• Livestock carriers
• Other vessels
• Ferries
• Dredgers
• Cruise ships
• Wind Industry
• Monopile wind turbines
• Jacket wind turbines
• Fast crew boats
• Substations
• Wind Industry Construction
• Survey vessels
• Heavy lift vessels
• Offshore support vessels
• Crane vessels
• Crane platforms
• Floatels
• Tug boats
• Cable laying vessels
• Oil/Gas production
• Production rigs (spar, jack-up, compliant)
• Normally Unmanned Installations (NUI)
• Conductor Support Systems (satellite stations)
• Fast crew boats
• Support vessels
• Anchor vessels
• Patrol vessels
• Floating production systems ships
• Floating production systems monocolumn
• Floatels
• Single buoy mooring stations
• Oil/Gas Industry construction
• Drilling rigs
• Seismic survey vessels
• Crane vessels
• Tug boats
• Anchor boats
• Pipe laying vessels
• All wind farms
• Borssele
• Hollandse Kust - Zuid
• Hollandse Kust - North
• Egmond aan Zee
• Riffgat
• Alpha Ventus
• North Sea One
• Sea Wind South/East
• Amrum Bank West
• Butendiek
• DanTysk
• Ramp
• Thanet
• Kentish Flats Extension
• Gunfleet Sands II
• London Array
• Lincs
• Neart Na Gaoithe
• Burbo Bank Extension
• Walney Extension
• Anchorages
• Rotterdam Anchorage
• Scheveningen Anchorage
• Amsterdam Anchorage
• Aussenelbe Anchorage
• Neue Weser Anchorage
• DW Anchorage

New in MSFS 2024

• All models in the original MSFS24 format
• All models with the MSFS24 LOD system
• Model visibility at altitudes above 40,000 ft
• 24 new animated characters added (appear at different times and temperatures. Not visible in rain or snow)
• Terrace with animated people added (appear at different times and temperatures. Not visible in rain or snow)
• Completely new crew vessel by Rodrigo Moraes (https://www.roprodaudiovisual.com/)
• Rotterdam-Rijnmond Pilotage Service (ICAO: EHTP)
• EHTP Helicopter Landing Pad reworked
• 24 new animated characters added
• 5 new helicopter parking spots added (for Cold&Dark start)
• New LED lights at the helipad
• New flags and windsocks with cloth animation
• Containers added at the adjacent terminal
• Terrace with animated people added
• Rotterdam Maasvlakte with tanks, offshore containers, container ships, and gantry cranes upgraded
• Added 2 new radar towers
• Added 1 Bird Radar
• Added 36 new wind turbines
• Added 2 transmission towers
• New in Pistoolhaven
• Sewage sewer
• HAPI at the EHTP helicopter landing pad (non-functional)
• In Character Mode
• Landable and walkable platforms, ships, and tankers
• Walkable docks in Pistolhaven

Optimizations:

• 37 3D-models for "hard surfaces" removed; these have now been integrated directly into the 3D models
• Dozens of individual windsock placements removed; these windsocks are now attached directly to the models via Model Attachments
• Optimized walkable and landing surfaces of the ships and platforms

Compatibility:

• Adapted to the photogrammetry from City Update 14 (Belgium and the Netherlands)
• Optimal integration with Global Shipping 24 by Seafront and the GAIST Shipping Add-On by Henrik Nielsen