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Towers and Beacon Lights

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I made a Tower with a Beacon Light on top. Fine but I guessed the measurments. Where would I find out how big they are supposed to be in 'real life' or at least acceptable in FS9? You can see them all over the place in FS9 but how do you measure them?
 
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I had the same quesion. The only thing I did was guess about 60 to 80 ft tall. I did a control tower about 60 ft. I made a rudimentary one then placed it with EZ and slewed it over next to an FS9 tower. I was pretty close, at least in the ball park.

Or take a long tape measure and wife. Go to an airport to the top of a control tower. Have her take the end of the tape and jump off.... naaaah..... she'd never go for it. Try my first suggestion. Bob
 
Measuring Scenery Objects

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Several ways, the easiest is to slew your plane up to the object and use tour plane as a ruler. Slew side to side and up and down with the usual keys.

If you have a scenery development package like FSDS, make youself a plane consisting of just a set of calibrated rulers at various angles and slew that over the object you wish to measure.

Hope that helps.
 
Thanks for the reply, Penlan. I've got one of those in my EZ-Scenery Library somewhere but I think it is for measuring along the ground - wonder if I can turn it on its side? I guess I'll have to make one. I just wondered if it was laid down anywhere in the Airport Regulations - the 'real' ones I mean. But that is a good idea. I could make a tall pole with red and white stripes and little markers with the height. What a fiddly job that is going to be. Yes I do have FSDS v2 and v3 but never used v2. BTW do you think it is the right size - next to the water tower?
 
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I made a Tower with a Beacon Light on top. Fine but I guessed the measurments. Where would I find out how big they are supposed to be in 'real life' or at least acceptable in FS9? You can see them all over the place in FS9 but how do you measure them?
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Great tower Warmingham!!!!:) ......if you have EZ-Scenery you can re-size it to any size once you put it the scene...........I will try to place the Oil Rig tonight....:rolleyes:
 
Hi Mr Solid (Gera), Good to see you back on the forum again. I can't wait to see your Oil Rig! BTW I had a close up look at a very tall tower in FS9 and they made it the same as I first showed you with a transparent bmp. However they failed to show the inside or the back of the bmp and left it transparent. The one I made was made with long boxes and then sized to fit. I shall try the other method now with the transparent (see-through) texture.
 
Hi warmingham.........
Sorry for not posting the oil rig yet!!!!!....the last two weeks have taken me out of scenery design for I have been totally involved in changing our old NT OS at the office to 2003.
Now I am free again to go back "scenery building" so watch for it any day. I also want to start doing something for FSX now that it works fine with the patch...see you...:)
 
Another way to judge the size is....search the internet for companies that MANUFACTURE and SELL these lights for airports. They will have specs of their sizes. I did this for my PAPI lights, etc.

Or, look for FinneyGround Crosshairs_Plus as well as Scenery Design Planning Aircraft (they have one for Metric and one for Feet) on AVSIM.com. They act as aircraft that you can slew around to measure scenery.
 
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Thank you my friend - Just what I wanted. I have been looking for this for ages! This will make my life a lot easier! :)
 
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