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Mesolonghi Airport - Rio-Antirio Bridge and scenery

Dimus

Dimus

SOH-CM-2025
I had this in the stove for a few months. I started building the small airport of Mesolonghi in Western Greece. When nearing completion, I thought that FS was really missing the big suspension Bridge that connects mainland Greece with Peloponese that was finished in 2004, being the biggest in the world of the fully suspended type. The bridge project turned out bigger than the airport as I ended up doing photoreal coasts with autogen, the medieval castles on both sides and finally, the typical, Greek-style double ended ferries that served the straights for decades before the bridge and still offer a cheaper and, to some, more relaxing alternative. They are now going back and forth as AI boats 24/7.

The scenery will very soon be in the library.

Features of the Mesolonghi airport scenery include:


- Photoreal area with seasonal variations and watermask
- Custom hangars and containerised buidings
- AI default trike performing TnGs (in P3D it will work only if you copy over the FSX trike)
- The technical shool of fisheries on the north side
- Customized shorelines, to fit with ORBX Global Vector
- Optional shoreline fix for default scenery


Features of the Rio-Antirio bridge scenery include:


- Custom bridge model, bump mapped textures with hard platform surface and vehicle traffic
- Night lighting textures and custom roadlights
- Photoreal scenery for north and south shores, including hand placed autogen and night textures
- Custom castle models on north and south sides, with bump mapped textures and night lighting
- Custom model of the toll post on the north side
- Custom AI ferry boats with constant shuttle service between Rio and Antirio piers
- Customized shorelines, to fit with ORBX Global Vector
- Optional shoreline fix for default scenery
- Optional HDR optimized photoreal textures

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did building it. Dusk/dawn are the best times for the bridge. A soon to be released AI boat plan by Henrik who was king to share it with me is passing under it.

Some pics:







 
It seems the file is larger than maximum for the SOH library. I will try to reduce it and try again tomorrow. Meanwhile, it will be soon up at Avsim, filename: Mesolonghi airport - Rio Antirio Bridge.zip

Edit: I see that limit for zip is abt 500 MB and this one is less than 350. I'll try again.
 
Dimus said:
It seems the file is larger than maximum for the SOH library. I will try to reduce it and try again tomorrow. Meanwhile, it will be soon up at Avsim, filename: Mesolonghi airport - Rio Antirio Bridge.zip

Edit: I see that limit for zip is abt 500 MB and this one is less than 350. I'll try again.
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I can only confirm from the sneak preview of the beta that this is a very nice scenery - it brings life and realism to a corner which before was compeletely forgotten in FSX. I had a nice flight over the area and it will of course have additional ship traffic in the new AI ship traffic that I am about to release.

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Second try did not work. File is abt 310 MB. I wonder why...

Anyway, I'll let you know when it's up at Avsim.
 
Dimus said:
Second try did not work. File is abt 310 MB. I wonder why...

Anyway, I'll let you know when it's up at Avsim.
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Great work there Dimus:applause:

Regarding file size, a common issue is the size of the thumbnail picture which is reported as if the upload were too big.
 
Dimus the scenery looks really great!

As already said by Roger, it is in most cases the size of the included images which causes these problems. I don't know whether you have included some high resolution screenshots, but if you did you can best reduce their size to a maximum of 1024.

Cheers,
Huub
 
You're right guys, it was the thumbnail. I'll try again with a resized one. The scenery is up at Avsim now, soon here too.
 
I happened to watch a programme about the conception and building of this bridge a couple of weeks ago (Megastructures/Extreme Engineering..) and you've certainly done it proud Dimus:encouragement: In impressive bit of scenery if ever there was one;)
ATB
DaveB:)
 
Εντάξει Δήμο... Απίστευτο scenery... Είμαι από Αγρίνιο και ανεβοκατεβαίνω
Αθήνα -Αγρίνιο. Στο α/δ Μεσολογγίου δεν έχω πάει, αλλά έχω πετάξει με
παιδιά της Αερολέσχης paragliding στα Ρέτσινα (πολύ κοντά στο α/δ).
Είσαι από Αιτωλ/νία ή Πάτρα ?...

For me, being familiar with the area since I was born 40Kms northern, this is
just fantastic and very realistic !... Thank you very much !
 
Από Αθήνα, αλλά περνάω κάε χρόνο ανεβαίνοντας στην Ιθάκη για διακοπές. Είχα επικοινωνία με τον αντπέραρχο Πρεβεζάνο στο Μεσολόγγι για λεπτομέρειες. Πετάω με την αερολέσχη Αθηνών και Δεκελείας και σκοπεύω να πάω σύντομα με Cessna στο Μεσολόγγι. Βασίλης

I know its all Greek to you guys but we are exchanging experiences of passing and flying in the area. xpelekis is living very close, I am usually driving by on my way to summer vacations and plan to visit Mesolonghi on a Cessna very soon.
 
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Wow is all I can say! One awesome piece of Greece. You have already considered most every thing one could ask regarding options and completeness.

However, I did find one wee error in the install instructions. The bridge is 14.5 miles East of the airport -- not West. I did get to see a lot of great bits while searching for the bridge, but finally resorted to looking up the bridge online and there she was in all her splendor -- East of the airport. I've spent the last hour fliting up and down her length in my A2A piper on floats just taking in all the wonderful details.

Thank you so much for this.
 
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