56 Swedish TV masts

In Sweden there are fifty-six bigger TV and radio transmitters placed all over the country. VFR flyers often use these masts as good landmarks because of their height and their lights. For the same reason it can be some use for them also when flying in a flight simulator.

The fifty-six masts in the package are actually designed because of the wish for them from many of the users of Swedflight scenerys – especially from those who often fly VFR. They existed before in a limited older version for FS2000 where their visibility was very short for technical reasons. That problem is solved now and we can therefore release the package again in a complete and much more realistic edition.

PLACEMENT
The location in the real world of the fifty-six masts are shown with coordinates in a table in the PDF file that is enclosed in the package.

LIMITATIONS
The masts in the package are of one common size and look. They are all 325 meter (1066 feet) high above the ground and have two high intensity flashing white lights with full visibility also at about 22 km (which seems to be the maximum in the simulator) plus 5 low intensity red obstacle lights with shorter visibility. In reality the masts can differ some feet in height and some of them have only one flashing light, something that may be corrected in a later edition. The location of the masts has also in some instances been moved somewhat compared to the exact one in the coordinate table to better suit the mesh and the surrounding landscape in the simulator.

INSTALLATION & ACTIVATION
The activation of the masts is described in the enclosed PDF file. Please note that the mast directory should have a higher priority in Scenery Library than our airports, otherwise the masts will not come into sight in some places. The package can be used in FS2002 and FS2004.

Those of you that have installed Airport Pack#2 can download the TV mast eraser down here to exclude the already existing masts at Nacka in the Stockholm scenery - otherwise four masts will be standing there instead of two.

The mast outside Östersund with the airport on the island of Frösön in the background (one of our coming projects)	Storuman	The mast in Sundsvall on a hill above the city
The mast at Sunne in Värmland	Hörby in Skåne	Some of the details of the mast

The mast at Lillhärad outside Västerås seen in a misty and rainy afternoon	The 2 masts at Nacka in a thunderstorm with some details from the Stockholm city scenery seen in the background	A typical real sample of a 1070 feet mast. Here one just outside the town of Gävle.

56 Swedish TV and Radio masts	SWE-Masts_free2004B.exe ( 929 kB - March 26, 2004 )
TV mast eraser for Pack2 (Bromma/Stockholm)	ESSB TV mast eraser ( 266 kB - March 23, 2004 )