| Welscome to Wels!
Wels Airfield (ICAO: LOLW) is an airfield serving Wels, a city in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is not used for commercial scheduled services but features business and general aviation as well as private and military training flights and medical transportation. Use this airport for a short hop to LOWL Linz International airport or discovery flights to the Salzkammergut and the Alps!
This project was created in collaboration with "Troglodytus". Thank you!
Airport
Elevation: 1043 ft / 318m
Frequencies: 119.700 Tower
Runways: 08L/26R - 1390 x 30m Asphalt
08C/26C - 900 x 45m Grass
08R/26L - 930 x 50m Grass
Features
· Detailed, handcrafted rendition of LOLW Wels Airport in High Res PBR Materials
· Surrounding area redone (in total 60+ handcrafted buildings)
· Close to real life runways, taxiways, ground markings, parking spots & frequencies according to official AIP Charts
· Custom taxiway signs, apron lights, approach lights ...
· Custom aerial and ultra-high res ground textures using a machine learning algorithm
· VFR reference points implemented
· Accurate terraforming of entire airport area and surroundings with LIDAR DEM data
· Realistic night lighting
· Start your flight cold & dark from inside a detailed and animated hangar!
· Custom Wind-T showing landing directions
· Custom military vehicles
· Loads and loads of details (About 2000 individually placed objects, many of them handcrafted)
How to install?
Simply drag the unzipped "littlekrg-troglodytus-airport-lolw-wels" folder into your community folder!
Make sure to have “Mikea’s Assetpack” and “Dave’s 3D people” installed as well!
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Write a reviewPAPYDANIEL66
bonjour de France. Merci pour cette scène. OK avec S10
leonhard.g
Meine Homebase! Oh, wie ich darauf gewartet habe! Und läuft wunderbar! Man sieht fast, wie sich die Leute am Hofer-Parkplatz ducken, wenn man auf die 08L anfliegt 😉 Danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, danke, ...
littlekrg 9 month(s) ago
Gern geschehen 😉
WHYIFLY
Vielen Dank!!
kapazunder33
Es ist großartig. Die vielen Details. Vielen Dank!
littlekrg 1 year(s) ago
Danke
Jakob1
Großartige Arbeit! Vielen herzlichen Dank an Dich und an Troglodytus!
Severeeno
I like your airports a lot, I think I have most of them. They are really good. You are doing an exceptional job.
Is there any version of this airport without google photogrammetry? I personally cannot stand the look of it. The light blueish color just stands out from miles away.
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
Hello,
Glad you like the airports, but I don't think, we will remove the photogrammetry. It has already been very carefully color balanced to resemble reference images.
Ginete
NICEEEEE!
cptcaptain
Wirklich tolle Arbeit. Danke.
Für zukünftige Updates wäre das Krankenhaus Wels eine tolle Idee für Hubschrauberpiloten.
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
Als persönliche Präferenz würde ich sowas doch eher separat zur Verfügung stellen. Schließlich hat so ein Helipad auch in echt eine eigene ICAO Kennung.
Mauflo12961
Thanks again! You make the MSFS for Austria very special! Without your sceneries it would not so interesting to fly in this country. Specially for real VFR pilots Austria in the MSFS is now very near the reality. Thanks' for your Christmas gift for the community!
Jeremy Premium
Amazing as usual! Thanks a lot. Just a very little issue with the wind tee , it points the opposite, normaly the top of T is facing the wind.
All is beautiful, runways, batiments and landmarks.
littlekrg Premium 1 year(s) ago
Thanks for information, we will fix it in the next version.
Troglodytus Premium 1 year(s) ago
Has been corrected. Thank you for notifying!
Greazer
Good but file size is way too big. Needs fixing.
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
Why? Crisp satellite imagery comes at a price… you should look what this area looks like without our addon, despite Microsoft promising good satellite imagery with World Update VI. It is awful.
Scooty 1 year(s) ago
It´s one thing, to maybe - nicely - ask for another version, if YOU have some issues.
Playing it the way, to tell the world "what it needs" - because of YOUR personal issue - will most likely neither help you, nor convince people that you are to be taken seriously.
Was there someone standing behind you with a gun, forcing you to install a freeware (!) addon?
laudey1 1 year(s) ago
I have to say something in the name of the simmers community..., not specially for this airport.
I do not want to criticize the work of lots of creators who are doing the best to bring very high quality on their work. The graphical work is fabulous, the places are lovely.
Then think just about your machines... and ours ... If each airport weights 2 GB (I have seen some spectacular ones which weight more than 6 GB !) and if you want more than 4000 airports on your machine (more than 200 000 in the whole world), then you need disks from more than 8 TeraB ... Moreover when you load some parts of the world with 3D sceneries of more than 6 GB (Monaco for example, thank you Thalixte for the work !)), then you need more than 10 min to load with a very high end PC, and even with a 64GB RAM, you will get bad fps in the vicinity, flying on a good addon aircraft.
Sorry to say that, but textures of more than 5MB should be an exception, and I consider than textures over 10MB are a non sense. I destroy them systematiccaly and I do not loose any special graphical quality. An airport should not wheightmore than 1GB, with the .CGL ground view included.
It is just the point of view of an old simmer ... who have seen times where textures of 512x512 were unable to load ....😊
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
You are right, but unfortunately this is what flightsimming is and always was. Our airport already is at least semi optimized - high quality textures on the main part, lower quality on not so obvious parts, sat image replacement only where critically needed,…
With fsx and xplane file sizes were lower, but so was the visual quality. Still people were installing hundreds of gigabytes of addons to enhance the experience - at times, when storage was even more critical than today.
i would suggest to not install anything that comes into mind, rather specifically download addons to your needs, when planning flights.
This will give the highest visual quality for the lowest storage cost.
odscenery 1 year(s) ago
Thats not an easy task to mix quality and small size .
But not impossible
there is always multiple roads to optimisations .
-DO we always need Normals , or metal on an object with just a flat texture ?
-DO we always optimise our UV ?
I can understand people dont want put dollars and time on tools like UV pack Master .
Because a 1080p texture could look same on game with an optimised Unvrap, i personally made the choice of bying uv master pack .
I dont point anybody here , its just a general remark .
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
In our project all UVs are packed adequatly and yes, I do think we need Normals / Occlusion, Roughness and Metallic maps. Otherwise we could port FSX scenery. That would not be doing justice on the quality goals I set for myself.
flightsimming is about the experience to digitally replicate what it would feel to actually fly there. I try my best to provide this illusion - to the best of my abilities.
If one decides an addon is too big they should just refrain from installing it - biggest save on hard drive storage.
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
By the way, I am using an UV Package tool, but it is not always feasible due to the way MSFS interprets normal maps. You get strange lighting artefacts if the x-y normal directions are not exactly aligned with the 3D topology of the model. With uv packers you get all sorts of weird uv angles if the geometry is not strictly cubic.
Just fyi.
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
Further, I am unsure everyone complaining did grasp that about 2/3 of the file size are due to the custom aerial image.
That woul not have been necessary if Asobos satellite imagery would not have gotten worse with WU6 (Austria Update). At generic LOLW there is a big streak right through the airfield, blending two different satellite images awfully bad. We had to cover that up.
Scooty 1 year(s) ago
I´m not totally sure, when the elections for official spokesmenship was run, but i really can´t remember to have chosen anybody, to speak on my behalf about anything...
I assume, you just mean good, so i don´t wanna jump on that train too much now...
but some people are like little kids in a candystore, seeing hundreds of different candies, so having to eat each and every one of it... and then running to their mums, complaining that they hav spoiled their stomach badly...
I honestly hope, everybody knows about addon managers. If not, they are used to just load those addons, you wanna use for the next gamesession.
Like, loading only sceneries and/or airports of the region ,where you wanny fly in your next game session. Or - even more hardcoer-ish - only load those, where you wanna land, as you mostly use the addon, when you are very close to the ground. You won´t need to load it, if you just fly over the region way up high.
This way ,you can DRASTICALLY reduce load times, reduce your RAM usage and have the best possible FPS.
I only fly GA, so my flights are approximately having a max. distance of a few hundred miles/kilometers.
If i wanna fly in "Lower Austria", i don´t load the rest of other Austrian regions.
I also have some addons, which are globally used, which are always loaded. And i also use the addons of the 2, 3 planes, i wanna fly in my next session.
This way, i manage to run the sim on a definitely-NOT-highend-system in high-ultra settings and having the benefit of seeing very good quality on my screen... where it helps to improve my game.
Feeling the need to have hundreds of addons permanently loaded at all times is nothing than counter-productive in ANY ways. Consider this. Also, the age of floppy disks is over and you can´t have an bootable operating system + your applications + your data on floppy stored anymore. Yes, these where times... but luckily they are way over...
Scooty 1 year(s) ago
And finally one more thing: i also doubt, some have a real clue, how much love and work and sweat and tears creators are putting into their work. In the actual example, the creators offer most of their work for free to the community.
I know, they always have an open ear, when it comes to good suggestions/ideas/questions/remarks of any kind.
Sometimes it´s the sound that makes the music. Trying to "teach" them, how to "really" make addons will most probably not be the smartest way to get the desired attention...
Edit: just an example for an addon manager:
https://flightsim.to/discover/linker
Greazer 1 year(s) ago
File size in Gigabytes is way too much for little airport. If Your sim is Crashing or out of Disk space then You should not cry to Mommy. Or Daddy. You should either get a bigger hard drive or install smaller size airports. Whatever works for You. Just don't cry your face to Mommy (or Daddy).
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
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I am sorry, but I honestly do not understand the last comment. I do not get your position on this topic?
Further, I do not think anybody is crying, regarding this issue. Strange wording.
Scooty 1 year(s) ago
I assume, the first sentence was just meant as an quote, not as a statement. That way, i can understand what the user mentioned later on.
Hundreds of users totally appreciate your work, as we can see by the constantly high download rates for your addons. So please don´t worry too much and hopefully stay with this quality and level of detail .
As you mentioned, you - luckily - create sceneries, not just some rectangular grey concrete strip within blurry vanilla landscape textures.
I yesterday took an Ultralight and inspected LOLW and the surrounding scenery in detail. It´s incredible, what´s all to discover here and there.
It feels a bit like with model trains in the old days. Some were happy with one train just rolling in an O-shaped circle. Some others liked to build a nice scenery around it, having tons of details integrated.
Finally: aviation is a fantastic hobby. No need to nearly get some heart attacks because of a few MBs more or less. If your rigs just can handle the vanilla content of the sim, you´ll have (nearly) each and every spot with an existing ICAO code per default. If you want some more quality for some regions, get an addon manager and "pimp" the spots, you like and/or your rig can handle. And if we all may have the StarTrek-performance-home-PCs one day, it needs to get any addon worldwide installed simultanously, then things will be even easier.
Till then, fly save, stay clean and maybe let one go from time to time, which is scientifically (!) proven to be an excellent source of relief.
Peace and happy holidays to all you out there.
leonhard.g 9 month(s) ago
I have to say something in my name, since I can't speak for the whole simmers community: I couldn't care less about 2-3 GB for a lovely mostly GA airport. I suppose people flying such aerodromes will only fly regionally and having a couple of really decent fields will definitely be preferred over saving a bit of disk space. In Austria, where I fly in the sim and for real, there are maybe 30 interesting airports. Having 60 GB of airport scenery won't make me sweat at all. If I want to avoid the extra load on the PC during runtime, I can temporarily move the folders which won't be needed for my actual flight. And the packs that I've tried so far wouldn't slow down my PC anyway, so...
charliebravoAT
Was soll man sagen, wieder ein Meisterwerk von euch beiden. Langsam müsst ihr aufpassen, die Erwartungen sind ja schon so hoch an euch, wie könnt ihr das nur übertreffen 😋
Freeware, wo viele PW Käufer neidisch werden.
Danke und frohe Weihnachten euch allen 😀
Scooty
Yaaay, Santa brought us nice presents!
Looks really good, guys! As usual, but i HAVE to say it...
😊
Frohe Weihnachten und Merry Christmas!
721hh
Wonderful, working perfectly. No more rosa roofs now... was maybe a download problem. Many thanks and move on with yout work! I wish I could do this also, but I do not know how! LG Mario from Austria
fuzz1
Wonderful Xmas present for the community, thank you, it's wonderful as always.
721hh
Super Leistung, freue mich über jeden Airport in Austria, aber irgendwie glaub ich nicht dass ROSAROTE Dächer am Flughafen normal sein sollen??? Ich werds nochmal runterladen und nochmals installieren, lg Mario
littlekrg 1 year(s) ago
Schade, dass du ein Problem hats. Am wahrscheinlichsten ist es, dass ein anderes Addon diesen Fehler verursacht.
Super27
Vielen Dank für dieses schöne Weihnachtsgeschenk!
fsnews24
Ihr habt Euch wieder einmal selbst übertroffen! Großartige Arbeit!
Ein Review gibt es hier:
https://flightnews24.de/2021/12/23/gratisflug-nach-wels/
littlekrg 1 year(s) ago
Danke für den Review. Sehr schöne Bilder hast du gemacht.
Troglodytus 1 year(s) ago
Vielen herzlichen Dank!!!