Aerosoft Airport Cologne/Bonn (EDDK)

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Amazing Köln Bonn (EDDK) airport by Aerosoft that includes working VDGS ( Visual Docking Guidance System ) in addition to highly detailed tarmac, passenger and cargo terminals.

Absolutely beautiful.

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Flying into Aerosoft EDDK, even when the wind favors landing on cross wind runway 24, ATS always gives me landing on Rwy 32R.

This creates a situation where I have to do a cross wind landing that rwy. I am ont sure if it is a ATC or 3rd Party section :thinking:

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Ignore ATC, you have to do what is correct with the charts and the weather. ATC fouls up in a lot of places. You can request a different approach and sometimes it will give it to you. Most of the time you have to ignore ATC, and not contact them until ready to taxi.

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I check METAR of the airports via the internet beforehand.
From the Wolrd map enter a flight from runway to runway - via ‘details’ zoom - helps ATC.

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I have just flown from Aerosoft EDDK today, whichever runways I planned for take off (based on real time wind direction and real air traffic), ATC always gives clear for take off from Rwy 32R.

But my landings at EDDK are as always as planned, I can land ILS Rwy 14L without any obstructs from ATC.

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I agree. It’s awesome! But do you know which gates have the working VDGS?

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Gates D10 to D22.

Extracted from Aerosoft’s forum:

“ The VDGS objects are treated similarly to ground crew marshallers, the frequency these objects spawn are based on the “Vehicle Density” option. (Use the default values).

Selecting a stand equipped with a VDGS as the destination during flight planning also increases the chance for such an object to spawn.

The VDGS should spawn automatically when ATC gives you the taxi instructions to your gate after arriving at the airport. (As long as the gate is equipped with a VDGS of course)

They work the same way as the default marshallers, so you’ll need to arrive at the airport and ATC needs to assign you a gate equipped with a VDGS and give you taxi instructions there for the “guidance-part” of the system to activate.”

Have fun!

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After the second hotfix, I could finally fly again. When I landed at VĂŠrnes, Norway, I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by a working VDGS. And if you look closely, there are also waiting passengers in the terminal. I never noticed that before.

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Lovely.

Anything by the this developer is awesome. This, Cologne and Paderborn.

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Hi there, does anyone have Aerosoft’s Cologne-Bonn EDDK, and is it working in the latest WU6 ?

For me, it is not - the loading screen just gets to about 50% and stops. If I remove the EDDK addon from my Community folder then the sim loads there perfectly, although I don’t have my nice add-on scenery any more :frowning:

Please help!

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I don’t have it, perhaps worth contacting Aerosoft directly, I would suggest they are better placed to know if there is an issue and advise if/when they expect to resolve the issue or perhaps can provide a work around for users?

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Just to update - I did as you suggested and reached out to Aerosoft Support, and they suggested deleting my rolling cache, which I had forgotten all about!

  • I once again cleared my Community folder completely (I had tried this before but it didn’t help),
  • Then ran Flight Simulator, and deleted and recreated the rolling cache,
  • Then I exited Flight Simulator, and reinstalled EDDK from scratch from within Contrail
  • Re-loaded Flight Simulator with just that airport in my Community folder, and spawned in there – it worked this time!
  • Then exited flight simulator again and re-added all my other community folder items back into the Community folder and tried EDDK again and it still worked OK!

So - yep. I shall have to remember this in the future!! Clear the rolling cache! :smiley:

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Would be good if the rolling cache was automagically deleted during an update
 or perhaps a recommendation/option to do so. :thinking:

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I was thinking the very same thing!

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Hello!

I have some payware airports installed in MSFS like KIAD, KDEN, KPDX, EPKK, UKBB, UKOO, ENTO and of corse EDDK.

I dont know if its normal but I have great performance in all of them except EDDK
 there I have stutters and low FPS all the time.

Is it normal?? is it a very heavy addon?.. Or maybe its the area in Germany where is placed??? :thinking:

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I’ve just downloaded an update for Aerosoft’s Cologne Airport so as to get their VDGS up and running. I’ve tested it by taxiing to the gate, however, the system jumps from so many meters out to TOO FAR. There seems to be no STOP.
Has anyone else had this issue?
I attached a pushback truck and tried to get it exactly on the line. I spent ages going back and forth slowly but it never goes to the STOP sign.

Steve