Italy2000, taking into account the limitations of a product covering a large number of airports, features a great deal of innovations over the airport buildings of the default sceneries.

Unfortunately, Italy2000 is not compatible with FS2002 and, even if the buildings are displayed, it cannot be used for flying with FS2002.

The idea behind this patch was to make Italy2000 fully compatible with FS2002.

The obstacles encountered while producing the patch were:

• In FS2002 the number of Italian airports has been reduced with respect of those included in FS2000. About twenty are missing, among which some significant ones such as Venegono, Vergiate, Trento and L’Aquila.

• The runway co-ordinates of FS2000 seldom match those of FS2002.

• As a consequence of the above,  the ILS beacons too are not compatible.

• Italy2000's airports were not designed following a uniform pattern for each location: : in some airports only buildings are displayed, in others buildings and taxiways, and in some others the runway is also included.

• Italy 2000 does not use flatten parameters (with the exception of command lines in scenery.cfg).

How the objective was achieved:

• After checking, for each airport, the respective position in the two sceneries, flatten files (to make the terrain uniform) and exclude parameters (to eliminate runways and taxiways, where necessary) were included.

• Menu files were created for the airports non included in FS2002 in order to update FS2002's database. Runways, lights and radio beacons, where required, were also drawn from scratch.

• Runways and beacons were redesigned for the airports with differing locations to make them compatible with Italy 2000. This, however, leaves one problem unsolved, namely that the menu will not position your aircraft correctly on the runway or at the gate and you will have to use slew commands. 

• All the beacons included in FS2002 were checked, and those not included were added.

• Each general aviation airport was tested flying around the field, while an IFR approach was performed on those airports equipped for instrumental landing.

• To avoid seeing the airport from a great distance, the grass.r8 textures were modified to render them more uniform with the new terrain of FD2002. The textures included in the package are FS2002's original textures, only the name was changed to make them compatible with Italy2000.

Incompatibility problems not solved at present:

• Italy2000's dynamic scenery aircraft made with FsTraffic are not compatible with Fs2002, therefore this option should be deactivated.

• If FS2002's ATC traffic is active, it may happen that in many airports the aircraft will taxi on the grass, owing to the different location of taxiways and, worse still, in airports where the location of runways was modified, they will take off and land off the runways. In the airports featuring precision approach, and for which the runway location was modified, it may happen that the ATC will not give the correct vectoring to intercept the ILS.

• ATC assistance is not active for the airports not included in FS2002's default sceneries. If, for instance, you are at Lugo di Romagna, you can only contact Romagna Approach after take off, nor can you contact Lugo tower for clearance to land (you may still land, even if not cleared...).

How to install Italy2000edue:

Let's say it even if it is obvious: you must have Italy2000 installed and active in the scenery library of FS2002.

Using the World/Go to Airport menu, select the desired airport and, if you are dropped off the runway, use the slew (Y) commands to reposition the aircraft.

Radio beacons missing in FS2002 included in Italy2000edue:

Firenze Peretola ILS/DME RWY05 110.30 MHZ (IFZ)

Pratica di Mare ILS RWY31 108.50 MHZ (ITA)

Bolzano LLZ/DME RWY01 109.10 MHZ (IBZ)

Genova VOR/DME 108.60 MHZ (SES)

At Roma Fiumicino I included runway 16C/34C and relative ILS in the scenery.

IMPORTANT NOTE

This package was produced exclusively for entertainment purposes and cannot be copied or distributed commercially or to derive personal gain from it. This package can only be downloaded from the ALI D’ITALIA site at the address shown above.

The author specifically requests that Italy2000edue is not uploaded onto other sites.

No file included in Italy2000 was modified by the author, nor does he claim any right or exclusivity whatsoever over Italy2000.

The package is available "as is", and the author does not take any responsibility for whatever malfunction to software and hardware which may derive from it's use.

This package is  freeware and, consistently, no assistance is available.

Italy2000edue is the exclusive intellectual property of Francesco Mandelli.

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