Aerosoft Offshore Landmarks: North Sea

In 2030 65% of the North Sea will be an industrial zone. Over 70% of the electricity for countries surrounding the North Sea will be generated by the massive offshore wind parks. The North Sea is the biggest work site on the planet, where ships costing billions of dollars place and remove wind turbines and platforms. Thousands of people work there in often atrocious conditions. What used to be an ‘empty’ sea is now filled with platforms, wind farms and other structures. Aviation plays a huge role in this developing industry. Over 90% of European helicopter traffic is dedicated to the offshore industry.

That is why we believe a scenery covering the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish sea makes sense. With the simulator fully supporting helicopters, a new territory to explore is available!

All the objects are placed in exactly the correct position using databases collected over many months. The ships are all located where they were on Jan 20, 2022, at 12:00 GMT. This means that every ship is in a ‘logical’ position. So, a cargo ship could be at an anchorage waiting for a port dock to become available, a small fishing vessel going to its fishing ground or a construction ship placing pylons for new wind turbines.

Features:

• Over a billion polygons
• Fully usable crew boat (designed to be used with outside view only)
• 388 new heliports
• 196 new airports (ICAO codes)
• 78 new NDB stations
• 741 new ships with helideck or winch locations
• 72 new substations (part of a wind park) helideck
• All objects with extensive LOD support, emissive and dynamic lights
• Most objects will have some form of animation
• Fishing Industry
  • Trawlers
  • Factory Ships
  • Seiners
• Shipping Industry
  • Container ships
  • Bulk carriers
  • LNG tankers
  • Oil tankers
  • Chemical tankers
  • Fruit juice tankers
  • Livestock carriers
• Other vessels
  • Ferries
  • Dredgers
  • Cruise ships
• Wind Industry
  • Monopile wind turbines
  • Jacket wind turbines
  • Fast crew boats
  • Substations
• Wind Industry Construction
  • Survey vessels
  • Heavy lift vessels
  • Offshore support vessels
  • Crane vessels
  • Crane platforms
  • Floatels
  • Tug boats
  • Cable laying vessels
• Oil/Gas production
  • Production rigs (spar, jack-up, compliant)
  • Normally Unmanned Installations (NUI)
  • Conductor Support Systems (satellite stations)
  • Fast crew boats
  • Support vessels
  • Anchor vessels
  • Patrol vessels
  • Floating production systems ships
  • Floating production systems monocolumn
  • Floatels
  • Single buoy mooring stations
• Oil/Gas Industry construction
  • Drilling rigs
  • Seismic survey vessels
  • Crane vessels
  • Tug boats
  • Anchor boats
  • Pipe laying vessels
• All Windfarms
  • Borssele
  • Hollandse Kust - Zuid
  • Hollandse Kust - North
  • Egmond aan Zee
  • Riffgat
  • Alpha Ventus
  • North Sea One
  • Sea Wind South/East
  • Amrum Bank West
  • Butendiek
  • DanTysk
  • Ramp
  • Thanet
  • Kentish Flats Extension
  • Gunfleet Sands II
  • London Array
  • Lincs
  • Neart Na Gaoithe
  • Burbo Bank Extension
  • Walney Extension
• Anchorages
  • Rotterdam Anchorage
  • Scheveningen Anchorage
  • Amsterdam Anchorage
  • Aussenelbe Anchorage
  • Neue Weser Anchorage
  • DW Anchorage

REVIEW by SimFlightPro:

PREVIEWS:

• Microsoft Flight Simulator (Version 2020)
• OS: Windows 10 / 11
• CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790 or better
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, GDDR5 or better
• VRAM: min. 6 GB
• DirectX: DirectX 11
• RAM: 16 GB
• HDD: 10 GB

Installation runs via Aerosoft One, this requires an internet connection and an Aerosoft user account!

More information about Aerosoft One can be found in the User Guide or in the FAQs.

Version 1.2.2:

• Platform Troll B (ENQB) / Perimeter security nets lowered

Version 1.2.1:

• Cargo ship removed from Troon harbor

Version 1.2.0:

• Entrance to Pistoolhaven marked with emissive lights
• Terrain raised at heliport Maasvklate