AEROSOFT AIRFIELD WASSERKUPPE
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Support
Support for this product is offered by Aerosoft. We prefer to have a
support forum for the simple reason that it is fast and efficient
because customers help customers when we are not in the office:
http://forum.aerosoft.com/
And we advise the Scenery section in the Microsoft Flight Simulator
subforum for any questions on this product. This should be your first
stop for any support. If you prefer support by email please do accept
that this could take a bit longer as it might be sent from person to
person if necessary, and that email support during the weekends is
always slow:
https://helpdesk.aerosoft.com/portal/home
We feel strongly about support. Buying one of our products gives you
the right to waste our time with questions you feel might be silly.
They are not.
Copyrights
This software, the manual, documentation, video images, and all the
related materials are protected by copyright laws. The software is
licensed, not sold. You may install and run one copy of the software
on one computer for your personal, non-commercial use. The
software, the manual and all related materials must not be copied,
photocopied, translated, reverse engineered, decompiled or reduced
to any electronic medium or machine legible form, neither complete-
ly nor in part, without the previous written permission of the
developers of this software and Aerosoft GmbH.
The Airfield
Geography
Wasserkuppe airfield is located on the northern hillside of the Hessian
Rhön in the district of Fulda. It is classified as a special airfield and lies
902m (2959ft) above sea level. This is the highest airfield in Germany.
The real Wasserkuppe is a little higher up, at 950.2 metres above sea
level. The nearest villages/towns in the surrounding area are Gersfeld
(5km north), Poppenhausen (5km west-southwest) and Wüstensach-
sen (5km east).
History
The Wasserkuppe has been used as a flying field since 1911. At that
time, students from Darmstadt used the area to conduct experiments
with self-built gliders.
The first flying school was then founded in 1922 by Arthur Martens.
Over the years, the airfield’s appearance changed a lot, for example,
the forest was cut for the runway in the winter of 1958/59. In 1981,
the runway was asphalted over a length of 400 metres, and in 1997 it