Coordinates. Dunno. Best is just to slew or fly there, do Shft-Z a coupla times and read the coords from your screen.
You don't need to have a control tower for AI in FS9. If you have 2002, you only need to add a control tower frequency using AFCAD, you don't need a visual tower
You can add effects no problem. Very easy with FS9 using the new XML code of the new Scenery SDK. Not sure what you mean by 'maps' though as I'm not a CFS person (very much not
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