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Airport alteration tutorial? (Read 391 times)

Aug 18^th, 2004 at 11:35pm

digant Offline
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Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to change airports?

I'm not happy with the DFW airport because it seems to only assign the 17-18 and 35-36 runways. But in real life, I go to the airport to watch the planes and see aircraft running on the 13-31 runways all the time (even when the others are in operation). I want to make this happen in FS9.

Ideas? Instructions? All help appreciated.

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Reply #1 - Aug 20^th, 2004 at 3:41pm

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You can use AFCAD to edit runways with. If you need to add extra ILS runways you will need to find out the approiate info to add these. You will than have to make a seperate bgl file using XML to update the orig files with otherwise fs will not see the changes.
Check out avsim.com You can find a lot of afcad files there coplete with the bgl file that allows fs to see all of the changes.

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Reply #2 - Aug 20^th, 2004 at 6:19pm

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Using ALT-W-W the surface winds may have to changed to match the 13/31 runways.
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Reply #3 - Sep 6^th, 2004 at 9:43pm

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I used AFCAD2 to edit the bgl file. I saved the file but I don't see any changes. What else do I need to do to get FS9 to see the file?

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Reply #4 - Sep 8^th, 2004 at 10:32am

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Perhaps this won't help but the new AF2 file should be there:

10. Saving an Airport
Any changes you make to an airport are initially done only in memory. As long as you don't do a ‘Save’, none of the changes you make will affect Flight Simulator. If you want to experiment first before you do any serious work, then just don’t save the airport you are working on.

When you do want to save changes to the airport then click Save or Save As. A Save As window will open with a default file name assigned such as AFC_KORD.bgl, and the destination folder will default to the FS9 Addon Scenery folder. You would normally just click OK to accept the default folder and file name unless you have a specific need to change them. Note that unlike AFCAD 1, AFCAD 2 does not alter any stock FS9 files so there is no need to backup anything. If you accidentally save an airport you didn't intend to then all you have to do is delete the .bgl file that was created by AFCAD for that airport.

Assuming you deposited the file in the default Addon Scenery folder, all you have to do is start FS and go to that airport to observe the changes. If you used another folder then you may have to enable that folder in the Scenery.cfg file or using the Scenery Library window in FS.

If you have Flight Simulator open at the same time as AFCAD then after you save the airport you will have to restart FS to see the changes.

You can save your ongoing work at any time. AFCAD also does auto-backups to a separate file every couple of minutes and should recover after a failure or improper shutdown

works for me

references cited: AFCAD211 ReadMe file

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Reply #5 - Sep 9^th, 2004 at 8:34pm

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Turned out my SimFlyers version was taking precedence over my own. Once I turned it off, my revisions came through. Now I have to do the "star" method to get them all working together.

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