Well for starters AFCAD will not add any aircraft anywhere just parking spaces. I am not familar with flight deck so do not know if you can use afcad to add parking spaces. But if you can that is what you will want to do then just add AI flight plans to use the new spaces.

Ok I would suggest you contact the publisher or author to see if you are allowed to have access to it.

oscarfourzero wrote on Apr 18^th, 2007 at 3:05pm:


Is this for a static carrier, as opposed to the moving carriers in FSX or the AI carriers in FS9?

For static carriers, what you need to do is fire up FS and then open AFCAD. Put FS in top-down view
and use slew mode to position your plane on deck. Loack AFCAD to FS.

What I do first is create an apron polygon by slewing the aircraft and adding the poly points
to outline the deck. Next, I add the "runways". I add the two bow cat runways but only use them
for my aircraft takeoffs.
I define the main runway along the angle deck centerline but then zig-zag it to go on down the
angle deck edge near the waist cats. This is the runway that AI will use for landings and takeoffs.

I add the parking along the deck edges and use taxiway links to link the parking to
the main runway at the zig-zag point around the location of the waist cats. That way
AI appear to taxi to the waist cat ( only one would be "used" and takeoff from there.

On landing, they will land along the angle deck and then taxi to parking. There will
be annomalies such as AI possibly taxiing off the deck edge and around in mid-air.
It's just the way FS handles Ai ( or not ).

You will also need to modify the aircraft.cfg files for your carrier AI as well as
use .air files that are modiied for carrier ops.

It's been a long time since I went through this "exercise" and it was time consuming
and involved alot of trail and error but I eventually had AI flying to/from the many
carriers that I had placed around the world.

I didn't do anything with the default FS9 carrier west of San Francisco, other than remove
it since it is pointed in the opposite direction from the prevailing winds there.

Go on over to fs-shipyards.org and browse around. I know I uploaded a complete
package there a couple of years back. That would at least give you a look at what
the AFCAD looks like, etc.

     Paul

Hello Paul,

        Sorry i have been busy,


One question i meant to ask you is where can i find the ICAO code for the carriers so i can see the deck in Afcad? i have slewed onto the deck, and locked it but of course without the code the deck does not show in Afcad,after all the deck is an airport, Right?

             Do you know if i can make my own code up as i have read in Lee Swordy's Tutorial on Afcad that you can put in a new airport of your own that is not in the sim, mind you i have not thought about doing it until now as i never found the need!

             Thanks again,

             Cheers  Roger.

           

Hello Paul,

              Much appreciated , i have downloaded the files and will install them in the morning and let you know how i got on,

             Its midnite here in the UK so i'm off to bed ,


             Thanks again ,

              Cheers Roger.