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I am starting a scenery project to include many of the airports in the Northwest Territories of Canada...I want to purchase the appropriate Canadian VFR charts to cover the NWT...Can someone advise me which charts I need? I don't want to buy the wrong ones, as they are expensive ($16.95 is the cheapest I have found)...Thanks a lot...Steve in Kansas

I am having what I am sure is a small easily fixable issue with editing an airport in FSX. I'm working on KHGR, which is near me. They extended their runway to 7000 ft. a couple of years ago, and I'm attempting to remedy that in FSX. All is well except FSX is bending a road, Rt. 11, to accommodate the new length, problem is IRL they put bridges over Rt. 11 to accommodate the runway and taxiway. Is there any way to prevent FSX from doing this? Below are two pictures for comparison. The first is KHGR as it appears today with Rt. 11 circled. The second is a pic of my edit of KHGR in FSX with an awful representation of where Rt. 11 should be. Instead you can see Rt. 1…

Hi all, I'm quite new at the topic of designing FSX sceneries. Currently I work on a project which makes parts of my country more realistic with a couple of exactly placed objects. These objects could be well known buildings, antennas or high voltage power lines. At the current point I placed all necessary pylons and telephone masts at the correct coordinates. Unfortunately I have no idea how to create the cables between the pylons. I'd like to mention that the distance between two masts is not always the same because they are exactly placed basing on real data. However, in fact I look for a feature which allows two create cables basing on input parameters lik…

Hello guys,I am trying to make a runway polygon. However, it sort of flickers. It also does not have the correct heading which is weird because I used to same one from ADE, but I guess that requires some fine adjustment. On a side not, I did the ASM tweak posted on fsdeveloper. Nothing has really helped.

My goal is to populate some FS9 airports with static GA aircraft.I would like to be able to place them with Instant Scenery.While there are some nice object libraries out there that have static GA, I would like some more variation.I found some APIs that look OK.I converted them with ModelConverterX and created a library with LibraryCreatorXMLThey show up in Instant Scenery and can be placed in FS9 with only one small issue. They lack textures.These APIs originally had multiple textures with the same filename but different extensions ie: BELLANCA.0AF, BELLANCA.1AF, BELLANCA.2AF etc.I tried converting the textures with the built-in Mass Texture Editor in ModelConverterX bu…

HiI'm not quite an expert about scenery design, but I would like to create my own airport in the desert.the first step is flattening the terrain, so I won't find my runways obstructed by dunes of sand and dirtThe second step is to remove autogen trees and grass, always to avoid having my runway obstructedCan anyone tell me how to do these things? BTW: i use FSXThanks!

Hi,I am an FSX pilot and was flying out of Gatwick airport the other day. I noticed that ATC was directing aircraft for departure on runway 26R and 8L. Not only is this runway a retired runway but the aircraft get stuck on entry to 26R and pile on top of each other. Can any of you geniuses out there help me out?Matt

I am using latest ade to edit a stock airport, want to close a stock runway with its 2 ILSs for 6 months as in real life for rehab. Tried NO for takeoff/land both ends under Pattern tab but no diff.what else do I have to change to make this work?

Can anyone kindly help me identify what is wrong here? I have an old version of LFPB for FS9. I haven't flown there for years, but now that I do I see that there are a batch of airport buildings/hangars (one block, which represents about 25% of the scenery) which cause real problems. When I point towards them in spot view, all the airport (inc. AI a/c) loses its textures (i.e. going silver/grey) for up to 15". The textures do load eventually, but my RAM used shoots up from c.50% to c.75% and everything becomes rather sluggish. If I go back to cockpit view (the RAM slowly recovers somewhat), then after half a minute back to spot view, the same thing happens. The hangars ne…

Pease AFB, NH as it was when it was a SAC base in the late '70s. Beta version is becoming close to finished.Click image for slide show. Note: slide show is not up to date, scenery is being updated too fast. It gets better every week.

Hello,I am trying to edit the AFCAD for Heathrow (EGLL), and the problem is that the new apron appears to be transparent, and I can see the FS scenery below it, like this:Is there any way around this? Also, what software would I use to add more buildings to the airport?Thanks in advance.

How can I input FSX, "AP Scenery Zip " file into FSX "Scenery Library"I extracted "AP Scenery Zip file" into Addon Scenery/Scenery folder and started FSX nothing happened.ThanksSanal

Well, I'll be darned! I managed to get LODs to work!Using: HeloRamp_LOD_40....HeloRampHousing........Cone01........Cone02........Plane01........Plane02........Plane03HeloRamp_LOD_10....HeloRampHousing_01 The "ground splashes" disappear ~3500' AGL, which is about when they begin z buffer fighting with the ground polys.It also takes care of them showing up during the daytime!The trick I discovered is that -before LODs will work- one must "Populate the LODs" using the silly button on the "LOD Name Tool..."...which of course isn't mentioned at all in the SDK... <sigh> :( I changed the "in air beam" to a 1/2 cone, which I very carefully shaped, scaled, and UVW Mapped.…

Hello all,I am very new at this so please bear with me. I have a scenery file that added landing surface helipads on various hospitals around the Seattle area. The problem is that these heliports do not show up as airports so it makes navigating to them difficult. I am trying to add these in so that they show up in the GPS and in the airport selections in the flight planner. I have tried using the BGL Compiler and can not seem to get anything to work. I know I must be missing something but have been unable to locate any useful tutorials or info for this scenario. Please help. I have created this so far in notepad.<Airport region="North America" country="Unite…

I recently installed Toni Agramont's Dominican Republic scenery and found a problem with the airport at Constanza. Now I did email the author sending screen shots of the problem but never received an answer. I hope he is working on a fix.The problem is that on each side of the runway the aircraft sinks into the ground and falls below the runway with blue sky and a second runway below (Pic 1&2) Then it pops up onto the runway (pic 3) and then does the same thing on the other side. until the aircraft 'pops' up on the ground again. The runway and the apron are fine except on getting close to the runway. The ends of the runway do not exhibit the same problem. I'm not…

Good day all,Apologies for cross-posting, this falls between stools so to speak.I'm having a fiddle with some of the AFCAD textures...Does anyone know what file is used by AFCAD for "Water"?Thanks in advance.

I would just like to add some animated flying birds to a couple of places in FSX... is it possible for somebody who doesn't know much about scenery design?

Several days after installing REX, blue screen and crash. 'Kernel error...boot disc failure.' After that, all hard runways and tarmac/concrete areas in FSX and Orbis FTX turned black, sometimes with multi-colour stripes as well. No grass/turf/gravel runways were affected. Now the new Orbis PNW shows the same errors. Given that REX replaces default textures, I suspeted a link, but that was discounted. I have tried rebuilding FSX cfg, running Acceleration repair, changing video driver, handing PC to a computer engineer who is also a flightsim addict. He did find and kill a virus which presumably caused the initial crash, and possibly could have affected runway textures. But…

I have an AF2 file with no taxi signs. The stock airport has taxi signs. Using ADE I copied the sign list into an Excel file. Is there any way to add the taxi signs from the Excel file to the AF2 file ?Dave Hinson

Hello,I am not a scenery tech.I have the USS Stennis.It has its own Scenery and Texture folder.Works great.I added an NDB to it using AFCAD2.21 and the saved the resulting AF2xxx file into my Addon scenery folder where other individual AFCAdfiles are located.All shows up ok in MSFS but ... the carrier and the NDB.when I run ScanAFD it show DUPes.Is this a case where it is ok to have a DUPE afcad?

Is there a way to creat non-rectangular photo scenery underground ?Some commercial photosceneries don

Hi all,After having installed SBuilderX I followed the guide to let it work with a 64 bit OS.Step 1. Start - Run type in "REGEDIT" this will access the registry. I would advise you to backup your registry at this point! Do this by selecting File/Export.Step 2. Goto "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft" Right click on Microsoft and add new key. Name this key "Microsoft Games". Now right click on the new key Microsoft Games and add new key. Name this one "Flight Simulator". Now right click on this new key and add new key naming it "10.0"Step3. Now select the 10.0 key and right click and add New string value. Name this key "SetupPathselect this new string value and right c…

Is it possible to use AutoCAD to design and texture objects for scenery building?Thanks,Isaac

Does anyone know where to get John Cillis first Landclass Assistant program tool? (landclassassistant.zip) I have downloaded the newer 1.4 (lca-140.zip) and it says that I need the first version, but it does not show up with any searches attempts. Thanks

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