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Hi, I have an add on airfield I fly from that has no ATC unit. Can anyone tell me how to set up an ATC unit at that airfield with a specific frequency. I could do with knowing how to do this as simply as possible without needing a degree in computer programming if possible! I would also like to set up custom RT phrases. I have scenery editor and voice editor but neither are "user friendly"!! Any help appreciated. Thanks

Requesting anyone knowledgeable with creation of custom rwy lights aside from the SCASM method (like used by flytampa etc) for lights at this airport. The runway lights that come with it are badly done (completely improper layout) and cause massive fps hit in p3d v3. I have explored into doing this myself but the methods seem sim specific and bit complicated as I am no programmer. SCASM method was simplest which I was able to do but it caused double arrows on threshold displacement and the lights blinking due to presence of another bgl for ground static vehicles. If anyone interested I can provide the SCASM bgl file that has the light placement details, or let me know how…

I'm creating KROC for a friend of mine. I would like to have the background image appear in P3D and FSX. Here is it so far: I would like to have the background image show as well. If anyone has any steps or a guide to creating this photoreal scenery, please reply below! Cheers, Grant

Hello. I have been looking since FSX has come out and been wanting someone to do an update for the stock one on the program, but I have yet to find one. Can anyone do one or at least point me in the right direction to one? Thanks very much!

HiI'm in the process of re-building one of my sceneries and would like to know if there is a way to add autogen trees to a specific area that presently just shows grass. The area in question is parallel and quite close to a runway edge.When I originally designed the scenery for FS2002 I used the outstanding trees by Gerrish Grey, which I was totally happy with, but had some complaints about the framerate hits they caused. I removed them but still want to have some sort of trees in this specific area as the scenery just doesn't look right without them.TIA for suggestionsVern

Hi. Thanks for looking at the post... As so often, when I decompile a stock airport bgl file (using NewBglAnalyze.exe), recompiling it (with bglcomp.exe from the SDK), fails to produce a bgl file again. With CompileHelper.exe I get a whole list of errors. I assume that these were introduced by NewBglAnalyze (??). In this case, I am simply trying to change the ICAO code FAJS to FAOR (AP955410.BGL), but if I can't recompile even before I make any changes, I am off to a really bad start! Can anyone help me with the "errors" that come up (below) on this one? The result below is from trying to recompile the stock bgl to xml, no changes made by me inbetween. Is …

I just added My Traffic 6 to my system for FSX. I want to make more sense of where the airline actually park and not random all over the place. What tool is everyone using for that. Now that I have traffic now I want organization. Thanks Randy Smith

Hello all, I have downloaded some beautiful free scenery, but I am forced to disable these scenery which cause a magnetic offset That poses problem of magnetic offset, and which prevent the planes of the PMDG or LevelD and the other to fly by following their roads. Once deactivated, everything is OK. Is there a way to make them compatible? And resolve this problem Thanks,

Hi, I want to learn about the fsx materials, and found this page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526971.aspx This page has a lot of examples of different settings and visual guidance of their effect. But it do not work: not in Chrome nor in IE. No error or advise. May be some of you knows how to make this work. Many thanks in advance

Does anyone know if the characteristic crescent shaped control tower at Abu Dhabi has been modelled? Freeware, I mean. I've got an up to date freeware airport, including the midfield terminal which isn't ready in real life, but both control towers are fairly standard poles. If it hasn't been done, then is this the right forum for a polite request should someone wish to take the project on board? Thanks.

Hi there. I am still using FS2004, and not switching to FSX yet because I have a lot of money invested with add-on payware products. My question is regarding the many scenery folders I found at the bottom of my Flight Simulator folder. There is a NewScenery, oldscenery. Over 20 "Scenery before .....xxx" folders. scenery ifsd110, scenery ifsd111, etc. Is there a program that will be able to manage all of these list of sceneries I added to my Flight Simulator? The extra lists are too many to locate what I am looking for. It all started when I was trying to delete an old scenery for SKBO I purchased many years ago from a group called Virtual Colombia. I cannot delete tha…

I have just designed scenery for the 29 airports on the Islands of vanuatu. http://www.pterosaur.org.uk/FSX/index.htm They are intended for low spec use on FSX gold of FSX steam. Good for VOR tight landings.

Hi all, I'm planning to start working on creating some sceneries (not just airports but also cities). I'm new to this and how do professionals like Aerosoft create their nice looking sceneries? How should I start off? I have experience in 3D modelling so I hope that helps. Thanks!

Hi there everybody, FS 2004 scenery question. How to resolve the problem, of one scenery which gives a magnetic offset to all flights, and all aircrafts. I tried to change the magnetic declination with AFCAD, but that doesn't work. Thanks in advance. Dom

I would like to align a FSX default (KSUX) runway with the current airport diagram. According to ADE, runway 31 of KSUX is aligned to 315.7350° According to the airport diagram, the actual alignment should be 312.6°. The airport diagram displays two arrows labeled VAR 3.1° E. I assume that I would need only rotate the airport to align it to 312.6°, but is that correct? Do I need to concern myself with the variance. Also, by rotating the airport, do the ILS, etc. alignments change also? Thanks, Ernie

A tad frustrated with the search engine, I must say, after typing "AFD files FSX" in any way shape or form, I have not seen a single topic on this on AVSIM, I am sure it cant be true after ball these years of FSX, anyway... I am getting AI traffic planes under the surface of my DRZEWIECKI DESIGN - UUEE MOSCOW SHEREMETYEVO X FSX add-on and many unsuitable textures. I suspect this is the result of duplicate AFCAD. But I have no idea where to look for the duplicate file in question, I looked in Scenery/World/Scenery but all I find here are my AI traffic bgl (World of AI). With FS9, we had a freeware tool for that (Scan AFCAD), but I could not find one for FSX. Could…

At DNMM the current charts have no ils for 36L and 36R, but the stock airport has an ils for these runways Only 18L and 18R have an ils approach. I'd like to remove the 36's because they use the same frequency that the 18 approaches use, is that possible? Thank you

Hello.I bought Aviasim leicester X yesterday, it seems good but while taxing on taxiway my aircraft crashes for no reason,like it colided something,but there is nothing but air. I get crash somewhere in the marked area, but I can't see any obstacles there. Can you help me?

Hi I'am about to try to do my first airport update. This is the first time Ihave tried this and although I'm not overly daunted,I'm starting with almost no textures for 3d buildings. I would like to try and redo EDHI Finkenwerder in Germany although I have no time scale as it's as much a learning proccess as anything else. The problem I have is getting some photo textures of the hangers there,so I can wrap them round the buildings as I create them. I have managed to find several with the hangers in the background but they are all at an angle,as they have the aircraft square on. Is there anywhere online that might have these textures or photos with the hangers/bui…

Hello. I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this or not but I figured I'd give it a try. I'm trying to help my father figure out an issue he is having with his FS9. Both he and I have a couple of files in the Addon Scenery\scenery folder called "landclassE.bgl" and "landclassW.bgl". My FS9 seems to be okay but these two files are causing the sim to crash on him around 20 miles or so from the Whidbey Island VOR in WA state. If he removes the two files mentioned things work fine. Both he and I have pretty much the same scenery installed so I can help him with stuff like this. Here's the trouble... I have no idea what these files are specificall…

Hi Looking for some advice as I'm completely stumped. I'm trying to flatten and exclude the airport and area around my first airport update but i'm having a real hard time with it. I'm not sure if it's an Sbuilderx issue or me,or possibly both. I'm running sbuilderx3.14 64bit version and trying to update an airport in P3d v3.2. My runway sits at the correct altitude, real world elevation of 22 ft which was set within ADE, but when I run the sim my runway sits above the sat image and surrounding area . I tried creating an exclude airport boundary area and set that for the same height as the runway which did not work at all, as the surrounding water had buildings and tree…

I have made sceneries for FS9 with realistic buildings made from photos taken on-site, and it appears to me that FSX is lacking in that regard. It seems silly to use "wrong" buildings if with a little work the ones I have already made would work in an FSX scenery too. If you are thinking of making an airport or airfield that I have already made, and if you want to make use of the "real" buildings that I have already made, then email me at [email protected] I will not be following any discussion in the forum on this, but this suggestion applies to P3D and X plane too, if it is even possible. I have no idea if it is or not.

RE: AFD file creation I am often surprised that some of the most gifted scenery builders (MY HEROES!!!! THANK YOU!!!) make the same mistake over and over. When you are creating your AFD file (AFCAD) and are using the Comm Frequency menu (under Lists) you can't type in any word other than the single name FS will recognize. For example, if you type in "Philadelphia Center" instead of just Philadelphia it will not be recognized. You have to use a single airport name and then use the pull-down menu to allocate one of the standard functions - tower, ground etc. Even some payware designers make this mistake But regardless of whether you do or don't do this, THANK YOU for a…

Does anyone know of a way of converting X-Plane scenery to MSFS? I have seen an excellent airport in X-Plane that I wish to use in FSX, the airport scenery is in DSF format. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/19858-ktoa-zamperini-field/

Hi all I seem to have a slight problem with my water blend mask with the airport I'm attempting to create. As its my first one I've been following this series of videos on youtube as a rough guide,and this one specifically at the moment The bit that concerns the creating of my water and land masks start at 16 min 45 into video and ends at 31 min 45. Everything looked like it had worked although while compiling the files in SbuilderX I did notice in the dos window the following TIFFread directory :warning; N:\Sbuilderx313\tools\work\L17x138212x138251Y84725Y84756_W.tif: WRONG DATA TYPE1 for "XMLPACKET";Tag ignored It also has the first part again with th…