March 16, 200620 yr Hi,I'm new to flightgear and have downloaded the scenery for the jungle island of Papua, Indonesia. This has some great mountains to fly around but only a few airfields to land at. Having spent 10 years living there, i know there are a lot of small jungle strips all over the region and would be interested in adding them in.So my question, being totally new to this is: How hard is this to do; is it realistic for a beginner and what software/downloads would i need? I've looked at all the FAQ and see various codes/downloads but not too sure what it all means. Any help would be most appreciated (I'm runing this on Windows; sorry if you require me to give any more detail to answer this, let me know if you do!)Pete
March 16, 200620 yr Currently, all airport data in FlightGear is based on the X-Plane database maintained by Robin Peel. However unlike X-Plane, FlightGear uses a static approach to scenery/airport creation. That is, you cannot simply add new airports to the airports file ($FG_ROOT/Airports) and have these then magically appear in FlightGear without any other work. This is due to the fact that FlightGear's scenery is usually created separately, and not during startup (i.e. at runtime). So, in order to make new entries available, you could either make submission's to the X-Plane database, so that such entries will show up with future scenery releases, or alternatively customize/build your own scenery. The latter is however a pretty specific topic and should probably be best discussed on the FlightGear devel mailing list: http://www.flightgear.org/mail.htmlBasically, you will require the TerraGear tool suite in order to create scenery for FlightGear:http://www.terragear.org
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