Hi. AFCAD2 is not finding any airports outside my FS9/scenery and /Addon Scenery folders. Hence all airports from Aerosoft, UK2000 and the like are missing when you search for an ICAO code.This is after a reinstall of XP - it was fine before. How do I get AFCAD2 to search all folders so that all my airports appear in the database, as before? I have deleted the AFCAD2 installation and set up a new one - but with the same result.Thanks,Martin

Hi. AFCAD2 is not finding any airports outside my FS9/scenery and /Addon Scenery folders. Hence all airports from Aerosoft, UK2000 and the like are missing when you search for an ICAO code.This is after a reinstall of XP - it was fine before. How do I get AFCAD2 to search all folders so that all my airports appear in the database, as before? I have deleted the AFCAD2 installation and set up a new one - but with the same result.Thanks,Martin

Hi Martin -I just did a little testing on your behalf and this is what I found:I placed a couple of scenery additions which have their own afcads on my Desktop - about as far away from FS2004 as I could get them.As long as I "activated" those scenery additions in FS2004 via the Scenery Library (and restarted FS2004 so a new index would be created), the Afcad program did find the afcads for them. If they were not "activated", then the Afcad utility never saw them during the "collect aiports" routine prior to displaying all available airports.i.e. If I did not activate them or did not restart FS2004 so indexes would be rebuilt, then the Afcad utility did not find them.So I am wondering if the additions in question have been properly added (activated) in your Scenery Library prior to trying to have the Afcad utility display them?Hope that helps.

If you still have problems after following Opa’s suggestions, try deleting files “AIRPORTINDEX and FILELIST” located in your AFCAD2 folder. Both files will be rebuilt when you restart AFCAD.Good luckRJ

Hi,Thanks for the research David! In fact, I use Scenery_Align (AVSIM library) to activate only the scenery I am using for a particular flight (I've been using this for some years now and am very much used to what can be marked as Active=False in the scenery.cfg file and what needs to be left activated - works very well). Before my reinstallation of FS9 to XP 64-bit this week however, AFCAD2 definitely saw all my airport bgls, whether they were in an active folder or not, so your results to the contrary are a bit odd, I must say. Even so, I tried the experiment myself, but AFCAD doesn't see even active bgls any more, if they are outside the folders I mentioned. Annoying.So I deleted the two data files in the AFCAD folder and let the programme rebuild its list. Wasn't too optimistic, because that's what happened of course when I reinstalled the programme from scratch: sure enough, no change.Hmmm, what now then? I can't see why the programme saw all my AFCAD files before and not any longer. Surely the change 64-bit shouldn't make any difference? And I don't really want to start moving hundreds and hundreds of bgl files to different folders just because AFCAD is acting up!Thanks,Martin

Hi,Thanks for the research David! In fact, I use Scenery_Align (AVSIM library) to activate only the scenery I am using for a particular flight (I've been using this for some years now and am very much used to what can be marked as Active=False in the scenery.cfg file and what needs to be left activated - works very well).

I smell a rat with that comment.You should activate all of your scenery before running AFCAD2 - it won't look for files everywhere, only where they are identified in the Scenery Library.John

Hi,Thanks for the research David! In fact, I use Scenery_Align (AVSIM library) to activate only the scenery I am using for a particular flight (I've been using this for some years now and am very much used to what can be marked as Active=False in the scenery.cfg file and what needs to be left activated - works very well). Before my reinstallation of FS9 to XP 64-bit this week however, AFCAD2 definitely saw all my airport bgls, whether they were in an active folder or not, so your results to the contrary are a bit odd, I must say. Even so, I tried the experiment myself, but AFCAD doesn't see even active bgls any more, if they are outside the folders I mentioned. Annoying.So I deleted the two data files in the AFCAD folder and let the programme rebuild its list. Wasn't too optimistic, because that's what happened of course when I reinstalled the programme from scratch: sure enough, no change.Hmmm, what now then? I can't see why the programme saw all my AFCAD files before and not any longer. Surely the change 64-bit shouldn't make any difference? And I don't really want to start moving hundreds and hundreds of bgl files to different folders just because AFCAD is acting up!Thanks,Martin

All I can say is that I have never known Afcad to find files which had not been indexed via the Scenery library - apparently that is what it consults.I'm also not familiar with the Scenery_Align program. If the author still supports it, you might inquire if it has been tested to work in a 64 bit setting. It is my understanding that some utilities work only in 32 bit - but I am not a programmer nor do I have any expertise at all in that arena.

I can assure you that AFCAD2 will find AFCAD files that are not active, wherever they may be - my AFACD2 installation did this for years until I changed to 64-bit this week. Whether that change is the cause I couldn't say - in any case, as I said, AFCAD2 is not finding even activate, AFCADs unless they are in either of the two 'standard' folders I mentioned, so I think the question of whether a scenery is active/inactive is a bit of a red herring.Scenery_Align is a programme that edits the scenery.cfg file, nothing more - but makes it easy to customise that file, activating or deactivating groups of sceneries as the use r cares to define them. It has no other interaction with FS itself. It would presumably work on any OS as it is in essence a glorified text file editor.I think the 'fault' must lie with AFCAD2 - does anyone else have it running in a 64-bit OS?Martin

I can assure you that AFCAD2 will find AFCAD files that are not active, wherever they may be - my AFACD2 installation did this for years until I changed to 64-bit this week. Whether that change is the cause I couldn't say - in any case, as I said, AFCAD2 is not finding even activate, AFCADs unless they are in either of the two 'standard' folders I mentioned, so I think the question of whether a scenery is active/inactive is a bit of a red herring.Scenery_Align is a programme that edits the scenery.cfg file, nothing more - but makes it easy to customise that file, activating or deactivating groups of sceneries as the use r cares to define them. It has no other interaction with FS itself. It would presumably work on any OS as it is in essence a glorified text file editor.I think the 'fault' must lie with AFCAD2 - does anyone else have it running in a 64-bit OS?Martin

Not to beat a dead horse but the only time Afcad finds non-active files for me is if I ask it open a file from a specific location - which is an option on the "open airport screen".More power to you if your does it differently.Perhaps you are on to something with the question about the AFCAD utility working in a 64 bit setting.Hope you get it resolved.

Well, I just did an experiment of my own. On another PC I have an 'out-of-the-box' setup of FS9 (9.1 in fact), no addons at all. I made a new folder in the main FS9 folder called Addon Scenery 2 and copied an AFCAD of EBBR into the folder Addon Scenery 2/EBBR/scenery. Entered the details into scenery.cfg and made the file active. Ran AFCAD2 and of course it found it. Then closed AFCAD2, went back and changed Active=True to Active=False in the scenery.cfg file, & ran AFACD2 again. It still finds the file, which is what I was saying (maybe not very clearly!). The AFCAD doesn't need to be active, nor in a default FS9 folder. This is how it's always been in my FS setup...The issue now is that with the new OS AFACD2 no longer finds any file, active or not, if it is outside the default fs9/scenery and fs9/Addon scenery folders. A little annoying, as I say! Not sure I can fix this..Martin :-)

Well, I just did an experiment of my own. On another PC I have an 'out-of-the-box' setup of FS9 (9.1 in fact), no addons at all. I made a new folder in the main FS9 folder called Addon Scenery 2 and copied an AFCAD of EBBR into the folder Addon Scenery 2/EBBR/scenery. Entered the details into scenery.cfg and made the file active. Ran AFCAD2 and of course it found it. Then closed AFCAD2, went back and changed Active=True to Active=False in the scenery.cfg file, & ran AFACD2 again. It still finds the file, which is what I was saying (maybe not very clearly!). The AFCAD doesn't need to be active, nor in a default FS9 folder. This is how it's always been in my FS setup...The issue now is that with the new OS AFACD2 no longer finds any file, active or not, if it is outside the default fs9/scenery and fs9/Addon scenery folders. A little annoying, as I say! Not sure I can fix this..Martin :-)

I also did some further checking - discovered that if an afcad has been "found" initially by the Afcad program, the data (it's coded location) is written into the rather large file in the Afcad folder named AirportIndex (it has no extension).This file can be viewed using Wordpad. As long as that data is in the file, Afcad will display it - assuming it finds that the file has not been deleted. Thus even if the afcad is now not "active", yes the afcad program will still see it. The key still seems to be having it in marked as "active" initially.Why your setup is apparently not doing that is sure a mystery to me.

Hi,Perhaps you need to activate all your scenery using the Scenery Library (not using Scenery Align), and then restart FS to rebuild the DAT files. Then delete(or rename) the AFCAD Airport Index file and start up AFCAD. Once it's working properly again then try using Scenery Align.Hope this helps,

I also did some further checking - discovered that if an afcad has been "found" initially by the Afcad program, the data (it's coded location) is written into the rather large file in the Afcad folder named AirportIndex (it has no extension).This file can be viewed using Wordpad. As long as that data is in the file, Afcad will display it - assuming it finds that the file has not been deleted. Thus even if the afcad is now not "active", yes the afcad program will still see it. The key still seems to be having it in marked as "active" initially.Why your setup is apparently not doing that is sure a mystery to me.

Hello everyone!I have been searching and cannot find a solution to my issue. Here it goes.... after so many FS9 crashes, it was time to uninstall, format, and start clean. I streamlined, got rid of all the fancy AI traffic, and added only about half the flyable aircraft I had before. The game runs amazingly fast, boots up in less than a minute (i'm still on a Pentium 4 processor), and hardly crashes anymore. I began adding, one by one, the large airports I frequent around the globe. They all show up nicely, but I get a Scenery Config error immediately when the game starts. Please see attached photo... When I add scenery, or an airport, I add one by one, through the Settings/Scenery Library in the menu as the game launches. No problems at all seeing the scenery changes, the airports look great, in spite of the error message. The other day, I attempted to make some changes to an ILS approach, and when I launched AFCAD 2.2.1, it was not able to open ANY of my airports. Nothing at all. It tried "Collecting airports", but that is about it. AFCAD freezes up at that point. I uninstalled, reinstalled, but to no avail. Perhaps this has something to do with the Scenery Config error, re Addon Scenery. Is the config written correctly? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks much! I enclosed additional photos which might help you help me. Roman

The warning is telling you FS cannot find the Addon scenery folder.Do you have a ...\Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery folder and does it contain a folder named "scenery"?If not, then un-check the top entry in your Scenery Library and the warning will stop.If you do have that folder double check the folder names and that you have .bgl files in ...\Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery\scenery.regards,Joe

The warning is telling you FS cannot find the Addon scenery folder.Do you have a ...\Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery folder and does it contain a folder named "scenery"?If not, then un-check the top entry in your Scenery Library and the warning will stop.If you do have that folder double check the folder names and that you have .bgl files in ...\Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery\scenery.regards,Joe

No, I do not have a plain scenery sub folder of \Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery. All my sub folders are named for their respective sceneries, but there is no "######ized" folder just named "scenery"within the Addon Scenery parent folder.

Joe, to answer you, No, I do not have a plain scenery sub folder of \Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery. All my sub folders are named for their respective sceneries, but there is no single folder just named "scenery"within the Addon Scenery parent folder. And AFCAD does not open any of my airports, stock, or modified. That I cannot figure out.

All active entries in the Scenery Library must have a scenery sub-folder...

No, I do not have a plain scenery sub folder of \Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery. All my sub folders are named for their respective sceneries, but there is no "######ized" folder just named "scenery"within the Addon Scenery parent folder.

...this is what is causing the error warning when you start the sim.To eliminate the error either un-check the Scenery Library entry for Addon Scenery or add a folder named scenery in the Addon Scenery folder.The issue you have with Afcad2.21 is a separate issue. What OS are you using?The first time Afcad "collects" the airports can take a while.In regards to Afcad2.21, I suggest you move on, as most have, to ADE9X. It is a much better program that is being actively developed and supported.You can find it here- http://www.airportdesigneditor.co.uk/regards,Joe