Hi everyone,I decided to fly in an area I usually don't fly - the U.S. Pacific North West. The airports I have been to so far are KSEA (Seattle - Tacoma International) in Washington and Portland International in Oregon.Big Problem: The airports are FUBAR! The runways are covered by sand dunes, half the buildings and parked aircraft are floating in the air, some are half below ground. It's very odd to see the tail of an airplane cutting through the tarmac like the fin of a shark. I can take screen shots if you'd like to see them.I haven't tried any other airport in that area, but California seems ok, and I haven't noticed this problem anywhere else in the U.S. Anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it?Thanks in advance,Steve

Addendum: I have been checking (flying into or out of) more airports around these two. So far, these two are the only ones that are toast. Even Boeing Field, which is right beside KSEA, is fine. Very odd...

Here is an example of what I'm talking bout. This is KSEA...

Hmmm, I've been trying to fix such problem when they appeared, but in the end, decided it's always much easier (and faster) just to reinstall. The thing is: you might find the error fast, but it's quite hard to give you a solution and you will possibly be looking for the solution a long time, while in the mean time you could have reinstalled 5 times already.I wouldn't really know where to start giving you a sound advice, but: deactive mesh, deactivate sceneries, reinstall PNW (if you have ORBX installed) etc. See what you have installed in that area and so on.

Hmmm, I've been trying to fix such problem when they appeared, but in the end, decided it's always much easier (and faster) just to reinstall. The thing is: you might find the error fast, but it's quite hard to give you a solution and you will possibly be looking for the solution a long time, while in the mean time you could have reinstalled 5 times already.I wouldn't really know where to start giving you a sound advice, but: deactive mesh, deactivate sceneries, reinstall PNW (if you have ORBX installed) etc. See what you have installed in that area and so on.

I don't think he is talking about Orbx PNW, so installing 5 times may take a bit longer then figuring out what's wrong. :( If it WAS PNW I'd also advice to reinstall PNW, but that's not the case as far as I can tell. I don't have a solution btw... Although... the best solution might be to buy Orbx's PNW after all and install it: that might solve it completely! :(

Edited January 30, 201214 yr by J van E

I was talking about reinstalling FSX, not PNW. But I wish him that he finds the solution if possible.

Very strange.Have you done any tweaking to your FSX setup (scenery.cfg/fsx.cfg)?Do you use any mesh addons?It might also be some files missing because of harddisk failure, so I'd run checkdisk if I were you.

Definitely something wrong with the elevation mesh at those airports. The elevation mesh could be missing, or in the wrong order in the library load priority. What's really odd is that normally FSX will flatten the mesh inside of the airport perimeter.A central issue would be whether those are default FSX airports, or are scenery add-ons.If all else fails, there's a great utility: FS Global AFM - Airport Flattening Meshes (included for free with the purchase of FS Global Ultimate Americas) that might help (Contact FS Global prior to purchase just to be sure).Cheers,- jahman.

Hi guys,Thanks for the responces! Sorry, I was tired when I posted and I forgot to say that I have Ultimate Terrain X USA by Flight 1 installed, with all patches applied. The airports themselves are default, not addons. I haven't tweeaked the config files. I tried uninstalling UTX, but that didn't change anything.These are the two worst examples I've found; the others are usually stuff like a building in the middle of a taxiway, etc.

"If all else fails, there's a great utility: FS Global AFM - Airport Flattening Meshes (included for free with the purchase of FS Global Ultimate Americas) that might help (Contact FS Global prior to purchase just to be sure)."This is a _great_ product. It includes already done fixes for thousands of airfields. Each airport has to be separately installed by entering the airport code letters. So you fly, see a faulty airport, open the utility, enter the ICAO code, and Bingo! the runway elevations there are fixed.Reason there is no batch file to fix all airports in FSX is the fixes are done by substituting real data in place of FSX airport data (often faulty). In the vast majority these real data fixes solve the problem without issues, but in a few cases they might not be compatilbe and instead of fixing they could break an already good airport. So GS Global uses the manual procedure. So far all the fixes I tried worked perfectly!But actually it is Global Europe/Africa that has this AFM disc included in the box, NOT GS Global Americas. With Americas your reg number entitles you to a discount where you only pay shipping/handling, $7 I think, instead of full price. And you have to wait for the AFM disc to arrive. With Europe/Africa it's already included inside the box.There is also a freeware version, free for anybody, but that version doesn't have the already done fixes. Instead you have to manually enter elevations by trial and error, so it is not anywhere near as valuable as the pay version.The pay version is for sale to anyone, regardless if they already have any FS Global scenery. About $30 I think...EDIT: the full version in Europe/Africa fixes airports all over the world, on all continents, and with any mesh from any company, as long as the mesh uses real world data, instead of the data in FSX (which is faulty).

Edited January 30, 201214 yr by Fielder