I have AFX and note that it has the ability for me to enable or disable take-offs and landings from airport runways. I'm not a scenery designer, so maybe a dumb question- but is configuring runways for take-offs and landings what AFCAD files do also? If so, am I editing an AFCAD file when I edit an airport in this manner? How do AFCAD files and AFX play together?

 

Thanks, Bruce.

afcad and afx files are really bgl files. AFCAD for FS9 and AFX for FSX or ADE for FSX are programs that will generate a bgl file. Now, a bgl file is a scenery file for FSX that can contain a whole range of information, anywhere from terrain mesh, nav waypoints, scenery models, photoreal scenery, landclass data etc etc etc. One thing they can also contain is airport data. This is what AFCAD and AFX and ADE create. BGL scenery files that contain airport data. The term AFCAD file has come to be known as a airport file but this is really just a name only.

Thanks Anthony, interesting info. So, the "airport file" for FSX that contains the airport data- I assume that this can be a part of the main scenery file, or a separate file with "airport data" only? When using AFX, is this something that need to know and work with or not?

 

Thanks. I used to live in Victoria before moving to the US, where are you located?

 

Bruce.