I have been trying to get an answer from ORBX on the floating runways problem in the Northern Rocky Mountian Scenery for a while with no response. I have finally found the solution to the problem myself. I will list the information below;

 

ORBX Runway PROBLEM SOLVED;

NOTICE:

To find out if you have a problem in the ORBX Northern Rocky Mountains Scenery NRM

start up FSX and free flight. Now pick the airport "Stewart" and see if the runway is below the

surrounding terrain levels. If so then go to the following steps;

Go to the ORBX folder and to the following subfolders \FSX\ORBX\Scripts\Custom.na\OFF folder.

You will find a number of .bgl files that all have in their title the words "elevation adjustment".

Copy all of these files into the FSX\Scenery\World\scenery folder and your floating runways should be fixed.

 

Why these files are located in the OFF folder is a puzzle to me?? You may also find, as I did, that there are

other ORBX scenery packages that have the same problem and this fixes them also. Now all we need to know is how

this happened as it must have been their installer package that did this. Norm

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1) stewart is not located in the northern rocky mountains region of ORBx, but in pacific fjords region. Do you have that installed. If not then you will have problems with stewart as you DO need the appropriate ORBX region for the particular addon airport.

 

2) if you dont have the addon airport stewartm you might refer to the pacific fjords region, stewart airport that has also been enhanced,

 

3) when you installed the region was it set to north america. I have found that if that is not set correct then you will get errors like you have described where certian files has been switched "OFF" instead of not. I always switch off the region to std FSX, then install. only after the install I switch it to NORTH AMERICA. this switch will do what you have done manuallym automatically. I suspect that you have not set the region correctly via the shortcut that should be on your desktop.

 

4) there is nothing wrong with the installer. It do what it is suppose to do 100%. a couple of thousand users have used it successfully without a glitch. I havent seen any posts that the installer has ever been at fault.

It is unfortunate that when you try to help others in the community that there is always someone that wants

to throw stones at your comments. This posting was not to raise any discussion on the accuracy of my

findings but only to make others aware of the findings and how I corrected them. The only comment I made

that should necessarily raise any comments is the one on the possibility of an installer issue. I have no

other explaination on why this happened. However that said and being a senior user at the age of 74 and

having been born before computers were invented I could expect to make an error or two in my useage of

such. Therefore I admit that browsing the many files in the folder I did relate the airport "stewart" to NRM

region instead of the correct region of "PJF" I should have refered to airport " W01" Tonasket, Washington as

being in the NRM region that was also a raised airport. Be advised that there were 220 files in this folder that

were in the wrong location and need to be moved into the FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery folder. Although, I

have been a user of FS since BAO and avid in such use. My computer hardware is current with the best in

the last six months, i7, 16meg ram, nVidia 560, Intel MB, with Word Not Allowed and ******* tweaks. Max sliders using

Inspectors 1.9.6.6. latest settings and a constant 30 FPS. So all of that said, I think I would install my many

scenery files correctly including ORBX. I guess what I am trying to say is that I don't need any one to teach

but only suggest what may have caused the "elevation adjustment.bgl's" to have been located in the

following location of ; D:\FSX\ORBX\Scripts\Custom.na\OFF .......

Please view the images attached if I can get them to upload as this is the third time trying...

Thank ou I will try this solution :smile:

Be careful when you criticize Orbx Fisheye.  They don't take it well.  Although I didn't read any derogatory comments in your post blaming the installation program must have twitched a sensitive nerve.

 

I went to Stewart after reading your original post and it looked OK to me.  However, if you are using an outside view of your aircraft and the viewpoint is at ground level it will appear that your aircraft is floating a foot or so off the runway or that the runway is below ground level.

 

I had contacted Orbx about this and was told that was normal because of the way the rocks and short grass were handled.  By raising the outside viewpoint slightly above ground level the aircraft will look like it is on the runway.

 

Noel  

Hello, it didn't work for me. In fact it was a problem of airport elevation conflict with FTX vector, but they provide a usefool FTX vector configurator with which you can choose wich airport to disable and it fixed my airports problem.