Will someone will tell me where default airfield files are kept in FS9, please ?

Thanks.

Under the primary \Scenery folder, inside the short area name folders, ie NAMW is North America West. The airport data is held in the files that start with AP9xxxx.bgl.

Right...but I want to check London City airport EGLC.  Afcad shows it as AF2_EGLC.  I've searched FS9 for EGLC but I get 'No items match your search' so what do I look for?  I assume London will be in Eurw ?

gypsymoth

 

Are you using Afcad2.2.1 to search for the afcad ?

 

If you have found AF2_EGLC , that is either an amendment to the original default afcad or it is one you have downloaded. It is not the default.

 

The default is included in the file Flight Simulator 9\Scenery\EURW\scenery\AP948130.BGL

 

Can you explain exactly what you are trying to do ?

 

Peter

The reason I ask what you are trying to do is that AP948130.BGL contains many, many default afcads, not just EGLC....so please don't mess with that file unless you know what you are doing.

 

Peter

I've just checked using ADE9 & see AP948130.BGL.  I landed there but it's missing but still appears in my airport select list.  I'm hoping to check the problem.  I can always make my own but would like to solve the problem of a vanishing airfield.....

I did use Afcad2.2.1.

Where have you saved the afcad AF2_EGLC ?  Was this one you created yourself?

It would have been saved on my desktop but I cancelled it.  I entered EGLC & Afcad came up with AF2_EGLC.

If I make my own I'll use ADE9 though.

I'm more interested in locating the offending file though......

Hi Gypsymoth.

 

Airport files named AF_***.BGL are home-made airports, created using AfCad. I suspect yours will have come from something like Ultimate Traffic or JustFlight's British Airports.

 

ADE has its own read-only internal database of stock airpots ICAO codes. I've disabled a number of my stock AP******.bgl files over the years and the ICAO codes for the disabled sets still show in ADE.

 

There's a free utility available (possibly in the library here) called TCalc, which gives information regarding which scenery tile your plane is currently over or on, lat & lon, et c. It's very useful for identifying the ****** part of the stock bgl files when you are trying to find one rogue.

 

If ADE says the stock EGLC is in AP948130.bgl, do a windows file search for *948130.bgl, starting in the FS9 main directory and searching all sub-folders. That ought to pull up all the scenery files for the area around EGLC. They'll have names like ST948130.BGL or AB948130.BGL, each one containing a different aspect of the scenery for that tile. Check that AP948130.BGL is still there. If it is and the airport still doesn't show in AfCad, you can find the original stock bgl in one of the cab files on the installation discs.

 

Cheers,

Dave

I'm having difficulty posting at the mo' so here's another part...

 

If you create your own airport from scratch, don't include navaids as the stock navaids often still show through and you'll end up with double ILS and VOR. It's best to start with the stock airport and move stuff around to suit your needs. That will avoid the navaid duplication.

 

Cheers,

D

Thanks for all the info.  I'll probably just make a EGLC at some stage.  I make my own WW2 airfields, by the way, with sbuilder & Ade9.

I'm grateful to you.

Terry.

Hi Terry.

 

No problems-- you're welcome.

 

D

I think I must do a Welshpool airfield...... :rolleyes: