Can anyone tell me what AFCAD is and what it means for flight sim? Is it something to do with airport scenery? If yes, where can I get it for my local airports?Cheers,-Pranav

It's an excellent freeware program by Lee Swordy available in the library as:afcad221.zipThe blurb says:"This is a CAD-style editor for FS2004 airports. Airports consist of visible scenery and invisible facility data used to control airport operations. AFCAD 2 can add or modify almost all facility elements and several visible elements. This includes runways, taxiways, aprons, parking and communications. More visible elements will be added in future upgrades. Note that this version is strictly for FS2004. Look for version 1.4 to work with FS2002."Typically, you use it to add or re-arrange parking places, set up taxi ways which control how aircraft move about the airfield, control how runways are used for landings and take-offs etc etc.If that sounds too much for you, lots of people make available Afcad-modified airports which you can just load up without editing them yourself - think I'm right in saying that you don't actually need Afcad to do that, just pop the file into the correct directory in FS. Main reason is to add many more parking spots - the standard FS airports don't have enough gates if you are running lots of AI traffic.

Hmmm...thanks...I think I understand...coz at my local airport I know which operators park where - typically there is a split between GA, International (heavy) and local traffic...So if I was to find an AFCAD file, it should replicate that and discard the way MSFS handles traffic at this specific field (VIDP)....So what elements of scenery come-in then?Cheers,Pranav

Lee Swordy's program allows access to the default airport information. You do not necessarily need someone else's Afcad file, although you can "open" this as well and modify for your own use.Once the program has scanned all of your scenery files, it will generate a list of data available by airport code / name. You can then select the airport of choice and modify to your heart's content. Once finished, you "save" the file and a *.bgl scenery file with the letters AFCAD therein is generated. Place this *.bgl file in the appropriate scenery folder. It will now over-ride the default Afcad data.Besides 'modifying', you can also 'create' ramps, aprons, runways, taxiways and of course parking and taxi traffic instructions. Lighting, lines, etc. can also be reworked.Download a copy of the program and read the tutorial; you'll probably come to understand it a little more.It does not include 3d objects or similar scenery aspects.

Hello everyone. Since yesterday I started to fiddle around with AFCAD and with its BGL files. Now my home airport is EDDK (Cologne-Bonn) and since today there is many stuff to be changed like the runway 25/7. It

I wouldn't mess around with the runway numbers unless you really know what you are doing. search in the library for EDDK and I am sure there are updated afcads and procedures that you can look at for examples. Taxi-way signs are created with scenery design programs, but search EDDK and you will find scenery in the library here

If you want to do taxisigns and other scenery objects (for FS9) better to use SceneGenX.scott s..