What design progs are the scenery design groups using to build airports.

 

Thanks

 

Randy

Some commonly used tools:

 

Airport Design Editor

SbuilderX

ModelConverterX and other tools at scenerydesign.org

Photoshop or GIMP (plugins for DDS and normal maps are useful with these)

Instant Scenery

Tools in the SDK such as Annotator, resample, etc

For modeling you can use Gmax, Sketchup, Blender, 3ds Max

Notepad++ is good for XML editing

 

There are many more useful tools and resources at fsdeveloper.com

 

For processing GIS data, check out osgeo4w package.

 

EDIT: Google Earth can be useful also. You can get Google Earth Pro for free.