Hi all,Whilst I enjoy the detailed airports supplied in the excellent Netherlands 2000 package I would prefer to use the ground textures in Ultimate Terrain Europe.Looking at the interface it's not obvious if the airport and ground textures can be used separately. Has anyone found a way of keeping the airports but losing the textures?Cheers,

Hi Ray,Your question is confusing me. Unfortunately, I don't have UT Europe or N2000. But I do know this. UT Europe does not supply ground textures. What it does is put in an accurate road system, accurate water (lakes, rivers, streams), accurate rail system, and accurate shore lines. Products like BEV and Ground Environment and FScene provide the textures. UT does do some landclass which controls where textures go, but not a lot, mostly urban areas I believe.Secondly, airports are independent for the most part of textures.So I don't understand your question.The problem that I could see occuring, and I see this a lot in the US for smaller privately owned airfields, is that their placement is often not correct, so they end up on top of roads looking weird. There are also times where the published altitude for the airport is incorrect, so they end up in a pit or on a plateau. Finally, the default FS9 mesh is not very accurate, and sometimes developers design their airports to fit the default mesh, so when a more accurate mesh is used, the above listed issues occur. But these are all independent of UT.So the main thing as far as I know of that you have to worry about is airport placement with respect to roads, water, and shores as far as UT is concerned.Could you describe your question a little more clearly? Or does this answer it for you?Thomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com/FC_StartJava.html] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)

Hi Ray,No sure solution. But take a look at a file by Eric Van Hoof (2000airp.zip) at FS.com. In the file he provides a set of excludes for each airport and a list of the airport bgl files. All for NL2000.Sounds like what you seek. But I haven't tried it. Perhaps someone else has crisper advice.Best,Mike

Hi Thomas,Thanks for your reply. My lack of understanding of these packages led to a poorly presented message. However, since posting that question I decided to uninstall the entire package and see what things looked like afterwards.I was pleasantly surprised. The default FS textures are now visible (thanks for the explanation) and UT now shows all the roads, rail-lines,lakes, canals and detailed coastline. The default airport is pretty good although it lacks the parking indicators and other refinements in the NL2000 package.I had considered replacement textures with GE being a possibility but for now I'm so pleased with what UT had given me I'll hold off for a while.I think the UT developers have gone to great lengths to match their data to the default and up to now I haven't seen any obvious mismatches. As I only fly the larger jets I don't expect to see problems at small airfields.Your explanation is fine and thank you for taking the time to post.Cheers,

Hi Mike,Thanks for posting. As you will have seen from my other post I've now deinstalled NL2000 and the default airport is sufficiently detailed to give me what I want together with the extra detail in the UT package. I much prefer the default textures to those in the NL2000 offering and have managed to save a few hundred mbs.Cheers,