I am experiencing an issue where MANY airports are not listed in static camera list. For example, even when aircraft is located on a runway, or at a gate at any of the following airports, the airport where I am located is missing: all FlightBeam airports; FT KTPA; DD KBFI; FSDT KORD, DFW. This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list, rather only airports I have tested.

I was becoming concerned that it only affected addon airports, but when sitting at KORD, neither KORD, or KMDW are listed, yet KCGX is listed. In my case, I have FSDT KORD, and Orbx KCGX, while KMDW is P3Dv4.1 stock.

I have tried "Regenerate Airport Data" a couple different ways: 1.) scan using airports exactly as installed, with some addons in scenery.cfg, and some in .xml's. 2.) scan after creating scenery.cfg with Lorby's Addon Organizer, which produces a scenery.cfg with ALL addon scenery(including scenery installed using .xml). It appears there is no difference with respect to airports missing from Static Camera list.

What am I doing wrong?

 

Regards,

Steven Miller

 

Hi Steven,

Can you tel me in what cfg file the addon is present in? (scenery.cfg, adds-on.cfg, etc.)

Regards,
Keven

Keven,

Interesting catch...it may be that the commonality of airports that don't show up in CP, are airports listed in add-ons.cfg in "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4"

Or possibly in add-ons.cfg in "C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4" - but I don't think so, because I think I figured out KORD is okay in CP, and it is listed in this particular add-ons.cfg

I'll have to do a check on each one to confirm, then I'll post here.

Regards

CP will read those files, we just need to find what differentiates this one from the other ones...

Keven,

Sorry for the delay...accidentally installed some windows 10 updates yesterday, and it bricked my computer, so had to drop back to a system image from November 2017. Spent the day yesterday getting everything back in order, so I'll report back after some additional testing.

Don't waste any time on this until I get back to you, as I'm not certain my original post was 100% accurate. Even though I bought CP quite some time ago, I just recently started using it so I'm a CP newbie.

I'll test each of my airports and see what I can see, and I'll report back.

Thanks for your attention...great product, btw.

No problem, thanks for the update!

Keven,

Okay, finally had an opportunity to do some testing tonight...here are my findings.

1.) Third Party Addon Airports missing in Static Cameras category

Flightbeam: KDEN KMSP KSFO

FSDreamTeam: KCLT KORD KDFW KIAH KLAS KLAX KSDF KMEM KJFK CYVR

Fly Tampa: KTPA TNCM TFFJ (TFFJ included with Fly Tampa St. Maarten Complete)

JustSim: LFMN

Aerosoft: KASE

Orbx: AYPY KBZN KEGE KJAC KMRY KPSP KSAN KTEX KWYS LOWI PAVD

Drzewiecki Design: (Seattle Airports X) KPAE S50

...and many stock P3Dv4.1 airports, of which I tried a handful and most didn't show up

 

2.) Third Party Addon Airports appearing in Static Cameras category

Flightbeam: KIAD KPHX

Orbx: ENNK KCGX KMRZ (KMRZ included with KMRY)

LLH Creations: LFLJ LFKX

Fly Tampa: TNCS - 4 gates only, no runways (TNCS included with Fly Tampa St. Maarten Complete)

Drzewiecki Design: (Seattle Airports X) KBFI KRNT

 

I've compared .xml files of airports which are listed in Static, to .xml files for airports NOT listed, and can't find anything to suggest a problem.

There is nothing that I can find that points to a possible reason why I'm getting the results I'm getting.

When scanning airport data with CP, I was able to see that it scanned some of the airports which don't show up in Static, but for some reason it's finding nothing at those airports, no gates, no runways, etc. (it probably scanned all of them, but the list passes so quickly it's hard to document every airport.

 

Please advise,

Regards,

 

Edited January 26, 20188 yr by somiller
additional information

Can you confirm that, when you're scanning, they are enabled in the scenery library?

Edit: Do you scan for airport when the sim is running or not?

Keven,

All airports listed are enabled in the scenery library...my test involved loading into each airport on the active runway, and then checking to see what showed up in Static Camera list.

I have tried scanning with the sim NOT running, and with the sim running, and it seems to make no difference.

If I knew a little bit about how CP determines what to scan and how, I might be able to troubleshoot, but the scan function, and it's output are not intuitive in a way that makes it possible to see what it's doing, or has produced.

Regards,

The process was made to be as transparent as possible to the user. If you want to troubleshoot or diag the issue, you might want to generate a Report file from the Preferences and have a look in there for what is happening during the scan.

Keven,

I've looked at the report file after scanning, and I don't see anything that stands out...when comparing instances of KIAD, for which I have gates and runways in Static Camera, to KIAH, of which nothing is in Static Camera, I don't see any difference in the log.

Maybe if you take a look, something will be obvious to you? Is there some way I can forward the report file to you...you could private message me an email address?

Regards

Keven,

I opened a few airports in Airport Design Editor, and I couldn't find any difference in the parking or runway lists, that pointed to a difference between airports that show up in Static, and airports that don't show up...I'm stumped.

Hey Steven,

Contact us through here: https://fsfxpackages.com/en/support/products/ChasePlane/ We'll do a TeamViewer session together to find the issue

Regards,
Keven

Keven,

Thanks, support request sent.

Regards