Does anyone have any tips for locating water runways in the select airport menu? It seems they really should have included a filter checkbox or something to help locate the available water runways.Phil

Hi Phil,My FSX is just 27 hours old but I read in the TrafficToolbox SDK that the fs10.Airports.dat has all that info in it. It'll be manual perhaps at this point but you can open with wordpad or notepad and search the word "WATER" and away you go. There will be some way to automate this I'll bet very shortly. Otherwise go ahead and do it manually for the rest of us... Loyd

Thanks, I can see the "surface type = water" attribute in the fs10.Airports.dat so thats a start. Phil

I would guess that most of the water runways have not changed much since FS9, try looking in the AVSIM file library for files that contain airport/runway databases for FS9. Then you can search that database, there are at least two in the library that I know of.-Gary

Where is the fs10.airports.dat file located?

All the water runways in FSX are located in the United States - Alaska, Washington, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and West Virginia are the main locations.That does include Midway Island, Honolulu, the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.If you have FSX Deluxe and have installed the SDK - you can find the .dat file with the default airport information in the Traffic Toolbox SDK folder.If you do not have the SDK - look for a file by Winfred Orthmann in the library with FS2004 airports - that will be most of them.

Do a search on "seaplane bases" or some such in these forums. Or over at one of the other major MSFS sites. I don't have access to it at the moment, but I found a pretty complete list already compiled.

I dunno. Water runways are everywhere. I redid something like 51 or so of them just in New England for FS9 UT (go to the downloads section of my site). And those were just the ones that needed fixin' for UT/USA. There were many that didn't need to be fixed.The way I find them is to hop into FS near where I want to fly, open the map, and look for the anchors.Thomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)N15802 KASH '73 Piper Cherokee Challenger 180

www.skyvector.com, then look for the anchors and enter the identifers