I read somewhere that we can use the PowerDesk 6 trial version to find the BGL file numbers in FSX. I downloaded it and can't figure out how to find the bgl file numbers. I cannot find the article again. Can someone tell me how to use it, please? As I remember you went to some area of the Scenery folder and searched, say for KORD or KLAX for example, and it would tell you the file number. Thanks, regards, Bob.

I did a forum search using "powerdesk" as the key word but couldn't find the article you were looking for. Anyway, I own PowerDesk 6 and it's a great program and I think much better than Windows Explorer. You can do what you want by opening PowerDesk 6, going to the Menu bar and clicking on Tools>Find>File Finder. Once this is open, click on the "Contents" tab and type in what you are looking for. Make sure you are looking in a scenery folder containing .bgl's and it will find every .bgl that has say, "KLAX" in the file. Hope this helps.Best regards,Jim

Hi Jim. Thanks. I tried that but it did not find anything. I looked in the NAMW folder. It did not find any KLAX. Regards, Bob.

Hey, Bob, what precisely do you mean by "file number"? I also own Power Desk and it is a great replacement for Windows Explorer. What puzzles me about your question is that Bgl files typically have a number within their very name, and I wonder if you mean something different than that, because file name searches are a piece of cake with any such utility. Could you be a bit more specific about the exact thing you want to search for?-Seadog

Hi. The article I read said we could use Power Desk to search the Scenery file for the bgl's for a particular airport like KATL which is in 0302 Folder (APX25200.bgl). I know there are other ways to find the file number but this looked like an easy way. Thanks, regards, Bob.

This PowerDesk thing seems promising. However the only way I know to find what file a particular airport is in, is to do as you said...as per SDK instructions, using the row and col. I will say that the ground polys and so forth are stored in different files. So just finding the APxxxx.bGL file with KLAX in it, does not guarantee that you will find all of the files related to KLAX.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2530 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

Hi Rhett. Thanks. I guess you are right. Best regards, Bob.