Hi all,

       Just downloaded and extracted Blackpool airport and scenery to the community folder but it cannot be found on the world map and using the search still does not come up any ideas to get this working ? flight sim 2020 only been downloaded a week so fully up to days as well as my windows 11 pc also being fully up to date.

 

Thanks Alan

OK update, even though I put my sim on D drive in xbox folder and there is a community folder in there the sim has also but a folder with community on the standard C drive string.

Still having problems though, I moved Blackpool airport folder and then the blackpool landmarks folder.

airport still cannot be seen on world map but is found when you search. its works fine but the blackpool  landmarks are not pulling through . No tower, no pleasure beach ect.

 

Any ideas ?

Thanks Alan

Edited July 4, 2025Jul 4 by swaps

3 hours ago, swaps said:

OK update, even though I put my sim on D drive in xbox folder and there is a community folder in there the sim has also but a folder with community on the standard C drive string.

Still having problems though, I moved Blackpool airport folder and then the blackpool landmarks folder.

airport still cannot be seen on world map but is found when you search. its works fine but the blackpool  landmarks are not pulling through . No tower, no pleasure beach ect.

 

Any ideas ?

Thanks Alan

Have you tried deleting your scenery index folder contents and let FS build another one?

No, I have not done that, only been on the sim about 2 weeks and 1 week was just getting the download !

I thought that deleting that was only for the refreshing official scenery ? this is the unofficial add on scenery does that still apply ?

 

Thanks Alan

Asobo recommends before every update.

thanks I will try

 

Hi,

      that did not help, when I went into updates Blackpool airport shows as installed. the scenery shows in there as not installed. it let me tick the package but does not show an install button. I selected the scenery and another install it show 2 selected and I hit the install button. even after a restart of pc it was not showing and still shows as an uninstalled update. any ideas ? there is also another Blackpool sightseeing in my community folder which does not show in updates and does not work in MSFS 2020

 

Thanks Alan

 

 

1 hour ago, swaps said:

Hi,

      that did not help, when I went into updates Blackpool airport shows as installed. the scenery shows in there as not installed. it let me tick the package but does not show an install button. I selected the scenery and another install it show 2 selected and I hit the install button. even after a restart of pc it was not showing and still shows as an uninstalled update. any ideas ? there is also another Blackpool sightseeing in my community folder which does not show in updates and does not work in MSFS 2020

 

Thanks Alan

 

 

Make sure the Blackpool airport folder is not inside another folder. It must be the root folder inside community folder. Open the Blackpool folder, you should see jason files and simobjects files inside, that's the root folder that goes in the community folder.

4 hours ago, Bigmack said:

Make sure the Blackpool airport folder is not inside another folder. It must be the root folder inside community folder. Open the Blackpool folder, you should see jason files and simobjects files inside, that's the root folder that goes in the community folder.

Bill, the airport is working fine now, just not showing on the world map but I can search and find it. its just the scenery and points of interest not being found.

main folder shows as blackpoolscenery_w9hw1

inside that there are 16 folders with each having a separate point of interest

the next folder is called sightseeing-blackpool-pois-skell300

inside is another folder named sightseeing-blackpool-pois-skell300

and 2 files layout.json and manifest.json

in the second sightseeing-blackpool-pois-skell300 folder contains

folder contentinfo

folder scenery and the 2 files again layout.json and manifest.json

I did try moving the files from the second folder to the first but get error saying I cannot do this.

 

Thanks Alan

Sounds like the developer did a lousy job of packing the scenery. But glad you got things working for you. Now go enjoy your sim.

10 minutes ago, Bigmack said:

Sounds like the developer did a lousy job of packing the scenery. But glad you got things working for you. Now go enjoy your sim.

Bill, scenery is not working only the airport but it was nice to get that running but Bing map does not show anyof the landmarks for me. other saying they are there but I suspect them have used the addons and just dont remember.

I have made another thread about bing maps as I though they used satelite images for us to fly around but its very basic around the backpool area. no Piers , no tower, no pleasure beach or tramway (oldest in the country) in such a tourist area I thought all these would be included

Have you tried addon linker yet? It will allow you to link your addons to FS away from the community folder on separate drive. That's what I use to manager and link all my addons to FS. It can be found on Flightto website.

45 minutes ago, Bigmack said:

Have you tried addon linker yet? It will allow you to link your addons to FS away from the community folder on separate drive. That's what I use to manager and link all my addons to FS. It can be found on Flightto website.

will give it a go tomorrow, thanks

On 7/6/2025 at 5:03 PM, swaps said:

will give it a go tomorrow, thanks

 

On 7/6/2025 at 4:18 PM, Bigmack said:

Have you tried addon linker yet? It will allow you to link your addons to FS away from the community folder on separate drive. That's what I use to manager and link all my addons to FS. It can be found on Flightto website.

To be clear: the actual addon files are stored away from the Community folder, true (they can be anywhere you choose). But the links to these files are placed in the Community folder by AL.

13 minutes ago, cobalt said:

 

To be clear: the actual addon files are stored away from the Community folder, true (they can be anywhere you choose). But the links to these files are placed in the Community folder by AL.

Yes. I purchased separate 2GB SSD where I store all my addons. I would not advise to use a rotary HD for this.