Hi Everybody,

 

Did Laminar add additional airport vehicles into the mix other than 1400 and 1401?

They must have changed something as this no longer get rid of the airport vehicles.

 

    Find what: ^1400.*\n    Replace with: <blank>

and 

    Find what: ^1401.*\n    Replace with: <blank>

No, not that I know. Better check that you script works on the correct apt.dat and produces the expected output. Mind that the apt.dat file specification also has a 1402 row code for vehicles*, although it does not appear to be in use in the default file.

 

* https://developer.x-plane.com/article/airport-data-apt-dat-12-00-file-format-specification/

Edited May 10May 10 by Bjoern

2 hours ago, Bjoern said:

No, not that I know. Better check that you script works on the correct apt.dat and produces the expected output. Mind that the apt.dat file specification also has a 1402 row code for vehicles*, although it does not appear to be in use in the default file.

 

* https://developer.x-plane.com/article/airport-data-apt-dat-12-00-file-format-specification/

Yeah I also tried the 1402, was empty in the airport dat file, didn't change anything.

Looking at the file the entries look as what follows.

<blank>1400 -43.210136 -65.283674 340.1 baggage_train 3
<blank>1401 -43.209283 -65.280433 252.8 baggage_train|fuel_jets|fuel_liners
<blank>1401 -43.209496 -65.281024 -103.2 baggage_train|fuel_jets|fuel_liners
<blank>1401 -43.209850 -65.282268 -61.3 baggage_train|fuel_jets|fuel_liners

I even went in and removed all the entries via the following after trying the <blank>

        Find what: <blank>1400.*     and the <blank>1401.*

        Replace with: 

All the lines are gone, yet I still see airport vehicles driving around.

Sure you're working on the correct apt.dat and are you sure the lines are properly removed?

If I wanted to write a script to remove the entire ground vehicle network from apt.dat, I would definitely not prefix or replace any lines with "blank", but read the entire file line by line into memory except for the lines starting with 1400, 1401 or 1402 and then write the result back to disk as apt.dat. Python should be well capable of that.

Edited May 11May 11 by Bjoern

Correct apt.dat file in my center server computer, these entries worked just fine in the past. I also checked the file for 1400,1401,1402 and they are all gone, not sure how these are being drawn.

Edited May 11May 11 by Mike_CFII_MEL

Maybe the client apt.dat files also need to be edited?

4 hours ago, Bjoern said:

Maybe the client apt.dat files also need to be edited?

Yeah I did all of them, still no go, not sure where they coming from.

You must have another layer injecting it somewhere. Deleting 1400 and 1401 removed all the airport vehicles on my install.

1 hour ago, blingthinger said:

You must have another layer injecting it somewhere. Deleting 1400 and 1401 removed all the airport vehicles on my install.

I even went so far as to remove AEP and Mr. X library form Custom Scenery, everything else is just about default. Still see the vehicles.