Adding airport to airport.txt question

[Steve Hess 1]

I am working on an Edwards AFB add-on. One of the things I would like to do is add AI flights between KEDW and Beale and Travis AFB. The problem is Beale and Travis AFB don't show up in the TTools airports listings. I figured I could manually add it to the airports.txt file, but I am having problems with the airport coordinates. In ADE the longitude and latitude are shown as decimal and in the txt file as degrees, minutes, and seconds. I found a way of converting back and forth between the two, but when I do it with airports that are already in the list the numbers are close but not dead on. I believe the number following the long and lat is the airfield alt. Thanks for your help.

[meshman 109]

ADE gives you the option of displaying decimals degrees or DD MM.sss format. Toggle as you like.

[Gypsy Baron 10]

>I am working on an Edwards AFB add-on. One of the things I>would like to do is add AI flights between KEDW and Beale and>Travis AFB. The problem is Beale and Travis AFB don't show up>in the TTools airports listings. I figured I could manually>add it to the airports.txt file, but I am having problems with>the airport coordinates. In ADE the longitude and latitude are>shown as decimal and in the txt file as degrees, minutes, and>seconds. I found a way of converting back and forth between>the two, but when I do it with airports that are already in>the list the numbers are close but not dead on. I believe the>number following the long and lat is the airfield alt. Thanks>for your help. As the other post indicated, ADE gives you the choice of formatsas does FSX Planner, which I used to verify the coordinates in FSXvs those I had in one of my FS9 TTools files. And the final parameteris the field altitude in feet.Here's the info you asked for:KEDW,N34* 54.33',W117* 53.02',2302KBAB,N39* 08.17',W121* 26.19',113 KSUU,N38* 15.73',W121* 55.65',62 Paul

[Steve Hess 1]

Thank You. I did not find a way to change that setting, but I'll look again.

[meshman 109]

>Thank You. I did not find a way to change that setting, but>I'll look again. Settings | Options | Units | Coord, choose from Decimal or DDM. Make sure you're up to the latest version, which is 1.37.05.

[Steve Hess 1]

Thanks again, Those are terms that did not leap off the page at me.