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Thanks for your repiies, I've downloaded SBuilder and after a bit of head scratching I now have a background to my Airport. Many Thanks,Jerry.

I've built my own airport, most things are in place now, I just need to work out how to give it a backgound to cover/replace the default ground texture. ADE gives you this option for FSX but I can't see how to do this for FS9 using Afcad or ADE. Do I need another program/utility to do this or have I missed something.Any heip please,Jerry.

In reply to your question Joe my Airport is smack bang in the middle of addon central, with RAF/USAF bases at Mildenhall, Marham, Honington and Lakenheath being the nearest at about 3 miles. Makes for some interesting flying as all have Ai flights. Any how, I've had one more go at this and I've re-installed FSGlobal, leaving my airport ground level unchanged and guess what, all my Ai take off AND land at ground level, no more floating in the air when landing If only I'd done that to begin with. So I guess this is now resolved. So to every one who gave advice to me I would like to thank you.Jerry.PS. I'm not even going to ask how.............

Hi Tom, My airport files were all put in it's own folder in the addon scenery folder and added to the scenery library. This was way above the FSGlobal layer. I've tried all sorts of combinations in the scenery library and moving/copying Afcad/Traffic files to different locations within FS9 but still ended up with the same outcome. It must be something I've done or missed as this ONLY happends at the airport I made, all Ai leaving my airport (At Ground Level)and landing at another airport lands on the runway at ground level with FSGlobal installed. Any Ai leaving another airport at ground level lands above the ground at my airport untill I unistalled FSGlobal and adjusted the default terrain level in Afcad and flatten.Regards, Jerry.

Hi All, sorry for taking sooooo long to reply to your replies but work got in the way of any further tinkering with my new build airport. One thing I forgot to mention and I'd forgot I had it installed was FSGlobal. After I uninstalled it and reset my ground level in Afcad and FSTflatten I no longer have this problem. All Ai take off on the runway and land and taxi at ground level. Problem solved? well yes and no, I've now lost FSGlobal and improved terrain which isn't a problem for my new airport location as I've built in on my home town and East Anglia isn't noted for it's mountain ranges or hills for that matter but even when FSGlobal was installed if an Ai took off from my airport and landed next door at RAF Lakenheath (Modified-not by me) or any stock/modified airport it landed on the runway at ground level. But for now I shall continue to build up my airport. Many, many thanks for your time and replies.PS. Where can I find this ADE9 program?

Thanks for your reply Joe. Yes it's a new Airport and during construction Flatten and Afcad was set to 40 feet, converted to meters in flatten. Increasing the hieght in Afcad makes matters worse so everything is set to 40 feet as far as I can see, except for the airport text file decompiled by TTools which shows 39 as the last entry in my airport details. I tried altering that as well but makes no difference as far as I can see. I moved the Afcad file to the World/Scenery folder but no change either. I must say though, the distance has dropped to about one foot now? Can't be far off. Thanks again, Jerry.

I'll try and keep this simple. (first attempts on all of the following) I've just built a small airport using Afcad, Fs Flatten, and Exbuilder. I then thought It would be nice to put some Ai movment on it. I used YRoute to make a simple first attempt at Ai traffic which involved the default Ai Dash 8-100 taxing from it's parking space to the runway, taking off, doing a circuit of the airfield and landing again then going back to it's parking spot. Now it taxis and goes down the runway at ground level then takes off but on landing it goes down the runway and taxiway about two or three feet off the ground. I tried the same flightplan at another default airport and there wasn't a problem, took off and landed at ground level. I can only assume I've not set something right in my build. I've tried adjusting the airport height in Afcad and also in the Airport Text File decompiled with TTools with no beneficial affect. Any help please. Jerry.