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you're right, I think the flytampa designers made it impossible to change their design, so I'll give up too :( Regards, Herman

Thanx for your patience, Herman I think I had no problem with aerosoft uninstall - I searched for any undeleted parts in control panel but found nothing I restored everything back but didn't solve the problem I don't have any ORBX stuff I renamed this file with the new elevation set to aerosoft's elevation (which is the same as stock airport's elevation : -3.352 ft) but nothin changed Are you sure of this ? - if this is the issue, I will stop trying to change elevation and startup fresh with Flytampa scenery Thanx, Herman

I had backup for these scenery folders so I easily restore them back on need. I don't have ORBX Vector. I searched for ALT.bgl files in FSX folder and didn't find one for EHAM.

Thanx a lot, Mudhendriver I figured out that the problem occurs only when playing back my recorded flights in which I was using Aerosoft scenery that designed the airport at a lower elevation than Flytampa did, consequently, in the recorded flights -the aircrafts touch the ground of Aerosoft's airport which lies at a lower lelevation, and appears to sink down below Flytampa's airport I use FsRecorder for playback Any ideas how to fix this elevation problem

update : I tried ADE - modified Flytampa Amsterdam airport's elevation to be the same as Aerosoft's elevation and the .bgl file was compiled successfully with no errors I tried the same using Fsx planner both didn't work !

I've removed .bgl files for Aerosoft from its installed folder. removed eurowest area, area 0601 from scenery folder. These are all .bgl filed related to Amsterdam I could find in FSX folder Additionally, I disabled these areas in scenery libraries menu, but the problem was not resolved.

I had aerosoft schiphol and recorded some landings with FsRecorder and saved them Now I uninstalled Aerosoft schiphol and used Flytampa Amsterdam but there is the problem of runway elevation, when I run playback in FsRecorder, the aircraft touches the begining of the runway normally but then sinks below the level I have FSX SP2 , steve dx10 fixer I have in top of my scenery libraries : 1-Flytampa-amsterdam - 2-Flytampa amsterdam_LC I have in my scenery\world\scenery , the file: AFX_EHAM_flytampa_dummy.bgl Is there a way to manipulate the runway elevation in flytampa Amsterdam to be the same as it was in aerosoft Schiphol ?

Contrails and wingtip vortices are white touchdown smoke is also normally white (It only starts as black squares then normalizes to white)

I ran the setup DVDs twice for repair yet the problem is the same Also I tried every combination in Steve's DX10 lights/effects box , checing and unchecking all options didn't work it out. Also noticed black squares of rain drops as below, I don't know whetherboth problems are related or not

I found these 2 files in effects folder fx_tchdwn.fx fx_tchdwn_s.fx

adding slashes didn't resolve the problem I tried adding (_s) to the touchdown line as you mentioned above, to be like that : touchdown=fx_tchdwn_s, 1 The black smoke disappeared !, but the white smoke "the normal cool effect" has gone too !

the .cfg file for the aircraft with black smoke is [EFFECTS] wake=fx_wake water=fx_spray dirt=fx_tchdrt concrete=fx_sparks touchdown=fx_tchdwn, 1 vaportrail_l=fx_dummy vaportrail_r=fx_dummy EngineFire=cs757_smoke_dark Another .cfg for normal one is : [EFFECTS] wake=fx_wake water=fx_spray dirt=fx_tchdrt concrete=fx_sparks touchdown=fx_tchdwn, 1

I tried it already, but the problem remains

some aircraft models would show black squares of smoke momentarily on touchdown which rapidly disappears, then the white smokes appear as normal (as shown below) this doesn't happen when I turn off DX10, but also doesn't happen on all aircraft models although DX10 was enabled