Steve0616

Thanks for the replies. It was a simple solution. The Alpha Channel was a black square. Changing it to white gets rid of the transparent aluminum and restores visibility.

Yeah, it did give me a offensive initials not allowed moment...comical looking to say the least. I substituted an ATI texture for the Burlington and it works fine. So I guess a texture problem but doesn't that usually return a solid white a/c? Transparent aluminum...something out of StarTrek I guess. Not spending too much time with this, the ATI can fill the slot as far as I'm concerned.

Noticed a shadow of a DC-8 taxiing at KTOL and determined it was a AIA_DC8_71 textured as the DC-8-71F Burlington Air Express N820BX". Checked the textures and tried the default and the 32bit ver. supplied. Both show up in DXT bmp looking OK, but in the sim just the shadow appears. New one on me...any ideas as what the problem is and solution?

OK, fyi, for the Niiranen & Niccolai PDX scenery above, you can eliminate the trees you referenced (and some default bldgs also) by using ADE9 to put an exclusion over the whole airport. If you do not use ADE9 message me and I will send you the AFCAD that does this, if you prefer to use this version of PDX Steve

I think this might be the other scenery you were referring to... FS2004 Scenery–Portland Int’l Airport (KPDX), Oregon (OR). Portland 2004 version 2 scenery is of Portland International Airport and downtown Portland, Oregon USA. Formerly payware. By Andrew Niiranen and Bob Niccolai. 3.7 Mb https://www.fs2000.org/2008/01/01/fs2004-scenery-portland-intl-airport/

Flight plans are kept in a file in your Documents folder named Flight Simulator Files. Have you checked to see if that folder exists? If not, try creating it and placing your flight plans in it.

Umberto, Thanks for trying to help. KLAX V2 is the only FSDT airport that stays activated. I have to reactivate every other scenery every time I start FS. Anyway, I again dl'd and installed the latest addon mgr linked in your reply. In trying to reactivate KORD for example, I still end up at an Esellerate menu asking for activation key after clicking yes and continue at all the prompts and upon entering the serial number it returns invalid entry. These older sceneries have serial numbers which are different than the activation number that came with KLAX V2.) Does that make a difference? And why does the process still take me to an Esellerate box?

I downloaded and installed the scenery and then compared it to my existing version. It was the same one. So I don't know why it didn't work. OK, Make sure to select the link for the airport below the download button for the photoscenery. – FS2004 Scenery–Christchurch Int’l Airport Some downloads do not work, but this one still does.

I downloaded and installed the scenery and then compared it to my existing version. It was the same one. So I don't know why it didn't work.

Start FS9 in Windows mode, select Addon Manager and then FSDreamTeam. Select scenery from menu and select Register Serial. Make sure your serial is shown in the box. If it is, then I don't know what else to try.

Might try this, not ideal, and kind of a pain but it works for me: After replying "Yes" to do you want to activate it now.... Wait, wait, and wait some more until a Product Activation Box appears Choose "Offline" Next prompt Choose "Cancel" Here I get the message that the airport has been successfully activated. Choose OK It says something about it has backed up the registries somewhere, but that seems to help nothing as you have to repeat this routine for any and all airports you wish to activate in this session and worse, you have to do it every time you restart FS9. But for now, this is the only way I can use their airports. Would love it if someone has a solution that will activate without having to repeat all of these steps like it worked in the past.

This site has it: https://www.fs2000.org/2009/10/27/fs2004-nzch-photoreal-scenery/

Did anyone use Windows 8? I upgraded out of curiosity and installed a Windows 7 start menu and interface but still reverted back to Win 7. Now it seems totally forgotten, and for all the right reasons.

Guys, thank you so much for putting your talents together and bringing another superb airport scenery to FS9. Steve

I picked up their recent Eppley (KOMA) and it is excellent also.