Airport 2.x Scenery Design FS 2002

[miketull]

I used this utility to design an airstrip on Ocean Island, Kiribati with VOR/NDB and ILS both ends of the runway. I used a separate exclude switch. It works well. However I added runways and NAVAIDS to Abemama Atoll and Howland Island but no runways show up and although the NAVAIDS and runways show up one the map and GPS they are inoperable. Can someone help me out?

[jyarddog]

This is a stab in the dark, but if your exclude covers any area where your airport program placed something, the exclude might keep the item from operating.

Example.... I use FS Architect2k4 by Doug Pouk. Also, using EZ scenery by Abacus I'll place a fuel station, then with Arch2k4 I place a fuel trigger around the fuel station. When an aircraft taxis up to the fuel station it fills up! However, if I did an exclude in that area the fuel trigger won't work. Make sure there are no excludes in the area where you place any navaids, etc. This might be a problem for the navaids placed with your airport design program as well as for my fuel trigger. (a fuel trigger, obviously, is a small polygon which activates the filling of aircraft when an aircraft drives into that polygon.) Anyway, check for excludes that might be interfering with stuff like that. Let me know. Bob

Life's a pain... then ya nap.- cat philosophy

[miketull]

I have an exclude switch for Ocean Island and all the Navaids work and the runway (coral) shows up. If you don't want to exclude all is there some other code to use? I tried typing in trees at the "end" instead of "all" but I code some kind of blurb saying that was not an authorized name. Thanks for the comback.

[jyarddog]

There's a program called exclude builder. Should be here or at Avsim. You can exclude single items. It creates a bgl and you just place the bgl in your scenery sub folder of the folder you named for the area. Like mine... Ione, Washington (Ione_s23.zip)I have a nubmer of excludes in my Ione scenery sub folder. If you get that program (it's free), I can help you get started with it. Not hard to use at all. Bob
Life's a pain... then ya nap.- cat philosophy

[miketull]

I couldn't find exclude builder, but I went into the Scenery cfg. file and removed all of the exclude files that I had made separately except for ocean Island. The I used the exclude files generated by the utility and this solved my problem. I still don't understand why the exclude file that I had made for Ocean Island didn't have the same effect as the rest.

[jyarddog]

Good to hear. Many mystereis abound in MSFS! It seems that sometimes if you hold your tongue wrong, things go nuts too! :) What scenery are you working on? Here's the name of the file- excbuilderv2.zip it's on www.Avsim.com Try it out, see if it's easier to use. Best use is to always check 'all objects', uncheck the box that asks if you want it to delete the xml file after generating the bgl, in FS use top down view and face north by hitting your spacebar. Draw square from NW to SE. BGL appears in same folder as excbuilder resides I made a shortcut for it on desktop, then just move the bgl to your scenery subfolder of your area you're working on. In fact all your bgls can go there, even afcads. No need to park afcads in addon\scenery.
Bob

Life's a pain... then ya nap.- cat philosophy

[miketull]

Of course I already mentioned fs2002 Ocean Island. I also added Coral airstrips to Abemama Atoll, Howland Island, a coral strip on a island 20 miles west of Truk (Chukk Intl) and 120 miles west/north west of Truk.I added a coral strip to Kure Island 50 miles west of Midway Island.I added steel mat runways to Kiska and Amchitka in the Aleutians. Most of these I acquire Lat/Lon of all runways from microsoft 3D maps. I added the runways at Wright Field ,Ohio present day location of the USAF museum and this afternoon I added the Pyote Army Air Field "Rattlesnake Bomber Base" at Pyote, Texas which was quite a large facility, I don't see how microsoft could have missed it. Next I'm going to try and add the runway extension at KSRC Searcy Ar, and also an ILS for rnwy 1 instead of just a Localiser. Also I'm going to return the runways at KPTT Pratt, KS. and KFMZ Fairmont, Ne. to their WWII lengths an widths. I also added an NDB (3P 242.0) at Muddy Lake British Columbia, Canada (BD7)this is very unique airstrip you have to see it to believe it. They also landed Beavers and Twin Otters in the Lake. However, Microsoft left out the Samatua river. I added a gravel strip at Sheslay B.C where they used operate DC-3's. I also added Ocean Station NAN and Ocean Station Oboe. I'll go to AVSIM and get the Exclude builder. There are a bunch of files called media files, one for each file that I made. I don't know what they are for, I didn't use them and I wonder if I can just delete them? Thanks again.

[jyarddog]

Sounds like a lot of very fine work! Well done! Not sure about media files. don't know what they are. No instructions for those? My stuff is under my name Robert Lacy at Avsim. Most is here at flightsim also. Bob
Life's a pain... then ya nap.- cat philosophy