scenery glitch

**elmerfudd** · 04-30-2009, 12:27 PM

I was flying yesterday from Toronto to Teterboro, New Jersey (CYKZ-KTEB). As I approached the New York area, my sim stopped and a message appeared on the screen to the effect that a scenery file was missing, and that some buildings might not display properly. If I had a half a brain (which I do) I would have taken a note of the scenery file number (which I didn't).

As I flew around Manhattan, I noticed that the bridges didn't look right. Most of them looked bright white, especially the suspension wires.

I flew part of the route again, in a different plane (King Air instead of Skyhawk), but did not see that message again, and the bridges were still white.

I remembered that I had done a system restore a couple of weeks ago, and had backed up my old install on an external hard drive. I compared my new install scenery files with my old install, and no files are missing.

I have not seen that message again.

Is this a default condition in FS2002? Are the bridges supposed to look like this, or do I have a problem? If someone could check their Manhattan bridges for me and let me know, I would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

Elmer Fudd

**mjanicki** · 04-30-2009, 12:53 PM

Been there, seen that.

Typically the bridges in Manhattan look fine for me, but flying through parts of New Jersey can cause a known problem. It's possible you were near the area where problems crop up.

Have a look at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325104

From the knowledge base article:
"After you click OK, Flight Simulator continues to load, but some scenery does not appear as expected."

And way at the end in the Known Scenery Problems section:
"Flying into New York by way of the area that surrounds Morristown Mun airport (KMMU) in New Jersey"

That area is a known issue and I'm not aware of a fix for it. Someone else might be aware of a fix.

Edit: I think the reason that the error doesn't come up when you load a new flight because FS assumes that since you clicked "OK" last time, it should just ignore the error message. If you shut down FS and restart it will probably produce the error message if you run through that area again.

-- Mike

**elmerfudd** · 04-30-2009, 02:47 PM

Thanks for that, Mjanicki. I read the link that you posted, and it does mention "Flying into New York by way of the area that surrounds Morristown Mun airport (KMMU) in New Jersey".

I passed within 13.5 nm of it on my way south-east. I don't know if that constitutes "by way of the area", but I supposed it probably does.

At least I know I don't have a real issue that is unique to my installation.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Elmer Fudd