Airport Design Editor not saving?

[aviatoremirates]

I have the new algiers scenery and im trying to modify it with airport design editor. so i add the missing approaches and i try to compile airport, but it just says error and it cannot do it, any help? im trying to get approaches on this airport since its missing them and im trying to fix some things.

[chris_ca]

under the list click on comms and edit w/o changing anything and save every freq you can see and compile it again that will do

[aviatoremirates]

that still does not work. i still get error and i cannot get the airprot saved.

[Big777jet]

Try that check "fault finder" if anything find wrong and edit then try save complie again if it works.

Stuart

[aviatoremirates]

There were no faults found and still it will not compile, here is what it says:

Parsing document: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Addon Scenery\scenery\DAAGRealScenery\Scenery\AF2_DAAG1.xml


ERROR: Empty IDENTIFIER tagERROR C2031: Failed element parse <Approach>
ERROR C2032: XML Parse Error! Element tree follows:

ERROR: <FSData
ERROR: version = 9.0
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Airport
ERROR: country = Algeria
ERROR: city = Algiers
ERROR: name = Houari Boumediene
ERROR: lat = 36.6912487149239
ERROR: lon = 3.21571782231331
ERROR: alt = 24.993M
ERROR: magvar = 1
ERROR: ident = DAAG
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Approach
ERROR: type = ILS
ERROR: runway = 23
ERROR: designator = NONE
ERROR: suffix = 0
ERROR: gpsOverlay = FALSE
ERROR: fixType = TERMINAL_WAYPOINT
ERROR: fixRegion = DA
ERROR: fixIdent =
ERROR: altitude = 640.08M
ERROR: heading = 233.400002
ERROR: missedAltitude = 944.88M
ERROR: >
ERROR:

ERROR: Empty IDENTIFIER tagERROR C2031: Failed element parse <Leg>
ERROR C2032: XML Parse Error! Element tree follows:

ERROR: <FSData
ERROR: version = 9.0
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Airport
ERROR: country = Algeria
ERROR: city = Algiers
ERROR: name = Houari Boumediene
ERROR: lat = 36.6912487149239
ERROR: lon = 3.21571782231331
ERROR: alt = 24.993M
ERROR: magvar = 1
ERROR: ident = DAAG
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Approach
ERROR: type = ILS
ERROR: runway = 23
ERROR: designator = NONE
ERROR: suffix = 0
ERROR: gpsOverlay = FALSE
ERROR: fixType = TERMINAL_WAYPOINT
ERROR: fixRegion = DA
ERROR: fixIdent =
ERROR: altitude = 640.08M
ERROR: heading = 233.400002
ERROR: missedAltitude = 944.88M
ERROR: >
ERROR: <ApproachLegs
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Leg
ERROR: type = IF
ERROR: fixType = TERMINAL_WAYPOINT
ERROR: fixRegion = DA
ERROR: fixIdent =
ERROR: altitudeDescriptor = +
ERROR: altitude1 = 640.08M
ERROR: >
ERROR:

ERROR: Empty IDENTIFIER tagERROR C2031: Failed element parse <Approach>
ERROR C2032: XML Parse Error! Element tree follows:

ERROR: <FSData
ERROR: version = 9.0
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Airport
ERROR: country = Algeria
ERROR: city = Algiers
ERROR: name = Houari Boumediene
ERROR: lat = 36.6912487149239
ERROR: lon = 3.21571782231331
ERROR: alt = 24.993M
ERROR: magvar = 1
ERROR: ident = DAAG
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Approach
ERROR: type = ILS
ERROR: runway = 09
ERROR: designator = NONE
ERROR: suffix = 0
ERROR: gpsOverlay = FALSE
ERROR: fixType = TERMINAL_WAYPOINT
ERROR: fixRegion = DA
ERROR: fixIdent =
ERROR: altitude = 640.08M
ERROR: heading = 91.199997
ERROR: missedAltitude = 944.88M
ERROR: >
ERROR:

ERROR: Empty IDENTIFIER tagERROR C2031: Failed element parse <Leg>
ERROR C2032: XML Parse Error! Element tree follows:

ERROR: <FSData
ERROR: version = 9.0
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Airport
ERROR: country = Algeria
ERROR: city = Algiers
ERROR: name = Houari Boumediene
ERROR: lat = 36.6912487149239
ERROR: lon = 3.21571782231331
ERROR: alt = 24.993M
ERROR: magvar = 1
ERROR: ident = DAAG
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Approach
ERROR: type = ILS
ERROR: runway = 09
ERROR: designator = NONE
ERROR: suffix = 0
ERROR: gpsOverlay = FALSE
ERROR: fixType = TERMINAL_WAYPOINT
ERROR: fixRegion = DA
ERROR: fixIdent =
ERROR: altitude = 640.08M
ERROR: heading = 91.199997
ERROR: missedAltitude = 944.88M
ERROR: >
ERROR: <ApproachLegs
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Leg
ERROR: type = IF
ERROR: fixType = TERMINAL_WAYPOINT
ERROR: fixRegion = DA
ERROR: fixIdent =
ERROR: altitudeDescriptor = +
ERROR: altitude1 = 640.08M
ERROR: >
ERROR:

ERROR: Compilation errors detected, compilation failed!

Parse complete!

[scruffyduck]

The error message that you are being given by the compiler is your friend and you need to read and understand what it is telling you, In this case:

ERROR: Empty IDENTIFIER tag

Looking in the detail:

ERROR: <Airport
ERROR: country = Algeria
ERROR: city = Algiers
ERROR: name = Houari Boumediene
ERROR: lat = 36.6912487149239
ERROR: lon = 3.21571782231331
ERROR: alt = 24.993M
ERROR: magvar = 1
ERROR: ident = DAAG
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Approach
ERROR: type = ILS
ERROR: runway = 23
ERROR: designator = NONE
ERROR: suffix = 0
ERROR: gpsOverlay = FALSE
ERROR: fixType = TERMINAL_WAYPOINT
ERROR: fixRegion = DA
ERROR: fixIdent =
ERROR: altitude = 640.08M
ERROR: heading = 233.400002
ERROR: missedAltitude = 944.88M
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Airport
ERROR: country = Algeria
ERROR: city = Algiers
ERROR: name = Houari Boumediene
ERROR: lat = 36.6912487149239
ERROR: lon = 3.21571782231331
ERROR: alt = 24.993M
ERROR: magvar = 1
ERROR: ident = DAAG
ERROR: >
ERROR: <Approach
ERROR: type = ILS
ERROR: runway = 23
ERROR: designator = NONE
ERROR: suffix = 0
ERROR: gpsOverlay = FALSE
ERROR: fixType = TERMINAL_WAYPOINT
ERROR: fixRegion = DA
ERROR: fixIdent =
ERROR: altitude = 640.08M
ERROR: heading = 233.400002
ERROR: missedAltitude = 944.88M
ERROR: >

It is telling you that you are missing fixIdents that are required and (in red above) I can see some that are missing. So you need to go through the Error report and then your approach design and add in the missing information. Hopefully after you add everything that is needed your airport will compile.

The current version of the fault finder is not able to find faults in approach design - we hope to have that fixed in a later version.

[aviatoremirates]

I see now, because this airport before was flawed that it did not have any approaches, so i tried adding some but now i have to fix them.

[scruffyduck]

I see now, because this airport before was flawed that it did not have any approaches, so i tried adding some but now i have to fix them.

That is correct. When you add an approach you will need to make sure that each leg is properly completed.

[aviatoremirates]

Alright, now im sure enough what to fix, but where do you add legs to the aproach, lets say, i have added the approach to runway ILS 23, how do i add a leg(s) to it?

[scott967]

You might want to first use the "load stock data" tool to load the waypoints and approaches, since ILS 23 is in stock FS9. Then modify the stock. It's not always 100% easy to add stock stuff to an AF2.

scott s.
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