douga66

Nice work.

Best way to find out is open the plans up in Ai Flight Planner and it will let you know right away. http://stuff4fs.com/open.asp?Folder=AIFP&JS=TRUE :pilot:

I can say from personal experience that a lot of Just Flight older installers (pre-2008) don't work in Win 10 or any 64 bit machines. I tried with them for a while but they finally said they don't have a fix and gave me a credit towards some future purchase.

Nice long descriptive review. As ad avid ai fan I am still sitting on FS9 for much of the same reasons mentioned here (abundant add-ons, sliders up all the way, etc) but there will come a time to leave in behind I guess. Just not quite yet...

No I don't think the size of the airport matters but I do suspect something else taking another look at your screenshot none of the other files has a suffix (like .bgl) but your file has one even if it is wrong. Check the original name of your proprietary file as it may have an extra period in the name. That would cause the compiler to fail. It's worth a look.

I see your problem right there in the screenshot. You don't have a bgl file. It has a suffix of ad4 which will not work. Try to save it again as a bgl, I'm sure that will fix it!

Neil, That's the best thing to do as they do respond in a couple of days max. As far as Cloud 9 stuff the original company turned off the registration servers so nobody can use their airports any more according to FSDT. The problem with the FSDT stuff you are having is another matter. I am interested to see what they say too. Good luck!

Where is the KDEN bgl file now, what folder?

If I may ask a dumb question: Did you only save the ADE file or did you also compile it? I don't know your level of experience with ADE but I have seen some folks make this mistake before. It's a great feature that ADE saves the file first in a proprietary format without changing or affecting anything in the sim so you can create complex designs and pause for a break without messing anything up. When you are ready then you must compile. Maybe some more information of exactly what is happening would help.

AFX is a fine afcad creation program but if you really want a powerful program with numerous advantages over AFCAD2 and AFX check out: https://www.scruffyducksoftware.com/ Airport Design Editor is a free very feature rich program that does everything the aforementioned programs do and so much more. Like AFX you can create exclusion rectangles to delete default objects that are in the way. One of the nice features is that is saves first to a proprietary format so that you can build complex designs without effecting the active airport until you are ready to compile. I recommend you check it out! By the way the original afcad program creates flattens whenever you make a runway.

https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004afcd&DLID=46238

I assume you have the program AFCAD2 already installed on your system. When you open it up select the help menu and there you will find all the information you will ever need. Starting an airport from scratch is section 52 if you want to jump to it. Once you have read it and understand the material and you still have questions this is as good as anyplace to ask. Best of luck to you!

I highly recommend AI Flight Planner found here: http://stuff4fs.com/open.asp?Folder=AIFP&JS=TRUE I use it exclusively now. TTools is still fine but the interface of AIFP is feature rich and does things like makes sure the aircraft and airports are present and you can compile flightplans for different versions with the click of a button and much more.

Mike Stone and his aircraft were wonderful free additions to our FS world. It is unconscionable to see all of the criticism he got from some corners of the hobby. Thanks Robin for the link as I lost most of his stuff in a hard drive crash!

I have always gotten that for add-on airports, especially those with custom ground textures since using FS9. I just accepted it as "oh well got to live with it". I would definitely be interested to see if somebody has a solution for this one.

Roger, there's an insert image button right there and you can upload an image into your posts that way.

Glad it's not just me, I haven't the slightest idea what he is talking about.

I have until August to remain in my 50's. After that I guess it over the hill for me...

Some months ago I was able to do the update to Win 10 on my existing Win 7 machine. It went pretty smooth and all of my FS9 stuff works like before (with a few one time tweaks) including my old repaint model displaying programs. The only glitch so far is getting Instant Scenery to take after I do a scenery mod. I will figure it out eventually. I am not sure about a fresh install of Windows 10 and then installing FS9 on that. I heard there are numerous problems with that.

I don't know if it would work now because you reinstalled the program but usually I do a "system restore" from a restore point before I had the problems. That usually does the trick. I guess it would be worth a try before you go crazy with other remedies. Also Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7 and will be no help (not that they were much help before that). Good luck.

Casey, If you are inclined to go at this yourself there is other things to consider other than just learning how to make the flight plans. You have to lay some groundwork too. I see Mike's models cover several eras of B-52' from the 50's all the way to present. So you want to figure out which of those you want flying unless you want everything which of course is your choice. Also you need to figure out the actual flights you want the aircraft to take such as starting point airport (which you already know) and destination or just TNG's or a combination of both. You can also choose weekly plans where they do something different each day of the week or a 24 hour plan where the same thing occurs every day. Just food for thought...

@Skywatcher12 Great conversation by the way. I hope you are enjoying this as much as I. How many more posts do I need to get that Junior Member off of there by the way? LOL! :rolleyes:

That's not what I am saying, you miss the point. I didn't ask anyone to make the stuff or put it up for downloading. If it's available I use it, if not I try to create it myself. If I can't I live without it or open my wallet and purchase it if available. I am absolutely with you on doing everything possible to keep FS9 alive 100%

@Skywatcher12 That looks like a very cool place. If you really want to get the ball rolling on this head on over to https://www.alpha-india.net/forums/ and make the suggestion. That's where 99% of the ai producers hang out and they have plenty of work dating back to when FS9 was just a youngster. You never know... Bring your flak jacket just in case though.

Repainting an airline livery with a freeware paint on a freeware model where there is no profit being made or claiming it is your original design in not illegal. See how many airlines have tried to make lawsuits for such things (hint 0). When the Traffic programs first came out like MyTraffic the only airline that had blocked their livery from usage was American Airlines. I am also curious about when you said "most of us don't have the time" to do whatever. This is a hobby and it is done in your spare time because that is how you enjoy spending it. If you want instant gratification then that's what payware is for. I was on hiatus from producing anything for 2 years because real life stepped in and I didn't have the time. I didn't ask anyone to do my hobby for me. Hey I'm not trying to be confrontational just that is my perspective on this. Honestly any time I was asked if somebody could include my work in something (like Orbix traffic) I said yes without hesitation. My 2 cents if its even worth that. :p