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  1. Roger Wensley
    And I made both those for FS9, and a bunch of others in the neighborhood.
  2. Roger Wensley
    Is this your name, Rockcliffe? I ask as it happens to be where I learnt to fly in Ottawa.
  3. Roger Wensley
    Stewie, I need your email address so I can send you an exclude bgl that you will use, so just email me at the address I gave above so I can reply.
  4. Roger Wensley
    Stewie, give me the exact position in degrees and minutes etc, the width of the runway asphalt, and the airport elevation in feet or metres. rogwen at rogers dot com
  5. Roger Wensley
    Making scenery for FS9 for over 15 years has uncovered a whole gang of quirky results, one at a time. But that is a new one for me.
  6. Roger Wensley
    Hans, In my experience that is how the ground scenery appears in real life, so I would say it is more realistic, not less. Even if you are only at 3,000 feet or so, anything on the ground that you can see is at least a kilometre away. If you are standing on the ground how big is a car at a range of 1 kilometre? I don't intend to push the idea and you should do whatever you prefer; it is just my opinion. Greg seems to have explained it well why objects pop up suddenly.
  7. Roger Wensley
    I have a comment that is related to this discussion. What is your zoom level set at in virtual cockpit? I have found that 0.5 is the level that best reflects reality in spotting objects on the ground from the air. There are, definitely, some objects (particularly small planes) that appear at a shorter distance away than one would expect and I have never found a solution for this, or seen a definite solution in the forums. I make scenery objects, and in general larger ones get seen first, so "why" is an occasional mystery.
  8. Roger Wensley
    Dominic, One thing I have discovered is that making a scenery and then posting it with all the required bits (mdl buildings, and their textures, land and water masks, ground textures, library object bgl's , flattens, fs9 original scenery objects deletions etc) is straightforward. Making a scenery, using it, and then trying a year later to put it together as a post is a pain.
  9. Roger Wensley
    I presume there is a beach texture around the island? It is this texture that generates the "wave" movement in the water, and this sometimes spreads onto the land too. I presume that describes your problem? If so, without getting rid of the beach texture there is no way to stop this. If you want email me a screenshot rogwen at rogers dot com
  10. Roger Wensley
    And it is a training plane that often produces a violent wing drop when practicing stall recovery, and which wing it will chose is not predictable!
  11. Roger Wensley
    And thus ended the lesson.
  12. Roger Wensley
    If I had read this series of dismayed complaints about any other product that was for sale, such as a car, I would not purchase it and the product would be withdrawn from sale with profuse apologies. The tone of the posts here does not seem to have changed for the better since MSFS was first sold, and there appears to be no reassurance that it is about to improve to a reasonable standard of reliability. Such as that of Windows 10 for instance? Who would have predicted this three months ago? And who would have bought it if this had been known?
  13. Roger Wensley
    Rivers and lakes stand out more than a street layout from 10,000 feet, and that was what UT gave to FS9 to be matched against the chart on a pilot's lap. For sure it could be used for VFR navigation and it was exactly like flying the Cessna 150 that I trained on in real life. Of course, MSFS has a more accurate coverage and is far better than UT, but when it comes down to landing at Rockcliffe CYRO and looking at the clubhouse.....
  14. Roger Wensley
    Remind me how I post a pic on here?
  15. Roger Wensley
    Custom ground textures are something that I avoid, for several reasons. The usual reason for showing badly is that they were created at a level too close to the ground underneath, which then confuses FS9 as to which scenery it is supposed to be showing. If the textures form a part of the airport where planes will taxi or park there is a great temptation to get them as close to the ground as possible as otherwise taxiing planes will look like they have flat tyres. SBuilder is the preferred programme for ground textures as it alters the existing texture instead of creating a second texture on top of the existing.
  16. Roger Wensley
    To put some perspective on this I would just like to remind folks that the same excellent result was reproduced in FS9 15 years ago with Ultimate Terrain 1.2 and Flight Ontario's Toronto scenery. And come to think of it, MSFS is actually a better Ultimate Terrain and not a better simulator, as it falls short where both FS9 and FSX did before which was (and is) the scenery at ground level.
  17. Roger Wensley
    Am I correct in thinking there was a carbon cub included in Microsoft Flight?
  18. Roger Wensley
    The weird thing is that while it does not work for AI planes, it does work for the plane you fly. Do we know anybody capable of tweaking the FS9 software to make it work for both? Tom?
  19. Roger Wensley
    I now understand the thinking behind it. It is another example of the lack of understanding of aviation by the designers of FS9, rather like their decision to mark the path to parking spots with taxiway edge lines but no centre line. I can put a tick in a box for a "one end runway", but in fact it is a "one way" not a "one end" runway and both landing and take off are in the same direction. So a one way street rather than a one end runway. So Stewie, sorry but we can do nothing about it.
  20. Roger Wensley
    Douga66, thanks for that, but it just got more complicated. Tom, Did you know something or what? I had checked take offs and they were all on the correct runway, 34, no matter what direction the wind was in. But, after reading your query I went back and checked landings, and they were also all on runway 34, no matter what the wind direction was?!? I need to look at this further; though there aren't many ways for us to get it wrong we both know how FS9 can complicate things.
  21. Roger Wensley
    Tom, Yep. If I knew how to load a pic on here I could show you an AI plane about to take off and the windsock behind it showing it is taking off downwind.
  22. Roger Wensley
    Stewie, I just checked AFCAD and the one ended runway can be made with AFCAD too. Email me and I will send you a screenshot of the AFCAD runway information. rogwen at rogers dot com
  23. Roger Wensley
    Stewie, I make all my FS2004 scenery with SceneGenX. Some 600 or so airfields so far.
  24. Roger Wensley
    Thinking back to FS9 I remember that it needed Ultimate Terrain to become a real simulator and not just a toy. Then along came FSX and I discovered that the Fraser River disappeared 40 miles east of Vancouver and that FSX too needed Ultimate Terrain, so I dumped it and went back to FS9! Now we have MSFS and what they have attempted is a much better version of Ultimate Terrain that includes a lot of errors and doesn't yet work properly. The airfield scenery buildings bear no relation to reality, as in FS9 and FSX. Ah well, back to my FS9 northwest Ontario fields.
  25. Roger Wensley
    They show up on the parking because flying into a mountain stops the rest of their flying and they skip on down to the next planned part of their flight, which is to park. Happens a lot with AI in hilly areas, and it just takes luck for it all to work properly. I did mention before the single end runway that I made and which worked for me. I noticed just now that I misquoted the runway ends; it was the take off to the south that was stopped and all planes landed from the north and took off towards the north. Is SceneGenX the only airfield programme that makes a single end runway that works? Wouldn't that solve your problem? Or have I misread it all?

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