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This is not a bad AFCAD for KLAS.... EXCEPT it has one fairly major problem. 2 new approaches are added, ILS 7R and ILS 19L, but runways 7R and 19L do not in fact have ILS, so these approaches make no sense. Also they don't even remotely guide incoming aircraft to the runways in question. So... if you fly IFR into McCarran with this AFCAD active and 7R or 19L is an active runway, you are apt to be assigned one of these approaches, which lead nowhere. You're going to be fairly confused being sent flying past the airport to the North and told to intercept a non-existent ILS for 7R. To fix this, you need to open the AFCAD in Airport Design Editor, click at the top left to go into Approach Mode, select List and Approaches, then select each of the spurious approaches (7R and 19L) and delete it. Then recompile the AFCAD and substitute your new version for the original. BTW, I did check, and IRL 7R and 19L do not exist.

This is a very nice thing to have, especially as the Swedflight version of ESSA is now available free of charge (http://www.rbdesign.se/swedflight.html), and this can give you a good version or Arlanda, albeit not quite current. I did have some difficulties getting this to work properly in FSX, and spent several hours trying to resolve problems - I was getting bits of snowy landscape protruding through the runways etc. I was finally able to fix this by opening the airport file provided with this version in ADE, creating a polygon 'flatten, airport background, exclude autogen' covering the entire airport, and raising the airport altitude by .2 of a meter. This seems to be important - just adding the flatten didn't fix the problem, but the flatten with the altitude adjustment did. This involved ADE adding a file in scenery\world\scenery to adjust the altitude, and a new airport file and CVX for the flatten in the main ESSA scenery folder.

WARNING!!! This scenery will drop random objects in parts of the globe totally remote from Chennai. I spent hours and hours and hours of miserable, gruelling debugging sorting out the problems caused by this scenery. Specifically it drops a random assortment of weird buildings and trees right over Seattle-Tacoma (KSEA) airport in Washington State, USA, rendering any version of that airport impossible to use. When you find a monster building with trees growing through it in the middle of the runway at SeaTac your first thought isn't to look at a scenery supposedly set on the East coast of India. Anyway... install this scenery at your peril.