AFCAD Not Showing up in the sim

falcon409

falcon409

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I'm revising a small airport off the southern coast of Alabama (Dauphin Island). The runway and taxiways are way off compared to their actual positions so I made the changes in ADE, saved the airport and compiled the new version which is saved directly to the active scenery folder for that airport. However when I load the sim, the default AFCAD is all that shows despite the updated one being in the scenery folder and active in the scenery library. Anyone have any suggestions on why this might be happening?
 
Have you added an exclude for the default one?

I also presume you use the latest ADE for P3D. The is an extra tickbox in taxiways called "draw surface" or something similar.
 
Dimus said:
Have you added an exclude for the default one?
I also presume you use the latest ADE for P3D. The is an extra tickbox in taxiways called "draw surface" or something similar.
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Dimus, I've never had to do an exclude for the AFCAD. The revised AFCAD becomes the active version. I have excluded the airport boundary (background), but that's all.
 
It seems that moving the location of the airport beyond a certain distance causes it to go missing. I wanted to line it up with the photoreal ground texture, however it was too far apparently. I've moved other airports much farther than this one without any problems so I'm not sure why it's a problem now, unless it's a P3D thing. Anyway, I'm having to forgo the photoreal approach and just build a reasonable likeness in SBuilderX.
 
falcon409 said:
It seems that moving the location of the airport beyond a certain distance causes it to go missing. I wanted to line it up with the photoreal ground texture, however it was too far apparently. I've moved other airports much farther than this one without any problems so I'm not sure why it's a problem now, unless it's a P3D thing. Anyway, I'm having to forgo the photoreal approach and just build a reasonable likeness in SBuilderX.
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The problem is that you changed the position of the airport reference point. If you make it the same as the default, your file will work.

See my reply at FSDev.

George
 
Perhaps your airport is now "offshore". You may need to move the island too. If you also use the default ICAO ( even if wrong) it will "overwrite" the stock airport.
 
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