Plane showing up in the wrong place

[Dan Morera]

So I go ahead and plan a flight, select for the plane to show up at gate x or y, or just a parking place, but when I click fly now my plane shows up on the runway perpendicular to it like this:



If after showing up on the runway I hit alt and then select go to airport and select the same gate/parking space then it shows up in the right place.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Dan

[a1]

Did you change the AFCAD of the airport? Is it an addon airport?

[garymbuska]

This is more than likey the result of a runway that does not have any starting places defined on it. It is more than likely missing parking places as well.

Couple of questions?
1)What airport is this at?
2)Did you make the airport?

What you need to do is to use AFCAD and open the airport you are tryng to use and check the starting points and also you more than likely need to put some paking spaces on the airport as well.
Afcad will do all of this for you you can even add taxiways a control tower and ils runways. 8-)

[Dan Morera]

Actually this has happen in 3 separate airports, KCVG, KMIA, and KYWC (not sure of Icao, Florida keys flield), only the KCVG has an AFCAD change (downloaded), the others are the default ones. I'm pretty sure this will happen on all fields, can not tell for sure since I have only tried these few.

[garymbuska]

Actually this has happen in 3 separate airports, KCVG, KMIA, and KYWC (not sure of Icao, Florida keys flield), only the KCVG has an AFCAD change (downloaded), the others are the default ones. I'm pretty sure this will happen on all fields, can not tell for sure since I have only tried these few.

If this is happening in KMIA then you have a problem somewhere. I have the default airport for KMIA and have no problems with it .

Did you by any chance download the AFCAD directly into FS? I hope not

[Dan Morera]

Lol maybe I explained it wrong. I'm selecting as starting point a gate, but it is setting my plane on a runway, about the middle of it.

I didn't downloaded the AFCAD directly into the FS, I did it on a folder and then copied it following the instructions.

Thanks
Dan

[garymbuska]

Ok I got it now I still would suggest you check out KMIA using afcad it sure sounds like something has got messed up somewhere.
When you go to open KMIA using AFCAD you should only see the default file if there are others than you have found the problem,
If that is not the case I do not have a clue what could be going on. You might want to think about copying the entire scenery file from the install disks.