The 180º discontroled Control Towers of FS 2004
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:28 amIt all started when testing my fresh install FS 2004 - Ford Tri-Motor Project with a new scenario (for me) Manchukuo (China) Scenery Project, that I could not find the Control Tower. The angle of my Control Tower view, indicated that placing my point of view 180º behind the aircraft, I would view the Control Tower, but... that space was empty! 
(Re: Manchukuo (China) Scenery Project) After don Garry sended me a map of the ZYTL airfield, indicating the Tower position, I took off & found it easily from the air. Don Garry also translated the one letter words that my ignorance ignored their meaning.
Today, I noticed the Tower fenomena was even stranger than Dr. Who. I was adding more scenarios, aircraft & textures from Garry's incredible Tri-Motor site, when I decided "Hey, this I do to fly. Lets test fly the Bf-108 from the Himalayan FiND aerodrome & clear heads": by chance (¿fate?) my flight opened in Tower View...
...again I put myself behind the Taifun, looking back 180º for the Tower, but... NADA!
From the cockpit, I saw far far away & on the other side of the tarmac, the elusive Control Tower.
You guessed it: next thing to do (since I fly windowed & am widowed as well) was to tick the menu back on, go to airport & change my Taifun to the other end of the strip, for a better look at that Tower. Now the same angle of view I had, points the same direction & I see the Tower, POR FiN.
I change to Tower View hopping for no more disasters, and it was a little off side to the right & far, but visible. I am not that picky so O.K. with me. Also visible from inside my Typhoon:
Next I checked in my other FS 2004: Golden, Golden Hawaii & Silver Wings. With Tri-Motor scenarios and others, for the whole day today. I took more screenshots than any other day of my life! Until, to save you the pain of watching more boring & repeating images, I noted that it was an FS 2004 embeded config: the Control Tower position is RELATiVE to the Aircraft position (thank you, don Einstein). And the map view proves this:
Ford KORS-ORCA runway 34 & 16 take off positions (FS 2004 - Golden Wings):
John Rogers Field runway 23 & 5 take off positions (Golden Hawaii conf. FS 2004 - Golden Hawaii)
BUT (there is allways a fly in the soup) when testing the Duxford scenery with a DHC.2 Mk3 "Turbo Beaver", the Control Tower stayed rooted to the same spot: no more relativity señor Einstein!! Duxford EGS2 6L:
& Duxford EGS2 24R:
THEN I found ANOTHER STABLE Control Tower: at the Ford De Havilland FDHA Stag Lane aerodrome, NO LESS!! (the only one to search under ENGLAND, not under the United Kingdom) With what do the British construct their Control Towers?? Both are addons!! Must have different configs... 
(Re: Manchukuo (China) Scenery Project) After don Garry sended me a map of the ZYTL airfield, indicating the Tower position, I took off & found it easily from the air. Don Garry also translated the one letter words that my ignorance ignored their meaning.Today, I noticed the Tower fenomena was even stranger than Dr. Who. I was adding more scenarios, aircraft & textures from Garry's incredible Tri-Motor site, when I decided "Hey, this I do to fly. Lets test fly the Bf-108 from the Himalayan FiND aerodrome & clear heads": by chance (¿fate?) my flight opened in Tower View...
...again I put myself behind the Taifun, looking back 180º for the Tower, but... NADA!
From the cockpit, I saw far far away & on the other side of the tarmac, the elusive Control Tower.
You guessed it: next thing to do (since I fly windowed & am widowed as well) was to tick the menu back on, go to airport & change my Taifun to the other end of the strip, for a better look at that Tower. Now the same angle of view I had, points the same direction & I see the Tower, POR FiN.
I change to Tower View hopping for no more disasters, and it was a little off side to the right & far, but visible. I am not that picky so O.K. with me. Also visible from inside my Typhoon:
Next I checked in my other FS 2004: Golden, Golden Hawaii & Silver Wings. With Tri-Motor scenarios and others, for the whole day today. I took more screenshots than any other day of my life! Until, to save you the pain of watching more boring & repeating images, I noted that it was an FS 2004 embeded config: the Control Tower position is RELATiVE to the Aircraft position (thank you, don Einstein). And the map view proves this:
Ford KORS-ORCA runway 34 & 16 take off positions (FS 2004 - Golden Wings):
John Rogers Field runway 23 & 5 take off positions (Golden Hawaii conf. FS 2004 - Golden Hawaii)
BUT (there is allways a fly in the soup) when testing the Duxford scenery with a DHC.2 Mk3 "Turbo Beaver", the Control Tower stayed rooted to the same spot: no more relativity señor Einstein!! Duxford EGS2 6L:
& Duxford EGS2 24R:
THEN I found ANOTHER STABLE Control Tower: at the Ford De Havilland FDHA Stag Lane aerodrome, NO LESS!! (the only one to search under ENGLAND, not under the United Kingdom) With what do the British construct their Control Towers??
Both are addons!! Must have different configs... 
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I will miss your friendship here, AWAKEN: as you see not many followed MAP & TOWER topic!! 