Question from the Drumline

[legoalex2000]

I  have to play newbie again.

#1: I've run into a problem. I was tinkering around with Afcad, and closed O'Hare runway 18/36 (now Taxi GG). now all of my aircraft that used to start or end at a terminal now do not. i switch o'hare back to stock, but all aircraft start at the cargo areas, GA ramps, or Int'l Terminal 5.

anyone had this problem before?

#2: not really a question, more of a warning. if you attempt to use the SRTM terrain mesh 52 - Chicago area, you have been warned that the Sears tower dissappears. if you have the SRTM mesh and now want to get rid of it because of the abscence of the Sears tower, find the file starting with

NA52 - NA for North America

Please? and Thank you.

[dave3cu]

#1: How did you 'switch back to stock'?

Did you remove/disable the AF2_KORD.bgl file, which should force the use of the 'stock' file?:

Or did you mod AF2_KORD.bgl back to what appears 'stock' but which may have removed/modified nodes or t-ways, etc?

Cheers,
Dave

[legoalex2000]

i disabled it, and had the stock "lock to flight sim"

[dave3cu]

Did you restart the Sim after  you disabled?

"lock to flight sim"

, is an AFCAD setting and should have no effect in the Sim

Cheers,
DAve

[Papa9571]

Dave hit the nail on the head.

I had a similar problem and had to remove the file generated By AFCAD.

To do that go to your add on scenery folder and delete the af2_*** file you find there. That forces FS9 to go back to the original scenery, which cures your problem.

Have fun

[dave3cu]

Just a word of warning...

You can safetly delete the 'AF2_KORD.bgl' file itself, in Explorer, and the Sim will properly update the scenery.cfg the next time you start the Sim.

If you have the file in its own folder, do not delete the folder, in Explorer, until you have used the delete function within the Scenery Library first, or the scenery.cfg can be corrupted.

Cheers,
Dave

[xFLAMESx]

Did you do a fault check before saving the AFCAD and starting FS?
It could just be a couple of nodes were unconnected, which means AI wouldn't go past that section, I closed it last night and haven't had any probs with it yet

Carl

[legoalex2000]

fault check?

i deleted it safely, but i'm not going to be able to test. today, finally i'm going to O'Hare to take pictures.

[xFLAMESx]

Aye, fault check.

Once you finished editing the AFACD (I know you deletd it now, but still.....), go to : Tools, Fault Finder, have all the check-boxes selected, then hit search/check/find (whatever it's called ).
I've found that un-connected nodes were the problem at some airports I modified, now I use fault finder after every change I make.

Try it again and use the fault finder, if it finds un-connected nodes in that area, voila, problem solved, if not..........

I'm afraid that would be beyond me.....

Good luck, are you gonna post any pics?

Carl

[legoalex2000]

better yet, i posted real photos

thanks, since i just got back, i'll fault check all my mod airports.