ACOF Scenery Building

[MattNW]

I just tried using FSSC to export scenery to FS 2004 ACOF. It worked but apparently ACOF doesn't want you to mess with the runways. Mine was a little bit offset from the exact location of the old one. When I created a flight and chose to start on the runway ACOF set me where the old runway was not the slightly offset one which placed me in the grass beside the runway. I got around the problem by moving the runway around so it exactly matches the original but I was wondering if there were a way to make ACOF see the new runway and place you on it instead of the old one.

Anyone have any ideas?

[JBaymore]

It seems that there are comments all over the FS2004 forum about scenery being just slightly in different places.  SO if you had some scenery set up in FSSC that was "mapped" to a specific lat and long in 2002....... that location might be just a TINY bit off in FS2004.

The start locations and the taxiways and such are a separate file from any of the visual scenery.  So even if you change the location of something visually..... the "invisible" scenery.... the stuff AI pilots see....... is still in the OLD place.

SO the taxiway might be on the grass.  Ditto the runway.  Same with start locations.

I have not tried to add in any of the "upgraded" airports that I have in FS2002..... because it will only take a very slight  difference in the location in FS2004 to werak havoc with the simulation.

Until AFCAD comes out for 2004...... you can't edit the "invisible" scenery.

Hope this helps.

best,

..................john

[MattNW]

Well I fixed it by making a guess and moving the runway. Then I'd fire up ACOF and see where I ended up and repeat. It's the hard way of doing it but I got it done. Only problem was that I end up slightly askew on the runway but not enough I can't line up by taxiing a little. I haven't tried it yet on any airport with AI traffic. Probably won't work but that's OK for now. I'll stick to the little out of the way airports.