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We know that in order to change the name of an airport, we have to change the altitude, change the name, change the altitude back so an *_ALT.bgl is created in the root World\Scenery folder in FSX. Couldn't this process be streamlined to just having to only change the name in the airport properties and the *_ALT.bgl automatically created from that?
 
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Yes it could and it is on the list to do but we have just not gotten around to implementing it :oops: We haven't had a lot of requests for this so far
 
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OK - I will bump it up the list a bit ;)
 
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Much less than changing the altitude I suspect ;)
 
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I model airports in 1962. I have to change at least 50% of the airport's names.
 
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OK guys - there seems to be some interest in this as a feature. I assume it is just the name that would be changed and not any other items such as city or state?
 
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No George what he's saying is that airport names and sometimes entire airports change over the course of 5 decades. For example Kennedy in New York was Idlewild. Reagan National in Wash. D.C. was Washington National. Tom's trying be to historically accurate with the name of the airport as it's listed in FS. Most of the time you do not need to change the altitude.
 
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I work on airports in India and a lot of the airport names are wrong, misspelled, or have changed. Regarding changing cities and states, if it can be done, why not? If I have changed a city name it is usually to correct a misspelling. When I change the name of an Indian airport, I will add the "state" info too.
 
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It would come in handy but not if it takes too much trouble on Jon's part. We can still do it the way it works now. I mean he already has had to move to a bigger place in order to find room for the long list of requests and things to do:).
 
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Thanks Roby :) We are getting close to 1000 entries in the project management system now :yikes:
 
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Well, that's really a nice amount. I know some projects (not restricted to software) having less requirements when being set up.
 
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FlyingAxx said:
Well, that's really a nice amount. I know some projects (not restricted to software) having less requirements when being set up.
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Given an average fix/implement rate of one per day that is pretty much three years non stop work. Allowing for vacation and the 'honey do list' I reckon I could be at this for the next ten years.
 
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Given an average fix/implement rate of one per day that is pretty much three years non stop work. Allowing for vacation and the 'honey do list' I reckon I could be at this for the next ten years.
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Hmm, that's a good reason accompanying you hopefully for quite a while along this trail. The flip side is only that we are becoming this much older meanwhile. However, the community here is helpful and friendly and it's a shame that there is hardly a chance for a personal meeting for most of us.
 
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Well this one proved to fit into the minor update group so Change Airport Altitude is now Change Airport Reference Data and this is what the new dialog looks like:

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It is in the current development beta which I may be able to make available to this group over the weekend.
 
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