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Recent content by Tim Collins

  1. Tim Collins

    P3D v4 Ground poly base image vs ground poly airport

    This is the tutorial I was referring to: https://library.avsim.net/file/140539-make-photo-real-ground-textures It's framed around SBX, but the principles apply equally to FSET. Using FSET 2.1 and Virtual Earth as the image source, I just downloaded a 22Gb image of the airfield (4.1km x 2.5km)...
  2. Tim Collins

    P3D v4 Ground poly base image vs ground poly airport

    That’s a great point, Gary - absolutely no point in doing any photo-real outside the airfield. Don’s GP editor inside ADE is perfectly capable of making the polys needed, but ADE uses vertical separation to try and make all the layers visible. It’s worth using MCX to apply Z-bias so that all...
  3. Tim Collins

    P3D v4 Ground poly base image vs ground poly airport

    From my experience, an image of that pixel count for an area of that size is pretty low resolution, even though the file size will be quite large (depending on the quality you selected). You could have picked a smaller airfield as a learning project! However, FSET will certainly cope with a...
  4. Tim Collins

    P3D v5 Open links recurring

    The 'arrow sticking out of a node' issue normally means that two or more nodes are superimposed. You have to make sure that both (or more, if there are more) are removed before replacing. It may be easier to draw the taxiway between two unaffected nodes then add a node where the corrupted one...
  5. Tim Collins

    Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, Westland Whirlwind and Westland Wessex for MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024

    My first ever helicopter flight was in a Whirlwind HAR10 at RAF Valley in 1969. We lost the engine shortly after takeoff and the pilot (a QHI from SARTU) autorotated us back to the ground. The landing was rough, but we all walked away from it. In my later RAF flying career, I never trusted...
  6. Tim Collins

    504 at scenerydesign.org

    Working fine for me this morning!
  7. Tim Collins

    504 at scenerydesign.org

    Hi Arno - trying to access the latest MCX and I've been getting a 504 at the site for the last hour and a half.
  8. Tim Collins

    FSX AI Flightplans

    OK, here we go. The first thing is that you have to make sure that traffic is visible in FSX. Go into the Options menu and ensure that the sliders for Airline and GA traffic (and vehicles and ships if you want them) are turned up to max. You can turn them down later if this setting loads your...
  9. Tim Collins

    FSX AI Flightplans

    Tom, it’s good that you’ve had a go. All you have to do is write the flight plan. You don’t have to pre-populate the airport list. Your custom airfield ICAO code may not be recognised by AIFP, but it will prompt you to enter the position details and then you’re good to go. It’s early and I’m not...
  10. Tim Collins

    FSX AI Flightplans

    P3D is a more complex and capable variant of FSX, so it takes more resources. P3Dv5 or v6 (the current version) is very much a system hog, and will be no more likely to give a good result on a low-end computer than MSFS24 will - indeed, it may be argued that MSFS24 is better optimised than...
  11. Tim Collins

    FSX AI Flightplans

    FSX (and its derivatives) was explicitly written to allow user modification, and an entire amateur and professional industry has developed to do just that. Most have moved on to MSFS20, MSFS24 and X-Plane, but there's still a huge number invested in FSX and its predecessor, FS9, as well as its...
  12. Tim Collins

    FSX AI Flightplans

    AIFP is not difficult. But traffic in FS9/FSX/P3D is a huge subject - as it covers the entire globe and up to 50k airfields, you would expect it to be huge. If you really lack the ability to study and understand the tools made available to you (for free) to manipulate the in-sim traffic, then...
  13. Tim Collins

    Forcing AI planes to park at parking spots.

    Ah, I'm afraid I can't improve upon Chris's suggestion for bulk alterations! ADE will only deal with one airport at a time.
  14. Tim Collins

    Forcing AI planes to park at parking spots.

    In Settings\Options in ADE, there is a tab 'Parking'. You can preset all of the different parking radii. This screenshot shows the default numbers, but they can be anything you want...
  15. Tim Collins

    Forcing AI planes to park at parking spots.

    Are you creating a ‘retro’ world? The reference to DC3s is interesting! One way of sorting it out - although this would be one airfield at a time - is up set up ADE to use default parking spot sizes to suit your particular traffic needs, and then import the offending AFCADs and swap out the...
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