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Canyon Assit

Trans1007

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I'm haveing a problem putting in a canyon. This Canyon is vital as it serves as a tricky approach and takeoff from a rwy. Those who are familar with the names of Garry J Smith and Ian thatch may remember they built two scenerys for Transload virtual. This canyon belongs to our YTMD military scenery freely available at transloadairlines.com scenery page. If somebody could assit me in the rebuiding of the YTMD Afcad to ADE id greatly appreciate the help. Ive tried afx to convert to fsx which worked but when i tried ade with the new fsx afx ade refused to compile it so i could make some LC adjustments. So my ? is how to create the canyon with ade for approach and takeoff as this canyon is part of the airport itself. Im attaching the two afcads Mainly its the YTMD one i need assit.
 

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Heres some pics i have in Fs9, now in FSX the canyon is filled and gone.
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It'll be a bite for fsx as i have 3 of my Coast guard pilots takeing pics in fsx as i type.
 
Ok a Update. One of our Army Div pilots managed to get the canyon back through AFX. We just have a problem getting the afcad i posted into ADE, so i can rework the airport LC and aprons.
 
AFX does not have any terrain capabilities so I am not sure how that was achieved. Creating a canyon like that could be done with ADE and would involve creating an airport background with a flatten component and suitable altitude values for the vertex points.

I have loaded both AF2_YTMD and AF2_YTLI into ADE version 1.37 without any problems or errors. Can you give me some more information about the problems you are encountering please?


The only thing I can see are some warnings from the compiler in YTMD related to items outside the Airport Test Radius and these are not important
 
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Ok i have the ytmd in ADE. I just the compilation box, but i do have the ade bgl. YTLI wont give or yield a ade bgl.
 
OK I see there are a number of compile errors in this including a duplicate ILS and some problems with VASI Types. It needs a bit of manual intervention. I will get back to you once I have had a better look at what is going on. This is not all that unusual when we bring in AF2 files since the AF2 compiler allowed things that the FS9 and FSX compilers do not.
 
The problems with this file are
  1. Duplicate ILS on R24L - ADE cannot currently fix this directly
  2. VASIs of Type UNKNOWN on R06L - Can be fixed by deleting and re-adding the VASI
  3. A number of aprons with a surface type not recognized by the FSX compiler - automatically fixed when loaded into ADE

The attached file is fixed and should now compile. I actually did the fixing in SDE Test App since, although it does not have a GUI, it allows direct access to the property values in the file. SDE Test App uses the same engine as ADE. As mentioned in my last post it is quite common to need to fix stuff from AFCAD2. Having said that ADE should deal with the duplicate ILS and bad VASI types better than it does and I have added these issues to the development list.
 

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So far so good running test now. What was the name of the tool you used to fix was and were can i get 1 please.
 
Perfect the SDE worked on all TVA scenery afcads and now i have them in ade. Thank You I found SDE very user friendly with little difficulties.
 
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Perfect the SDE worked on all TVA scenery afcads and now i have them in ade. Thank You I found SDE very user friendly with little difficulties.
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Good to know it works :) We are adding auto fixes into ADE for the problems you identified. If you find any more then please let us know so we can look at automating those as well
 
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