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Changing airport altitude, but taxiways appear sunken in the ground

Thralni

Thralni

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Hey all,

My first forays into messing with default airport altitudes. I changed the airport altitude of KCHA to be 675: the airport is on a bit of a slope in real life, so in order to fit with my custom mesh, I decided to go with an average for the airport altitude. However, despite the fact that ADE made an ALT file which is in scenery/world/scenery, and despite the fact that I created a custom airport background (flatten + autogen exclude) in my AFCAD to set the surrounding terrain of the airport to the same altitude, it doesn't seem this flatten is working. My taxiways find themselves in a 6ft trench. It seems as though the default airport background keeps being used by the sim, rather than my own. The reason I suspect this is twofold: (1) The stock airport is at 681ft, and the difference between the trenched taxiways and the rest of the airport is about 6ft, and (2) when I'm looking at the edges of the plateau'd airport background, and noticed that it exactly matches that of the default airport (once loaded in ADE, looking at the boundary fence, this is also the outline of flat plateau I see in the sim, and this definitely does not match the flatten I defined in my AFCAD). So the summarize, even though the taxiways and runways find themselves at the new altitude (675ft), the rest of the terrain is still adhering to the default 681ft. I'm not sure how to override this...

Any ideas on what to do?
 
Cover the original airport background with an 'Exclude General' - 'Airport Backgrounds'.
It doesn't need to exactly cover the original background, sometimes just a little triangle in the centre will do the job.
 
Hah! That worked a treat, thanks!

I had looked at the excludes to see if there was anything useful, but didn't see anything that would tackle airport backgrounds, hence I posted here. I now understand that, at least in ADE, there's a bunch more types of excludes if you use the polygon tool. Do you have any idea if the same thing can be done in SBuilder? I now have two CVX files (one from SBuilder, the other from ADE), and I'd like to just have one?
 
I'm not a regular user of SBuilder but I think it may be 'Exclude All Airport Boundaries' in Properties of Vector Polygons.

Tom's obviously a faster typist ... :D
 
Am I blind...? I was sitting there staring for at least ten minutes and didn't see that option in the vector polygons... I'll have another look tonight. Thanks for getting those answers so quickly!
 
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