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FSX:SE Custom airport (P54) selectable in the menu, but loads aircraft at the wrong location/airport

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Hello, I am a beginner using ADE for FSX: Steam Edition. I am building a small airport from scratch: Royal Field (P54) in Sanger, TX.

I have successfully compiled the airport and added it to my Scenery Library. However, I’m running into a frustrating issue when trying to start a flight:

  • The Problem: I can search for "P54" or "Royal Field" in the FSX "Select Airport" menu without a problem. However, when I select it and click 'Fly Now,' the simulator loads my aircraft at a completely different stock airport (or a different location miles away) instead of my custom field.
  • What I've Confirmed: If I manually slew my aircraft to the coordinates for Sanger, TX, my custom airport scenery is present and appears exactly as I designed it. The scenery itself seems to be in the correct place, but the "Go To" function in the menu is not.
  • My Setup: I created this airport "from scratch" in ADE rather than modifying a stock one.
Could this be a bug in my compile, or did I likely misplace the Airport Reference Point (ARP) or Runway Start Points? I’m not sure how to verify if these coordinates are different from my actual runway placement in ADE.

Any help on how to sync the menu location with my actual scenery would be greatly appreciated.

Update: two airports near mind don't belong there.


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What happens when you click on the P74 choice in that Select Airport dialog box, and then use the Choose Runway/Starting Position drop down box to select a starting location before clicking OK?
 
tgibson said:
What happens when you click on the P74 choice in that Select Airport dialog box, and then use the Choose Runway/Starting Position drop down box to select a starting location before clicking OK?
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It takes me to Bucker Field
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I’ve seen that bug before. Sometimes when airports are very close to each other FS makes a mistake about the name. I think it uses the name of the airport with the nearest reference point, or something like that.
 
Looks like it's naming it after a real-world airport, so when I put it in the sim in my backyard, it's assuming it was Bucker Field, so what if I move it? Can I even do that without breaking my work?
 

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In that image your plane is closer to Bucker Field, so that’s where FS says you are. That display line is not the airport you have chosen in the Select Aircraft menu, it’s the airport closest to your current location.

This should have no effect on the actual use of your airport. It can safely be ignored.
 
It worked. moved it and things look great, just have to make final tweaks. Thanks for your help, especially tgibson who saw the unseeable. Now, if I can just learn how to make approaches.
 
tgibson said:
In that image your plane is closer to Bucker Field, so that’s where FS says you are. That display line is not the airport you have chosen in the Select Aircraft menu, it’s the airport closest to your current location.

This should have no effect on the actual use of your airport. It can safely be ignored.
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It is my airport, but it was so close to Bucker Field, and with two BLG files, it shows that, because it is FSX. If only we had AI to help debug these problems.
 
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