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helicopter base and regular airport in one scenery

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Hey!
I have an airport EBLG where in reality is a regular liner runway and a separate helicopter base. I'm still using FS2004 and Afcad2.
In the helicopter part of the Afcad that I use for AI flights I have built a separate runway for the helicopters. There is no other possibility than having part of the taxiways of the regular airport available for the helicopters as well, or I should redesign the whole airport.
My question comes now: how can I make the helicopters only use the runway for them, and the liners use the regular runway but not the one for the helicopters?
I can send the scenery and the afcad for as far as I have them now. But in the situation as I have the helicopters just go to take off to de active runway whichever it is.
So I can put the question also in this way: how can I make one runway to be active only for the liners and the other ruway only to be active for the helicopters?
Can somebody help me?
Greetz
Jive1
 
Hi,

Make an overlay airport for your heli's.
Open your airport, delete all runways and taxiways and parking, rename your airport in AFCAD (e.g. EBBR to 1BBR and call it Brussels heli). Build your new airport runway, taxipath and parking for the heli('s) making them invisible and do not forget to change the frequencies. Your AI heli's will head for your new airport when you change the flightplan ICAO codes.
 
Thank you!
This is a solution that I know and that I applied already several times for other airports. But this time with EBLG it does not give me satisfaction. I'm looking for a more practical solution so that I can keep noth helicopter and liner traffic in the same afcad.
Greetz
Jive1
 
Hi,

Well, just maybe, the following could work:

Make a second (for EBLG, a third) runway of say 800ft and connect it only to your heli specific parking spot, so without connecting it to the overall taxi network? Make sure the parking spot is assigned to your heli type/airline code only.
 
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