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MSFS20 How to shift an ARP

FlyingAxx

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Up to now I never became familiar with MSFS' development environment. At the beginning I used the ADE-alpha versions, but retired from doing anything shortly after Jon left the party. So far the preamble.

However, I would like to correct the ARP of NCRG, Rarotonga Intl airport without changing someone else's work, a nice freeware add-on improving the default airport. While the airport sits close to the northern shore, the author placed its reference point rather in the middle of Rarotonga island, roughly 2.5 nm away from the real one, even if the default one looks okay.

Now I'm searching a way how to override just the ARP placement. I read the latest SDK docs and got the idea that it could possibly be done by creating somehow a file just containing the essential airport definitions. I've opened a new project in Developer Mode of MSFS 2020, but didn't find any way neither to see the ARP, nor (consequently) any trace how to edit or move it's position.

I would be happy if someone could take my hand guiding me over this rough terrain.

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Attached is a project named arp-ncrg. When compiled it produces a package named zzz-arp-ncrg. The zzz prefix forces the airport to be loaded after any previous ncrg airports due to the alpha-numeric loading order default.
This only changes the airport reference location.
 

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Wow, thanks Dick! When looking into it, it seems that I got the right idea about the direction. My question: how did you produce this project? Somehow it doesn't look "handmade", even if it could be.
 
Thanks again Dick.
I managed it to reproduce the content of your screenshot. Well it took a while... Afterwards I wasn't able finding a way how setting the ARP's coordinates as shown by LittleNavMap when using Navigraph for all features (here: -21,2013° S 159,7990° W, elevation 19 ft). I'd searched several menues until I tumbled over "Gizmo", at least this topic showed all necessary data - and some more - and obviously worked.

However, even if the project compiled well, it doesn't show any useful effect. Of course I've tried as well your compilation , but it also doesn't work - better described, it only appears when the other third party scenery is disabled. And no, the other project is not even close in its obvious priority. It might be a similar mechanism, that pushes all airports included by of Navigraph in the highest priority. I'd tried to delete EDDT, and after being successful for a while (I've used ADE), it had been included in Navigraph because some nostalgic people didn't want to accept it's closure four years ago - as real as it gets.:(

A final remark, the "auto-naming" of projects is something I'm still not too familiar with. At least I've made a first step.
 
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