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Official Airport to SDK project: here is a small app to help you (draft)

One question about the flags. If they are selected it will import them to the project but unselected will exclude them? For example, will it delete the approaches and departures as shown in the picture?

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I would not expect so. These flags are going to exclude 'hide' the matching elements in the base airport. This is common practice so that the XML you have contains everything and you can edit that to suit your needs

So unless Patrick did something unusual these flags won't affect the XML which is generated
 
Thanks Jon for replying and it's correct: selecting these flags will hide the elements in the base (official) airport although the DeleteILSs generates some ghost vors (investigatings this one...)
 
thank you so much for this tool. it has helped me for sure. i do have a question about the Backcourse flag. I have RW35 which has the ILS and RW17 that would have the backcourse ILS.

<Ils lon="-96.36359" lat="30.59988" alt="92.354" frequency="110.550" magvar="-2.900" range="50017.000" backCourse="TRUE" heading="346.008" width="6.0" ident="ICLL" name="ILS RW35">
<GlideSlope lon="-96.36094" lat="30.58036" alt="92.354" range="50017.000" pitch="2.900"/>
<Dme lon="-96.36433" lat="30.59992" alt="102.717" range="50017.000"/>
</Ils>

so two questions related to that:

1) why would backCourse be "true" for RW35 and not RW17?
2) do i need to add an additional ILS entry for RW17?

i hope that makes sense. Thanks
 
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Thank you very much Patrick for your tool, it works perfectly to locate a msfs base airport and can be edited. But I have a question: In Spain there is an aerodrome that msfs calls LEBM, it has two runways assigned, well, the name icao does not exist and it only has one runway, how can you do so that LEBM does not appear on the world screen with its two tracks and if my edited aerodrome appears with its correct nomenclature ES-0218 and a single track, the real one.
 

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There are lots of Spanish airports that are mislabeled in MSFS. MSFS uses the ICAO as the airport identifier, but it only allows 5 alpha-numeric characters for the ID ("-" is not allowed"), so on 2 counts, they do not use ES-0218. At least this was the case a few updates ago.
What they have done, is simply made up an unused ICAO for the airport. You cannot use ES-0218 as that is not allowed in the sim's compiler. You could use E0218 or S0218.

The aerial imagery of ES-0218 clearly shows 2 runways, so Asobo's computer-generated AI placed 2 runways.

Attached is an example of closing LEBM, and opening E2018.
 

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Thank you very much rhumbaflappy for your quick and kind response. It is true that they appear as two runways, but the real thing is only runway 02 - 20, the other is a taxiway. This help project is very useful for me to be able to present to my community the aerodrome as it is in reality and without altering the original asobo files. I repeat, I am very grateful to him, he has been a great help to me.
An affectionate greeting.
Vicente Barba.
 
Great tool! Edited my home airport and am working to fix 2 more that are close by. Downloaded some data about a week ago and it was fine. Had both a SIM and SDK update this past week, now I am unable to extract airport data. It finds the airport ICAO codes, but when I click to generate it crashes.

Any thoughts? Saw something in another forum about a reduction in file sizes, might be related, not sure.
 
LtColPenguin said:
Great tool! Edited my home airport and am working to fix 2 more that are close by. Downloaded some data about a week ago and it was fine. Had both a SIM and SDK update this past week, now I am unable to extract airport data. It finds the airport ICAO codes, but when I click to generate it crashes.

Any thoughts? Saw something in another forum about a reduction in file sizes, might be related, not sure.
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I got the same issue. Big thanks for update!
 
Can this be used for an airport bgl from a scenery I created or strictly the apx bgl's in MSFS fsbase (for airport)........maybe a naming probably with the fsx bgl I created?

Thanks,
BobM.
 
unc1rlm said:
Can this be used for an airport bgl from a scenery I created or strictly the apx bgl's in MSFS fsbase (for airport)........maybe a naming probably with the fsx bgl I created?

Thanks,
BobM.
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Try it. As far as I can tell it should work for any FS2020 bgl file that contains an airport or scenery
 
scruffyduck said:
Try it. As far as I can tell it should work for any FS2020 bgl file that contains an airport or scenery
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This is from ADE 1.78 for FSX.. I can load MSFS APX ok..its the fsx bgl i can't load with my airport...anyway..beating a dead horse i guess lol
 

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I The file format for FSX is different than the file format for MSFS. You can do this with ADE 2020
 
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