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Remove airport NZMF

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philipgm

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NZMF (Milford, New Zealand) in the default FSX scenery is at about 800 feet when it should be at 10 feet above sea level. Around the airport boundry there are cliffs going down to correct ground level. All the ground outside the airport is at correct height.
I have tried flatten - that flattens the ground outside the airport bounderies ok. I have also tried all the other methods mentioned on this site including the various Flatten, and Excludes for Airport Bounds and can't find anything that works.
The tools that I am using are:- SBuilder, Shp2Vec, Bln2Shp, BglAnalyzeX.exe, Bglcomp, etc.

Any ideas please. Thanks for all the help I need.
Cheers
Philip
 
Hello Philip,

if your Flatten is OK around the Airport boundry, I think you can remove your Fs X Airport with the Fs9 Afcad (which includes "delete Airport" command) :

http://pascal.dumat.free.fr/zip/AF2_NZMF.bgl

the altitude seems correctly set to 10 feet in this one and there is no other problem since it is a small Airport (just the Runway !)

regards , pascal
 
The runway

Thanks Pascal,
I am able now to completely remove the old airport and flatten the ground to 10 feet but when I load the new runway (including yours, pascal) it is floating in the air at about 800 feet, the original height of the airport. There must be some invisable bit that I havent removed yet?
Cheers
Philip
 
Thanks Pascal for your help. Yes there must be something in the scenery we don't know about yet. Any other scenery that I have modified so far has worked fine. We wait for further developments.
Cheers
Philip
 
If you have created an exclusion/flatten shapefile to to modify the height of the airport to a value different from the default, you need to create a "dummy" afcad containing only the <Airport header and the <DeleteAirport clause. Place this in an area just above the Default Terrain in the Scenery priority. Now, place your complete afcad (including parking, taxiways etc.) above all of the "base" files in the scenery priority. Finally, place your exclusion/flatten shape file in an area above this.

So, the order (from top to bottom) is:

Exclusion/flatten shapefile (cvx*)
Complete afcad
...
...
base*
base*
...
...
Dummy afcad
Default Terrain

George
 
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