Round turnarounds

[mllgrennman]

Ho do I make round turnarounds at the end of the runway?

 

[glottis]

something like this? this is how i do it, others may have a different way

 

[mllgrennman]

at the real airport it is round... i was able to get close enough...but now its not showing after i compile?

 

[glottis]

does your blue taxiway have a center line ticked?
what is that yellow background, is that a flatten?
try removing it to see what that gives you
if nothing works can you upload your ad4 file so we can take a look

 

[mllgrennman]

i turned off the centerlines on the taxi links...yes thats a flatten...but its the same without it

 

[tgibson]

Did you compile the airport and confirm that the new BGL file is in an active scenery folder? Are you sure there aren't earlier versions of this BGL file located somewhere else?

 

[mllgrennman]

yes...all new changes are showing...but not the turnaround work

 

[glottis]

Are you running any payware AI traffic programs at all?
Can you upload your "ad4" file then so we can take a look at it

 

[mllgrennman]

here ya go...thanks for your help,,,

 

[glottis]

here's what i get and how i did it
i simply added the connection to the blue taxiway and disconnected it from the black runway taxi line
at runway 30 you have a taxiway i always draw an apron there as my pic shows,
i got all sorts of errors with your file as well, P3D/GP warnings and compile parameters
i never used the flatten and i did the default airport turnaround like you require in 2 mins with no errors

 

[glottis]

I forgot to add the holdshorts (red circles) are not touching the runway,
use fault finder.........

 

[mllgrennman]

thank you for taking the time to help sort this out...its tricky when the taxiway is on the runway...i have a hard edge on my round turnaround that doesnt show in ADE...just after i compile...makes it tough to get rid of.

 

[hotelfox]

Just change the blue taxipath 'Type: Taxi' into a green taxipath 'Type: Path' and you will get rid of it. You can also delete the blue taxipath which runs parallel to the black taxipath 'Type Runway'. It is useless. So far I didn' t encounter any AI aircraft which would not backtrack on the black taxipath ...
Do not forget to link the loop to the black taxipath though. To avoid artifacts I would reduce the width of the green taxipath to 10 to 15 m.

And probably reduce the number of Taxi Points. The game isn' t called 'Who places the most blue taxi points will win' !



Your AI aircraft still will perform a nice and smooth U-turn.

 

[glottis]

thank you for taking the time to help sort this out...its tricky when the taxiway is on the runway...i have a hard edge on my round turnaround that doesnt show in ADE...just after i compile...makes it tough to get rid of.

That's because the nodes are so close together, redraw and reverse the direction of the ones with the jagged edges and it will disappear

Jan,
that's because he is using only a taxiway, if he changes it to a path he will only see a green line or nothing at all......
the drawing you show is similar to what i suggested in my first post LOL!!

 

[mllgrennman]

it a pain when ADE doesnt show what really appears after compile

 

[mllgrennman]

airport is done...very proud of my work...could not have done it without you all...thanks again!

 

[glottis]

Well Done
you are starting the right way with a small airport, you have proved you can solve issues,
this way you learn what ADE is capable of before you move onto a larger airport for more and bigger frustrations LOL!!!