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Afternoon.

What can I do to fix this? (See attached image) Tress are on on my taxi way and the airfield is off its area(should be)

Thanks

Airwinger63
 

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If this is a default airfield, you will need to exclude the default flatten and create a new one in your required position.

George
 
Morning,

It is a default airfield, Andrews AFB. How would I exclude the default flatten part? Sorry, I'm a newbee to this and I need a clue.

Thanks,

Airwinger63
 
Hi Airwinger63,

Give me a few minutes and I'll give you step-by-step instructions.

George
 
Run FSX and go to KADW, switch to slew mode and top-down view. Run TCalcX. This will tell you the folder and file containing the default flatten, in this case Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Scenery\0302\scenery\cvx2718.bgl:



Open TmfViewer and load the above file and press the "+" key on the keypad to zoom in:

TCalcX also shows the current lat/long, so in TmfViewer, select Jump/lat long and copy/paste the lat/long values from TCalcX:



Andrews is contained in two Qmid11 rectangles so you need to create an exclusion rectangle to the west of the boundary, and covering part of the next Qmid11 rectangle:


Looking at the status bar, you can see the lat/long of the cursor. Put the cursor at the SW corner and make a note of the coordinates, something like 38.799938, -76.887691 now move to the NE corner and again note the coordinates, say, 38.808249,-76.869548.



Now run ADE and place two position markers somewhere near the noted coordinates and lock them:



Select Options/Units and change Coord to "Decimal"



Edit the lat/long of each marker to the values you noted:



Now select polygon and draw a rectangle roughly through your position markers:

Set the tag to be Exclude Specific/Airport Backgrounds Flatten:



Now create another polygon, this time surrounding your new airport layout and tag this as Airport Background/
Flatten Mask Class Map ExcludeAutogen:



Close FSX, Compile the airport and copy both bgl files to an active scenery folder then restart FSX:



George
 
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