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P3D v5 Two "failure to compile" issues

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Using the latest development version 4.79 with Prokey, I have 2 issues that cause ADE not to compile. This happens with some FSX airports I got from avsim.su and that I am trying to convert to P3D v. 5.

The first is caused by a helipad present with a latitude outside the permitted range of -90 to +90 degrees. How does one find (and then delete) this culprit?

The second one I have seen now a couple of times. when compiling, several taxi paths reference an unexisting runway. How does one resolve this one? This runway does not appear in the runway list, of course, because it's non-existent.

Upon seeing these errors I went into RTFM mode, but I don't see anything relevant in the fine manual, and not in the FAQs either.

Mystified -

Jorgen
 
1. Go to Tools/Raw Data View, find the airport and click the triangle to the left of that. Then search the list for the word Helipad.

2. If you know the start or end taxi point index numbers you can use List/Taxi Links to find them - click the index number heading to sort by that column. If not, you will probably need to delete those taxi paths and create new ones. I realize that finding them may be difficult. Another choice would be to create that runway (and a black runway link?), then delete any taxiways linked to it. Then delete the runway - but I don't think this will work because it's not the actual runway that needs to be present, it's the nodes on the black runway links. I don't think ADE allows you to re-use deleted taxi point node numbers.
 
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Thanks for the tips, Tom!

#1 was easy enough, the offending helipad was removed and the airport compiled OK.

#2 proved to be easy also, but it didn't work quite the way you described - in List/Taxi Links, there was no Index Number heading in my version of ADE. However, in the column headed Name, the offending runways showed up fine, so I deleted those. This had the effect of removing the black links in the runways, adding those back in was easy enough, and now the airport compiled.

Thanks again -

Jorgen
 
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