Thanks for your reply Curt, > As Innis suggested, once you install the scenery for the > entire world, > you will have all 20,000+ airports available in the selection > list. Be warned though that the launcher needs to scan your > entire scenery tree first, which can take a *long* time if > you have all 12Gb of scenery data installed.
You are not wrong, Listen all windows users, it can take over 12 minutes each an every time you load FG for FG to read all the scenery data before it can proceed. I learnt the hard way. > Fred is pondering/working on a more optimal solution for the next > release. There are a number of good ideas he can try so I'm > sure he'll come up with something that works quite well. :-) That would be good, scan once and save in a file should help. > The documentation is essentially correct, but it was written > before we created a nice little scenery installer util. This is > included with the windows package and can be found in the > FlightGear section of your "Start" menu. > FlightGear can decompress the .btg.gz files on the fly so you > can leave them compressed and save a bit of room on your HD. > So, once you've uncompressed the 10x10 chunk into the correct > scenery directory, you don't need to do anything further. That is also good to know, having run the program from the shortcut already provided by the install prog, I was unaware of that very useful utility. Thanks all who helped. Grayham Smith........... _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
