On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:16 PM, NEILANDMARYLOU SMITH <
neilandmarylo...@dishmail.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to add the lat, long, bearing as an airport for seaplane
> operation so I wouldn't need to look up the info and enter it for each
> location I want to start from. In the FlightGear Wiki I found to add an
> airport, open the $FGROOT/Airports/default.apt.gz file.
>
> The problem is, I have no $FGROOT/Airports directory, or a default.apt.gz
> file. I tried $FGROOT/data/airports, but got nowhere working with the
> apt.dat file.
>
> Would appreciate any help on this.
>
> Cheers, Neil
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:16 AM, NEILANDMARYLOU SMITH
<neilandmarylo...@di...> wrote:
> I'm trying to add the lat, long, bearing as an airport for seaplane
> operation so I wouldn't need to look up the info and enter it for each
> location I want to start from. In the FlightGear Wiki I found to add an
> airport, open the $FGROOT/Airports/default.apt.gz file.
>
> The problem is, I have no $FGROOT/Airports directory, or a default.apt.gz
> file. I tried $FGROOT/data/airports, but got nowhere working with the
> apt.dat file.
>
Hi Neil,
Try looking in $FGROOT/Airports. The file you are after is apt.dat.gz.
I believe that the file was renamed from default.apt.gz at some stage
in the past.
Let us know if this is correct (it is on my computer here).
Regards
George
Thanks George, but ... The problem is, I have no $FGROOT/Airports,
Running Windows XP Home
FlightGear 1.0.0
Installed from: FlightGear v.1.0 Win32 disk purchased from FlightGear.
Installed used the defaults.
Puzzled, Neil
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