NEILANDMARYLOU SMITH wrote: > 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 > > Under Windows, $FGROOT means C:\Program Files\Flightgear\Data > > So you should have a file named C:\Program > Files\Flightgear\Data\Airports\apt.dat.gz > > You can decompress it with most modern dearchiver ( the .gz extension > means it has been compressed with the gzip utility ). You don't need > to recompress it after changing it. > > -Fred > > Thanks Fred. Before my first post on this I had used the one in > C:\Program Files\Flightgear\Data. I found that I could change an > entry in the apt.dat file, but could not add anything (i.e. I can > highlight a word, and change it or delete it, but cannot add a space > or new line). I haven't figured out what all of the entries are - > tried changing the name, lat, long, and bearing on one, but it didn't > show on the airport list in FlightGear after an update. > > Neil
Hi Neil I think the easiest way to do what you want is using FGRUN (FlightGear Wizard). Set up FGRUN with the settings you want ie, aircraft type, location, any features and initial position etc., then save as a .fgrun file (filename.fgrun). You can do as many of these as you want, then just load the one you want at startup. I hope this helps Brett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
