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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby TheEagle » Sun May 16, 2021 10:00 pm

okay, placing the aht/* and ahm/* files as instructed made the snow melt away :lol: :wink: ! Looks great now:
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And the landing is much easier, too :D !
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby Volador » Mon May 17, 2021 5:30 pm

I get this, which looks like a large black animated grass.... like a marsh wet texture. The runway slope makes landing much easier though, the grass might eve slow me down too :/

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and those pylons have gone... those made it much more intense
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby wkitty42 » Mon May 17, 2021 6:28 pm

Volador wrote in Mon May 17, 2021 5:30 pm:and those pylons have gone... those made it much more intense

because the custom scenery is higher in the scenery list and because of this it overrides the existing scenery for the area... that means if the custom scenery does not define the pylons, they will not be drawn in the same way if some building is not defined, it won't be drawn...
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby TheEagle » Mon May 17, 2021 6:29 pm

I could not see any pylons, either, but I'm not sure if I enabled them in the graphics / view settings - did you ? But at least I got a real runway - maybe you forgot to copy a file or something …
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby Ysop » Mon May 17, 2021 7:21 pm

There is the slight impression, I am the only one going to arrive without practice approaches before.... Going to be fun!
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby TheEagle » Mon May 17, 2021 7:32 pm

Is there any option to convert the SkyVector route into a FlightGear route manager file ? That would make it easier to follow the route, right now I have to look every couple of minutes at the SkyVector route. (that is, keep my browser open, which my PC's RAM does not like that much !)
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby Ysop » Mon May 17, 2021 7:48 pm

Sure.
You can download a .gpx from skyvektor. Choose "send plan to..." on the flightplan-menu (fourth button) and this can then be loaded in route manager.
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby Volador » Mon May 17, 2021 7:53 pm

I went back and installed from scratch but there are definitely textures that are not appearing. In my addons the new folder LFHU_T is at the top for scenery...

Ysop, are you really telling us you have not had a secret practice ???

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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby Ysop » Mon May 17, 2021 8:00 pm

Negative, Sir ;-) Currently fine tuning FDM.
And hoping zero talent can compensate zero practice somehow on Wednesday.
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby benih » Mon May 17, 2021 8:09 pm

I just had fun with the CAP10B. Nice plane, and fast!
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby TheEagle » Mon May 17, 2021 8:44 pm

:lol: :D me too !
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby Volador » Mon May 17, 2021 9:01 pm

some success, it seems changing 'transition' to the second to top value helps - but also I don't think the addon likes photoscenery.... or it's the order like wkitty says

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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby TheEagle » Mon May 17, 2021 9:05 pm

Ysop wrote in Mon May 17, 2021 7:48 pm:Sure.
You can download a .gpx from skyvektor. Choose "send plan to..." on the flightplan-menu (fourth button) and this can then be loaded in route manager.


The only file I was able to download was an ozpln file - can that be imported into the route manager, too ? If not - can I convert it to gpx ? If not, what did I wrong when exporting the plan from SkyVector ? :? :?:

I just opened that ozpln file in a text browser - it's in JSON format. I also tried to rename the file to .gpx / .fgfp and importing it in to FlightGear - both tries resulted in FGFS crashing:
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   19.17 [ALRT]:navaid     Failed to load flight-plan in GPX format: 'SimGear XML Parser'. not well-formed (invalid token)
   19.17 [ALRT]:navaid     Failed to load flight-plan 'SimGear XML Parser'. not well-formed (invalid token)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby benih » Mon May 17, 2021 9:20 pm

But won’t we fly vfr?
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Re: Wednesday evening session: Alpe d'Huez without Fuentes

Postby TheEagle » Mon May 17, 2021 9:42 pm

Yes, but if we want to fly a certain route, we have to have some markers where to fly to ! :)
That we have a autopilot route doesn't mean that we have to use the AP !
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