Hello everyone,
I live in Perugia (Umbria, Italy) and I have a fond interest in flight simulation since the times of Bruce Artwick's SubLOGIC Flight Simulator which I was running on a Commodore 64.
I am also a fond user of Flightgear which I am running on my Linux box since the times of its very early development and release. My favorite airport has always been the local airport of Perugia (the city where I live in) San Francesco LIRZ. Unfortunately the representation of LIRZ airport is very outdated and it actually dates back to the condition it had prior to 2010. In that year, in fact, the airport has gone through a deep and substantial upgrade, with a longer runway, new taxiways and facilities, not to mention, I would really love to see all this in FlightGear.
I tried to upgrade the airport myself but it seems to be a quite complex job, in particular, lacking of detailed information on how to do that. I understand you can import/convert X-Plane airports and here LIRZ airport seems to be up to date, with all the new buildings, taxiways and longer runway.
I downloaded the LIRZ files from https://gateway.x-plane.com and the corresponding elevation data for that area, then I basically followed this tutorial to convert everything into something FlightGear can use: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Using_TerraG ... ssing_data
The problem is genapts850 is not generating any output, it does not create AirportArea and AirportObj folders in the work directory, although at the end of the process it says it successfully converted everything.
I understand at the end of the process I should get a .btg file (I guess containing the airport itself, buildings, signs and everything else) which I can copy in my local scenery folder, however, it is now many days I am trying to do that, unfortunately with no success at all.
What am I missing? Is there something in particular to be done in order to properly convert X-Plane apt.dat files? Is there anyone who can help me or give me information on how to properly convert a X-Plane airport in order to be used to FlightGear?
Thank you for reading this and thank you for any help you can provide.