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Airport on Plateau


tkyler

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This is in response to user, MgN, but is probably applicable to others.  Sometimes you may find that your airport sits on a high plateau, way above the surrounding scenery.  This is set by a airport altitude value at the top of the apt.dat file.  See picture below:

 

If you are building your airport in WED, then this altitude is set from within WED.  There was a bug in WED in the past whereby this value would be input as feet, but would export as meters.  The thing is that x-plane READS the value as feet.  So if you put 100' elevation in WED, WED would export that as 328 and your airport would be on a 228' foot plateau.  That bug has since been fixed, but every now and then it rears its ugly head in some capacity I know not why.  The straightforward solution is to go into the scenery folder, locate the apt.dat file, open it up in a text editor and set the value to the proper airport elevation.   You can play with this value and reload x-plane to see its effects.

 

TomK

 

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