Airport on Plateau

[tkyler]

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

 

[maestrogn]

Tom:

 

Thank you so much for that plateau report. We just got back from the opera here in Graz and are going to bed at midnight. So, I'll get into that file tomorrow morning and attempt the fix. All best ...

 

Garyth

[tkyler]

good luck Garyth.  I'll check in the morning when I get up myself...after a night of less cultural activities and see how you fared.

 

TomK

Laminar / IXEG

Edited December 21, 2012 by tkyler

[maestrogn]

Tom:

 

All is well in Graz. Just did a series of approaches from various direction and the airport is exactly where it should be. Thank you so much!!!!

 

Happy Holidays.

 

G