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You'll have to fix that if you want to do this regularly. The first thing on OSX is to make sure you have the GDAL command line tools available. You can do this at a mac terminal by typing any of the following: $ which gdalinfo $ which gdal_translate $ which gdalwarp ....and hopfully you'll get back something that looks like this: /opt/local/bin/gdalinfo /opt/local/bin/gdal_translate /opt/local/bin/gdalwarp If you get nothing back but only see another command prompt appear, then you don't have the gdal command line tools installed and you should go here: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks and download / install the "GDAL 1.10 Complete" package. (maybe 1.9... depends on several factors but start with 1.10) THEN after you do that, try the "which gdalinfo" command again and see if you get a path back as shown above. If you do, then you're 70% of the way to where you need to be. Advise you avoid anything that says 'python' or ends in .py Once you have the GDAL command line tools installed, you should not have to 'cd' to their directory to use them as their path will be put in your environement variables by the installer (I don't expect any of this to make sense to you but need to negate Chris's advice to 'cd' above as it probably isn't relevant in your case, being on a mac and using the above installer; however the concept of "cd'ing" around a computer's directory structure from a command line is as fundamental to using the command line as walking is to humans so best to understand it before attempting anything else. You use one of these programs by typing in the name of the program, the parameters you want it to do (usually called "switches") then the name of the input file (along with its path....UNLESS you have cd'd to the directory containg the file) and a name of the output file (which you pick). for example to change formats, you would type something like so: > gdal_translate -of GTiff path/to/the/file/somefile.jp2 path/you/want/to/save/to/the_converted_file.tif the switch, "-of" stands for "output format" and what you are doing is calling gdal_translate...telling it to convert a file and output in the Geotiff format, taking "somefile.jp2" as the input file and spitting out "the_converted_file.tif" as the output file. I cannot stress just how simplified this is and I can think of a dozen things that would cause this not to work right off the bat and the potential pitfalls that can crop up in this type of scenario including whether or not gdal_translate actually supports the jp2 format (which I don't know). It is not my intention to teach you how to use the gdal tools or even see you to success on this one task but only provide further information because the puzzle is large and each piece helps. Command line work on geo files can be glorious or laborious. I've auto-merged, resized and automagically cut up and auto-named 192 super high rez orthophotos in x-plane with nary but 4 gdal command lines (the planets were in alignement that day)....but also spent hours trying to convert a single image because it was lacking some info in its header. Geo files are like a box of chocolates......you know the rest. And finally....when you try to use a command line tool and it just "spits you out" or gives you the "help/usage instructions" instead, then 9 times out of 10 (if not 10 out of 10), you have not supplied the right arguments in the right order the program was expecting. Most every GIS command line tool expects arguments to be typed in a certain format and a certain order (but not always) and NO typos allowed. If it expects a number, you can't be providing it a letter, etc. For really long command line entries, its super common to mess it up a few times and leave out parameters. Suffice to say though, if you can get the GDAL command line tools available to you on your mac, then you'll have quite the toolset for doing just about anything and your next step will be to read all you can on GIS processing. I recommend the following book if you plan to go deeper into geo-processing for x-plane. This book has numerous examples for working with all sorts of open-source software, including the GDAL tools (or enough of them for you to research the net on your own thereafter) http://www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2688978942539?r=1&cm_mmca2=pla&cm_mmc=GooglePLA-_-TextBook_NotInStock_26To75-_-Q000000633-_-2688978942539 You will find though that the problem is usually finding the right data in the right format...that can be a needle in a haystack hunt. Just wait till you download that killer 1.0GB orthophoto only to find that it's in a .sid format ...and the gdal tools are useless.....and its off to the mrsiddecode tools.....only to find that the converted sid doesn't have the right projection information and you have no clue what projection it is....oh there will be frustations. TomK

I have a theory: "If you weren't there in the cockpit, you probably don't know what happened. If you were there in the cockpit, you probably don't know what happened either." So, the number of theories written on the internets provides roughly zero additional knowledge as to what actually happened, and even less as to why it happened.

1. You open a terminal 2. You "cd" to where the executable and your files are 3. You run the program by typing in it's name. 4. You reap the rewards. i.e. 1. Open a Terminal Last login: Wed Jul 10 05:57:32 on ttys001chrisk@MacBookPro:~>2. Get into the directory where you downloaded and uncompressed your command line utility chrisk@MacBookPro:~> cd Downloads/chrisk@MacBookPro:~/Downloads>3. Figure out how to use the program via --help: chrisk@MacPro:/Volumes/XP/Projects/Burlington Skyway/jp2> geojasper --helpusage: geojasper [options]The following options are supported: --help Print this help information and exit. --version Print version information and exit. --verbose Enable verbose mode. --debug-level $lev Set the debug level to $lev. --input $file Read the input image from the file named $file instead of standard input. --input-format $fmt Specify the format of the input image as $fmt. (See below for the list of supported formats.) --input-option $opt Provide the option $opt to the decoder. --output $file Write the output image to the file named $file instead of standard output. --output-format $fmt Specify the format of the output image as $fmt. (See below for the list of supported formats.) --output-option $opt Provide the option $opt to the encoder. --force-srgb Force conversion to the sRGB color space.Some of the above option names can be abbreviated as follows: --input = -f, --input-format = -t, --input-option = -o, --output = -F, --output-format = -T, --output-option = -OThe following formats are supported: mif My Image Format (MIF) pnm Portable Graymap/Pixmap (PNM) bmp Microsoft Bitmap (BMP) ras Sun Rasterfile (RAS) jp2 JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax (ISO/IEC 15444-1) jpc JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax (ISO/IEC 15444-1) jpg JPEG (ISO/IEC 10918-1) pgx JPEG-2000 VM Format (PGX) tif Tagged Image File (TIFF)4. Run the program giving it the arguments you want to use: chrisk@MacBookPro:~/Downloads> geojasper --input 17TNH955970_200810_0x3000m_CL_1.jp2 --output myfile.tifGeoJp2 info found...TIFF file encoded!Done!chrisk@MacBookPro:~/Downloads>You should now have a file called "myfile.tif" sitting in your downloads directory - which is a TIFF encoded Georefrenced Orthophoto of the input file (in this case, it was a USGS JP2 orthophoto named "17TNH955970_200810_0x3000m_CL_1.jp2" - and the TIFF is ready to import into WED. Repeat - CK. P.S. GeoJasper is the program I use for image/GeoReferencing transcoding. It's a universal binary, meaning it works on OSX 10.1 all the way through Leopard/Snow Leopard, to the current 10.8 Mountain Lion. It probably works on 10.9 Mavericks too.

What should have been a relaxed morning flight, became my worst landing ever ... This happens when you are not gentle, but try to force her down. I hope they were able to open the doors in time ...

KBTR-TNCM Departure Forgot to take many enroute shots, so here is the beautiful 1/2 island of Saint Maarten. Touchdown! Turnabout... And parking! Like for perfect parking? Airport was TNCM that I converted from FlyTampa a while ago, just remembered that I had that one. Nice 2-3 hour flight!

I should purchase two of this aiplane for sure

We haven't said much in a while so here is a verbal update. We are moving along nicely and we don't like showing in progress work before certain milestones are reached. We are working on the interior cabin, cockpit shell and galleys and such, most of it is modeled and we are doing texturing and modeling of details in these areas. This is nearly the last 3D to be done so we have been somewhat keeping our noses to the grindstone as it were and haven't looked up much to post anything. I would like to think in 6-8 weeks or so, we might get another video up with a lot of the new work in, but there are some other factors that will weigh into this that take higher precedence. We are staying aggressive trying to reach a late year release if we can. TomK