On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:16 AM, NEILANDMARYLOU SMITH
<neilandmarylo...@di...> wrote:
> I'm trying to add the lat, long, bearing as an airport for seaplane
> operation so I wouldn't need to look up the info and enter it for each
> location I want to start from. In the FlightGear Wiki I found to add an
> airport, open the $FGROOT/Airports/default.apt.gz file.
>
> The problem is, I have no $FGROOT/Airports directory, or a default.apt.gz
> file. I tried $FGROOT/data/airports, but got nowhere working with the
> apt.dat file.
>
Hi Neil,
Try looking in $FGROOT/Airports. The file you are after is apt.dat.gz.
I believe that the file was renamed from default.apt.gz at some stage
in the past.
Let us know if this is correct (it is on my computer here).
Regards
George
> Thanks George, but ... The problem is, I have no $FGROOT/Airports,
>
> Running Windows XP Home
> FlightGear 1.0.0
>
> Installed from: FlightGear v.1.0 Win32 disk purchased from FlightGear.
> Installed used the defaults.
>
> Puzzled, Neil
Under Windows, $FGROOT means C:\Program Files\Flightgear\Data
So you should have a file named C:\Program
Files\Flightgear\Data\Airports\apt.dat.gz
You can decompress it with most modern dearchiver ( the .gz extension means
it has been compressed with the gzip utility ). You don't need to recompress
it after changing it.
-Fred
Thanks Fred. Before my first post on this I had used the one in C:\Program
Files\Flightgear\Data. I found that I could change an entry in the apt.dat
file, but could not add anything (i.e. I can highlight a word, and change it
or delete it, but cannot add a space or new line). I haven't figured out
what all of the entries are - tried changing the name, lat, long, and
bearing on one, but it didn't show on the airport list in FlightGear after
an update.
Neil
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