try the old plan-g 3.1 and run it in compatibility mode with win xp, it unstuck it on my win7 install

Thanks for this link, it worked for me

Hey Tim,

that's what happened these days. I was updating my windows7 licence too and during "end of support" microsoft update my pc failed, my psu or mobo were damaged, whatever ... I'm still trying to fix my hardware.

In the meantime I got my pc back on my main hd and I was reading here the forum and see that somebody asked for an old win xp plan-g version (here http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=4192.0), so I gave it a try

It somehow worked. Running it in win xp compatibility mode, it recreated the xpl 9 database (I was stupid and I've lost my personal bookmarks) but now plan-g 3.1 and 3.2 both work and are unstuck

I'll attach the log.txt that came out

I'll go back to figure out what happened to my pc, hope is just psu that reached its old age

Sadly I couldnt resolve the problem

these are all the packages I could install in win7 (all essential up to date)



result is the same, plan-g log txt output same as the first post :(

Ok Tim, I'll check my windows updates and Sql and dotnet versions. I'll give it a try to be sure I'll have no other issues

I'll report here as soon as I've done, thanks for your patience, gv.

Ok, tried it. Plan-g just took a little bit longer to recreate the db but didnt change its condition

I'll add log txt, created just after new db and after I closed and launched plan-g again.

Hey Tim,

after so many years of great service my plan-g copy has encountered a problem. I was checking a new strip I added at Walikale road in Congo, it wasn't present on plan-g database, so I decided to let it rebuild it.

as soon as I told p-g to start building it hung and never recovered, like in this image


it lets me config x-plane path,




it builds database in less than a second but doesnt change its status (like first image)

it never happened in like five years
thanks for your patience, GV

I'll add my log.txt

Ahaha great Tim, thank you for your great job  :azn:

Quote from: Gambino Volante on August 26, 2013, 11:00:59 PM
This is the one I created some time ago I use as reference. HSGN, Geneina.

Nyala is the one I've added manually in the basic apt.dat and that was HSNN in the database; I've changed to (old perhaps) HSNL to match the icao code I use flying on FSEconomy world.

I have tried this this morning, to add manually HSGN - Geneina to the default apt.dat like I did it with HSNL - Nyala ... but ... no success this time, Plan-G didn't find it at all ...

This is the one I created some time ago I use as reference. HSGN, Geneina.

Nyala is the one I've added manually in the basic apt.dat and that was HSNN in the database; I've changed to (old perhaps) HSNL to match the icao code I use flying on FSEconomy world.

I'm sorry Tim, here you are.

Hi all, first post here.

I'm from x-plane .it and skyone helped me to get here :)

I'm having this problem with x-plane 9.70 database: I cannot make plan-g find any of the custom scenery I added in my x-plane installation. It reads only only default scenery.
So I went there - ... E:\A-SIMULAZIONE\X-Plane Simulator\X-Plane 9\Resources\default scenery - to see where plan-g takes its data.
It seems it only reads the apt.dat file big list of the default scenery, but it doesn't add any apt.dat file found in the custom scenery folders.

Changing manually an airport in the main apt.dat file list of default scenery, makes plan-g recognise it and be shown on the airport list when you look for an airport via plan-g.
If I don't add it manually, the airport cannot be found in plan-g.

That happen everytime I make a new airstrip and throw it in the custom sceneries..

sorry for my bad explanation  :P