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#1
Plan-G / Re: Suggestions for improvement
January 08, 2011, 07:18:26 AM
Here is a suggestion.  When printing out the flight plan, the departure and arrival airports section prints out the runways.  This includes the fictive "star" runways used to activate crosswind runways.  To suppress this, I recommend that you test for runway length < some nominal amount, maybe 50 ft (I think ADE uses 10x10) and not show or use any runways that fail this test.

scott s.
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#2
Plan-G / Re: V2.0.0.467 in FSX airport chart problem
December 13, 2010, 09:47:09 PM
Appears to be fixed (so far) in 2.02 481

scott s.
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#3
Plan-G / Re: V2.0.0.467 in FSX airport chart problem
November 30, 2010, 01:41:16 AM
OK I rebuilt my FSX database:

14:28:18.5 Building database for FSX
14:28:18.5 FS directory is: E:\Flight Simulator X\
14:28:18.5 Scanning Scenery.cfg (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\Scenery.cfg)
14:28:18.9 Scanning folder 239: 0_Addon_Scenery\Airports\okecie
14:28:19.0 Decoded file: EPWA_ADEX_S14707.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 2 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 58 Approaches: 6 Bdys: 0
14:28:23.6 Scanning folder 238: 0_Addon_Scenery\Airports\36S
14:28:23.7 Decoded file: 36S_ADEX_S14707.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0

...

14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI02_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI03_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI05_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI13_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI23_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI25_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI27_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI28_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.0 Decoded file: HI29_ADEX_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.1 Decoded file: HI31_ADEX_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.1 Decoded file: HI32_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.1 Decoded file: HI33_ADEX_S14707.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.2 Decoded file: HI49_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.2 Decoded file: JHM_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.2 Decoded file: PHHI_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 2 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.2 Decoded file: PHHN_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.2 Decoded file: PHKO_ADEX_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 1 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 9 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.3 Decoded file: PHLU_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.3 Decoded file: PHMK_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 5 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.3 Decoded file: PHMU_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 9 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.3 Decoded file: PHOG_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 1 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 26 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.3 Decoded file: PHSF_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0
14:28:49.4 Decoded file: PHUP_ADE_FSG.BGL Apts: 1 Vors: 0 Ndbs: 0 wpts: 0 Approaches: 0 Bdys: 0

...

14:30:50.8 Writing 21258 airspace boundaries
14:30:50.8 Generating airspace vectors
14:31:05.1 Rebuilding indexes
14:31:05.8 Writing 7790 VORs
14:31:12.2 Rebuilding indexes
14:31:12.6 Writing 8612 NDBs
14:31:17.3 Rebuilding indexes
14:31:17.7 Writing 105650 intersections
14:32:43.7 Rebuilding indexes
14:32:46.8 Writing approaches
14:34:40.4 Rebuilding indexes
14:34:42.5  Finished writing 20699 approaches for 24599 airports.
14:34:42.5 Writing 24599 airports
14:38:47.4 Rebuilding indexes
14:38:53.0  Finished writing Airports.4:10.460
14:38:53.0 Database load complete.
14:38:53.0 FS9 is installed
14:38:53.0 FSX is installed
14:38:53.2 FSX database is built
14:38:53.2 FS9 database is built
14:38:53.2 Selected data set is FSX

...

14:38:54.1   Airports
14:38:54.1 GetAirportsInBounds retrieved 3 airports.
14:38:54.1   ISECs
14:38:54.1   UWpts
14:38:54.2   done

...

14:39:03.9   Airports
14:39:03.9 GetAirportsInBounds retrieved 3 airports.
14:39:03.9 Plotting . 2/0 Medium airports
14:39:03.9 Plotting . 1/0 Small airports
14:39:03.9   ISECs
14:39:03.9   UWpts
14:39:04.1   done

...

14:39:17.2 Plotting Aerodrome chart
14:39:17.2 Retrieving Aerodrome data
14:39:17.4 Calculating bounds
14:39:17.4 Drawing Aerodrome. W=100 h=77.5383099441041 hScale=12.3029034232559 vScale=12.3029034232559
14:39:17.5 Rwy: 05/23 4494ft x 100ft Asphalt 21.1526328697801 -157.095440626144
14:39:17.5 Rwy: 17/35 3127ft x 100ft Asphalt 21.1530905216932 -157.09757745266
14:39:17.5 finished AD chart


This is for airport PHMK (example -- happens in many airports).  In this example, PHMK is from file PHMK_ADE_FSG.BGL (see above in database building).  The runways parking and aprons are drawn but the taxiways are not drawn.  As near as I can tell by looking at several airports (default, ADE, and AFX) and it seems like default and AFX airport charts do display taxiways, but not ADE.

scott s.
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#4
FSX:  Some airport chart displays in the aerodrome window do not display taxiways.  This appears to be addon airports.  From testing so far it seems like addon airports made from AFX do show taxiways, but not ones made from ADEX.

scott s.
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#5
Attached is a zip containing the log and my scenery.cfg.  I couldn't find any common thread for why certain areas were passed by.  I also did a test of moving my AFCAD scenery area from area 208 to 207, and it wasn't scanned in either place. 

scott s.
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#6
Problem file is attached

scott s.
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#7
While rebuilding the FS9 database, Plan-G_Log.txt indicates an airport file was not decoded.  File was compiled by bglcomp.

Error decoding bgl: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.
ZLGM_ADE9_S7319.BGL Failed (wrong format).

scott s.
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#8
Plan-G / FS9 database build skipping scenery areas
March 27, 2010, 08:33:45 PM
I was trouble shooting a problem of Plan-G not seeing new airports, and looking at the  Plan-G_Log.txt it appears that the database build process is skipping some of the entries in scenery.cfg.  I couldn't find any pattern or apparent reason for some being skipped.  The skipped entries are both default and added.

scott s.
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#9
Plan-G / Dump VRP.mdb
December 17, 2009, 04:41:19 AM
Was experimenting with importing into VRP.mdb, and it got pretty big.  I thought I might delete it and rebuild, but when VRP.mdb is missing Plan-G will exit to desktop when attempting to open the user waypoint database.

Importing / deleting waypoints is a bit slow, though certainly no show stopper.

Very nice UI on this program.  Good job.