Airspace Boundaries in XP11 - still a thing?

[GrahamW]

I'm coming back to Plan G after a while, updated to v4.0.0.258.

I can see from the v3 manual that Airspace boundaries will not show when the sim is XPlane (11.55).
Forum posts relating to this issue are quite dated now - I wonder if it is still the case that boundaries won't show up if the database is XP11?

If so is there a work round? (apart from buying another sim and merging the data) - it's quite limiting not to have airspace boundaries when VFR-ing around the south coast!

Also does Plan G integrate with Navigraph data in any way? I can't see a reference to it.

[tim arnot]

XP11 does have some internal airspace, but only for the US. You can get airspaces in OpenAir format for other parts of the world from places like openaip.net and install them into X-Plane (Plan-G will then pick them up on a database rebuild), but these do tend to be somewhat haphazard. Europe and the UK are well catered for though.

I don't know yet what XP12 is going to bring...

There's no separate Navigraph database at this time, but if you install Navigraph in X-Plane (or in MSFS), it'll be picked up with the sim data. So you'll see the Navigraph procedures, just as you would in the sim.

[GrahamW]

OK thanks Tim.
I've downloaded the openaip UK airspaces file but it's in a .aip format - from what I can gather from the XP11 forums, it needs to be in a .txt file and added to a new 'Airspaces' folder in Custom scenery.
Would it simply be a matter of opening the .aip file in Notepad and saving it as .txt and then adding it to CustomScenery/Airspaces?

[tim arnot]

Looks like I might have given you a bum steer there. OpenAIP only seems th have their own (I guess) format, which isn't supported. You need to go somewhere like https://soaringweb.org/Airspace/ which definitely has OpenAir format files.