Airports not showing in Plan G

[skids5108]

Ok guys I have no idea what I am doing wrong so would appreciate some help on this,

I have the Orbx New Zealand South Island installed in FSX and have updated the scenery to the latest patch. In fsx on the GPS the airports show up but on plan G they do not. I have spent hours re building the database from FSX first, then selecting Oceana in the orbyx "select area" option and re built the database in Plan G. Restarting the Flight sim and letting FSX re do its scenery database then again building the Plan G database, still no luck :((

I am using Plan G on an XP machine with the correct version networked to my Flight Sim machine. Previous data base building gave me all the airports as far as I can tell but not this time.

What am I doing wrong please ?

[tim arnot]

Please attach the log file, thanks.

[skids5108]

Greetings once again Tim,

I just found where the option to attach files was. Hidden in Additional options:( I had been looking and searching the icons above this input screen.

Anyhow, hopefully now you should receive my log file for Plan G

Regards and thanks for your patience

Paul

[rich12545]

Airports not showing up happens to me all the time.  I figured out to uncheck the different types, large, medium, small, float, whatever, in the left side of the map tab and they will come back on.

[tim arnot]

Okay, first off, I'd recommend you update to the latest version - either the release 3.1.2, which you can find on the main site (click the "Main Site" button at the top of this page), or the beta 3.1.3 version, which is stickied at the top of this board.

The immediate problem seems to be that you have two dead folders in your AdditionalLocations (Dadsshed\C and Dadsshed\D). These throw errors which cause Plan-G to believe the scenery.cfg is corrupt, so it falls back to the default scenery.cfg in your FSX folder. Consequently it doesn't read any of your add ons.

Take those folders out of AdditionalLocations and it should build fine.

[skids5108]

Thank you for that Tim but unfortunately still no success.

I did as you suggested, downloaded and installed the latest version, removed the add on scenery folder reference and re built the database.

I am at a total loss :( Maybe I am just an old stupid bugger who is doing something wrong that I cannot see :(

Paul

[tim arnot]

Ok, can you upload the log of the latest build attempt? Sounds like there may be something else I missed the first time.

[skids5108]

Sorry to be a pain in the backside but I have also tried the following with still no luck :(

Uninstalled and re installed plan G

Re Built the database however as happened last time the setup screens did not behave as expected. When I went to rebuild I got the screen to select the FSX and Scenery CFG files I did so and for each one the select the location screen stayed active meaning I could not get to the OK screen without closing the select location screen. I hope that makes sense?

After indicating where the FSX and Scenery CFG files were, it did its thing and built the data base but unfortunately, still nothing for the airports :(


Sorry but I have no idea :(

[tim arnot]

It does seem to take a very long time to write the database. It scans the files (across a network?) in about 3 minutes, but then takes a good 20 minutes to write the data out. (I can't help wondering if your data drive is mapped across the network too? That might explain the slowness. Might also explain why the write crapped out the first time.) or perhaps the PC is very old?

Now it's showing data coming back when you move around the map, so airports etc should be displayed - make sure you have everything checked as active on the map ribbon. You could also try unchecking and rechecking "show overlays" - that'll often kick a stalled display back to life.