answered AI aircraft land above airport after Global Vector

[Jonathan Fyfe]

Hi

 

I recently installed Global Vector which I understand adjusts airport elevations.

Prior to that I had installed the Global Freeware Airport Pack and everything was fine.

 

Now, at some airports eg KPAE (Paine Field) KASE (Aspen), arriving AI aircraft land, taxi and park on an invisible surface above the airfield.

 

Sky Vector lists KASE as having elevation 7837, but when I place an aircraft there the altitude shows as 7746 - a 91' discrepancy.

Visually, the airport seems to be sitting in a bit of a depression (I hazard 91' as a guess) - the arrived AI aircraft sit in the air above this depression.

 

 

Scenery insertion shows OLC, FTX very near the top of the stack.

ORBX!VECTOR_OBJ, _APT, _CVX, _EXX in the middle of the stack below the stock regions Africa etc and above the 1107 Base entry.

ORBX!VECTOR_AEC is 3rd from the bottom - above Default Scenery and Terrain entries.

 

Any thoughts on how to resolve this?

 

Attachment shows a recently arrived Delta aircraft "parked" in the air.

 

[Jonathan Fyfe]

Ahh... solved it. Found the article below after posting.

 

Ran the Airport Elevation Corrections process located under FTX Central Settings, Tools, FTX Global Vector Configuration Tool. Then selected Run Auto-Configuration - which took about 10 minutes.

Then pressed "Apply".

 

All seems fixed (Well, I tested at Aspen anyway).

[lthendrix]

good one   also sometimes I have found the auto configuration does not catch all airports, and you must disable AEC if you are not using the pilots mesh product

[Jonathan Fyfe]

Ok I'll keep that in mind.