Rolfspan Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 I have attached a picture from the Los Cabos Executive Airport. I disabled the file in Vector. Any ideas how to fix this? Thank you. Rolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larryisenor Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 It appears the problem is caused by a 3rd party terrain mesh (the reason we ask you to disable the AEC). Most of the freeware airports are designed to use default mesh for consistency. I may be able to extend the airport flatten out to help this. I may not get to it for a week or 2 but will see if I can help this problem. You could disable the terrain mesh while using this airport until I can try to fix it. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolfspan Posted April 15, 2018 Author Share Posted April 15, 2018 Larry, I use Pilots mesh. If you can fix this issue that would be great. It is not a big deal just curious how these things happen and how I can learn how to fix things. Thanks again. Rolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaab Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Same problem using FreeMeshX. Thanks for your nice collection of airports. Gérard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Hello, I can see a problem here, the real world elevation of this airport is 459 feet above sea level. Larry's version is also 459 feet above sea level. (In the screen shot, the elevation is 462.7 minus the height above the ground of the aircraft centre of gravity, 3.9 feet = 458.8 feet.) Even allowing for the airport being flat all around, it is difficult to escape the high probability that at this location, it is in fact the mesh that is not accurate. I am seeing exactly the same if I add "better" mesh. Higher resolution mesh does not guarantee greater accuracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Hi there, actually, the other possibility is that the airport altitude is misreported and thus implemented incorrectly by the flightsim developers. The smaller the airport the more likely this is. For example, Wikipedia reports it as 690 ft / 210 m ASL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_San_Lucas_International_Airport . Funnily, if you check both reference links on the page, the first lists 459ft and the second 690ft. The official airport website doesn't mention the altitude at all -- very diplomatic Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Thanks Holger. I expect that you are quite right. Google Earth has MM15 at 190 - 196 metres, around 643 feet but there is evidently a relatively steep slope and perhaps up to 10 metres or more elevation differences on the airport itself. The Vector file has the MM15 airport at 341 feet and a little research reveals that this is nearer the elevation of MMSD, Los Cabos International Airport. It would appear that a mistake might have been made. This is the default MM15. 459 feet. This is the default MMSD I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolfspan Posted April 16, 2018 Author Share Posted April 16, 2018 Thank you all for looking into this. Kindest regards, Rolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudger Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Hello, Running Pilot's AFM does correct this elevation problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolfspan Posted April 16, 2018 Author Share Posted April 16, 2018 That is amazing. Re AFM, does it correct the problem for P3Dv4.2? Pilots website seems to limit it to FSX. Thanks for this. Rolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudger Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Rolf, the shots above are P3Dv4.2, it is now called AFM2, it does FSX and all P3D's. If you have registered with Pilots you are entitled to download AFM2. I seem to recall it took a bit of searching on their site, but it is there. It would indicate Nick is correct in it being a mesh problem and also about the terrain levels of the airport. A top down view shows a missing section of the taxiway to the right of the runway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudger Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Rolf, it is not a be all and end all, it solves the problem on the airport, but creates another. Perhaps best to wait for Larry to work his magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolfspan Posted April 16, 2018 Author Share Posted April 16, 2018 It is an improvement but I will see what Larry comes up with. Thank you for your help. Rolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larryisenor Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 I tried to come up with a solution that could be added to the freeware airport packs but the large difference in elevation prevents this. The attached files are for those with terrain mesh for the Cabo San Lucas area only. They will cause problems with the appearance of the default terrain. Just add them to the FTX_FTXG_AIRPORTS/Scenery folder. They will overwrite the existing files. Any updates to the Global Airports will overwrite these files so they will have to be reinstalled. Larry ADE_FTX_FTXG_MMSL.bgl ADE_FTX_FTXG_MMSL_CVX.bgl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolfspan Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 Hi Larry, thank you for this. I am not at home at the moment but will do as suggested when I get back from vacation. i appreciate your help. Rolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 I confirm that these provided "hotfixes" solved the problem, thank you Larry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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