A/C bouncing on taxiways FS9

[IanFL]

Hey all, my first post here but I am a long time user of Fly Tampa's excellent scenery. And KTPA is absolutely beautiful!!
I am however having a tough time figuring out how to keep the aircraft from bouncing on the taxiways.

- The bouncing is not causing any dirt effects nor am I getting any touchdown effects while taxiing ... I'm using the PMDG 737 btw ... but I've tried a few A/C just to be sure.
- I have KTPA 2.1 installed for FS9 and it is currently at the top of the scenery library.
- I have UT USA as well as Freeflow Florida both of them are below addon airports but currently above the MS aerial photos ... I tried moving the aerial photos to a place between UT/FreeFlow and KTPA and that didn't help.
- I have no other land class scenery other than FreeFlow Bahamas, and I do not (unfortunately) have any terrain mesh files.

Any help would be appreciated, I'm sure I'm just missing something.

Thanks,
Ian

[martin[flytampa]]

Is it bouncing on the runway as well?

[IanFL]

Hi Martin, no the runways are fine ... no issues at all.


Ok so I just took a look at the AFCAD again and all the green apron routes are set to "Bitumus" ... I assume that's wrong? If so what should it be set to?

[martin[flytampa]]

It can probably be changed to concrete, but that will slightly alter the visual as well, because our custom ground polys are semi-transparent (to let the rain water relfect a bit).

[IanFL]

Yea don't think I'd want to change the looks of Tampa. I haven't edited the AFCAD at all because I saw it was an ADE9 file. I tried reinstalling a few times with a good defrag and using the 2.1 update from the downloads page and it didnt help ... PMDG, LVLD all look like sea planes on concrete lol. Without the update the taxiways are fine and the AFCAD shows all the apron routes as concrete but the new ADE9 file "KTPA_ADE9_FLYTAMPA.BGL" still shows all apron routes as bitumus.

[Mike...]

It can probably be changed to concrete, but that will slightly alter the visual as well, because our custom ground polys are semi-transparent (to let the rain water relfect a bit).

Does that apply to FS9 as well? I've stripped my Afcad from all visual elements and I think the scenery looks the same.

[IanFL]

Well for a temp fix I backed up the 2.1 ADE9 file and changed all the apron routes to concrete, as Martin suggested, then taxied all over and did a few pattern flights. So far the bouncing is gone and I have not seen any bleed-through textures or anything else that would take away from the original quality. And Mike I'm using FS9 as well.