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by skymaine » Wed Aug 16, 2017 5:31 pm
I have four FT sceneries -- LOWW, KTPA, KMDW, and EHAM. After trying several times to install them into V4, I had no success and when they did appear in V4 the Afcads were a mess. For several weeks, I just gave up and thought I would wait around until a V4 installer was available. I still don't understand why Flightbeam and FSDT could relatively quickly give us V4 installers but FT cannot. It seems to me they are hurting their brand and their image as a top of the line company. But things are as they are and there's not much I can do about it.
Rather than continuing to wait for FT, I decided I would just start over. I deleted all my P3D FT sceneries (I still had them in Steam, but have little interest in flying on Steam if I can avoid it). Last night I tried to reinstall just one scenery to see how a "clean slate" approach might work out. I started with LOWW, my favorite and first FT purchase.
The process went like this: First, I installed the main FT file into V4. That created a FT folder in the sim and also installed the library and configuration tool. Of course, there was just one scenery -- LOWW. I then extracted the patch files into the V4 FT Vienna subfolder. I launched P3D and the scenery was there, but the Afcad was still screwed up.
Part two was correcting the Afcad problem. After doing some searches on my PC I removed the LOWW afcads from V3 and V4. They were old ones located in P3D in the scenery "World" subfolder. I deleted the files. I started up P3D again, went to LOWW, but the afcad was still the wrong one. I remembered that someone here mentioned checking afcads in AI programs. I did a search of My Traffic Professional 6 files until I found an afcad for LOWW. I deleted that one.
When I launched P3D again and went to LOWW, the afcad was finally correct. The gates were the right ones and my AC appeared where it should. I also had plenty of AI and they weren't taxiing on the grass! Very pleased. I will use the same "clean slate" approach for the other sceneries and hope I get similar satisfactory results.
