Changing ICAO code of an airport

[VulcanDriver]

Hi Guys

I'm working on MOD St Athan which used to be EGDX but is now EGSY which was Sheffield Airport until it closed. I've changed the airport properies in ADE, however it stll shows as EGDX in the FSX airport list.

How can I fix these pleaase.

TIA

[geoffj]

There is a post on FS Developer on this subject https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threa ... ier.17089/

[TimC340]

Jon Masterson has an article on this in his guide for using ADE. He's about to (or maybe already has) shut down the Scruffyduck software pages, but I think much of it will have been transferred to FSDeveloper's resources pages.


Essentially what you have to do is completely delete the sim version of St Athan and create a new one. The deletion doesn't remove everything, and it will still appear in the simulator map co-located with your version, but only your version will be visible to the user in-sim.

[Jim]

Hi John,
I solved a similar problem in China, I think?

Open the stock EGDX in ADE and delete everything. Save as AFX_EGDX_dummy.bgl or whatever, so it won't appear in flight; just as a point on the map view. (I didn't need this step in China, but it works in lots of cases.) Next...

Open EGSY and delete everything there too (or make it look like current scenery, but without a runway). In the SAME scenery place your new EGSY runway & scenery for St Athan in its correct location.

This worked for me for a shift of a few miles for a new airport with the same code as the old one. I don't know if it will work as far from Sheffield as St Athan, but good luck!

Jim

[Jim]

Just to add, 'my' old & new cases were of similar altitude, so didn't change that from stock.

You might need to experiment in your case.... I'm guessing though, that if you delete the old EGSY (without adding any modern scenery there) and change the elevation to whatever St Athans is, then it'll be fine so long as you give everyone the scenery/world/scenery "alt" file that gets generated (if sharing).

[Jim]

New (north-west) & old ZSQD attached.

The red circle means I also changed the coordinates to those of the new airport (probably why AI fly there quite happily), and there is still a "runway" on the old one 28km to the south-east, but with deleted runway-starts.
I also made the parking spots at the old airport too small to be used, so no AI start there. Since Sheffield has been obliterated, you probably won't need to worry; just bin everything.