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ADE Can't Change ICAO

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Hello,
I am creating an AFCAD for 55J for Flight Sim and the Flight Sim ICAO is 55J so I followed this tutorial http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Changing_Airport_ICAO. I get to step 6 and I am stuck. In my airport properties everything is grayed out. I researched it and saw some post that you needed the pro key, so I used the 15 day trial and still get the same thing. I attached an image to shoq how my airport properties looks
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You have to use the ProKey to change the ICAO in the Raw Data View (RDV) Can you tell us exactly what you did. Also bear in mind that the original airport will still exist in the stock files and you need to load it into ADE and remove all the elements before compiling it under the original Ident.
 
I am using the Pro Key Trial. I opened the stock airport and deleted everything and moved it to the center of the Atlantic like it says to do in the tutorial. and exported into my World/Scenery folder. How would I change it in the raw data view?
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Well the revised original airport should not be in the World\scenery folder. That means FS will read the stock airport after your modified airport and thus the original airport will show. You need to put your modified stock version into a location such as Addon Scenery\scenery so it loads after the stock file and will replace it.

I have just looked at writing a small tutorial on doing this and noticed that ADE may have a bug. Changing the Ident in RDV does not seem to change it in the airport properties window although it does change it in the file and it does load correctly in the sim. I will try and find out what is going on today and provide an update.

EDIT

Operator Error - there is no bug except in me ;) I will try and put together a small tutorial today
 
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scruffyduck said:
This is a small tutorial on changing the ICAO using the ProKey RDV: http://scruffyduck.screenstepslive....68/l/331645-how-do-i-change-the-airport-ident

Bear in mind that you need to:
  • Load the stock airport and delete everything you can from it. Compile it to somewhere like the Addon Scenery\scenery folder
  • Load the stock airport again and follow the steps in the tutorial above.
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Wow thank you for the quick support and putting up a tutorial. It worked. Thanks!
 
The little problem is, I just succeeded with changed ICAO for LFSL moved to new airport in Brive, France. LFSL was military no longer. France civil airport wants to use code LFSL in Brive. I got it. All processed from my prokey and save scenery goes on. I changed LFSL to LXXX old airport was closed. All is good. I ran FS2004 directory select airport. I was surprised there is not available to get Brive LFSL it was still select at old airport code. I understand that stock airport was NOT able to deleted stock. Oh well, I just use nearest airport code then loading airport I use slew and move to Brive airport. That's it. I wish someday program can powerful DELETE stock airport in one day. We don't have to worry about anymore. LOL!

Thanks,

Stuart
 
I just found in ADE use this "Raw Load View" to change ICAO code and saved it. It works directory FS2004 located runway in right spot!

Stuart
 
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