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Invalid airports
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Not sure what you mean by "invalid". Sounds like you are trying to send AI to an airport without any parking spots. To find that out , you will need to open the airport in a program like ADE. That tool will allow you to add the needed components for AI to use the airport.
Or, perhaps you have created an airport and want AIFP to recognize it. In that case use the "Add Airport" or "Collect Airport" function in AIFP.
Give us a little more info.
Good luck.
Bob
Not sure what you mean by "invalid". Sounds like you are trying to send AI to an airport without any parking spots. To find that out , you will need to open the airport in a program like ADE. That tool will allow you to add the needed components for AI to use the airport.
Or, perhaps you have created an airport and want AIFP to recognize it. In that case use the "Add Airport" or "Collect Airport" function in AIFP.
Give us a little more info.
Good luck.
Bob
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Geoff
The stock YAMB has plenty of aprons and areas for AI to part, but no actual parking spots. No military airports do in FS. What is the difference? Kind of hard to explain. Parking spots are not a physical thing you see at the airport, but rather part of the underlying structure that makes the airport work, like comms and ILS. You will need to modify YAMB with a program like ADE to add parking if you want to send AI to it. In the meantime I suggest you practice using AIFP with two "normal" airports, like KSAN and KLAX.
Keep us posted.
Bob
The stock YAMB has plenty of aprons and areas for AI to part, but no actual parking spots. No military airports do in FS. What is the difference? Kind of hard to explain. Parking spots are not a physical thing you see at the airport, but rather part of the underlying structure that makes the airport work, like comms and ILS. You will need to modify YAMB with a program like ADE to add parking if you want to send AI to it. In the meantime I suggest you practice using AIFP with two "normal" airports, like KSAN and KLAX.
Keep us posted.
Bob
hi Bob,
Thanks for your help.
I have a zip 'RAAF AI v 1.1' which has populated all the Aussie mil airports, this is not the only ap I've had trouble with. Try Santa Cruz [SBSC] and Sigonella Mil [LICZ], both of which I've modified with AFCAD. I thought I saw a note somewhere, that it had something to do with a .dat file, that was not being collected.
regards Geoff
Thanks for your help.
I have a zip 'RAAF AI v 1.1' which has populated all the Aussie mil airports, this is not the only ap I've had trouble with. Try Santa Cruz [SBSC] and Sigonella Mil [LICZ], both of which I've modified with AFCAD. I thought I saw a note somewhere, that it had something to do with a .dat file, that was not being collected.
regards Geoff
the actual message reads......
'this is not a valid airport code'..... and it comes up when I type the airport code as either departure or arrival. The codes that I've had a problem with are YAMB,SBSC,LIRC. I'm using FS9.
my system
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q6600
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT [Display adapter]
averages 44 fps
Geoff
'this is not a valid airport code'..... and it comes up when I type the airport code as either departure or arrival. The codes that I've had a problem with are YAMB,SBSC,LIRC. I'm using FS9.
my system
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q6600
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT [Display adapter]
averages 44 fps
Geoff
I am unable to duplicate the problem. The ICAO codes YAMB and SBSC are not declared invalid for me. LIRC also is not declared invalid, but is not a stock airport; presumably you have it as an add-on.
The error message "Entry is not a valid airport code." is issued in only one place in AIFP -after it encounters an airport designation that is not either 3 or 4 characters in length. (The airport designator is the character string you enter in the departure or destination airport field up to the first white-space character.) There is no other analysis on the string prior to the message being generated.
Is the error consistent? Presumably your keyboard language is set to English or something else that does not insert additional characters. I wonder if your keyboard may be faulty and is inserting control characters as you type (which wouldn't appear in the text box) or some other hardware peculiarity?
Don
The error message "Entry is not a valid airport code." is issued in only one place in AIFP -after it encounters an airport designation that is not either 3 or 4 characters in length. (The airport designator is the character string you enter in the departure or destination airport field up to the first white-space character.) There is no other analysis on the string prior to the message being generated.
Is the error consistent? Presumably your keyboard language is set to English or something else that does not insert additional characters. I wonder if your keyboard may be faulty and is inserting control characters as you type (which wouldn't appear in the text box) or some other hardware peculiarity?
Don
Earlier in the thread, he identified the airport as LICZ - the NATO military base at Sigonella, Sicily, which is a default airport, but with no parking.
The RAAF AI package was created by several Australian flight simmers back in 2004 for FS9. A really amazing package which established the concept which others like MAIW have extended and developed further.
It included a large number of AFCAD files for military bases in Australia, many of which are still on my FS2004 setup.
I must confess though I cannot understand what error message the OP is getting. Perhaps a screenshot of the actual error message would help, along with a description of exactly what step he was doing when the message appears.