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Hello,

I have some issues:

Firstly i want to change the airport "ENFB" to "ENGM" without having to do it manually (I Am using fs2004) Is this possible? i have tried the reroute but i get "the offset time is not set for ENFB".

secondly i have some flight plans that do not include airports is there anyways for the software to detect the next best one in the sim?

Kindest regards

jovic
 
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Firstly i want to change the airport "ENFB" to "ENGM" without having to do it manually (I Am using fs2004) Is this possible? i have tried the reroute but i get "the offset time is not set for ENFB"
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Not that I know of. Add an Add-on airport

I have some flight plans that do not include airports is there anyways for the software to detect the next best one in the sim?
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If the flight plan doesn't include airports, why do you call it a flight plan? In any case, there's no "next best one" known to AIFP.
 
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Jovic, AIFP includes a feature named Alternate ICAO. The intent of that feature is to re-route AI traffic from no-longer-existing airports to their more modern replacements.

Reading between the lines of your various posts, it appears you are attempting to use post-FS9 flight plans (that use the newer airports) with FS9 (in which those airports and others do not exist).

So use Alternate ICAOs in reverse. Using the post-FS9 flight plan, designate the old airport as the alternate ICAO for the newer one. As for other airports non-existent in FS9, about all you can do is delete those legs from the flight plan.

Hope this helps.
 
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BTW, doing this manually is not too difficult.

1. Load the BGL file into AIFP.
2. Save as a file set (text files).
3. Open the flightplan.txt file with Wordpad (faster than Notepad on large files).
4. Use Edit./Replace to replace all ENFB with ENGM. If you use Replace All, it's one click.
5. Save the file, say yes to Text-Only.
6. Load the text files into AIFP.
7. Compile to a BGL file.
 
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Thanks for the suggestions, Tom. Hopefully, Jovic will find it helpful.
 
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Just tried this out now and its perfect just need to work out all the airports now but this is a MASSIVE HELP. im doing the project 1998 pack for fs2004 :)

thanks all for the help :)
 
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Test it, among other things you can search for the next airport from your position.
www.flightsim.com

FS2002/FS2004/FSX Destination Finder

FS2002/FS2004/FSX Destination Finder v2.0. This program is designed to make it easy for you to find suitable airports to start and end your flight. In the program, you enter the ICAO code of the airport at which you want to start (or end) your journey. Then (optionally) you enter the distance you...
www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com
name is: destfn.zip
 
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Thank you all for the help its been great so far. hope your all keeping well and safe.
 
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