Three downloaded files all ask me to install the same LCxxxxx.bgl file. How do I deal with overwriting this file?
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Q:
As a novice I know I’m probably trying to run before I can walk but I am particularly keen to do most of my flying in my native Scotland. I think I’ve managed to install Ian Gallacher’s GLA EDI and PIK (I still don’t understand why FS does not use these ID’s for airports) airports successfully in the add on scenery folder but I don’t understand the landclass file installations. For each airport I am asked to install LCE95N20.bgl which I am copying into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Scenery\BASE\Scenery but obviously each one overwrites the other so this can’t be right or I’ll just end up with one airport?
So I guess, basically, I'm looking for landclass installation instructions. Phew.
I’m not sure if I was post this here so apologies if I’ve got this wrong.
Best Wishes
mo
A:
I went looking in the flightsim.com files for airport scenery and tried to find airports with those IDs, since I'm not familiar with either Scotland or Ian Gallacher, without success.
You don't give any indication of what the files were that you downloaded, however it does sound as if it is three separate files. If that's the case, then it's likely that you only need to install LCE95N20.bgl once (and it probably overwrites the original version, which you ought to copy somewhere else for backup, in case you ever wish to revert to the original). I would expect that the reason it's included with each of the three files is in case someone only downloads one or two of them, rather than all three.
And landclass won't affect whether the airport appears in the scenery. Landclass affects the textures and automatically generated scenery (buildings, trees, water, etc.) that appear in the area. So that file likely encompasses the area of all three airports.
In other words, once you've copied that file into your installation, you'll not need to do it again, unless an improved version comes along.
(I still don’t understand why FS does not use these ID’s for airports) I don't know the airport ID scheme implemented by Scotland or by the UK, but in general the internationally assigned IDs (ICAO) have four letters, with the first letter being the country code (it appears that Scotland is an E), and the remaining three being the airport itself.
In the U.S., the FAA long ago assigned three letter codes to major airports, as well as many smaller airports (ORD for Chicago's O'Hare, DEN for Denver International, etc.). In recent years there has been more and more use in the U.S. of the ICAO codes, such that the above two airports are now often known as KORD and KDEN., However there are still many smaller airports that had the older codes (48V for TriCounty, north of Denver; 4AC for Coronado airport in Albuquerque, NM, etc.) which don't have the ICAO codes (48V was recently changed, however, to KEIK, along with a few others).
Larry N.
