Dude, you are fast becoming the first person to go to for anyone considering modding this excellent sim. Correction, the ONLY guy to go to. Thanks for taking so much time to a) Learn all of this and then b) bringing it to the World in a way that the majority can follow.
For anyone who may be having issues getting the Tower and ATIS frequencies to show up after setting them, make sure you are not using Navigraph navdata when testing your airport. Any frequency data used in your airport is either overwritten (existing airport) or erased (airport from scratch) by Navigraph data. Also note that, for the ATIS, just enter the ICAO code of your airport. It will most likely not work if you enter anything else. The latest versions of the airport editor now have a user interface to enter the frequencies so you don't need to manually alter the xml file any longer. Click on the airport in the scenery editor and then view properties, scroll down to frequencies.
You are the Einstein of FS2020 SDK, very gratefull for your excellent instructional video's. Looking forward to more great tutorials on the SDK, many thanks.
Once again, thank you very much for such extensive tutorials. I made an airport from scratch, and created the ILS as instructed, but it does not show as an option when selecting arrival airport. I hope there is a fix for that. Also, the new SDK has custom ILS option in the runway properties now. I tried it but it always gives errors. Hope you make an update for that...
If you want to add a DME to your ILS, that's also possible. Here is an example that I made:
The only problem is, if you save your scenery, then this part gets overwritten. So you have to put it in your XML after every save before your build you package...
These are fantastic tutorials, but slowly and slowly it's revealing what a reasonably good tool it was that ASOBO made for MSFS2020. Some thing seem a little bit odd, and I feel sorry for the company they outsourced it to, but all those features to link taxiways together was amazing.
@Flying Theston Great tutorials. I would love it if you could explain how to set up a working Approach for the ILS. I've tried copying approaches from the sample file, but I get a crash to desktop as soon as I select the approach.
Any chance of an update on this one as things have moved on but setting ILS remains a challenge. Neither runway properties or XML editting have worked for me.
Can you do a tutorial on the new ILS implemented in the latest SDK 0.8.0.0? It's an option in the properties when selecting the runway. Under VASI. Don't know what the ident, magvar or ranges should be. Thank you.
Your tutorials are amazing, thanks a lot for the contribution! For the ILS setting, it looks like there is a common bug with all scenarii created via sdk or direct xml, that makes the autotuning of these ils not working in the FMS of jet planes. This works with all default airports, and there is a workaround to have it work with the xml, but there really is no documentation about that. Did you encounter that issue?
Hello. I subscribed to you for a long time, you make very good tutorials. Very detailed. I create my own airport, and it is completely new, its ICAO is not in the simulator, it does not have lighthouses, entries and ils systems. I'm trying to set up an ILS in the SDK, but apparently some more data for an empty airport is needed for correct operation. In SDK samples there is a navdata sample with approaches and entry points. Could you do a simple tutorial on how to set up an ILS system in a new empty airport, there is very little of this on the internet. Thank you so much for what you do for the community.
In the video is shown, magvar = 0.0. The result will be the airplane heading is different from the Course. In an airbus the magenta ILS arrow will be left or right from the green rhombus which shows the heading. In ILS-Mode of the Navigation Display the magenta line will also be wrong. SDK: "Magnetic variation at the ILS beacon to True North in degrees. Negative for values to the east and positive for values to the west, measured in degrees between -360.0° and 360.0°." and for Runway Start: "Angle compared to true magnetic north which the plane will face when starting, measured in degrees between -360.0° and 360.0°" Example: ILS = 315°, magvar = 0.0, Runway Heading = 315° => Primary Display LOC captured => The Nav-Display shows magenta 8 degrees left of the Heading = 323° because magvar = 8.0 The correct data are: ILS = ILS = 315°, magvar = 8.0, Runway Heading 315 => ILS needle and heading will be at 323° degrees Some experiments with an airbus would show the results of changing these values
Love these tutorials, so helpful. I do have one question. I don't have an object.xml file in the projectsSources-Scene folder. So i cannot go any further to make the atc. Did I miss something?
@Flying Theston, great editor series! Is it possible to create your own standalone scenery (i.e. that wouldn't get over written by the built-in scenery during an update)? I'm thinking of bringing to life an airfield that has been closed and subsequently had housing built on it, as it used to be a place that I worked and gained my PPL, and would like to keep it alive in FS2020. Does custom scenery always override the built-in or do you have to compile it into the main scenery database after an update? TIA.
Hi, I am trying to add Comms freq's. The file layouts seems to have changed since this video was made. I found the relevant xml in the the airport.xml, but when I follow this video and add the relevant section, it still doesn't show in the sim, but Little Map can see it. Any help would be much appreciated!!
I have 2 questions... how do you make the PAPI's work? I'm flying around buzzing the ground and the PAPI's are still showing 4 high. My second question is how do you get airport info in your xml? I go to my scenery XML and there is no airport data... I named the airport put the country and the ICAO just like it said in the tutorial but still nothing!
I’m trying to make a music festival global series.. setting up an interesting location where people can land in a secret grass strip.. then head out in drone view to 3D constructed arena , I just need to find a way of getting music into a small area, I can see some audio setup in the SDK .. it’s way over my head though..
Flying Theston hello i did what u exactly did but my ils is not showing when i plan in the sim only rnav and when i built the package it didnt show any error
No, they don't "need" to be named, they just need to be set up with taxiway paths and points and all correctly connected to a runway taxiway path. Naming them certainly helps though
can you confirm if the ATIS is broken in 2020. I've tried to add ATIS via editing the xml and compiling, but no joy. It doesn't even give me a choice to tune an ATIS.
Is there a way to re add ai real time traffic support? Otherwise i'm more than likely going to just keep the airport and remove the open street maps buildings
For a small airstrip, where there is no tower or personnel, but just a mobile radio during weekends, which kind of frequency should I set? GROUND, TOWER or CLEARANCE?
hi, can you please help me? is there a way to add missing airports? i’m sick of waiting for asobo to update the world, especially as world update has just dropped. i don’t want to improve an airport i want to add one to the game!
Flying Theston cheers. i tried for hours, it didn’t work and i gave up! who knows what i did wrong? i then found an absolute legend who had created YBDG, so i downloaded that!
Are you sure about the location of the ILS? The localizer antenna is at the other end of the runway and the glideslope antenna is at the touchdown point. I wonder what the SDK expects you to enter here as "location".
You can enter what you think works best. Both the ILS (localiser) and glide slope let you enter a lon/lat so you can probably put the accurate details in if you know them on the airport
I think the location is important to get correct instrument readouts during approach. My guess is that when you would follow the glideslope exactly (maybe CAT3 Autoland) you would end up before the threshold. That's why I ask.
Hey! Help about the Aerial Images please! My CMD is not recoganizing the command. Is there anything specific on Tiles2Bing installation, or just unzip?
I had this same issue, solved it by installing the tiles2bing folder directly outside the folder I needed converted. Drag that folder with all of your tiles over the tiles2bing.bat file and it'll spit everything out for you into the output folder within the tiles2bing folder.
Hi built all my airport from watching your videos ... Wow thanks a lot. great work .. if i can ask a special favor ?. Could you please make an idiots video on ILS . Im apart of a large community of people now making there own airports and no one can get there ILS to work. we have ... I know were hopeless ha ... I HOPE YOU CAN HELP US OB WAN , your our only hope ha .. Ian uk ..
Doesn't work for my project, when I create package I get this: ERROR: 1, 17, Incorrect xml declaration syntax. INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2430: Unrecoverable error parsing XML! INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2006: Parse failed (0x80004005)
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Dude, you are fast becoming the first person to go to for anyone considering modding this excellent sim. Correction, the ONLY guy to go to. Thanks for taking so much time to a) Learn all of this and then b) bringing it to the World in a way that the majority can follow.
For anyone who may be having issues getting the Tower and ATIS frequencies to show up after setting them, make sure you are not using Navigraph navdata when testing your airport. Any frequency data used in your airport is either overwritten (existing airport) or erased (airport from scratch) by Navigraph data. Also note that, for the ATIS, just enter the ICAO code of your airport. It will most likely not work if you enter anything else.
The latest versions of the airport editor now have a user interface to enter the frequencies so you don't need to manually alter the xml file any longer. Click on the airport in the scenery editor and then view properties, scroll down to frequencies.
Thank you! This fixed my issue. Please pin this comment.
How do I deactivate Navigraph navdata for the airport I'm working on?
@@EduardoMCfly You can't remove Navigraph navdata ONLY for one airport. It is all or nothing as far as I am aware.
You are the Einstein of FS2020 SDK, very gratefull for your excellent instructional video's. Looking forward to more great tutorials on the SDK, many thanks.
Once again, thank you very much for such extensive tutorials. I made an airport from scratch, and created the ILS as instructed, but it does not show as an option when selecting arrival airport. I hope there is a fix for that. Also, the new SDK has custom ILS option in the runway properties now. I tried it but it always gives errors. Hope you make an update for that...
If you want to add a DME to your ILS, that's also possible. Here is an example that I made:
The only problem is, if you save your scenery, then this part gets overwritten. So you have to put it in your XML after every save before your build you package...
These are fantastic tutorials, but slowly and slowly it's revealing what a reasonably good tool it was that ASOBO made for MSFS2020. Some thing seem a little bit odd, and I feel sorry for the company they outsourced it to, but all those features to link taxiways together was amazing.
Superlative! This helped immensely.
What a great set of videos. Very helpful. Best wishes from NZ.
My granddaughter's husband comes from Clermont-Ferrand and they were married there. Interesting coincidence. Cheers
When I've set Ils for the runway and exported them into Community folder, the ILS doesn't appear on PFD, what should I do
@Flying Theston Great tutorials. I would love it if you could explain how to set up a working Approach for the ILS. I've tried copying approaches from the sample file, but I get a crash to desktop as soon as I select the approach.
Any chance of an update on this one as things have moved on but setting ILS remains a challenge. Neither runway properties or XML editting have worked for me.
Amazing info, Thankyou for this one
非常感谢作者的视屏，学到不少知识。幸苦了！
Your tutorials are golden, thanks!!!
Can you do a tutorial on the new ILS implemented in the latest SDK 0.8.0.0? It's an option in the properties when selecting the runway. Under VASI. Don't know what the ident, magvar or ranges should be. Thank you.
I second this.
Your tutorials are amazing, thanks a lot for the contribution!
For the ILS setting, it looks like there is a common bug with all scenarii created via sdk or direct xml, that makes the autotuning of these ils not working in the FMS of jet planes. This works with all default airports, and there is a workaround to have it work with the xml, but there really is no documentation about that. Did you encounter that issue?
You're a hero. Thank you bigly. This makes such a huge difference to the experience.
Hello. I subscribed to you for a long time, you make very good tutorials. Very detailed. I create my own airport, and it is completely new, its ICAO is not in the simulator, it does not have lighthouses, entries and ils systems. I'm trying to set up an ILS in the SDK, but apparently some more data for an empty airport is needed for correct operation. In SDK samples there is a navdata sample with approaches and entry points. Could you do a simple tutorial on how to set up an ILS system in a new empty airport, there is very little of this on the internet. Thank you so much for what you do for the community.
In the video is shown, magvar = 0.0. The result will be the airplane heading is different from the Course. In an airbus the magenta ILS arrow will be left or right from the green rhombus which shows the heading. In ILS-Mode of the Navigation Display the magenta line will also be wrong.
SDK:
"Magnetic variation at the ILS beacon to True North in degrees. Negative for values to the east and positive for values to the west, measured in degrees between -360.0° and 360.0°."
and for Runway Start:
"Angle compared to true magnetic north which the plane will face when starting, measured in degrees between -360.0° and 360.0°"
Example:
ILS = 315°, magvar = 0.0, Runway Heading = 315° => Primary Display LOC captured => The Nav-Display shows magenta 8 degrees left of the Heading = 323° because magvar = 8.0
The correct data are:
ILS = ILS = 315°, magvar = 8.0, Runway Heading 315 => ILS needle and heading will be at 323° degrees
Some experiments with an airbus would show the results of changing these values
Great content. I´d like to see more of your videos. I don´t even want to build an airport. It´s just so interessting :)
Love these tutorials, so helpful. I do have one question. I don't have an object.xml file in the projectsSources-Scene folder. So i cannot go any further to make the atc. Did I miss something?
@Flying Theston, great editor series! Is it possible to create your own standalone scenery (i.e. that wouldn't get over written by the built-in scenery during an update)? I'm thinking of bringing to life an airfield that has been closed and subsequently had housing built on it, as it used to be a place that I worked and gained my PPL, and would like to keep it alive in FS2020. Does custom scenery always override the built-in or do you have to compile it into the main scenery database after an update? TIA.
Hi, I am trying to add Comms freq's. The file layouts seems to have changed since this video was made. I found the relevant xml in the the airport.xml, but when I follow this video and add the relevant section, it still doesn't show in the sim, but Little Map can see it. Any help would be much appreciated!!
Excellent tutorial. Do you know how ATC decides onthe active runway for takeoff? Can we influence this somehow?
Exactly what I needed, thanks a lot! ;)
Thanks so much for this tutorial. Excellent explanations.
Great video! But did you manage to get the ATID working? It doesn’t show up for me.
Thanks so much for these videos -- is there any way to have the added ATIS frequency work?
I have 2 questions... how do you make the PAPI's work? I'm flying around buzzing the ground and the PAPI's are still showing 4 high. My second question is how do you get airport info in your xml? I go to my scenery XML and there is no airport data... I named the airport put the country and the ICAO just like it said in the tutorial but still nothing!
I don't suppose you could do one on RNAV approaches? I'm struggling to adapt this ILS example to the RNAV. I'm not sure where to start.
So I've followed this but it doesn't allow me to be able to select the ILS from the world map? Any suggestions?
Thank you for this, is this still the only way to put ATC into your modded airports?
I’m trying to make a music festival global series.. setting up an interesting location where people can land in a secret grass strip.. then head out in drone view to 3D constructed arena , I just need to find a way of getting music into a small area, I can see some audio setup in the SDK .. it’s way over my head though..
Flying Theston hello i did what u exactly did but my ils is not showing when i plan in the sim only rnav and when i built the package it didnt show any error
But problem is FMCs won't recognize these runways or will they?
Question: Do all the taxiways need to be named? I have some that are cosmetic. Cannot get ATC to assign taxiways from clearance. Thx.
No, they don't "need" to be named, they just need to be set up with taxiway paths and points and all correctly connected to a runway taxiway path. Naming them certainly helps though
I tried this today and it did not work, is there an updated way to do it now?
can you confirm if the ATIS is broken in 2020. I've tried to add ATIS via editing the xml and compiling, but no joy. It doesn't even give me a choice to tune an ATIS.
Is there a way to re add ai real time traffic support? Otherwise i'm more than likely going to just keep the airport and remove the open street maps buildings
For a small airstrip, where there is no tower or personnel, but just a mobile radio during weekends, which kind of frequency should I set? GROUND, TOWER or CLEARANCE?
I believe it's type "UNICOM" for unmanned towers where you just want to broadcast your intentions
@@FlyingTheston Thank you!
How did you learn all of this?????? I'm trying to follow along. It's slowly making sense. Thank you for your videos.
just messing about with the SDK, reading the documentation and looking over forums
hi, can you please help me? is there a way to add missing airports? i’m sick of waiting for asobo to update the world, especially as world update has just dropped. i don’t want to improve an airport i want to add one to the game!
watch my other videos on how to do this
Flying Theston cheers. i tried for hours, it didn’t work and i gave up! who knows what i did wrong? i then found an absolute legend who had created YBDG, so i downloaded that!
How do you get rid of unwanted buildings ?
Are you sure about the location of the ILS? The localizer antenna is at the other end of the runway and the glideslope antenna is at the touchdown point. I wonder what the SDK expects you to enter here as "location".
You can enter what you think works best. Both the ILS (localiser) and glide slope let you enter a lon/lat so you can probably put the accurate details in if you know them on the airport
@@FlyingTheston i tried adding meadowhall sheffield its in 3d on google maps is it possible you can make it and do a video on it be great
I think the location is important to get correct instrument readouts during approach. My guess is that when you would follow the glideslope exactly (maybe CAT3 Autoland) you would end up before the threshold. That's why I ask.
@@Djeez2 think tou tagged the wrong guy mate think you ment to tag flying theston
@@Perserverancescenerydevelopers Sorry about that. It was because you put your comment as a reply to mine.
When I try to build I got internal compiler errors
Hey! Help about the Aerial Images please! My CMD is not recoganizing the command.
Is there anything specific on Tiles2Bing installation, or just unzip?
I had this same issue, solved it by installing the tiles2bing folder directly outside the folder I needed converted. Drag that folder with all of your tiles over the tiles2bing.bat file and it'll spit everything out for you into the output folder within the tiles2bing folder.
@@wesjett2008 i Will try! Thank you!!
Super!
Hi built all my airport from watching your videos ... Wow thanks a lot. great work .. if i can ask a special favor ?. Could you please make an idiots video on ILS . Im apart of a large community of people now making there own airports and no one can get there ILS to work. we have ... I know were hopeless ha ... I HOPE YOU CAN HELP US OB WAN , your our only hope ha ..
Ian uk ..
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Doesn't work for my project, when I create package I get this:
ERROR: 1, 17, Incorrect xml declaration syntax.
INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2430: Unrecoverable error parsing XML!
INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2006: Parse failed (0x80004005)
your xml is incorrect, double check it
@@FlyingTheston I will, more and more, should find whats wrong
When are you going to do a face reveal?
who's face do you want me to reveal?