Fly! II and taxiways by Didier RIGAULT – ROTW

Modified on Oct 30, 2001

Above all (and as usual...) save you file before any modification!

How to remove airports from the file TAXIUSA.POD?

This file contains all taxiways delivered with original Fly! II and it is located in ...\Fly! II\taxiways. This directory also contains a second taxiways file for Canada..

Concerning France, there are 10 airports for which TRI did not succeed in doing taxiways drawing.

Here is the very short list :

LFAT	Le Touquet Paris Plage
LFLL	Lyon Saint Exupéry
LFMI	Istres le Tubé
LFML	Marseille Provence
LFMN	Nice Côte d’Azur
LFPG	Paris Charles de Gaulle
LFPV	Villacoublay Vélizy
LFQQ	Lille Lesquin
LFRS	Nantes Atlantique
LFST	Strasbourg Entzheim

When you wish to add corrected taxiways for these airports, it happens that Fly! does not support that, so I suggest you to remove them with Fly! II editor.

Starting

Start Fly! II while depressing CTRL key. This screen must appear.

Click on ‘File Manager...’ button. You must get this:

First step: extract all files from this POD

· Keyboard 2 for selecting 'Extract ALL files from a .POD'

· Click on YES

· With Up/Down arrows move the green line to directory 'Taxiways' (with a 's')

· Click on OK or keyboard Enter

· Do again the step above to select the file Taxiusa.pod

· Fly!, now, checks the files and extracts them into …\Fly! II\data.

Second step: prepare the files list for buiding a file POD ( ‘response file ‘)

· Keyboard 6 for selecting 'Catalog a POD to a response file'

· Choose the file Taxiusa.pod as above

· Once the file .POD selected, keyboard a name, for example 'taxiusa.txt'. This file will be saved into …\Fly! II

Third step: modify the ‘response file’

· Open the file 'taxiusa.txt' with your favorite text editor such as NotePad or UltraEdit

· Remove all lines concerning airports to be deleted. Caution, there are 2 lines for each airport (*.TMS et *.BGR)

· Save this file

Fourth step: build the file POD

· Keyboard 4 for selecting 'Build a POD from a response file'

· Keyboard the ‘response file’ name that is taxiusa.txt (complete name with extension)

· Click on OK or press Enter

· You will get this:

· With Up/Down arrows move the green line to ‘POD filename’. Click on OK or press Enter

· Keyboard ‘taxiusa.pod’. Click on OK or press Enter

· Next window, click on ‘Cancel’ or press ‘Escape'

· With Up/Down arrows move the green line to ‘Go for it’. Click on OK or press Enter

· Next window for the volume name, click on OK or press Enter

· The file reconstitution starts… You will find it in …\Fly! II

· Click on OK or press Enter when the file reconstitution is ended

· Now, you have to move it into …\Fly! II\taxiways (with a 's') for replacing the previous one that you have alredy saved.... I hope!

Fifth step: exit from editor

· Press ‘Escape’

· You must get the first screen: click on Quit

Never forget to clear the repertory …\Fly! II\data\ otherwise you will get a 'Bill' blue screen at next Fly! start!

How to create your taxiways library?

First step: collect all TMS and BGR files

Bring together all *.BGR et *.TMS files pairs into repertory ..\Fly ! II\data. If you have some ‘taxiway’ files under POD or EPD format, then use PODVIEW or VOL!Edit for extracting these files pairs
Next create a text file (the ‘response file’ which will be used by Fly !) that you name as you want, for example 'MyPod.txt'. Create this file by integrating following informations (airports names can vary as per your needs but you must always have TMS and BGR pairs

/data/lfrs.bgr

/data/lfrs.tms

/data/lfpg.bgr

/data/lfpg.tms ....

Save this file into repertory ..\Fly! II.

Second step: start Fly ! editor

Start Fly! II while depressing CTRL key. This screen must appear:

Click on ‘File Manager...’ button. You must get this:

Third step: create the POD file. You find again the fourth step seen above in the first part

· Keyboard 4 for selecting 'Build a POD from a response file'

· Keyboard the name of the ‘response file’ that is 'MyPod.txt' (complete name with extension), click on OK or press Enter

· You must get this:

· With Up/Down arrows move the green line to ‘POD filename’. Click on OK or press Enter

· Keyboard ‘MyPod.pod’. Click on OK or press Enter

· Next window click on ‘Cancel’ or press ‘Escape’

· With Up/Down arrows move the green line to ‘POD version to build’. Press Enter: you will see POD3 and grey lower lines becoming white

· You can put a comment if you want (copyright for example) by moving the green line to 'Comment'; click on OK or press Enter

· With Up/Down arrows move the green line to ‘Go for it’. Click on OK or press Enter

· Next window fot the volume name, click on OK or press Enter

· The file reconstitution starts… You will find it in …\Fly! II

· Click on OK or press Enter when the file reconstitution is ended

· Now, you have to move it into …\Fly! II\taxiways (with a 's') for replacing the previous one that you have alredy saved.... I hope!

Fifth step: exit from editor

· Press ‘Escape’

· You must get the first screen: click on Quit

Never forget to clear the repertory …\Fly! II\data\ otherwise you will get a 'Bill' blue screen at next Fly! start!

Have nice flights!

Didier RIGAULT

ROTW – http://simvol.org/fly

d.rigault@caramail.com