Hello.
I would like to ask you for help. I am preparing new project LZOC Ocova airport. As ussual at first I created “Airport” where I set name of airport, ICAO, Country, deleted unnecessary things and so on. Project is almost complete, but I can not set Ocova airport as name. In the MSFS is still name of airport Hrochot. Village approx 8 km north of Ocova. The Ocova LZOC airport next to the Ocova village has the name Hrochot, despite the fact that I set it to be called Ocova in the SDK.
Could somebody advice? Thank you.
Martin
As far as I am aware, airport names/city/etc are still not overwritten by addon packages if the ICAO already exists in the sim.
I know one way around it is to mark the ICAO as closed and then add it back with a different ICAO. However it will still display as the original ICAO and name in the log book.
Though, I do not think there is any way to change the name and retain the same ICAO. Last time I tried (Which was a few years back) it didn’t work. Though maybe someone else has figured out a method?
Hello.
Many thanks for confirmation and interesting information. I will try it as you describe.
Maybe the SDK team could fix this if possible.
So, the way we used to fix this in FSX was to define the airport and place it in the heirarchy before the FS-base file. I don’t know if that’s possible anymore with the way the VFS is set up and the sandbox.
Maybe try putting an airport definition in the OneStore directory and label the package and it’s scenery or world file before the same file in fs-base or something so it gets read first? Play around with that. I think it still won’t work, because sometimes programmers love to hard code stuff, 'cause, who’s gonna need to change that in the future? Of course sometimes it’s on purpose for a myriad number of reasons.
Be that as it may, this is something that needs to be addressed in the SDK.
I know this is an old thread that has been revived, but I do want to give you the location of the file where this information is stored:
\fs-base-genericairports*.locPak
This is the en-US.locPak version:
"AIRPORTLR.LZOC.city": "Hrochot,Slovakia",
"AIRPORTLR.LZOC.name": "Hrochot,Slovakia Airport",
"AIRPORTLR.LZOC.state": "NO STATE",
You can overwrite it by hand, but every time an update comes and wipes this out, you have to redo it. Writing a shell script that does this makes things a lot easier. I actually wrote a whole phraseology mod that overwrites the fs-base\en-US.locPak file and changes the phraseology, so the same can be done here. Although if you release this as a utility with your airport, I don’t know how inclined people are going to be to run it.
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