FS9 / GW's Config

[masong]

Hi...Just wondering if their are any rewrites that are good for GW's...


Also...I remember seeing a fix to make airports show better from the sky and at a distance...Maybe it was a grass texture file of some sort but I can't seem to find it..

Having a hard time locating strpis from a few miles out...Now I am cheating using GPS Map that i added to some planes

many thanks

[Tom Constantine]

Try this to spot airports from a distance. It can be turned on & off and is a good way to learn the landmarks for vfr flight. BE SURE TO BACK UP standard.xml before tinkering
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Displaying airport names

(Undocumented feature of FSX).

A descriptive label can be displayed around 1500ft above airports in FSX. It cannot be configured through the standard key controls menu, so you have to modify a file by hand: standard.xml, located in c:\Documents and Settings\<user>\application data\microsoft\fsx\controls (under XP, vista should be different)

Add an <Entry> block in the first simcontrols.map (at the beggining of the file):

<Entry>
<Key>SHIFT+U</Key>
<Down>TOGGLE_AIRPORT_NAME_DISPLAY</Down>
</Entry>

SHIFT+U will be the key shortcut used to toggle label display.

[masong]

Thanks Tom...

But this is for FS9....not FSX....