davidk64

It's as you said Paul - all working fine now. Many thanks for your help.

When I select continue to retarget to 4.8 I get these errors:

When I go to load the C# Project (V1.4.1) I get the following dialog: I wrote a program for P3D and want to rewrite it for MSFS 2020 so thought I might as well target the latest .NET Framework and only have that installed on my PC. Edit: Selecting continue doesn't work as there are error messages when I build the project.

Thanks for looking further! I did a bit of browsing and found a reference that suggested CMD.EXE is old and does some strange things when parsing arguments. So I ran it like this: MakeRwys "/>0" which I thought I had done previously to no different result but this time anyways it gave the larger number of results including EDKP. So I guess even though the argument has no spaces the quotes stop it being interpreted contrary to our desires. The documentation for CMD does mention issues with the > character in some circumstances though it was beyond me whether they should apply in this case. If you had more time than sense you might try a flag that doesn't have the > symbol in it 🙂

I put the MakeRwys and LorbySceneryExport programs in the Prepar3D folder and then in the command window changed directory into that folder so didn't have to specify a path just the program name and flag: MakeRwys />0 Curious as to whether you see a difference in output when you run it from a command window? But I am sure you have more pressing issues to explore!

When I ran it using a shortcut as you did it gave 56145 runways including EDKP. When I reran it from cmd window it gave 52962 runways without EDKP. Total airports, number of BGLs and bytes scanned was the same for both methods. I'm wondering if running from the command window the flag is not being passed to the program correctly. I'll just remember to use a shortcut. Thanks Pete.

Continuing to work on my utility I randomly selected EDKP Huinghausen in the sim from go to airport and then went to the runways.csv file to check the heading value and discovered the runway isn't listed. P3D v5 has it as runway length of 1408ft. Here is the only section from runways.txt, I don't believe Orbx openLC Europe is affecting it: Airport EDKP :N51:11:30.9927 E007:47:21.9993 980.00ft Country Name="Germany" State Name="" City Name="Plettenberg" Airport Name="Huinghausen" in file: Scenery\0601\scenery\APX50130.bgl Runway 10 /28 centre: N51:11:31.8349 E007:47:23.4882 980.00ft Start 10 : N51:11:33.5842 E007:47:13.1466 980.00ft Hdg: 105.1T, Length 1408ft Start 28 : N51:11:30.0856 E007:47:33.8312 980.00ft Hdg: 285.0T, Length 1408ft Hdg: 105.050 true (MagVar 1.000), Grass, 1408 x 98 ft COM: Type=11 (FSS), Freq=122.925, Name="PLETTENBERG" FSM A/P EDKP, lat=51.191944, long=7.789444, alt=980.00 So now I'm wondering if I'm running the program with the parameter specified incorrectly. I typed MakeRwys />0 from a command prompt in the Prepar3D v5 directory with MakeRwys.exe and LorbySceneryExport.exe in that same directory. MakeRwys_Scenery.cfg

Thanks for the reply. I think it's a lack of knowledge on my part that was the problem. I ran the program once with default runway length minimum of 1500 feet and then again with > 0 feet and noticed only a handful extra. I was thinking there would be lots more but on Googling I find runways don't get down less than 1500 feet as a rule. In fact I couldn't find a single example of a default P3D runway > 0 and <1500 feet. Please disregard original signal!

I downloaded this free utility for the purpose of extracting a list of runways that are installed in my simulator (P3D v5). Using visual basic in Excel on the runways.csv file I was able to randomly select a runway and write the latitude, longitude and altitude into a saved flight file to give me a bias free random airport selection tool allowing e.g. circuit training at sight unseen airports. Many thanks for providing the program free to use! I noticed in the pdf readme that runways have to have a "start position". So I'm guessing this means smaller bush strips with no threshold wouldn't be extracted by the utility? If so would it be possible to add a program flag that says include all runways even those without a start position, please? Cheers David