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Just checked my Steam installation and tower3d_data is a folder located in Steam/steamapps/common/Tower 3D Pro and it contains a number of sub folders and files Suggest you start by checking if it's there and what it contains. Maybe it's accidentally been relocated?

I used this to get the current terminals. It has CSN as T5 but I found a couple of oddities and missing airlines so it may well not be accurate. https://www.heathrow.com/at-the-airport/terminal-guides/which-terminal

Here's the EGLL schedule creator tool: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PWY6RAyPgXYHQM0rfzs7tJKXzr2sVux4/view?usp=sharing Instructions Click "Load earlier flights" above the first arrival in this flightradar link and repeat until you can see the first flight yesterday. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/lhr/arrivals Click immediately before the scheduled arrival time of the very first flight ie to the left of the first digit then scroll down to the landing time of the last arrival yesterday then press left shift and click again immediately after the M of PM. All arrivals should now be highlighted. Paste the data into notepad and save as arrivals.txt Repeat the exercise for departures from this link and save the file as departures.txt https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/lhr/departures Now load the spreadsheet and click "Load arrivals" at the top left. Pull in the arrivals.txt file Now load departures using the departures.txt file *Important* - now click "Error Check" to remove any problem flights eg if cancelled etc. This also corrects aircraft types where Flightradar differs from the game. Click "Save file" and then look for egll_schedule.txt wherever your PC is set up to save files to by default. Try "documents" folder. Move the schedule file to the EGLL game folder and load as normal. Back up the original first!! If the game does not load then there is probably an aircraft mismatch which I haven't caught. You can resolve this manually by comparing the aircraft types in the schedule file with the EGLL_airplanes.txt file. Amend the schedule file to correct.

EGLL schedule for Friday 22nd July 2022 using actual times rather than scheduled. Also, updated EGLL terminal file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12EOaZeG2Kyw0RKYenzXE7ncA2Y9ga0Vs/view?usp=sharing Schedule https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Abk3sT5hWTxiJQIsvCIegma_frL0py9O/view?usp=sharing Terminal

Could you clarify what you want? Do you mean the program itself or something else?

Thanks for this. Must admit I’d not even considered the terminal file so there’s another to-do. I’d also not considered white planes but that might well be beyond what I can handle. I’ve already modified the program so in principle it will handle other airports too but each schedule needs to be checked against its aircraft file to prevent loading issues. Unsure about cargo flights - I just grabbed the schedule data from Flightradar24 so it is what it is. Edit - I suppose the main advantage of my program in my eyes is that it’s now about two minutes’ work to create and error check a full day schedule from Flightradar24 data. I haven’t seen that option up to now. I think I’ll modify it to work on actual arrival/departure times and some other airports. I’ll see if it’s practical to update terminal file(s) too.

Thanks - this is all interesting stuff! I do deal with cancelled flights but you're right that using scheduled arrivals/departures is not so realistic. There's no reason that I can't amend the code so real actual arrival and departure times are used as Flightradar24 includes those in their records. Anyway I just thought some very up to date EGLL schedules might be of interest to some. It's an airport I play frequently and was a bit tired of the same schedule over and over.

Hi, I wrote a little program that takes real traffic info from Flightradar24 and converts to a Tower 3D Pro schedule. Here's the full day EGLL (Heathrow) schedule for Sunday 17th July 22 and Monday 18th July 22. The schedule files need to be renamed before use so they just read egll_schedule.txt https://drive.google.com/file/d/103cZMyk-o79UkXiye7muJSmoIwtpalqf/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SyRIbwzsKiE28L6WdXX-5y6GmaDd756r/view?usp=sharing Local traffic not affected. Happy to get constructive feedback!