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Good old days.... Bob Wesson was an awesome guy as was his whole team and Chris Coon form Xavius was also a pleasure to work with. I think I must have spent ages talking with him. Still have those sector cards around here somewhere.

Yeah, I find it really hard to believe those trees would be allowed to remain there. I actually looked for real images from that tower looking that way, but didn't find any. As far as reality there, would the custom schedules for KSAN address this at all? I just do everything on 9 mainly which, as noted, seems a bit unrealistic, but it seemed the only way to remain sane.

That's one I've done. I was involved in the development of the original Tracon (Wesson) and then ATCC (Xavius) and helped with ATC Windows. I've been in a Center and in a tower so got a nice chance to see it all for real a while back. I spent a good 10 years trying to convince gamers that this balancing act makes for great fun -- and mainly failing as they don't like games that don't have simply eye candy.

Wow. That's huge. Good to know.

Okay, so what am I doing wrong here? Should I really send all traffic from these two areas to RWY 27? I find that doing so is really tough during busy times as anything that takes off from RWY 27 while RWY 9 is active will end up flying right into incoming RWY 9 arrivals. The bigger issue is RW9 arrivals heading to those two areas. If I tell anything to head to RWY 9 from these areas while that's happening it gets to be impossible. So I'll do something like this: FDX821, Runway 9 via F C4 B4 B B10 and they'll say no problem, but then stop DEAD and nothing I do will get them rolling again. I end up having to delete the aircraft. On another topic, I finally got to the point of comfort where this might as well be a 2D game as I rarely ever look at anything other than the radar and ADIRS.

I have to believe with competition coming that they'll have to go to the next level to keep this competitive. We'll see.

Because that's not ALL I want. I absolutely want the real models and real paint, but failing the real paint, I'd take a fictional one over white. Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize they took the time to create fictional models for the non-Real variant.

So I just tried my first custom schedule (most current one for KPHL) and was surprised to see so many white aircraft. I get it. The art doesn't exist for those, but my question is, why not offer an option to allow for displaying of the fictional paints for those models? If someone has Real Color then they clearly want to see color, though SOME might ONLY want to see real paint jobs. I personally would prefer to keep the immersion going and just have those planes has paint of any kind over being white.

Thanks. Good to know.

So noted. Assumed RT would get you that, but apparently not. hehehe Thanks for the guidance, as usual!

I'm working KSAN (6am to about 9am now) and I swear I'm seeing flight numbers repeating, but not in, then out. As in, flights coming in and then coming in again within that time. I have a flight N560US that flew in earlier and now is back on final coming from San Antonio. No way they could pull that off even if they did DEPART from here (which I don't believe they did.) Is this normal? I have RT.

Since I'm the new guy here I'm a bit out of the loop. I've heard rumors of T3DP getting a complete rebuild. Does anyone have any idea of what we might expect with respect to new features and such with this build? I'm also curious if anyone has a feel for whether we're better off holding off on any additional purchases of airports, etc., in the interim or if it's better to get them now perhaps for a discount later? Thanks. Back to busy KSAN's 6am schedule!

It is. Thanks Ariel. Will keep that order in mind for future (assuming I can remember)....

Well, now this is a bummer. I just loaded up the game and now I'm down to just the three default airports.... And they're not RC.... I did nothing. I literally had it working 100% last night, did a few five-minute sessions to be sure. Quit, came back today (My PC stays on all night) and re-loaded to this. I did solve this myself and it's just as strange. The shortcut for the app was the culprit. Launching from the folder directly worked, but the shortcut didn't have anything in the "Start In" setting so it was not finding whatever files it was looking for.

Well, now this is a bummer. I just loaded up the game and now I'm down to just the three default airports.... And they're not RC.... I did nothing. I literally had it working 100% last night, did a few five-minute sessions to be sure. Quit, came back today (My PC stays on all night) and re-loaded to this.

Well, here's hoping it doesn't "undo" itself. It was surreal. Every airport I owned had the fake airlines in it (not sure about Real Traffic) and then I got to SFO and suddenly everything had real airlines across all airports. This was after several restarts.

/Texturepacks airplanes_pack1 airplanes_pack1.manifest /Texturepacks has two files each for "airplanes_texpack#" and airplanes_texpack#.manifest where # is 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 & 11.

Two folders: Airfields and Airplanes Airfields has 20 folders in it which appear to include every airfield the game supports even though I only own about six of them.

They all went to the default directories the installer wanted to use under \Tower!3D Pro.

So Support sent me a link for the BMT Micro version of the program (I had an older Amazon Game Library version) and I installed it. Great support, thanks. However, now none of my airports have Real airlines (Color). I then re-installed all my add-on packages (including RC for all of them) and none of them are working. Is there some magic order to do this in or some simple fix to this to get this to stick? Just back from a vacation weekend and eager to play, but just can't get into fake airlines. UPDATE: Odd. I launched KSFO and it appears to have RC. So then I quit back to the Main Menu and loaded KPHL. It also had RC. They all seem to have it now when just before this none of them did. Any idea what's up? Thanks.

That's fascinating. In the case of the FedEx cargo plane, it's a 767 (6am). I'll have to take it to C1 as you laid out because having it go to 9 is just not a plan that succeeds. I didn't think the pilot would accept a directive to fly with the wind.

Thanks guys. I forgot that the airport sits on the bay side. Doh!

Sort of hard to see if you know KSAN. Those damned trees are in the way from the tower, but they appear to do a pretty tight 180. If not on the spot, it's a SMALL circle. Mainly the big FedEx and UPS jumbos.

BTW, I guess my compass could be off, but I played SFO at 6am and was a bit shocked to see the sun rising from the ocean's horizon, which I believe is rather wrong?

That's great. Just picked up SFO today and man, it's 50% commands of Continue Taxi. Phew.