Hi Pete,
I am the author of the SimLauncher program: a program that is mainly used by Prepar3D users to set up a flight (select aircraft, start location, weather, time of day) and then launch Prepar3D with this flight.. Start locations are based upon the information I extract from the runways.xml file that is produced by makerwys.exe.
The runway positions, as recorded in runways.xml, correspond to the start of the runway in the AFCAD file. This means that when I create a flight, the aircraft is positioned at the very edge of the runway. I noticed that the runways.txt file does contain a start position for the runway that would be more useful for me (indicated by 'Start [runway number] : [latitude] [longitude] ...'; the position in runways.xml corresponds to 'Computed start [runway number] : lat [latitude] long [longitude]'). This runways.txt file is a huge file however and difficult to parse for me.
Would it be possible to somehow include the 'Start ... etc.' runway position in runways.xml (or in r5.csv, runways.csv or some other file)?
thanks, Maarten