FSX Airport Design Editor AFCAD Editor/Creator
Airport Design Editor (ADE) is a graphical design tool to create and enhance airports for Microsoft Flight Simulators 9 and X. It takes it's inspiration from the excellent AFCAD2 developed for FS9 by Lee Swordy. ADE does for FS9 and FSX what AFCAD does for FS9. It adds support for new FSX feature...
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- Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) including Steam Edition & Prepar3D (P3D)
- Filename
- ade_165_full.zip
- File size
- 12.61 MB
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- Scanned 20 days ago (clean)
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- Free (Freeware)
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- Everyone
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Airport Design Editor (ADE) is a graphical design tool to create and enhance airports for Microsoft Flight Simulators 9 and X. It takes it's inspiration from the excellent AFCAD2 developed for FS9 by Lee Swordy. ADE does for FS9 and FSX what AFCAD does for FS9. It adds support for new FSX features such as fences, jetways and terrain. Users can also remove, move, or edit existing buildings and objects as well as adding new ones In addition to airport elements ADE also has a visual Approach Editor to add and enhance the approaches to your airports ADE is being developed with the help of a small group of dedicated airport designers with a wealth of knowledge and experience.
ADE sets out to achieve two things in designing and enhancing airports. First to make the enhanced airport look good, and second to make it work properly. Airport design must address both aspects - the visible and the invisible. The design philosophy goes further in assisting users of all levels to get things right from the start. Error checking and 'common sense' are built in. At the same time it is important to allow users flexibility.
Airport Facilities Design
- CAD style design of airports including all the facilities such as runways, aprons, taxiways, fencing and so on.
- Navigation Aids.
- Flexible background images that make it possible to use different types of image to guide the design of your airport
- Real time connection to FS9 and FSX (via the relevant version of FSUIPC)
- Custom ground polygons and lines using supplied textures or your own textures
- Supports FS9, FSX and all versions of P3D
Terrain (FSX/P3D) and Flattens for FS9
- Flattens, exclusions, land and water class
- Sloping polygons
- Roads, streams, utilities and railroads
Scenery Object and Buildings
- Display default buildings in ADE making it easy to move, delete or replace them
- Library Object Manager for users to manage library objects, and place in your airport
- Easy way to save and copy generic buildings from one airport to another
Visual Approach Designer
- Mimics GPS display in FS
- Modify existing approach code
- Add new approaches
The archive ade_165_full.zip has 4 files and directories contained within it.
File Contents
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| Filename/Directory | File Date | File Size |
|---|---|---|
| ade_165_full.exe | 03.05.15 | 12.66 MB |
| readme.txt | 10.07.14 | 1.36 kB |
| flyawaysimulation.txt | 10.29.13 | 959 B |
| Go to Fly Away Simulation.url | 01.22.16 | 52 B |
Installation Instructions
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Congratulations on your site that I follow weekly I ask a question which version of ADE do you recommend to create airports in FS2020?
Thanks, I would like to know why a runway I have added in FSX/ADE to Brisbane YBBN won't show up in FSX, it all looks great in ADE, I used "Land class" and "Grass" to flatten the area and that all went okay but no runway, I called the new runway 01 Left and 19 Right and located my starting positions, any help would be appreciated.
I can't bulit any houses or others thinks of the airport like this.
can't compile cause can't find ship2vec using fsx steam version ?
This utility is NOT compatible with FSX Steam Edition as it depends on two elements of the FSX SDK which are missing from Steam Edition. There is a workaround which is to download the P3D v1.4 SDK from Lockheed Martin.
Additionally, it requires the Arial Narrow Bold font which is part of the MS Office package and cannot be downloaded legally free of charge. To download just the font itself costs US$49.
Does not support p3d as far as i can tell - it will not open a p3d BGL file
i request for bgl compiler and shp2vec i need that...please give to my email thanks