Umberto, with all due respect, why is it now much more work for the end user? Why when everything worked just fine with the previous versions and now the end user must go and try to find the correct afcad to use? Why have you all made it more work?
Slow down...we ALREADY found a better solution, which is already online now ( requires a Stand-Alone Addon Manager update, since it will have to download an updated Couatl.exe ), that automatically discards such airports, that seem to share the fact they don't have any parkings.
The REASON for this change was, of course, to make the program MORE user friendly, we overdue it, and it kinda backfired...let's explain it:
- Previously, we automatically discarded AFCADs with no parkings, no questions asked, no checks made. However, some users were confused by the resulting message "Cannot find valid AFCAD data at this position", usually because they landed in a very small airfield with no parkings, just a simple strip. There are many like that, in the default scenery.
So, we wanted to display a more user-friendly message, saying that while we DID found an AFCAD, it didn't contained any parkings, so we had to check every file, but flag the ones with no parkings as such, so we could display a more precise reason why the airport couldn't be used.
However, this was a problem when TWO (or more) "competing" airport were in the same place, or very close: in this case, we should have taken into account the aforementioned flag, to silently discard that airport, since there was a "better" alternative.
Now, the updated Couatl.exe which is online now, does this additional check, so it shouldn't be necessary to use the airport_visibility parameter anymore. UNLESS, of course, those additional airports DO have their own parkings so in that case, you'll have to decide if you want to remove them ( setting airport_visibility to 0 ) or KEEP THEM, but with a very low visibility level, such as 0.5 or less, so you could have a separate military base or helipad working with GSX too, with the "main" airport taking control again, when you exit from that small area.
