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EHM-1465 Dominic:
I'm afraid I have to disagree Robert ;)

Unfortunately AFCADs can cause problems and are responsible for lots of posts in Flightsim forums ! A lot of the time it is because an addon scenery will contain a new AFCAD file (airport layout) with a non-standard name or in a non-standard location.

So you may end up with two layouts for the same airport... Only one will be visible (whichever has highest priority in your scenery settings) but the other can cause a crash because it's still there with its taxiway signs, windsocks etc which are invisible to you but not to FS... So when you taxi into them without realising they are there, FS registers a crash!

The best way to avoid this is to make sure all your AFCAD2 files are in the correct place - the 'Addon scenery/scenery' folder and that they all follow the standard naming convention of 'AF2_EGLL' (as an example for Heathrow) - the only letters in the name should be AF2_ then the ICAO code for that airport. This way you cannot have two files for one airport.

Sometimes the AFCAD designer doesn't exclude or flatten the default airport they are improving so this also leaves invisible objects beneath the new layout for you to crash into!

So while the top AFCAD doesn't include invisible objects, it's what is hidden below you have to worry about... ;)

EHM-1001 Robert:
Okay that is true...I thought we should not have to mention this ;D 1 AFCAD: good, more AFCAD: bad ! ;D

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