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So if we have done the airport in WED, we save it as "ICAO.dat" (replacing ICAO with the ICAO code of your airport). That's the X-Plane fileformat, which is used by FlightGear too. | So if we have done the airport in WED, we save it as "ICAO.dat" (replacing ICAO with the ICAO code of your airport). That's the X-Plane fileformat, which is used by FlightGear too. | ||
==== A note about the formats ==== | |||
FlightGear once used the 810 version of the [[File formats#apt.dat file|apt.dat file format]], while now 850 is on duty. The difference between them is mainly that 850 allows laying down taxiways/taxilines indipendently, and making them bend smoothly (with [[wikipedia:Bezier curve]]s), while in 810 there were only rectangles of taxiways with a yellow line in the middle. You can tell an old airport by the fact that crossings and bends are rounded by overlaying a number of rectangular patches. If you meet one, consider converting it, and as you're already there try to gather information to make it better! | |||
=== Turning the airport into FlightGear scenery === | === Turning the airport into FlightGear scenery === | ||