Cal Classic FSX Sceneries - Advice would be appreciated.

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I have a couple of questions to clarify what goes where and how with the CC FSX Scenery packages.

First up I am predominantly a piston engine flyer from this period, with the occasional jet of the period, sometimes its actually older aicraft from the late 1930's and early 1940's. Now as I only have FSX as my flight sim I can only use scenery that works in FSX. So I am very grateful and appreciative that CC and the folks involved have taken the time to upgrade and fix a lot of CC sceneries for FSX. Like most CC flyers I am not interested in the world of modern glass cockpit jets etc and while my fleet is authentic I really need to bring my scenery into line or the right era so to speak.

If I have it correctly this is the way it goes:

FS2004 Custom Scenery Library File 1 Version 4a goes first. Unzip into temp folder first.

Now is this added in like a single addon scenery is or is it better to treat it as a bulk scenery installation like for instance ORBX or something similar. I have my scenery addons set up differently to most based on some very good advice on another forum a long time ago and all my addon scenery is held outside of FSX in a discreet folder called FSX ADDONS and I have them split between just AFCADS and Sceneries with afcads and textures, as two major sub groups with further grouping by country in each of those folders, generally by ICAO designator. I might add this works flawlessly in FSX and enables me to quickly sort out any scenery conflicts and disable or enable scenery as required using the freeware FSX Scenery Config program. I have no issues seeing or running scenery this way in my FSX setup.

Then unzip and install FS2004 Custom Scenery Library File 2 Version 1 is it imported and merged with Scenery Library File 1 V4a?

Then FSX/P3D Custom Scenery Library Update (8/16/15) is it imported and merged with the above?

Then FSX Custom Scenery Libary Update (6/26/14) is it then imported and merged with the above to make a complete package. Which is then added to FSX Scenery?

Is this correct?

I assume that the packages are essentially all airports and therefore I can make a list of what is there (not the objects etc) and then I will need to disable any AFCADS or sceneries I have for the same geographical locations that currently exist in my FSX setup or can I let the priority determine that these will be loaded first by setting them a high priority in the scenery config file and list? Or do you just do a search in the scenery libary by location or name?

I have been reading the thread on FSX updates as well and taking notes of additional stuff and issues, so before I get to that stage I guess I need to get the FSX CC box set up first.

Advice and assistance is appreciated, if I have this wrong or not.

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi,

I would not use the FSX/P3D library in FSX, so the order is:

FS2004 File 1
FS2004 File 2
FSX Update

These are not airports, but instead are objects used at airports (for the most part). Things like cars, jeeps, ramp equipment, etc. You install the airports separately.

After installing File 1 there is a text file listing many of the objects in the FSX/Addon Scenery/Static Objects Library folder called Classic Library Objects Index.txt.

Hope this helps,

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Thanks got it, I had a good look at the files and of course they are only the necessary objects that go with the relevant sceneries reworked for, done for or will work in FSX. Bit slow some days.

Great now the search for airports good stuff. And of course Thanks a lot.