Adding an Airport

So when I go to add the airport using the function, it says it gets added successfully. However when I come to adding a flight there, it doesn't appear in the list.

You might try opening the file...

C:\ -> Program Files -> Microsoft Games -> Flight Simulator 9 -> Traffic2005 -> Airports.txt  using Notepad (That's for FS9 - if you're using FSX the path will be slightly different, but you'll know the way).

Use Edit -> Find to search for the ICAO code of the airport you added and see if it's really in the list.  If it is, all's well and good with that and the Airport Editor part of the Traffic 2005 Editor has done all it can do.  If it's there the problem lies with the Flight Plan Editor.

It's been some time since I tried it, but I think I recall having problems adding flight plans from the Flight Plan editor too, and I don't even try to use that part of it any more.  There's another way.

If you navigate one level deeper, to the Flight Plans folder, you'll find hundreds of flight plan files - just text and easily editable with Notepad.

Find one with just a few entries and make a copy of it, renaming it to whatever file name you want to use.  Keep the text extension.

A typical flight plan line in one of the files looks like this...

GI,402,MUHA,MMMX,2200,956,340,JFAi_DC9_ACAR,PK-GPD,IFR,60

The parameters are...

Airline ID, Flight #, From, To, GMT Start Time, Distance, Flight Level, AC ID, AC Registration, IFR or VFR, Ground delay

It's a fairly easy matter to manually edit the file you created by copying and making it do what you want. 

Once you're finished with editing the flight plan file, open the T2005 Editor again and from the first page, select the button that says, "Create Traffic database from all files".  It will take a while to run, but you should then get the traffic you added in the new file, along with everything else you already had.

I've just had another look, and when creating flight plans, it has now appeared!

So could you run an IFR from a farm strip?

In fact, in the UK outside controlled airspace (Class G) it's perfectly fine to fly In IMC without a flight plan (provided you have an IMCR/IR), however in practice nobody does unless they don't want to talk to ATC, which in hard IMC is preferrable, provided you can get a radar service.

Landing however, is another kettle of fish, but usually you'd "let down" over the sea or an ILS then head to the farm strip under the cloud. If it's a low enough cloud base that you can't do that, then you shouldn't be going in there anyway as you'll likely be busting your minima.

Im stuck when trying to add caribe scenery from Avsim. Do I follow a similar procedure?

 

Is your problem installing the downloaded scenery into FS or getting Traffic 2005 AI to use it?