Hopefully this page will answer most of the questions you have regarding the scenery, if it doesn't do visit the Support Forums and see if the question has been asked before, if not do post your question I am sure it will be answered pretty quickly.

Click Here for English/GB Airports Flight Simulator 2002 Updates Frequently Asked Questions

Question: Will the scenery work with Flight Simulator 4, 5, 5.1, 95 or 98.

Answer: English Airports for Flight Simulator 2000 is ONLY compatible with Flight Simulator 2000. The scenery has been designed to take advantage of the many improvements to the way scenery is designed in Flight Simulator 2000 that are not possible in earlier versions of Flight Simulator.

If you are using Flight Simulator 98 then take a look at English Airports for Flight Simulator 98.

Question: Can I use English Airports for Flight Simulator 2000 with Airport 2000 Volume 2's Heathrow?

Answer: Yes you can. You can either use the English Airports 2000 Heathrow instead of the Airport 2000 Volume 2 Heathrow or use the Airport 2000 Volume 2 Heathrow instead of the English Airports 2000 Heathrow.

This can be done by layering the scenery you want to use above (lower number) the one you do not want to use in the Flight Simulator 2000 Scenery Library.

An illustration of what the settings should be for using the different versions of Heathrow is shown below.

World Scenery Library Menu

Scenery Library - when using English Airports 2000 Heathrow

Scenery Library - when using Airport 2000 Volume 2 Heathrow

Question: When I start FS2000 at one of the English Airports 2000 Airports at night, or switch to night time FS2000 locks up

Answer: This is due to the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 Patch 2b not being installed. You must have the Patch installed for this scenery (and most other scenery) to work properly. A link to download the patch can be found on the downloads page.

Question: When using FSNav4 with English Airports 2000 the runways aren't displayed on the planner map

FsNav4 seems to be looking for default FS2000 type runways, rather than looking in the FS2000 navigation database for some reason (for backwards compatibility I guess?).

This has been solved in the Version 1.2 (or higher) Update to English Airports 2000 which fools FSNav4 into showing the runways. Download and install the Version 1.2 (or higher) Update and then rebuild the FSNav4 Database and the runways will then be displayed correctly.

NB: FSNav4 displays the taxiways a bit strangely which hopefully will be fixed in a future release of FSNav4 as I do not know why they are shown incorrectly.

Question: I get this strange thing happening when I use the scenery

Answer: Whilst Flight Simulator 2000 has the ability to produce excellent scenery, it is not without it's bugs, during the testing of this scenery there were a few things that did not work as they should due to bugs in the way Flight Simulator 2000 works. It is hoped these will be possible to fix at some future date, but just so you know here is what we found.

1. Mirrored lights in the sky at night: there appears to be a problem with several graphics cards (ATI Rage Pro based cards in particular) that produce a second set of lights mirrored in the sky that float around as you move. This happens on all FS2000 scenery, including the default FS2000 airports (take a look at Hong Kong airport and you will see what I mean), but it tends to look worse on add-on scenery with more light. ATI and Microsoft are aware of this problem.
2. Runway lights (and most other airport lights) appear too bright from a distance, they do not reduce in size/intensity as much as they should do. Unfortunately this is just the way FS2000 lights behave. The default runways have different types of lights that work slightly better, but they do not represent runways in the UK very well so we opted to have brighter lights but better runways.
3. When looking at the airports in Map View there are duplicate copies of the airport shown on the Map (it is currently not possible to remove an inaccurate airport entry from the map so you see the English Airports correct airport and the default FS2000 one as well)
4. When doing a Search/Go To Airport by ICAO code there are two entries for the ICAO code I am looking for (this is the same problem as (3) above, it is not possible to remove inaccurate entries from the FS2000 database).
5. When I taxi around London Stansted in a small plane (e.g. Cessna) the plane bounces around a lot as move. This is a problem with the FS2000 definition of the ground texture, i.e. it is defined as rough when it should be smooth. This occurs at quite a few FS2000 airports, apparently at random, only Stansted has this problem in the English Airports scenery. The problem does not affect larger planes as much. Boeing 737's and larger do not notice it at all.

Question: Where are the Gate Guidance systems and how do they work?

Answer: We have added a page to explain how the many different Gate Guidance Systems work and directions on where to find them, Click on this link to view the information.

Question: How do I uninstall the evaluation version of Manchester Airport?

Answer: Firstly, if you have registered and installed the full version of English Airports for Flight Simulator 2000 you do not need to uninstall the evaluation version.

If you have tried out the scenery and after 31 days you decide you do not want to register the scenery (and of course we hope you do want to register it :-)). You can uninstall the scenery as follows (it must be in this order):

1. Go to the Flight Simulator 2000Scenery Library (from the World pull down menu) and delete the entry named English Airports 2000
2. Delete the directory/folder you installed the scenery to. If you can't remember the directory you installed the scenery to (by default it will be off below the FS2000 Scenery directory called EnglishAirports2000), use the Windows Find (from the Windows Start bar) and search for the file Manbas2k.bgl, the directory above this one is where the directory/folder you want to delete.
3. Restart FS2000 and the scenery should be gone.

Question: How do you design the scenery?

: I use Abacus Airport and Scenery Designer, Schiratti Control Center, Abacus FS Design Studio and lots of my own software for most of the base design, but the vast majority is designed using SCASM (a scenery design compiler, for those of you who remember DOS or use UNIX you know what I mean) and a text editor. It is old fashioned and hard work but is the only real way to design the best scenery!

This page was last updated 6th December 2001