Adding runways to Autofcs

[Genius]

How do I add runways to the list of Autofcs runways?
I download Sumburgh airport add on and want it to be on the list.

 

[caningo]

You need to write the coordinates of the airport in your Earth.cfg file like this:

BEGIN_SURFBASE
DIR Earth\Base
(Base Name): (lat), (lon)
END_SURFBASE

Where Base Name is the name of the .cfg of the airport and lat and lon are the coordinates.

If you don't get it right, post your stuff and I can help you out.

Peace...

 

[Mission_CDR]

then how would it know what heading the runway is? I never got it to eork because the auto FCS always tried to land on RWY 33 at a heading of 360

 

[caningo]

then how would it know what heading the runway is? I never got it to eork because the auto FCS always tried to land on RWY 33 at a heading of 360

AutoFCS determines the runway heading based on the runway starting and ending point coordinate points in the .cfg file of the base you're landing at.

For example from my KSC.cfg:

RUNWAY ; SLF Runway 33/15
END1 -7679 0 -1041
END2 -11670 0 -3322
WIDTH 110
ILS1 134.2
ILS2 134.2
RWTEX Runway2
NRWSEG 27
RWSEG1 1 0.024 1 0.75 1 0.75
RWSEG2 1 0.01 0.75 0.5 0.47 0.38
RWSEG3 1 0.005 1 0.75 0.75 0.6875
RWSEG4 1 0.028 0.75 0.5 0.45 0.26
RWSEG5 1 0.011 0.75 0.5 0.7305 0.6133
RWSEG6 1 0.023 0.75 0.5 0.45 0.26
RWSEG7 1 0.005 1 0.75 0.6875 0.625
RWSEG8 1 0.028 0.75 0.5 0.45 0.26
RWSEG9 1 0.005 1 0.75 0.6875 0.625
RWSEG10 1 0.028 0.75 0.5 0.45 0.26
RWSEG11 1 0.014 0.75 0.5 0.6133 0.5
RWSEG12 1 0.019 0.75 0.5 0.5 0.37
RWSEG13 1 0.005 1 0.75 0.625 0.5625
RWSEG14 10 0.59 0.75 0.5 0.44 0.06
RWSEG15 1 0.005 1 0.75 0.5625 0.625
RWSEG16 1 0.019 0.75 0.5 0.37 0.5
RWSEG17 1 0.014 0.75 0.5 0.5 0.6133
RWSEG18 1 0.028 0.75 0.5 0.26 0.45
RWSEG19 1 0.005 1 0.75 0.625 0.6875
RWSEG20 1 0.028 0.75 0.5 0.26 0.45
RWSEG21 1 0.005 1 0.75 0.625 0.6875
RWSEG22 1 0.023 0.75 0.5 0.26 0.45
RWSEG23 1 0.011 0.75 0.5 0.6133 0.7305
RWSEG24 1 0.028 0.75 0.5 0.26 0.45
RWSEG25 1 0.005 1 0.75 0.6875 0.75
RWSEG26 1 0.004 0.75 0.5 0.478 0.5
RWSEG27 1 0.03 1 0.75 0.25 0
END

The two endpoints are used to calculate a line and then a heading can be calculated by taking the angle between the line and the +y axis. If you are landing in a different direction it's probably due to the fact that the endpoints in your .cfg file are not setup correctly.

Another reason might be that the location of your base (in latitude and longitude) is not correctly specified in the earth.cfg file. I remember I had this problem and it would cause the shuttle to land to the left of the
runway.

Those two are the most common reasons. If you still have problems let me know.

Hope this helps.