Having trawled through an initial batch of twenty UK2000 fields, in FSX, I was left with nine that were flyable. They have texture breakthrough and missing bits but no significant troughs. This is a known UK2000 problem.
Anyway, having looked at Carlisle, I decided to take a flight to East Fortune. Although the runways were OK some of the buildings were down in valleys and hollows that definitely can't be present in real life.
Because of its effect on some farm strip runways, I've stopped using the more accurate GenX mesh and reverted to the VFR Terrain mesh which, I think, extends north of the border.
Changing the Options Settings sliders for Mesh had no effect on the hollows at East Fortune. If I disable VFR Terrain and revert to the Default mesh, then the hollows disappear.
The reason why, with VFR Terrain used in FS9 I don't get these hollows is, presumably because of the Scotflight inbuilt Flattens. It's a known fact that FS9 flattens have no effect in FSX. So, it looks as though I'll need to head for FSX SDK and read up on Flattens.
BUT, since the hollows aren't present across real life farm strip runways, or around any licensed commercial airfield I've ever seen, the finger seems to point at the Mesh addons. The "more accurate" GenX mesh creates more depressions than does VFR Terrain, which is obviously "more accurate" than the Default mesh. It looks as though "accuracy" is a merited claim in the direction of UP, whereas they create non existant holes, when looking DOWN.
Any ideas folks? Gerry Winskill
