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Hi, Step 1 : Use latest MakeRunways available for your simulator, run it as an Administrator (not the latest one but the latest one for your simulator, this is important) Step 2 : Check the contents of generated Runways.xml (in your root simulator folder, like D:\Aviation\FsX\Runways.xml) Open the file with a plain text editor (like notepad or notepad++), click Search and type in the ICAO code of the airport you are having problems with (like EHAM). If you see something like <ICAO id="EHAM"> in that file, this is good. Because this means that the airport/scenery you added to your FsX is recognized by MakeRunways and now is ready to be read by vmsAcars. You can safely close the file, no need to edit things in here. Step 3 : Run vmsAcars, go to settings, select FsX, check the path definition and click Re-Sync Scenery button. Now, if you still get the same error then there is a problem either in vmsAcars or in the path defined for FsX (or the sim you selected). What basically vmsAcars does is reading that Runways.xml (by using the path you provided) to create a database, you can do it as many time you wish when you add/remove sceneries to your sim. vmsAcars also tries to read parking stand positions etc from MakeRunways results but it is kind of optional and will not generate errors etc. Example; Simulator : FsX Path : D:\Aviation\FsX vmsAcars tried to read : D:\Aviation\FsX\runways.xml So if the path is not set or is not correct or vmsAcars has no rights to access that path then the database generation will fail. (You can see it from your acars logs, they are located under logs folder) Running vmsAcars as admin may help to solve access rights problem. ---------------- So, what will happen if Step 2 (checking the airport in Runways.xl) fails. Well, this is a little bit tricky and not related to phpVMS or vmsAcars, it is directly related with MakeRunways (Peter Dowson) or your simulator or you MakeRunways sometimes skips reading some airports, I was not able to pinpoint the exact cause of this 'cause I am not using FsX/Prepar3D anymore but I think it is related with the afcad file or the addon.xml file of the scenery. One of friends had the problem, it was the afcad file We spoke with the developer, fixed the afcad and problem solved. In another case it was the addon.xml file not being read by MakeRunways, the file was ok but it was being skipped. In this situation, solution is to add that airport manually to the Runways.xml file. I know this is hard because you need to find all the needed data for that airport, make it perfect with no syntax errors etc. But when done properly it works and that airport gets recognized by vmsAcars (without parking stands) Best and safest way is to request that airports information from someone else, back in time I sent some pilots the part they need to add (to the end of) their Runway.xml file. Imagine like you do not have "EHAM" in your file but I do, then I send you only the part needed for EHAM by copying from my Runways.xml file. Hope this helps and you can solve the problem