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[WxTech]

Ever wonder why the old stock PCP runways would cause sparks and a small flame during a belly landing, but the other PCP runways did not?

The code in Plate.class treats the metal planking for PCP runway/taxiway plates the same as concrete where the generation of sparks and a small flame during a belly landing is concerned. The code looks for an object name that starts with "PCP." Now, only the old stock PCP plates meet this requirement. All subsequently created objects (by modders) based on this have their names NOT starting with "PCP". And so no relevant effects are generated.

I just made a small change to Plate.class which includes the starting strings in the names of the other four PCP-based runway plates. Now all PCP plates will cause sparks and a small flame.

It's apparent that the creators of the subsequent plates were not aware of this naming requirement. A danger inherent in some aspects of modding, as this reveals!