KAVX Missing from Cities- LA

[HoggyDog 0]

The Catalina airport (KAVX) is missing from the ATC window's "Nearest Airports" list and does not show any airport or runway information on the map. This pretty much renders it useless as an airport. It is available in FSX's Airport Selection and Flight Plan windows, and ATC properly cleared me to it on an IFR plan out of Ontario International.

I read a previous thread (dated in 2012) on this subject, which says the invisibility of Aerosoft's KAVX is (paraphrasing) FSX's fault because FSX doesn't recognize sloped runways.

With all due respect, that is not a solution, nor is it even a valid reason for KAVX's invisibility. I have Fly Tampa's "Maarten- Complete" package, which includes Princess Juliana, St. Barthélemy and Saba airports. St. Barths is notorious for its steeply sloped runway, which is more-or-less accurately reproduced in that scenery package, and that airport shows up in "nearest airports" despite the fact that it only has a Multicom frequency for announcing position and intentions. It also shows up on the map as an airport, with runway numbers, elevations and lengths. So obviously, it is possible for an addon scenery package to insert its airports into FSX's ATC windows and maps. Please see

that an addon-scenery airport with sloped runways can correctly appear in FSX.

The Aerosoft package I got is the Demo version of Cities- Los Angeles, which includes ONLY Catalina Island with its airport. I must say that a demo package whose only airport is essentially unavailable to interact with as an actual airport is not very conducive to me buying the full package. Since I trust that Aerosoft is smarter than to release a demo package whose only airport doesn't work, I would prefer to assume that the answer I read in the previous thread is simply worng, and that there is something I can do to troubleshoot and fix it. I ran Simple Airport Scanner and learned that the only instance of KAVX is from the Aerosoft package, which is at the very top of my Scenery list, so that's one possible cause removed.

Can someone please tell me how I can make Aerosoft's KAVX "act like an airport" and appear in the appropriate ATC windows as well as on the map with the standard airport and runway information?

Thanks-