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Offline BeechV35Pilot

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Plateau west of Syracuse, NY, USA
« on: February 28, 2012, 08:15:56 PM »
West of Syracuse, NY, USA (my home airport), there is a plateaued airport that was there across the last three sims.   Back in 2004 I looked into this and noticed  that the Jeppesen source data used to populate the FS airports had an incorrect elevation for this private, no-use grass strip.   

I don't recall the specifics now, but in FS2004 I had corrected this with some type of flattening and exclude command.    edit:  I found the old exclude/flatten bgl files but they don't work in FSX.

The lat/lon are west of:    N43 2.04'    W76 36.49

« Last Edit: February 28, 2012, 08:31:39 PM by BeechV35Pilot »

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Re: Plateau west of Syracuse, NY, USA
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2012, 10:48:40 PM »
Darn, another one just southwest of the one reported above.  This one appears to be new with FSX, for I flew in this area a lot in FS9 and never saw this one before. 

Lat/lon:   N42  37.14  W76  34.50


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Re: Plateau west of Syracuse, NY, USA
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2012, 10:56:36 AM »
In both cases it looks like being easily to repair by using Airport Design Editor X (make a search, it's free). No tricks necessary. Just flatten the airport background.

However, the second pic looks quite funny as there seems to be a serpentine road going up to the field. The second finding in both cases: There is deep forest around the strips and I bet, the highest trees are growing at both ends of the runway - as usual.  8)

Summary, I found several fields like those, even in the US. Some are heavily misplaced in a rolling landscape and if you try to flatten you have to make compromises and still a lot of work in order to make them looking acceptable.

EDIT: I should have first had a look before saying it's easy. It is rolling environment and a disturbing close street. I already had changed  the 15NK field in the past having the side effect that I'm getting a hill north of the runway that disappears when coming closer. Then I found the neighboring NY00 and decided that it might not be worth to continue for strips I'll likely see once in my simming life.

Regards,
Axel
« Last Edit: May 04, 2012, 11:25:45 AM by FlyingAxx »