From Robin: submissions for V10 still accepted

Robin sent this out to the news list:

A quick note for X-Plane airport designers (if you are not an X-Plane airport designer then please disregard this message).

Good News – it is still possible to submit new or revised airport designs for inclusion in the X-Plane version 10 scenery generation process. Please send me any submissions before February 7, 2011 so that I can consolidate them and generate the special data files that will be used to generate the new global scenery. I need just the apt.dat file for each airport – if you have multiple airports, please consolidate the data into a single file.

Why is this important? When new global scenery is generated for X-Plane 10, the latest airport data will be used to:

• Define the “land use” in the vicinity of the airport. This will ensure that an appropriate terrain texture is used under the airport, and will also suppress the trees and auto-gen buildings.
• Smooth any terrain undulations in the vicinity of the airport.
• Ensure that runways have “land” underneath them – especially important for airports alongside rivers, lakes or oceans.

The best way to help this process is to define an accurate airport boundary in World Editor (WED). If no boundary is defined, we will try to approximate a boundary based upon all other available data for an airport. If you only have time to create an accurate boundary (but not the rest of the airport details) then that is fine also – I can still use such data for this process.

Let me know if you have any questions
– Robin

My apologies for the earlier false deadline – we thought we were going to cut the global scenery a lot sooner.

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