It would be nice to have another search option available: “ICAO Code Begins With”

This would give a quick overview what’s available for a specific region or country, should be easy to implement as search for partial names and full ICAO is already there.

Great work x-plane team!

Cheers,
coobah

Thanks for the tip!

In case you weren’t aware of this little trick:

-draw a ‘horizontal’ (east-west) line in WED (doesn’t have to be perfectly horizontal)
-draw a vertical line in WED (same)
-go to vertex mode
-select both individual vertices of the horizontal
-hold alt, while selecting one of the latitude coordinates (bottom right pane), press return (still holding alt)

-select both individual vertices of the vertical
-hold alt, while selecting one of the longitude coordinates, press return (still holding alt)

both lines are perpendicular now and can be rotated (in marquee mode) to any angle you need.

It looks like a lot of work when you read it like this, but it’s actually pretty fast, especially if you use keyboard shortcuts 🙂

Correct. Therefore: do not disable the “Global Airports” scenery pack!

But then if your one of the ones that disables global airports,you will not get any updated airport data? is this correct?

Ricardo Rementería Troncoso I think is hitting on the same question

You can file WED bugs and WED feature requests here:

http://dev.x-plane.com/bugbase/

We are working on a separate bug tracker specifically for gateway airports, e.g. to flag errors in user-shared work.

Is there a way to submit feature requests? Specifically, I’d like to see some “geometric” tools in the next release of WED (the ability to draw a parallel/perpendicular given a taxiway and an external point, which would help scenery builders when drawing stands), as well as the ability to delete existing gateway submissions (to withdraw old scenery versions when we upload new ones).

Right – they are scenery packs and go in “Custom Scenery”. And when you update X-plane, “Global Airports” gets even more stuff and you can then delete those packs.

Probably yes. From our perspective, there is no difference – there are just scenery packs installed in the sim.

There is not an easy way, which is why I recommend users not stock up on a ton of pre-release gateway airports.