Please file a bug for specific problems at specific airports!

Having runways to follow terrain is one of the most exciting features on XP, it is challenging, realistic and looks so cool.
I am starting my PPL on a 3 degree sloped runway surrounded by mountains, quite challenging for us (starters) in real life (MMJC 8120 ft MSL).
I do practice my pattern procedure on XP, but while the runway is slopped as per the real thing, it has an abnormal spike near 04 which makes 25% of the runway unusable.
Hopefully XP can address this sometime in the future? maybe a XP GUI tool for us? I resist flattening airports, no way! 🙂

Great! I’ve a proof of concept of the airport selection screen with the anti-flattening check, if you want I can send it to you (I guess I should not use the bug report form for that).

Ah – it’s an anti-flattening option. I will consider this.

I’m aware that flattening won’t work fine for airport that when not placed during dfs generation (and sometimes it’s not usable even for airports that where correctly placed during dfs generation). My proposal is to let the flattening option to be a per airport option, ie. as a user I can choose to have flattenning on for every airport by default, but I can define exceptions for some airports, and I can to that in the global airport selection screen. That way, I could have flattening on, but when I choose telluride then I have a check to allow the sloped runway for it (a setting that it’s saved for later). Otherwise I can take off from Telluride but then I cannot land on another airport which is not compatible with a sloped runway.

Ouch!

Any Idea when/if we will be getting any new Lego Pieces?

WED 1.4 will not contain new lego pieces, because the lego pieces -do not come from WED-. They come from X-Plane.

(This is why, if you set your default x-plane folder to a copy of x-plane 9 the airport lego pieces are not there.)

I have been experimenting with flattening in the scenery system, but the initial result was that the flattening didn’t work very well. The flattening tech was the same as “flat” runways and has the same problem: if the base mesh isn’t -already- divided into small triangles (because there was no airport at that location when the DSF was cut) then the flattening cannot work with precision.

I’ve stopped trying to make new airports for my country, The Bahamas, because the building facades available are just too large scale for most of our airports.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed!!