dogdish Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 I noticed a thread in the FSX forum regarding a request to renumber a airport runway. This is of course because magnetic north has shifted. My hometown airport McCarran International, has also been affected (formally runway 25L/25R, is now 26L/26R etc.) Various runways around the world are also affected. So hoping the developers of FS2020 will not burn numbers into runway textures and come up with a way to dynamically change the entire world when needed. Gigabyte GA-X99 Gaming G1, i7-5960X, Noctua NH-D14, Crucial Ballistix Elite 64Gb, Nvidia GTX Titan X, Creative ZxR, Ableconn PEXM2-130, WD Black SN750 250Gb & 2Tb NVMe/Gold 10Tb HDD, Sony BDU-X10S BD-ROM, PC Power & Cooling 1200w, Cosmos C700M, Noctua iPPC 140mm x6, Logitech M570/K800, WinX64 7 Ultimate/10 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightstrike Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Aren't the RWY identifiers dealt with in AFCAD? Only 3rd party developers add the RWY number into the texture. Cheers, Strikey Embraer E190 Driver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 The new sim won't use AFCAD or any other .bgl file for scenery. The scenery is derived from Bing Earth satellite imagery, presumably the runway numbers will be updated as and when the satellite imagery is updated. Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 All of the airports are receiving some level of manual editing, so it isn't simply using satellite scenery. Combined with the regular updates talked about in the IFR Discovery Episode, updates may be more regular than satellite imagery updates. The airport Discovery Episode talks about the tool and process they are using for airports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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