Brazil airports scenery gltchs

Have been doing a little flying in Brazil and have noticed some strange terrain and glitches ,

I have noticed that a lot of airports are either on a hill or in a hole. Not all of coarse but quite a few.

Wonder is that how they really are or is it a glitch in FSX scenery in that part of the world.

If you want to see what I mean try SWTY (in a hole) and SWCB (on a hill) .

And found a couple of real weird glitches . One is SWHG .

If someone would like to check these out and see what you think .

Regarding airstrips with mixed-up elevations: these occur most often in "underdeveloped" countries; S America; Africa; Asia. These have very poor terrain resolution ; this means 'mountains' have rounded contours. This results in some ground elevations being too high or too low - airports being up on a plateau or down in hole in the ground. The FreemeshX freeware terrain mesh for the entire world will help resolve this issue in a lot of these locations.

 

change in terrain....

 

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AFTER

 

 

On a few cases I've moved the airfield elevation to a 'best fit' ( and probably never flew there again ). Papua New Guinea is another place of serious mountain vistas, but you'd never notice unless you replace the terrain mesh.

Ok , thanks for the information ,even tho I don't fully understand it. Not sure if I'd want to take a chance of trying to fix it with FreemeshX tho . With my luck I'd likely just make it worse.