Notes: This topic is opened early to gather choices more quickly. The poll would be open once the release is out.
Do you know a nicely developed airport in a stunning scenery you'd like to make more popular? Do you want to draw FG attention to your country? Are you involved in scenery developments and want your work to be prominently visible? This is your chance to get involved!
Now that 2017.1 "Bergen" is almost out, let's pick the airports we'll go to this May
Note: For any future releases where nobody volunteers to organize a poll the next default airports will be chosen based on the order in this poll.
What's needed now?
If you have a good idea for a default airport, please post a short description along with two screenshots (airport terminal buildings and airport seen embedded into the surrounding scenery) below. Once we have a few options (in a week or so), we'll have a poll and pick the most popular result.
Desired features are:
* well developed terminal buildings (on par with KSFO or LSZH)
* suitable for airliner operations
* nice scenery for VFR flights in the vicinity, possibly also smaller airports, ideally developed
* usability (should not need a gaming computer to get usable framerates)
(* possibly working AI traffic)
What'll be needed later?
For the airport that gets picked as the next default, we'd like to see a Wiki page describing the airport and popular VFR activities in the surroundings. Feel free to also share other aviation fun facts of the country with FG enthusiasts.
A general effort by scenery developers to populate the surroundings even more is also not the worst of ideas
Will the development team create better terrain for location XXX if it gets picked?
Usually the holdup for more detailed scenery is not bad intention but just publicly available data - the scenery is usually as good as the data we have permits. So the answer in general is no - we can't do that easily.
However, we have the ability of ship a custom tile with a stable version (and have had more detailed KSFO scenery than on terrasync in the past), and I think if someone has manually created/improved GPL custom scenery for a proposed default airport, we can ship a tile of that around the chosen location.
I want to see my home airport featured!
If the airport is already developed, Just place it here!
If the airport is not developed yet, get involved! Just placing buildings in the right places is easy but will have a big impact!
So - let's all help to make FG more international by migrating around the world - show us what's to see in your region, or whatever you found elsewhere in the world!