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 2017.3 "Prague" is almost out (delayed for weeks due to holidays. Again.), let's pick the airports we'll go to this November!
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 the other default airports)
* 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!
What does "Needs work" mean?
It means that the airport is suggested but could use some attention - once enough people like you worked on the airport, this tag would be removed and you can exist with pride!
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!
Existing candidates
VHXX: Honk Kong Kai Tak, China (closed)
(needs to be imported from: https://gitlab.com/fgradi/custom_scenery_VHXX )
VHHH: Honk Kong International, China
VTSP: Phuket International, Thailand
PANC: Ted Stevens Anchorage International, Alaska
ZBAA: Beijing Capital international airport, China
Needs work
EGKK:London Gatwick | London's second biggest airport, a nice and large gateway to London's OSM2city magic.
Last second runner
EDDI: Berlin Tempelhof
FACT: Cape Town | The surrounding scenery is pretty close to reality - you have table mountain nearby, several other interesting ranges not so far
Needs work
EGPF: Glasgow | The scenery to the north and west is pretty good, especially with autumn colours. It needs some WED work (to get the signs, etc).
Last third runner