After a week of gathering propositions for the new base airport of FlightGear, it's time to vote! Select your favorite and motivate others to vote for your prefered airport!
Poll ends on the 19th of May at 1226Z, so you have one week to make your choice! The chosen airport will be default for Flightgear 2019.1 to 2019.3. It seems that Islands are trending these days and maybe we should consider rebranding FlightGear as SailGear, as not a single candidate is situated on the mainland.
You can choose between these candidates:
LICC - Aeroporto Internazionale Vincenzo Bellini di Catania-Fontanarossa, Sicily, Italy.
A nicely situated airport, close to Mount Etna that offers the possibility to spot some volcano activity!
(still needs development of e.g. airport buildings, but legoboyvdlp has offered to do some efforts. Also vanosten has offered to do build osm2city scenery for the region)
GCLP - Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain.
A very nice location with well developed scenery. Gran Canaria airport is the busiest airport on the Canary Islands. It serves both as a passenger, freight and military airport.
(D-ECHO and merspieler are developing a nice custom scenery that could quickly make it to TerraSync and the base package, vanosten can probably do some work on osm2city buildings)
LPMA - Aeroporto da Madeira Cristiano Ronaldo, Madeira, Portugal.
This airport is considered one of the most peculiarly perilous airports in the world, due to its location and its spectacular runway construction. It is ranked 9th most dangerous airport in the world, do we dare to push our new users to the limits?
(D-ECHO has a custom scenery for Madeira. It would need some development of osm2city and development of LPPS, but work is already being done on those. vanosten can probably do some work on osm2city buildings)
BIKF - Keflavíkurflugvöllur (Reykjavik-Keflavik Airport), Keflavik, Iceland.
Keflavik Airport is a shared Civilian/Military airport with runways capable of any aircraft. It has developed civilian and military buildings and the scenery at Iceland has Corine-Quality landclass data and volcanoes, making it a pleasant visual experience. There's dozens of small airstrips scattered throughout the island. Some of them are developed as well.
Did you want another airport? Next year (I 'll take the task up to me to make the poll in January then) you 'll have a chance to propose your idea for FlightGear 2020.x!