[ANSWERED] XLF Airports in France

[FYG001]

Very recently (XP12/HS 1.7) ghost XLF airports started popping up on the MFD in France. Min RWY set to 6000 ft. They are really all over. Tens and tens of them.

Linked to XP or HS?

 

Edited January 21, 2023 by skiselkov

[Pils]

42 minutes ago, FYG001 said:

Linked to XP or HS?

Whatever is in the X-Plane airport dataset is displayed, subject to filtering. You can look for yourself on https://gateway.x-plane.com/airports

[FYG001]

Right, hospital helipads, but they should not show up with min RWY length in the FMS set at 6000 ft, correct? 

[Pils]

5 hours ago, FYG001 said:

Right, hospital helipads, but they should not show up with min RWY length in the FMS set at 6000 ft, correct? 

What set of symbols, “nearest apts” or “apts”?

[FYG001]

NEAREST APT MIN RWY is set at 6000

[Pils]

1 hour ago, FYG001 said:

NEAREST APT MIN RWY is set at 6000

Yes, but what did you select to display on the MFD map, exactly? As the name suggestions "MIN RWY" only applies to "NEAREST APTS" not "APTS".

Edited January 21, 2023 by Pils

[skiselkov]

NEAREST APTS MIN RWY is applied to the NEAREST APTS subpage of DIRECT-TO and the magenta airports displayed on the MFD map when in MAP SYMBOLS > NEAREST APTS is enabled. The "APTS" function just shows all airports with any runways.

Note in the screenshot below that the magenta airports are the "NEAREST APTS" (to which the runway length filter is applied). The blue ones are all the other ones ("APTS"). Why the XLF<whatever> airports have a runway defined, I cannot say, but according to the scenery data, they most definitely have one. In case of XLF000D, for example, there's a 986 ft runway defined.

In short, working as intended, X-Plane says there's a runway there, so we show it.

[Pils]

On 1/21/2023 at 3:25 AM, FYG001 said:

Right, hospital helipads, but they should not show up with min RWY length in the FMS set at 6000 ft, correct? 

How did you determine they were helipads? Because I checked all three on Gateway/Google Maps and they're just little GA grass airstrips.

Edited January 23, 2023 by Pils

[FYG001]

Hi Skiselkov, fully clear, thanks
Hi Pils, the first one in the list were helipads, hence I assumed the others would be as well. But NOT saying that the MFD shows the helipads

 

 

[Pils]

2 hours ago, FYG001 said:

Hi Pils, the first one in the list were helipads, hence I assumed the others would be as well. But NOT saying that the MFD shows the helipads

Thanks for clarifying. I didn’t follow before. The “X” prefix is used in Gateway for anything that doesn’t have an ICAO code, basically, so that it can be globally unique.

Edited January 23, 2023 by Pils