Taxiway Signs for some Airports

Thanks. How time consuming? A rough estimate for each sign. I wouldn't mind trying this for the large international airports

Good to know, I'll look into this, see if I can get through a bunch or airports.

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... It's actually sad autoheight doesn't work correctly, ...

Autoheight itself works correctly - but always refers to the height of the 1 coordinate of the airport. If the elevation of the airport is absolutely flat, autoheight also fits. It would be better for all kinds of elements if autoheight would always refer to the elevation of the coordinate of the element, which in my opinion would require a lot more computing power.

I can imagine a combination model:

• if an aircraft is on the ground, the reference height for autoheigt is the elevation at the locations of the element.
• If an aircraft is in the air, the airfield elevation is sufficient as a reference height for autoheight.

Regardless of this, I find every taxi sign and every groundtext already today as an invigorating element on an airport - no matter what size. Therefore, I am also happy about everyone who contributes to this.

Do you still have to restart the sim with dev mode enabled? For work on aircraft, i use a keyboard shortcut to reload, no need to restart every time.

Unfortunately, I don't know of a shortkey for a quick restart of scenery, as it is with airplanes.

To ensure that the restart of scenarios is as fast as possible, i often deactivates images during the work phase.

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If everything is preped (files, folders, powershell scripts for moving more than 100 bulk files from folders, and a map of all the signs)
you can manage 2 hours for 50 signs. (for reference LOWS was 65 signs, LFML was 150 signs, LEIB little more than 100 signs).
The problem is I need to get out and in of FS4 to check if the tweaks were correct, since i'm eyeballing.
Also some signs are several meters underground, so you need to know they should be there, and exaggerate height in order for them to pop out of ground, and then eyeballing how much down to correct.
It's actually sad autoheight doesn't work correctly, or it would be a matter of 2 or 3 minutes per airport.
An airport like LEMD or LEBL or LFPG could take more than a day.
That's why i'm only making the airports i fly regularly, and share them as i do them.

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Thank you for your efforts and patience in implementing these taxiway signs.

It would be good to see how this performs on the LSZH and LSGG sides, but especially on LSGG, as the terrain appears to be quite uneven. Tests have been carried out in the past, but the results were not entirely conclusive.

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Some time ago, max3max already created the taxisigns for LSGG when he created the script. you can find his original post in the forum. I've attached his LSGG signs on this thread.
as per LSZH i will eventually do that airport since it's one of my regulars.

Every airport i do, i'll update and attach to this thread on the original post.

Yes, I know, that's why I was partly referring to LSGG, and chrispriv also mentioned and detailed it in @max3max's thread, with a suitable terrain correction.

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RE: Adding taxiway signs to existing airports

Hi,

The placement of the taxi signs looks good!

I don't think it's possible to calculate a correct absolute height, as the geometry of the airfield merges with the elevation mesh from FS4 from an unknown source.

The only option I know is to levelling the entire airport ground to a fix height based on a edited elevation mesh, e.g. COP30 in a separate elevation data file, as I have done it for other airports as a bug fix (this changes the elevation not only the airport area but also for the hole…

chrispriv

October 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Nevertheless, despite this, some signs in LSGG remain above ground.

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Some people are really putting in a lot of effort to improve this simulator. However, I wish the IPACS developers would take care of it. So that all players benefit. It's all very regrettable.

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Some people are really putting in a lot of effort to improve this simulator. However, I wish the IPACS developers would take care of it. So that all players benefit. It's all very regrettable.

I think that I can write about myself, that I belong to the mentioned group "some people" with my different activities. And therefore in the many years I may have also got a slightly better insight at one point or another.

Based on this knowledge, I now write that IPACS cares much more about the points we mention than is often discussed here.

Please do me a favor in this thread: please refrain from the well-known and sufficiently detailed negative discussions here, because these are well known at IPACS.

Let us be patient with the topics of taxi signs and ground text, among other things, as some others have already written. Thank you.

We need brighter and more realistic "Active runway light" and signs

Will it be available for Aerofly FS mobile?

eic10412 They've all been checked. Excellent result, placement, height, everything is perfect, thank you very much for your work! !