Dear IPACS Team and Aerofly FS2 users,
I've been pretty much sorry that the LSGL Lausanne Airport in Aerofly FS (both versions) only consists of a desperately ugly flat runway, nothing near the characteristic slopy real thing.
Runway's real profile:
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I just found a "cheap" and reversible workaround to remove the flatten effect in Lausanne, by editing the lausanne.tsc file in the scenery\places\ch\lausanne folder of your AFS2 installation.
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The trick consists of editing autoheight from FALSE to TRUE, which removes the flatten effect.
Runway 36 uphill autoheight set to TRUE (fix):
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Runway 36 uphill autoheight set to FALSE (default):
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Runway 18 downhill autoheight set to TRUE (fix):
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Runway 18 downhill autoheight set to FALSE (default):
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It's not perfect, the slope is only partially featured (approx 1.3% slope in AFS2 instead of 2.5%, probably due to the lack of accuracy of the original mesh), but it's definitely better than the flattop by default.
There are side effects on the parking, PAPI and neighbouring woods, if someone wants to improve this airport it might probably be better to start from scratch...
Cheers
Antoine