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@ApfelFlieger: It is actually our goal that if the user created airports meet a certain quality level, we would like to integrate the airport into our database, given the user grants us permission to do so.

@TigerG2017: Please send us an email at mail(at)ipacs.de with your name and desired login so we can register you. Keep in mind, you need to have a Windows PC for now as the final conversion tool itself only runs on MS Windows.

Ok, we have 'hopefully' fixed the issues you mentioned. You should now be able to delete airports or save airports again. Also the invitation system should work properly, in case you want to work on an airport together. Keep in mind however that working on it at the same time might cause issues.

We would like to roll back the server to a previous version 2 days ago and recommend to not work on new airports for now. We will do this process after all users have downloaded their airports otherwise 2 days of work are lost.

So drop us a note if you have backed up all data.

Danke fuer die Fehlermeldung, wir schauen uns das an.

Thank you all for the feedback. It is really appreciated. Please give us some time to collect all the feedback you send and sort it into a list we can work on or further discuss. Some wishes are easy to implement, others might not be possible. So give us some time to assemble a list.

In the meantime we have updated the software on the server. Now every user can see all airports in the system. However, the creator of the airport is the only one able to edit it. But a user can send either a request to edit the airport of another user or a user can invite another one. This feature should be used with care.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The server is still experimental and updates might break some airports, so we strongly recommend you export your airports after changing it, so you can import it back in again after a server issue.

@ApfelFlieger: Thank you for this very detailed feedback, it is really appreciated! We will check and see what we can improve here.

Some quick feedback for you:

1) The Airport bounds are currently not really important, there is no need to draw them exactly as the final tool should calculate a proper boundary based on the added tarmacs and objects.

2) Drawing 'arc's is not supported. However some lines and tarmacs are automatically smoothed based on some simple rules. It will get clear once we publish the tool to convert to the final airport data.

TomSimMuc: We have no documentation yet at all, but we intend to create a simple step by step guide once we have enough feedback. We also hope we will get support from the community with this tool.

As for the level priority: Tarmacs with a higher priority will lie over any underlying tarmac areas. You can use this to add different material to certain areas or to create 'holes' in the tarmac. You should have access to an ESMS on the website that shows you this. We will add more airports soon as a reference.

RJ04 by the way converts just fine already. We recommend to add Tarmac areas whereever you place buildings, it's not required but otherwise we will get issues at the border.

Dear Aerofly FS Users,

we have been busy in the past months to work on a tool to create your own airport for Aerofly FS.

We now have an online tool available for testing purposes. It allows you to create an airport for Aerofly FS using a web browser. If you are interested in trying it out and giving us feedback, let us know. The amount of users is limited that we can accept and we recommend you only contact us if you have done airports using FSCP in the past, the workflow is somewhat similar.

Please note, this is so far the online tool only. The resulting file you get is not the actual airport for Aerofly FS, it is required to run through a converter program on a PC computer, so for now a Windows PC is required as well. This tool is not yet published as we would first like to get some feedback with the online tool first.

If you are interested and have done airports for our previous products in the past, please drop us an email at mail(at)ipacs.de.

Don't let the airport officials see this. Flying too close over airport buildings is prohibited.

We will check and see what causes this issue and try to fix it.

We are aware of this issue and are working on a fix. But it is not as simple as it might look as the whole process of cultivation generation is automated and we are ( on purpose ) not considering airport data when generating these files. So we have to remove those objects during runtime.

Adding new features to our Flight Simulator is of course always our main intention. However, a significant amount of time is currently 'wasted' by adjusting and optimizing the app on the various different devices out there. We have to keep in mind that the performance difference between the lowest performing devices to the high end devices is almost a factor of 10. Creating a single app for this huge range is challenging and this is made even more difficult by the fact that on Apple we can't really limit the app only to selected devices. So we always have to be very careful when adding new features.

@MetallicaRulz81: We are currently working on an update that will also add some changes to the view controls. Once this is ready we will publish it as usual. This should then include a fix for the night lighting for slower iOS devices.

@TomB: We have read your posting. For FS 4 we had to do some compromises regarding the amount of data we deliver otherwise the total amount would have exploded. So we deliberatly removed some previously included high resolution material to account for the many mew airports in Europe. The other way would have ment 'streaming' which is something we didn't want to do for FS 4.

We do have new versions of aerial images for Switzerland but processing them and adjusting the coloring is a tremendous amount of work which we hadn't had a chance yet to work on.

That all being said, it doesn't mean we won't change this in one of the next updates.

We hope this clarifies the matter a little bit.

Could anybody here that is on iOS please tell us your exact iPad or iPhone model number so we can check this? Again, please be as specific as possible.

@MetallicaRulz81: iPad 6th generation is not 100% clear. You can read a model number on the back side of the iPad.

@BFlyer: RC 9 will run the native Apple Silicon code by default unless some system settings have been modified.

The log file of RC 9 should have a line in the beginning verifying this. It's located at

~/Library/Containers/com.aerofly.aerofly-rc-9/Data/Library/Application Support/Aerofly RC 9/tm.log

Yes sorry, those buildings were removed in favor of the new cultivation buildings. We have no plans yet if and when we put those special buildings back in.

Tomfa: What version are you talking about? This has been fixed in the mobile version many weeks ago. Please uninstall and do a full reinstall. If you are talking about the PC version, please explain in more detail and show screenshots.

I see, it is just the missing text. We will check if we can put that back in.

TomB: What factor are you referring to? We shouldn't have removed any VR settings from FS 2 to FS 4.