Thank you very much, IPACS for your new Airport Designer tool.
I was only able to take a quick look at it.
I agree with the hints and feedbacks from my colleagues, especially from Michael. Much of it is intuitive if someone has already created airports on FSCP. It is a pleasure to be able to create taxiways and aprons now.
Where I still struggle a little bit is:
- When I move a single aircraft after having placed them, the mode changes from “Place-Mode” to the “Edit-Mode” without me having noticed it (“Place Objects> Aircrafts” still remains in the blue top menu and the top part of the white area is not visible doe to scrolling down). Then I have to go back in the menu or click “Aircrafts” to place new objects. Maybe “Edit-Mode” and “Place-Mode” should appear in the blue top area too, allowing to change the mode
- It is very difficult resp. sensitive to select a line and to be able to move the hole line (a single point seems easier to move)
- I had certain difficulties with the Exit of Draw Line mode (mode remains even I press Esc till I select another object)
- I couldn't first figure out which runway corresponded to which threshold number first. Only making an runway extension or giving a name gave me the clarity what fits (maybe assign a temporary name when adding a new runway)
- I couldn't first figure out how to rotate the parking spots and helipad seems (shift and mouse wheel). It would be useful to add a corresponding field under "Edit Parkingspot/Helipad" containing the rotation similar to "Edit Building" and "Edit Aircraft"
- Explanations of the different runway resp. threshold - options would be very helpful.
This seems to be a bug:
When saving, I always had the red cross at Tarmacs, this although I had deleted all of them during troubleshooting. Looking to the TAP file, all Tarmacs are still present in the background, although they are deleted:

Also, I often have tarmacs and lines multiple times without duplicating them and without them being visible. But they are still listed in the TAP file.
Thus, it was also no longer possible for me to save my work with the runway definition and the already placed objects.
Then I deleted the airport and wanted to re-import. Unfortunately only the airport Data are currently imported and I lost all other placed objects and runways.
My biggest wish:
It should be possible to import a complete airport tap file with an appropriate plausibility check, in order to be able to edit the airport afterwards. This would allow e.g. to take XREF objects from an existing FSCP-airport (after conversion due to format changes) and edit them.
Finally, I am looking forward to the new compiler!
Cheers, Christophe