Hello Gang!Not sure if this has been asked before but, does FS-X offer slopign runways that follow terrain or are all the runways flat again?Thanks fro any input!Sincerely,Dennis D. Mullert

Dennis,I am pretty sure the answer is no, this was discussed a while back; and if I recall correctly, one of the FSX team member explained why in his blog....John

Runways are flat

Runways Slope?!?!

The sloping ones do. :)Allcott

Runways can most definitely have slope, sometimes multiple different ones, just like the ground or roads.There were two issues that I read about, first of all it would be dreadful amount of polygons to do it, and secondly the raw data for runway slopes is not readily available.Darn shame not to see it though.* Orest

The beta BGLComp SDK is very explicit - airports must be flat, including runways, taxiways and apron areas.There are tricks which can be created the appearance of slopes - we will have to see how those translate into FSX.

>Runways can most definitely have slope, sometimes multiple>different ones, just like the ground or roads.>>There were two issues that I read about, first of all it would>be dreadful amount of polygons to do it, and secondly the raw>data for runway slopes is not readily available.>Should it be visible on the screen? I mean it must be very little slope isthat visible to the eye? Even so could they not have left out the visual but included it in the simulation model?

You mention "tricks"...do you mean as was done with the runway in the Lukla scenery?RhettAMD 3700+, eVGA 7800GT 256, ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, etc. etc.

>Should it be visible on the screen? I mean it must be very>little slope isthat visible to the eye? Even so could they not>have left out the visual but included it in the simulation>model?Well, technically speaking, that is absolutely correct. Since FSX now has a "round earth," any runway, taxiway or apron actually does "slope," although the amount is not discernable visually.For example, if you created a 10 mile long runway, the 'middle' would be several inches higher than the ends... ;)

>There were two issues that I read about, first of all it would>be dreadful amount of polygons to do it, and secondly the raw>data for runway slopes is not readily available.>>Darn shame not to see it though.X-Plane has tried it, but there is a host of problems. Just count on re-doing thousands of airports by hand, to get descent results. Otherwise, it's a lot of roller coaster & floating runways.L.Adamson

maybe is FS2020?http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/155802.jpg

Yes - the use of multiple runways, or multiple hard surface features at very slight different elevations. Then overlay the whole thing with a runway looking texture.

Lukla, Courcheval (by LLH), several mesh based stripes by James Belk, so we'll manage I think...Rob "Holland&Holland" de Vries http://fool.exler.ru/sm/fly2.gif"To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder"

Lukla is going to need a lot fo work in FSX before anything other then the ultralight can use it with decent autogen.