5000ft Plateau near KLAS - Solved

[rowcoach 4]

Evening,

I noticed something off this afternoon. Flying the SUNST4 sid into KLAS, I saw a huge plateau just past Hoover Dam. When I looked on the P3D map, there was an airport with the ICAO RN01 (right beside another airport called U30). The name that’s displayed is Randolph-Turning Point 1. I’ve checked my add on folder and used ADE to search the default airports, but no luck finding an airport named RN01. I can select it from the airport menu. 

Does anyone know what this is and/or how I can get rid of it?

Thank you,

Colin

EDIT - figured it out. If you have the MAIW traffic pack, there is a folder in there for Global Waypoints. Apparently, there are over 700 ‘random’ waypoints. Not sure what they are for. But at least the first mystery is solved.

 

Edited February 5, 2020 by rowcoach

[pgde 571]

Perhaps it is a military-only waypoint. The Vegas area has a ton of military traffic due to Nellis AFB being there. And since you use MAIW, I bet that is what it is. BTW, airnav.com (real life US airport/navigation directory(has no airport with the ICAO RN01. U30 is Temple Bar.

[Dave_YVR 972]

It's a flaw in the old af2 file for that Waypoint. The plateau is actually a tiny airstrip that isn't meant to display. I remember fixing this in my system years ago, so long unfortunately that I don't remember what i did to it. I will look when i get home later this evening.

[rowcoach 4]

@Dave_YVR Thank you for having a look. It is quite impressive as you get close to it. It is a pretty simple, bare runway. You can start from it, but it’s too high up for a small single engine prop to start.