Each tiny white dot on the globe view in the default zoomed out state is an airport. Do those of you who can't find more than 40 airports see these?

25 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Each tiny white dot on the globe view in the default zoomed out state is an airport. Do those of you who can't find more than 40 airports see these?

What we're saying is, in the search box we anticipated being able to type in the ICAO of any airport and have the database take us there.

Apparently, contrary to standard UI practices, this isn't actually a search box. You instead have to play around with the globe before you can actually find what you want. What we're saying is that this simply isn't as intuitive as just typing in any ICAO in the world and THEN have the globe zoom to take you there. 

I'll try this another way. Imagine going to a library and looking up a book, but the only results you get are for a single shelf. Oh, you want to search more than the single shelf? Then go to this OTHER tool and select which shelves you want first and then come back to the search and you'll be able to find what you want. Wouldn't it just make more sense to have the search look at all the shelves and save me the step of having to tell it first which shelves to look at? Like, for example, maybe I have no clue where Kiribati is, but I know it's ICAO. With this setup I can't find it without first going to Google to look it up on a map. 

This is clearly a bug on first load. It works after you somehow get the database initialized by zooming on the globe or some other method.

Edited August 18, 20205 yr by Agrajag
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4 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Each tiny white dot on the globe view in the default zoomed out state is an airport. Do those of you who can't find more than 40 airports see these?

OK, yes. But several just say "Custom" with no ICAO Code. Do others see that as well? 

Just now, Agrajag said:

What we're saying is, in the search box we anticipated behind able to type in the ICAO of any airport and have the database take us there. 

I got that. But that is why I am confused. Because that is exactly how this works. You can type in whatever you want in the search box, City, Airport Name, ICAO code and it will find it.

Unless you live in Stuttgart since for some inexplicable reason EDDS is as of yet, not modeled in the sim. 😉

I agree that this sounds like a corrupt install. The ICAO search has been working perfectly in the sim all during Alpha. I just verified this with KPHL. If you haven't already done a system reboot since you downloaded I would try that. Sorry I had to throw this out - anything is better than having to do a full uninstall / reinstall!

Also as noted the zoom in on the globe search also uncovers increasingly small airport locations.

Interesting....I'm in the sim now and able to use any search box, be it departure, arrival, or the global search box in the top left corner of the map to search ICAO, partial ICAO, or airport name. 

7 minutes ago, Farlis said:

I got that. But that is why I am confused. Because that is exactly how this works. You can type in whatever you want in the search box, City, Airport Name, ICAO code and it will find it.

Unless you live in Stuttgart since for some inexplicable reason EDDS is as of yet, not modeled in the sim. 😉

Farlis, I hear you, but that's not what happened after I installed. I touched NOTHING and my first use of this tool was to type in KPHL in the Departure box (my home aiport). No results found. What? So I typed in Philadelphia. No results found. So then I used the globe and zoomed down into the area (which took some zooming as it's surrounded both lots of airports, and manually selected KPHL. On my NEXT flight KPHL was able to be searched and found via the Destination box. Let's hope it was glitch of some sort. I'll try it out on my next load and see if it can find, say, TIST or Cyril King Airport.

Edited August 18, 20205 yr by Agrajag

5 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Unless you live in Stuttgart since for some inexplicable reason EDDS is as of yet, not modeled in the sim. 😉

Would you accept KSGT - Stuttgart Municipal in Stuttgart, Arkansas as a substitute?  ....Yeah, neither would I.

To find an airport:

Select World Map

Click on the Select Departure Airport box

It will pull up a list of the handcrafted airports, as well as your search history.

At the very top of the list is a search box where you can type in an ICAO code, city name, etc... If it's in the sim it should come up. There should be no need to fiddle with the world map.

Edit: Looks like people are getting it figured out. I'll leave this up just in case it can help people out.

Edited August 18, 20205 yr by jcmissionary
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I had this happen to me also. I rebooted and restarted the sim and now I get results when I search for EDDL or EGLC etc.

Bye

Jan

 

I just verified that it's working now as well. I can type anything into the departure airport box and it finds it. However, that doesn't change the fact that for some of us it didn't work this way on the first load. It's clearly a bug and likely there for all, but many just likely jumped to the globe and that somehow populates the database. I didn't do that and didn't have an index for the database entries. 

Just now, Agrajag said:

I just verified that it's working now as well. I can type anything into the departure airport box and it finds it. However, that doesn't change the fact that for some of us it didn't work this way on the first load. It's clearly a bug and likely there for all, but many just likely jumped to the globe and that somehow populates the database. I didn't do that and didn't have an index for the database entries. 

Apology accepted. 

17 minutes ago, Farlis said:

I got that. But that is why I am confused. Because that is exactly how this works. You can type in whatever you want in the search box, City, Airport Name, ICAO code and it will find it.

Unless you live in Stuttgart since for some inexplicable reason EDDS is as of yet, not modeled in the sim. 😉

If you look at EDDS in Bing Maps, the whole airport is blurred out. Apparently, governments can request that certain areas be blurred out for national security reasons. There are a number of missing airports in Europe where this is the case. Some new airports are also missing where they were either built after the latest bing data was acquired, or the bing imagery is not sufficient enough for the AI to recognize that there is an airport there.

1 minute ago, Sethos said:

Apology accepted. 

None given or needed. You were still incorrect and just can't handle that. That's your problem, not mine. The OP and others had this happen to them and you went off half-cocked with an aggressive post suggesting we were personally broken in some way. That is what happened. Period.

4 minutes ago, jcmissionary said:

If you look at EDDS in Bing Maps, the whole airport is blurred out. Apparently, governments can request that certain areas be blurred out for national security reasons. There are a number of missing airports in Europe where this is the case. Some new airports are also missing where they were either built after the latest bing data was acquired, or the bing imagery is not sufficient enough for the AI to recognize that there is an airport there.

Wow. That's a bummer. I wonder what happens if someone does third-party scenery for EDDS or one of the others.