Interesting product from JustFlight.

Seems like they'll also fix the stupid signs and lights all over the taxiways.

But anyway realistic naming of airport surfaces is a big plus in my book.

https://www.justflight.com/product/real-taxiways-united-states-class-c-d-airports?

Yo.. Just Flight has NEVER been a mediocre developer by a long shot. Always top tier quality products that fall in that "middle ground" between default and study level.

But seriously.. They are stepping up and taking a huge gamble at being one of the leaders of a major payware developer diving head first into MSFS without resorting to cheap gimmicks and half baked unsupported products

Edited May 18, 20215 yr by styckx

It looks like the scope averages out to nine airports per state.  If Canada is included, less than nine per state.  Am I looking at this right?

This sounds amazing. Truly one of those products I didn't know I needed until advertised.

I'm excited for this, will make a great addition to the improved airport textures addon.

Looks really interesting for sure.  Although I'm wondering how they are getting "near real world placement" for every airport. It will be nice to turn off that taxi line and use the real signs if they work for sure. 

43 minutes ago, jjn47 said:

It looks like the scope averages out to nine airports per state.  If Canada is included, less than nine per state.  Am I looking at this right?

It says it is all Class C & D towered airports in the continental US, plus HI and AK (450 total). But not Class B apparently. Looking forward to this big time!

8 minutes ago, kerosene31 said:

Although I'm wondering how they are getting "near real world placement" for every airport.

Sounds to me like that's a 'to avoid picky criticism' disclaimer. It'd probably not be too hard to look on google earth and see from shadows where things are to determine location, but using that info and method would then require you to manually place each one, which seems like a lot of work. Far better to just use a criteria of somewhat automated placement by going off the real-world recommendations of placement and using a criteria of distance from junctions and such, i.e. where the signs should be if the airport constructors are following recommendations. In the real world some taxiway signs are not as well placed as they could be and this can lead to confusion and occasionally accidents, the most famous of which is probably this one, where the signage was poor and incomplete with some signs obscured by grass length as well.

I know that I've personally been towing an airliner at EGCC in the past and had a bit of a puzzling direction from ATC for a route from somewhere up around stand 49 to the remote stands up in the 60s, where the signage and the naming conventions near stand 10 which comes around the pier were not as clear as they could be for a little linking taxiway which took us near to the taxiway which passes the fire station and the Fairey Apron. No harm done on that occasion, but if in MSFS they were like they should logically be, as opposed to how they are in real life, I'll prefer that over super-duper realism.

Shouldn’t this really just be fixed by Asobo in the default sim? More money……. 

I agree that the data should have been in the default sim.  However if tht price is reasonable (under 20 USD), I'd buy.

Still no Runway Guard lights? Outch!

1 hour ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Shouldn’t this really just be fixed by Asobo in the default sim? More money……. 

Absolutely agree.

That is basic stuff that shouldn't be handed over to third party developers.

I am looking at the positive aspects of this add-on.

1.  It is not going to increase the size of my MSFS folders,

2. It is going to have absolutely no negative impact on my frame rates

3. It is not going to cost me anything,

And the reason is...

NOT a Bl...y thing Australian in it.

Good luck for all the American pilots though, as it looks fairly good to me despite the fact that it should be default.

Tony

While I can certainly appreciate the excitement over an issue finally getting some fixing, I can't help but notice that there must be about 50 things like this which should have been fixed about 6 months ago, but have gone ignored by MS only to eventually be marketed to us as payware, as if they are actually addons and not fixes that we should have received at no additional cost <cough, payware replay apps>. 

I can see paying for features and products that are not supposed to be part of the base sim, but I'm not at all happy to see MS getting away with providing payware developers with the means to profit from things that MS has continually ignored and left broken for nearly a year now.

Why is MS not paying these developers instead of us? Don't they owe us some of these fixes (MS)?

I dunno about you, but personally, I'm getting just a tad tired of seemingly always having to pay for other people's mistakes.

I am starting to get the impression that many of the broken and missing things aren't actually mistakes, but a carefully planned business model by MS.

Geez

Edited May 18, 20215 yr by hangar

That's great...thanks for sharing!