Has anyone else noticed that quite a few runways in MSFS have yellow Xs on them indicating they are closed. I looked up a few on Skyvector, and they were listed as active and current. For example I just took off on EFIV  runway 26, and it was X's as closed. I don't have a chart for that airport, so I am not sure if it is really closed or not. 

Edited September 11, 20214 yr by Bobsk8

According to my Navigraph charts there is no runway 26. There is rwy 04-22, both active.

1 minute ago, hvw said:

According to my Navigraph charts there is no runway 26. There is rwy 04-22, both active.

OK, I see it really is not listed on a chart I found, so it looks like it may have been closed and and MSFS has it yellowed on correctly. I will have to check a chart each time I see one marked as closed. If you go to that airport, you will see there is a closed runway 06-26

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

OK, I see it really is not listed on a chart I found, so it looks like it may have been closed and and MSFS has it yellowed on correctly. I will have to check a chart each time I see one marked as closed. If you go to that airport, you will see there is a closed runway 06-26

In FS2020 there indeed is this closed runway 08-26. I guess MS/Asobo used an outdated chart/outdated data to include this runway in their product.

3 minutes ago, hvw said:

In FS2020 there indeed is this closed runway 08-26. I guess MS/Asobo used an outdated chart/outdated data to include this runway in their product.

here it shows the runway, but the one I just took off on Rwy 26 was almost 6,000 Feet, and they show in this data much less than that. http://www.pilotnav.com/airport/EFIV

5 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

here it shows the runway, but the one I just took off on Rwy 26 was almost 6,000 Feet, and they show in this data much less than that. http://www.pilotnav.com/airport/EFIV

I guess that +/- 6,000 ft is the correct length. Just my assumption, though 🙂 

Just looked at Google Maps. There are parts of a former runway that looks like it would have been 8/26 south of the terminal. It's clearly out of service. The Bing maps satellite view shows more of the runway markings, etc., so presumably this is why MSFS shows a version with the closed runway. The Google image was clearly taken later.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ivalo+Airport/@68.6058939,27.4093138,1584m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x45cd152445d645b1:0x606b512c3689059d!8m2!3d68.6086646!4d27.4207829

 

Yeah a lot of the non-handcrafted airport layouts and markings are mostly based on the underlying Bing imagery. So if the Bing imagery has a runway marked as closed, it will have those markings in the sim.

Edited September 11, 20214 yr by Tuskin38