Keeping track of your custom airports.

[Fielder 3,672]

Each world update lists the new Asobo handrawn airports. The standard, deluxe, and premium airports are all listed on the MSFS forum. You can keep track of any airport you download for free or bought, and installed. If you gather your lists together you can place them all on a google map using the My Maps creation tool. That Google map you just made can be downloaded offline for viewing. It's identical map also remains there still online. Either can be fully manipulated (zoomed, distances measured, pop up information boxes, location coordinates), all the normal wonderful features of Google maps.

Using the map you made, you can schedule flights using only upgraded airports. The map can show you distances (it has a handy built in ruler scale in miles or knots).

You can also spot areas inside which there is a lack of handmade airports in your own particular MSFS scenery.  You may decide that's where you need to buy one, or search for one on flightsim.to.

I think this is where  you sign in to your own My Maps:

Google My Maps

https://mymaps.google.com

 

 

 

[Fielder 3,672]

To add an airport to your own My Map, just type the icao code into the My Maps searchbar at the top of the map. You will see the correct airport pop up in the list. On the map the information window will also show the coordinates. 

[flyinpilot212121 724]

I was just thinking the other day whether something like this was possible, I want to be able to pinpoint on a map where all my add on airports are, for 2 reasons, one to plan between airports, and 2, in order to know what I have, as it gets confusing and I even sometimes forget what I have. 

[sidfadc 1,344]

Little Nav map has this function - it will scan your library and place yellow circles around airports which are custom.  This includes the Asobo handcrafted models but can't read those sceneries which are encrypted which I believe are the ones included in the Premium deluxe version.

The latest version of Volanta (non premium) also scans your sceneries and places a star on the world map to denote where you have scenery installed.

 

 

[Mace 1,926]

I just use Google Earth and put a placemark on the map (ctrl shift P or something like that).   It puts a yellow pin there.

[guenseli 1,591]

Latest Addon Linker Map will show you addon and Asobo airports in different colors. 

Fastest way to show them 

[Sethos 4,335]

I do what I've done for years now; I have a Google Sheets with all my addons and a Google Maps favourite list where I pin all my aiports, so I can quickly get an overview of locations and see everything I've bought, with versions, notes, links etc. 

Made flight simming much less of a headache over the years. 

[PWJT8D 446]

I've been using Google Earth for my airports for years now. I have over 100 payware airports and about just as many in freeware, there is no way I could keep track if I didn't drop a pin.

[Fielder 3,672]

Yeah, the My Maps I referred to is actually named funny because it is a feature of Google Earth, and not Google Maps. You can make layers offline and throw them to your online My Maps in Google Earth, or vice versa. Private or Public too.

Looks like there's lots of different apps to use.

Somebody, quick, run and map all the POI's from all 7 WUs and publish for us to copy! 🤣

[kiki 89]

I have also used GE for this. After the latest sim updates I gave it up. It is just too much for me to follow which sceneries work with the latest updates (with the 100 + sceneries I have).

Addon Linker might be a good solution. Never ever will I download so many sceneries, not any more.

Edited December 28, 2021 by kiki

[Fielder 3,672]

Zoomed out view Google Earth. You can zoom way way in and do a zillion other things in the real map, this is just an image. All airports are custom.

Orkney Islands:

Six orkney airports pack SuperSpud, flightsim.to

Kirkwell, SuperSpud, flightsim.to

Westray and Papa Westray, Seamor, flightsim.to

 

Shetland Islands:

EG78 Out Skerries, Asobo WU3

Sumburgh, ORBX

[Bandyka 75]

I just use an excel sheet with airport codes and look at it before each flight to decide which one I fancy, however a built in tool would be great for sure.

[guenseli 1,591]

 

Here you can see Addon Linker in action. All automatic, no need to do anything by hand.

I have changed the color if inactive (heliports in my case) airports to light grey. Asobos airports are brown.

You can also see the KLM markers from WhereAreMyAircraft WAMA where I can see where my aircraft are "parked" currently (and you even can see these aircraft in the sim when you visit one of these places)

Edited December 28, 2021 by guenseli

[Ricardo41 5,949]

10 hours ago, Fielder said:

Google My Maps

https://mymaps.google.com

Yup, this works like a charm. I have all my addon airports (freeware and paid in an Excel spreadsheet), then pin them in google maps.

[EDDB2020 35]

The Addon Liker map is quite ok, but so far I could not find a way to export it somehow to use it e.g. with LNM.

But it is possible with Google My Maps.

1. Organise your sceneries with different layers, colours and icons on a Google Map and name these placemarks (e. g. London Heathrow EGLL)
2. Export the 'whole' map (all layers) as *.kmz and save it in a new directory in the installation directory of LNM (e.g. 'Google KMZ').
3. Load the KMZ file into LNM (File/add Google Earth KML) and VOILA!

KMZ vs. KML is no typo, I found that the KMZ file contains of the icons used on the the Google Map while the KML doesn't.

In case someone is using Andres3D light mod from flightsim.to (https://flightsim.to/file/8614/airports-lights), he's offering a Google Map too. Just go there, export his map and import that kmz into a new layer of your Google Map.

Edited December 28, 2021 by EDDB2020