What airports to pick up

[Bob Scott 7,750]

18 hours ago, Snuffleupagus said:

FlyTampa KLAS will be your best optimized and also most unique airport of those. ini airports are horrendous. 

A word of caution, though--since the OP primarily flies the Fenix Scarebus, it needs to be noted that the approaches to 26L/R at FlyTampa's KLAS will fly you into the dirt well short of the runways.  FlyTampa changed the field elevation, raising it by around 200 ft, and the Fenix A320 uses Navigraph navdata to synthesize the glidepath based on the r/w airfield elevation.  You can force the FlyTampa scenery to a higher priority than the Navigraph data, which at least temporarily solves the problem for acft that use the scenery navaids for navigation source data, but the Fenix bird won't see that reprioritized scenery data as it creates the glidepath internally using only the Navigraph data.

[Christopher Low 5,393]

Are there any more sales likely before Christmas? Black Friday came slightly too early for me, and I would like to get as much "bang for my buck" as I can when I go on a Christmas airport spending spree

[F737MAX 5,738]

20 minutes ago, Bob Scott said:

it needs to be noted that the approaches to 26L/R at FlyTampa's KLAS will fly you into the dirt well short of the runways.

True. Though safe to say the weather at KLAS doesn't often call for the ILS.

[F737MAX 5,738]

7 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Are there any more sales likely before Christmas?

There will be. The only confirmed sales period so far is:

iniBuilds Store Sale

*18th December - 5th January* - Over 45 vendors hosting sales, up to 50% savings and hundreds of products on offer!

I imagine other stores will announce in the next few days.

[MDFlier 2,031]

3 hours ago, Bob Scott said:

A word of caution, though--since the OP primarily flies the Fenix Scarebus, it needs to be noted that the approaches to 26L/R at FlyTampa's KLAS will fly you into the dirt well short of the runways.  FlyTampa changed the field elevation, raising it by around 200 ft, and the Fenix A320 uses Navigraph navdata to synthesize the glidepath based on the r/w airfield elevation.  You can force the FlyTampa scenery to a higher priority than the Navigraph data, which at least temporarily solves the problem for acft that use the scenery navaids for navigation source data, but the Fenix bird won't see that reprioritized scenery data as it creates the glidepath internally using only the Navigraph data.

Isn't that why God err.... the FAA came up with RNAV approaches?

[red259 31]

I ended up getting KLAS and KDEN. The rest I will pick up when there is a sale. Going to get KBOS/Belfast in the future although I think that is really pushing it for a320-200 range

[Noel 4,563]

On 12/16/2023 at 6:33 AM, sidfadc said:

My 7800X3D and 4090 is smirking in the corner 😂

Oh no problem you can get rid of that smirk easily--he's got your hardware parts too:

 

[MDFlier 2,031]

On 12/16/2023 at 3:58 PM, MDFlier said:

Isn't that why God err.... the FAA came up with RNAV approaches?

I hate quoting myself, but even RNAV approaches to 26L in the Fenix fly a glidepath that is way too low. I was wrong.

[Bob Scott 7,750]

On 12/18/2023 at 6:44 AM, MDFlier said:

I hate quoting myself, but even RNAV approaches to 26L in the Fenix fly a glidepath that is way too low. I was wrong.

Indeed...because the landing zone elevation in FlyTampa KLAS is set 200 ft higher than the real-world elevation, and the Navigraph data used to create the LPV or LNAV+VNAV synthetic glidepath internally is based on the r/w elevation.

I suspect RNAV approaches to 26L/R in other acft are also affected.  ILS approaches work where they use the navaid data embedded in the scenery, but an RNAV approach most likely does not since there is no scenery navaid involved.

[Christopher Low 5,393]

Why have FlyTampa increased the airport elevation by 200 feet?

[red259 31]

So with the sales I am going to pick up some additional airports. Thinking about picking up kmsp, kbos and belfast. Already have klas and kden. Wondering what other quality/decently performing european airports I should look at that would work well with belfast