Adding a world hub updates layer (MSFS2020)

[Pdale 1]

Hello

MSFS is starting to add world hub updates airports (airports that are fixed and corrected)

I was wondering if there is a way to add a layer that displays these airports with a custom icon? I can create a csv file with the list of airports but I'm not sure where to go from there. Is it possible?

 

Edited April 19 by Pdale

[Gason71 128]

The LNM is very flexible tool, so you can import your airports as userpoints (type "airports") and then display them on the map 😎
For more about CSV format for LNM you can read at point 28.5 of manual: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/3.0/en/USERPOINT.html#csv-data-format

I hope this helps you 🙂

Regards,
Piotr
 

[Pdale 1]

Thankyou. I'll have a look.

[albar965 1,047]

If the world hub updates are add-on airports they will be highlighted by a yellow ring. Special filters can be applied to these: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/latest/en/MENUS.html#add-on-no-override-add-on-no-override

Alex

[Pdale 1]

Unfortunately the world hub airports are not tagged as add-ons, I wish they were as it would make the process much easier.

The lat/long coordinates don't always match in the CSV file I've built compared to the airports actual LNM coordinates. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to batch search for a bunch of airports and add a userpoint icon to them so I am stuck at this point.

I wanted to avoid adding each userpoint one by one but I can see no other way to do it.

If there was a way to search for an entire group of airports, display and add a userpoint icon to all of them at once that would be great.

This is the csv file, but with the wrong coordinates in many cases it is not of much use. I still need to go back to each airport and manually adjust the coordinates.

I believe the csv must contain coordinates (for good reason) but using this method to insert an icon on top of a known location like an airport wont work if the coordinates are wrong.

Location,00AK,Bryant Army Heliport,61.4175,-149.616,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,50D,Creve Coeur Airport,42.6164,-82.4969,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,66Y,Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport,44.4498,-68.3615,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,7LA1,False River Regional Airport,30.7044,-91.5092,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,AGGT,Funafuti International Airport,-8.525,179.195,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,BGGH,Nuuk Airport,64.1909,-51.6781,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDCB,Strausberg Airport,52.5833,13.8844,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDCD,Cottbus-Drewitz,51.8897,14.5311,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDDC,Dresden Airport,51.1328,13.7683,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDDF,Frankfurt Airport,50.0333,8.5706,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDDR,Saarbrücken Airport,49.2156,7.1097,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDEN,Zwickau Airport,50.7439,12.4914,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDFY,Flugplatz Elz,50.2928,8.0386,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDGA,Schwäbisch Hall Airport,49.1183,9.7833,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDGB,Backnang-Heiningen Airport,48.9194,9.3825,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDHE,Herzogenaurach Airport,49.5794,10.9414,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDKB,Bonn-Hangelar Airport,50.7703,7.1633,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDKI,Betzdorf-Kirchen Airport,50.7311,8.0717,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDKO,Oerlinghausen Airport,51.9556,8.5389,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDLL,Langenfeld Airport,51.1131,6.5953,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDNY,Friedrichshafen Airport,47.6714,9.5119,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDRU,Unterwössen Airport,47.7858,12.4933,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDRW,Lachen-Speyerdorf Airport,49.4817,8.3658,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDVJ,Oehna Airport,51.6264,12.6867,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDVS,Salzgitter-Drütte Airport,52.1586,10.4581,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDWF,Fehrbellin Airport,52.6053,12.8044,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,EDXP,Harle Airfield,53.6908,7.8989,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,FNMH,Techamutete,-15.5419,12.1467,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,GQPP,Praia International Airport,14.9245,-23.4935,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,HEAT,Al Ain International Airport,24.2617,55.6092,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,JLA,Quartz Creek Airport,60.3206,-149.929,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KEGV,Eagle River Union Airport,45.9325,-89.2683,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KGTF,Great Falls International Airport,47.4819,-111.371,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KIOW,Iowa City Municipal Airport,41.6392,-91.5461,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KJYO,Leesburg Executive Airport,39.0775,-77.5575,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KLCI,Laconia Municipal Airport,43.572,-71.4184,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KLEB,Lebanon Municipal Airport,43.6261,-72.3042,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KMDW,Chicago Midway International Airport,41.7858,-87.7524,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KMHT,Manchester-Boston Regional Airport,42.9379,-71.4367,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KMNM,Menominee-Marinette Twin County Airport,45.1264,-87.6383,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KMTH,The Florida Keys Marathon International Airport,24.7261,-81.0511,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KOGM,Ontonagon County Airport,46.8744,-89.3385,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KRHI,Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport,45.6312,-89.4675,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KSUE,Door County Cherryland Airport,44.8438,-87.4211,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,KUES,Waukesha County Airport,43.0416,-88.2375,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,LEBB,Bilbao Airport,43.3021,-2.9117,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,LEMI,Almería Airport,36.8439,-2.3701,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,LEXJ,Santander Airport,43.4271,-3.82,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,LIAP,L’Aquila–Preturo Airport,42.3916,13.3176,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,LSGL,Lausanne-Blécherette Airport,46.5453,6.6167,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,LSGS,Sion Airport,46.218,7.3283,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,LSZH,Zurich Airport,47.4647,8.5492,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,MDJB,Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport,17.4965,-63.8284,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,MDLR,La Romana International Airport,18.4507,-68.9118,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,MDST,Cibao International Airport,19.4073,-70.6047,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,PASP,Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport,61.1744,-149.996,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,SBGR,São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport,-23.4321,-46.4694,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,SBJR,Jacarepaguá-Roberto Marinho Airport,-22.9783,-43.3729,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,SBVT,Vitória Airport,-20.2556,-40.2864,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,SKLA,Palonegro International Airport,7.1275,-73.1848,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,SVJQ,Antonio Nicolás Briceño Airport,9.34,-70.5846,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,USRR,Mirny Airport,62.5347,113.968,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,VEMN,Muzaffarnagar Airport,29.9853,77.425,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,WADB,Sultan Muhammad Salahuddin Airport,-8.5396,118.687,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,WMKP,Penang International Airport,5.2972,100.276,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,Y55,Afton Municipal Airport,42.7353,-110.942,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,YPKA,Karratha Airport,-20.7121,116.773,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,
Location,YPKU,Kununurra Airport,-15.7781,128.707,,,,WHA Feb 24,,,,

 

 

Edited April 20 by Pdale

[albar965 1,047]

13 minutes ago, Pdale said:

Unfortunately the world hub airports are not tagged as add-ons, I wish they were as it would make the process much easier.

Where are these located? Are these airport add-ons at all? What are the paths shown in LNM information window -> tab "Airport" -> tab "Overview" in section "Data Source"?
LNM considers all airports add-on if they are not stored in "fs-base".

Alex

[Pdale 1]

World Hub airports are user edited and corrected base airports. I am not familiar with xplane but I think they have a process where a user can get submit corrections to airports that are then approved by xplane and base airports are revised to reflect the correction.

MSFS is trying to do a similar thing and its been in testing since late 2023. The airports exist in the base sim but are not add-ons. There are approx 230 airports in the Feb and Apr sim updates but there will be many more once the process comes out of testing. It would be nice to see where these airports are as they are rolled out but the process of adding each airport individually is not realistic.

I don't see a way to batch search for a group of airports and then add a userpoint icon.

To answer you question one of the world hub airports EDDC is located in C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Official\Steam\fs-base-genericairports\scenery\0601\APX51130.bgl

It's embedded in one of the bgl files

 

Edited April 20 by Pdale

[albar965 1,047]

13 hours ago, Pdale said:

The airports exist in the base sim but are not add-ons.

Then LNM cannot detect these automatically. As Piotr indicated userpoints are the solution and there is a shortcut to create an add-on mark with an userpoint: In the map right click on the airport and select Mark Airport as Add-on. This will add a userpoint with airport information pre-filled of type add-on (yellow ring).

These can be exported and imported as CSV like any other userpoint.

Alex