Hello,

when deciding where to fly to and from, I am often confronted with thinking about, which airports are higher quality. For instance, for what airport do I have custom or Asobo scenery.

Is there some kind of map you guys use, either automatically or custom maintained, for such kind of thing?

Thanks

Edited November 30, 20241 yr by Simon_C

Excel is your friend. + Google maps.

Edited November 30, 20241 yr by Ricardo41

I rotate through every one of my addon airports over and over again. It's probably an OCD thing, but at least I get my money's worth out of all of them!

16 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Excel is your friend. + Google maps.

Oh really? Did that 10 years ago. Been away since MSFS 2020, didn't really fit me, and P3D seemed way too outdated. Thought we might have advanced since then.

I guess you failed to understand my response.

Excel you can use to create a database of your addon airports, and have the database sort through your collection according to various criteria. 

Google maps can be used to track your airports on a global map. It even allows you to "highlight" those you've already flown to/from. 

There are videos on youtube on how to use the latter app.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0sT-Ox_iPE

Edited November 30, 20241 yr by Ricardo41

I keep a Google Sheet bookmarked (essentially excel) of all my addons, ordered and listed with version numbers, which includes airports and their ICAO. Primarily to see what I actually own, which you tend to lose track of once you start having 20-30+ payware items but that also gives me a nice list of airports I own on each continent. Gives me an idea where to fly from and to. I did use Google Maps to pin all my airports at one time but didn't use it enough and it all got a bit too much.

This is what I have, Google maps with all Asobo and my purchased add-on airports. How to choose where to fly? I am a member of a VA and when I fly airliners, I fly real world routes for the VA. I never take a jump seat, always start where I last landed. If the next arrival airport is a default one, then I'll look around, first for a freeware add-on, then, if nothing comes up, a good payware one. Which doesn't mean I have add-on airports for all the airports I visited! 🙂 

When I fly GA or helicopters, then I usually zoom around my country, mostly flying Neofly missions - at least in MSFS2020. I quickly realized that there are many places even in my small country that I know nothing of and am seeing them for the first time in the sim. Gives me plenty of ideas for many a sunday trip! 

38 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I guess you failed to understand my response.

Excel you can use to create a database of your addon airports, and have the database sort through your collection according to various criteria. 

Google maps can be used to track your airports on a global map. It even allows you to "highlight" those you've already flown to/from. 

There are videos on youtube on how to use the latter app.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0sT-Ox_iPE

Indeed I failed.

This video is great, just watched it, I believe this is the solution enough, even though I must create everything from scratch.

Now, is there a file I can somewhere download which contains all premium deluxe handcrafted airports by Asobo, which I can then import into Google My Maps?

Try this one here:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1KUg5jwyT_9k2A9n5IZ99UChlhfVUfO5S&hl=en_US&ll=54.378273363495104%2C3.2224970408166698&z=6

2 hours ago, Simon_C said:

when deciding where to fly to and from, I am often confronted with thinking about, which airports are higher quality

If Excel or Google maps is too manual, you can use sites like https://where2fly.today to suggest where to fly based on weather, distance, region, handcrafted airports (create an account to copy across your own list of airports).

Alternatively, SimToolkitPro is a powerful, free, flight logger app which can also suggest flights based on real schedules (albeit 1-2 years ago) and between those airports in your Community folder, if you scan for them.

This site is very good:

Where2Fly

 

You can make own lists with your installed airports to keep track.
 

I couldn't survive, sim-wise, without my spreadsheet and addons linker. My spreadsheet documents my entire addons folder structure (geographically broken in to my own chosen areas, plus aircraft listed in my own categories), including groupings for things like all Aerosoft, Contrail etc addons to make it easier to do updates en masse. I also have my sim settings and controls in Excel.

I wouldn't want to start from scratch building such a spreadsheet with all the addons I have, but then I wouldn't have bought all those addons unless I could manage them in some way. If you get the basic structure of how you want your spreadsheet to work then once its set up initially its relatively easy to just keep on adding stuff. In spite of the fact that I've got large amounts of named and cross-linked cells in my sheet, it's become a routine to add new stuff.

And of course - don't forget to back it up!