Would have loved to see an iniBuilds Al Maktoum International Airport OMDW to go with OMDB v2 that's coming though thankfully we have a nice free OMDW mod on flightsim.to same for Istanbul LTFM, which iniBuilds could have done much better than SceneryTR and an iniBuilds LEMD, KMSY and SCEL so I could dump the old LVFR LEMD, KMSY and SCEL.

Pumped for iniBuilds tackling LFPG-though I bet Pilot Experience Sim's one with the access and data they've amassed will be good.

Edited August 23Aug 23 by amsfsx02501

4 hours ago, amsfsx02501 said:

Pumped for iniBuilds tackling LFPG-though I bet Pilot Experience Sim's one with the access and data they've amassed will be good.

I know CDG is quite hard to get access, I think just to go spotting there you need a permit.

The ILS is broken at Malta. I used RNAV approach instead. Hopefully INI will fix that.

16 hours ago, Peter Z KCLE_EDDN said:

I’m very interested in getting Malta. Can anyone comment on the satellite image quality surrounding the airport?

https://i.postimg.cc/yx6yN30F/Flight-Simulator2024-ANc-Bw92d-Pj.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/nLvWj7QJ/Flight-Simulator2024-mtgax-Z2P5O.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/bvQ5Db2P/Flight-Simulator2024-X5M8FPr7ZC.jpg

Edited August 23Aug 23 by fluffyflops

2 hours ago, ZKOKQ said:

The ILS is broken at Malta. I used RNAV approach instead. Hopefully INI will fix that.

which runway? 31 is fine. Im guessing you using the FBW neo ?

Edited August 23Aug 23 by fluffyflops

4 hours ago, ZKOKQ said:

The ILS is broken at Malta. I used RNAV approach instead. Hopefully INI will fix that.

Just checked this morning and the ILS and glideslope are working fine on both runway 31 and runway 13. Maybe it's possible that you have another addon that is conflicting?

Is it just me, but I saw a pre-release preview of the airport on YouTube and thought the ground textures were dreadful. Poor enough to prevent me from buying it. I wonder if it's the same for the realease version.

There are some red texture areas near the airport (which are a sort of brown colour in the actual Bing maps), but I have not checked it out to see what they are like in the simulator. I hope that they do not look too bad, as I want this airport!

4 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

There are some red texture areas near the airport (which are a sort of brown colour in the actual Bing maps), but I have not checked it out to see what they are like in the simulator. I hope that they do not look too bad, as I want this airport!

Sure, but I suggest you check out Practically Geek on YT Christopher.

Wow, I have just had a look at that YouTube video, and some of the areas around the airport do look very rough indeed! The grass textures around the runway look weird, and there are lots of autogen (I assume) buildings close to the airport fence that do not even seem to be on an equivalent base image footprint. They look like FSX autogen that has just been scattered haphazardly across the photoscenery (which itself looks quite rough, with some strange elevation issues).

Thanks for pointing me to this, Howard. I was fully intending to buy this airport, but your warning has stopped me in my tracks. Very disappointing ☹️

As someone pointed out in the LiveStream chat, it looks like we need a Malta World Update.

Edited August 23Aug 23 by Christopher Low

I have just checked out the area surrounding the default Malta airport. The terrain textures did not look bad at first, but then I found the area with lots of "randomly placed" autogen buildings, and awful looking terrain elevation issues. This is close to the runway 05 threshold. In addition, I noticed that there seems to be a lot of empty space between autogen buildings all around the airport, as if the AI could not decide whether it was looking at buildings or not, so just decided not to put anything there at all.

As far as I am concerned, Malta is off limits until another world update cleans the place up.

Edited August 23Aug 23 by Christopher Low

Small detail I saw pointed out on reddit. One of the apron markings is misspelled in real life, and ini kept that misspelling

Edited August 23Aug 23 by Tuskin38

They seem to have made a mistake with the position of the dashed line below the "Max Lenght 65m" sign.

2 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

They seem to have made a mistake with the position of the dashed line below the "Max Lenght 65m" sign.

Google Maps is outdated, The line has moved. Though ini’s is still a bit too close to the 70m compared to the real revised one.

Apple Maps has newer imagery. Or open google earth and select historic imagery. For some reason the default imagery on Google Maps is not the most recent, I guess because its lower quality.

Edited August 23Aug 23 by Tuskin38

4 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

Wow, I have just had a look at that YouTube video, and some of the areas around the airport do look very rough indeed! The grass textures around the runway look weird, and there are lots of autogen (I assume) buildings close to the airport fence that do not even seem to be on an equivalent base image footprint. They look like FSX autogen that has just been scattered haphazardly across the photoscenery (which itself looks quite rough, with some strange elevation issues).

Thanks for pointing me to this, Howard. I was fully intending to buy this airport, but your warning has stopped me in my tracks. Very disappointing ☹️

As someone pointed out in the LiveStream chat, it looks like we need a Malta World Update.

Yeah, knowing how pedantic you are, like me, about sceneries, I thought you'd have a raised eye brow! I took one look at several areas in the video and thought they looked awful. I don't know what happened.