[018] Creating An Airport - Improving ILS with Scenery - Microsoft Flight Simulator 20 SDK Tutorials

This tutorial covering the basics of how to create a new airport in the game, specifically focusing on Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport in France (ICAO:LFLC).
This airport does not appear in the game even though there is map data for it, probably due to a portion of the airport being pixelated out on Google Maps.
This fourth part of the tutorial covers how to improve upon the ILS experience by using scenery objects to replicate the ILS antennas and use their specific placement for the lat/lon details for the localiser and glideslope antennas.
Some of the content in this tutorial requires manually editing the project xml as the Microsoft Flight Simulator SDK currently does not support adding communication and navigation data to airports via the in game editor.

[@pedrorego940]

Gold... pure gold your Tutorials... Cheers mate!

[@Djeez2]

Thanks for figuring everything out and explaining it to us.

[@andrefinken]

Thank you for all the great tutorials. I´ve learned a lott

[@MrMo-gr5ob]

Thank you again! 😊👌

[@Mrazgoodaz]

How would this work with custom airports that don't have ILS, do you get the cords in that location and still do it this way?

[@RacingSlow]

Love this series. Would be nice to get a start to finish on a small airfield. I have two near me, blackbushe and white waltham that i would like to do.

[@FlyingTheston]

I'm going to be doing some mini-project series pretty soon!

[@RacingSlow]

@@FlyingTheston Hero!

[@tristanlauritsen3941]

How do you get the papi lights to work?

[@southwest0092]

What do you use to remake it ????

[@GamesBR2]

how to create RNAV approximation? can you share this xml file? so I can just change the codes? I can't create a new one

[@J0ker387]

Thank you very much for your tutorials. They help us a lot. But, in this video, you did not focus on one important point. You need to properly terminate the line in the xml file after adding the line GlideSlope, when there are several ILS on the list . You yourself did it right. But we were not shown this moment.
Many people could have problems for this reason.

[@GamesBR2]

how to create RNAV approximation? can you share this xml file? so I can just change the codes? I can't create a new one

[@leroi804]

do you know, are there any papi lights model? I can't find anything in the objects list....

[@thesaucefather6682]

Wait how did you get google maps to show those 3d buildings? I have that option selected and don't see them 3d?

[@ghuyskens2]

Hey Theston, I don't have the ILS_ANTENNA_02 in my scenery listed objects after I made a fresh installation. Any ideas?

[@MrZiron]

Please give to me your airport xml file to copy ILS and comm freqs data

[@brentspringer2317]

great video!! i do have a question about the Backcourse flag. I have RW35 which has the ILS and RW17 that would have the backcourse ILS.
so two questions related to that:
1) why would backCourse be "true" for RW35 and not RW17?
2) do i need to add an additional ILS entry for RW17?
i hope that makes sense. Thanks

[@vigomat]

Please I see you have glass on your Lighthouse, how you did that? If I export any type of glass from Blender, I got non transparent surface. Thank you

[@FlyingTheston]

I didn't use the MSFS Glass property for that, but if you want to use the MSFS Glass property then you need to set the opacity low on it. I'll look to do a tutorial showing how soon.

[@vigomat]

@@FlyingTheston Perfect, thank you.

[@flyto7639]

cool video....it is created new update FS2020 ver. SDK 0.6.0.0 ?

[@FlyingTheston]

All of these videos up until now were created with the SDK 0.5.3 version as 0.6.0 has only just come out.

[@flyto7639]

@@FlyingTheston now i deal with sdk version 0.6.0.0. problem with the deformation of the terrain under the taxiports (small hills are formed there only in some). I'm looking for where the problem is if it needs a taxipath to the road

[@flyto7639]

yes it was a road .... but after that new japan update it seems to me that in sdk 0.6.0.0 missing around the airport more trees it's some bare