[TrueEarth Southern California for XP11 on finals!]

On 5/27/2020 at 3:54 AM, Tony Wroblewski said:

 

Hi Sergio. There is an update on the way that will add helipads to lots of the downtown buildings and to fix some more problems, so the update should please a lot of helicopter pilots who were looking to do this type of flying.

 

is there any news on this update?

[TrueEarth Southern California for XP11 on finals!]

On 5/8/2020 at 8:11 AM, Tony Wroblewski said:

 

Please can you open a support ticket about this and let us know which ones you would like landable... Hard objects in X-Plane come at an expensive performance cost, so we don't make the objects hard-surfaced especially in such a crowded area. 

I'm a little late to this party, and just found this thread after looking at the other helipad related topics. so, just to make sure I understand, Orbx omitted all of the helipads to prioritize performance? 

 

I understand not doing all of them if that was the case, but none of them? I think a good compromise would have been to include all of the rooftop helipads that are still active or that have an FAA identifier, and leave the emergency use only helipads as is. That would have been much less disappointing to all of the helicopter guys who bought this knowing how rich the Los Angeles area is with helicopter activity.  

 

 also, was any thought given to the ground based heliports that were omitted from this scenery? Queen Mary Heliport (CL07), Catalina Air-Sea Terminal Heliport (6CA3), SEC southeast (CL58) or any of the other ground based landing areas? I really feel like you guys left the helicopter community hanging on this one.