Jack Sawyer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 I bought it and I notice on the Orbx Google map Stew sent me its ICAO code is YSCH but on my real Jepp maps and Navigraph charts it shows Coffs as YCFS. Did it get named in real life or something? Just curious. Thanks. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Goff Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Yes, the real ICAO changed to YCFS. Now for some fun FSX-isms, the reason we never update ICAO is that doing so in FSX creates two airports. ICAO is used as the unique identifier for an airport in FSX, in theory one ICAO = one airport in a perfect 1:1 relationship. In practice ICAO's change, so if you updated the ICAO in your add-on airport you now have a whole new airport as FSX still maintains a default version with the old ICAO. If many years ago Microsoft had instead opted to assign a unique ID to each airport, we might be in an easier place to update that data. But then, how do you add new airports without risk of ID collision. And so now here we are, locked into YSCH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 Absolutely brilliant explanation Alex, I never knew this went on behind the scenes and makes perfect sense. Thank you as I learned something new and interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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