ACTIVE Elevation issue at Sister's Island

[Brian__]

I didn't notice this until I tried to land at the airstrip on Sister's Island (SSR). There are some strange cliffs and many trees throughout the runway.

[Holger Sandmann]

Hi Brian,

actually, SSR is the identifier for the Sisters Island VOR/DME. In Glacier Bay v2 for FS9 we placed an unlisted airstrip on the island but when I looked at the location for SAK (Google Earth is fuzzy but Bing has high detail: http://binged.it/11RVtmA ) there clearly is no airstrip on the island and thus we didn't place one nor is there an "SSR" ICAO in Default FSX.

In other words, what your screenshot shows must be from a third-party add-on that placed an airstrip on the island, maybe one of Chris Carel's "MoCat's" packages.

Cheers, Holger

[Brian__]

Hmm, that's strange. You're probably right but wouldn't the installer automatically place SAK as the higher priority? Having said that, maybe the elevation from the previous airstrip is higher than the SAK elevation(?)

[Holger Sandmann]

Hi Brian,

where your FTX block of entry sits in the FSX scenery library menu depends on whether you've set an insertion point with FTX Central.

Regardless, in this case order of display priority doesn't make any difference because grass, gravel, or hardened runways placed with the standard FSX tools, cannot be excluded, only moved. Since that particular airstrip doesn't exist in default FSX it's not one that we modified. In short, its runway and associated flattening will display even if its scenery library entry is below the FTX block.

And, yes, the default Sisters Island is quite a bit larger than the real-world island and its depiction in SAK and thus might also be higher in altitude.

Cheers, Holger