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P3D v5 Carrier Airport

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To test some wet AI models, I anchored the Nimitz off my fictional island and created an airport on it. I haven't done this for at least 5 years and was pleasantly surprised that it worked right away.

Something irritates me, though, that I can't remember from the past.

The carrier sits in an east-west direction. The takeoff runway is south, the landing runway is north.

Takeoff always works as it should. When landing, however, the AI planes use one or the other runway, depending on whether they are coming from the north or the south.

I'm currently working around this by adding a northern waypoint to all flight plans towards the carrier.

But I would like to know if this is an unavoidable problem or if I have designed something wrong.
 
to illustrate what I have done:


carrier_1.jpg


carrier_2.jpg
 
I'm working on a similar project, I've placed my own carrier group near some fictional oil rigs in Alaska, for some carrier operations training exercises, as a new airport and so far works fine, tho' it's a lot of fiddling to adjust the runway to the carrier and work properly... I've just added a ILS approach and I'm pleased to see it works fine, as intended...


how did you make - or set up - your own fictional island? that's an interesting concept and I'd like to try it...

I mean, did you just pick up an empty island on the existing default map as it is? or create one yourself and add it to the map?
 
I used SBuilderX to create the island. That worked well, only the island is as flat as a table. I never found out how to create some hills and cliffs.

So your AI never lands on the wrong runway? Would you mind sharing your afcad? This sounds like I have configured it wrong.


Send from mobile hence short
 
I guess I have to provide more info in order to get help. Meanwhile I messed things up so badly that all AI always land on the catapult start runway. Here the relevant details - if I miss to provide something please tell me:

Runway for landing:

27/09
137.3 m length (0.3 longer than catapult start, but I also had it shorter and the same length)
0.3 m width
heading 251.596684
Takeoff no on both ends
Landing yes on both ends
Has 1 x hold short

Runway for start:

29/11
137 m length
0.3 m width
heading 259.245505
Takeoff yes on 29, no on 11
Landing no on both ends
Has 1 x runway start and 1 x hold short
 
in my case, I'm not working on AI traffic, as I don't really care much for anything else other than my own aircraft that I can use, and of course the departure and arrival airport/s

my project with my aircraft carrier as an airport is mainly for me, and eventually, friends who would like to join me, for some military exercise training, mainly with the F/A-18, and some helicopters that others may want to use, considering I'm not very good at flying, and especially landing choppers

but building an island is something intriguing to me and I'll definitely have to try it, I may need some extra guidance if you are open to sharing your experience
 
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