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MSFS Complete airport list data available anywhere?

dbackeus

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Hi,

I've started dabbling with creating a companion app for Flight Simulator 2020 in a similar vein to OnAir / FSEconomy etc but geared toward single player adventuring / exploration rather than economy simulation.

To be able to generate missions between airports it seems like I will need to have access to a source of data containing all the airports in the game.

Is any such data available from the game installation itself or perhaps via a third party source?
 
xr219

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You’d need to query the sim for it I suspect as different people will have different addon airports installed, and as already established the ICAO’s are very wrong, so you’d need to be able to read from the sim. Simconnect might be an option? Or FSUIPC?
 
dbackeus

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Only "official" airports would be supported by this app.

SimConnect only allows fetching "nearby airports" as far as I know. But I'm new to this so might be wrong?

To clarify: the idea is to be able to plan out missions in the app without actually having the simulator running (as is possible with OnAir etc) so the source of data needs to exist outside of the game-engine.
 
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dbackeus said:
Only "official" airports would be supported by this app.

SimConnect only allows fetching "nearby airports" as far as I know. But I'm new to this so might be wrong?

To clarify: the idea is to be able to plan out missions in the app without actually having the simulator running (as is possible with OnAir etc) so the source of data needs to exist outside of the game-engine.
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Yes, I understand that. What I'm saying is there are differences with the ICAO codes that have been used in the sim. So the official airport ICAO's in real life may be different to those in the Sim. (Hopefully they will fix this).
 
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Hi there. Here is an excel spreadsheet of US Airports that you can use if you like. It's in ZIP format. Just unzip and open. You can export the data wherever you like then.

P.S. I have the associated runway data too if anyone would like it
 

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dbackeus

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Thanks for helping out!

Could you confirm if these are the exact airports found in MSFS2020 or more like a general database of US airports?

If it's extracted from the game itself (which is what I need) I would love to know how it was created. At the end of the day I'll need ever single airport in the game, not only the US ones.
 
rhumbaflappy

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Little Navmap has a database of the MSFS airports. Mine is located in:

C:\Users\<yourr name>\AppData\Roaming\ABarthel\little_navmap_db\little_navmap_msfs.sqlite
You would need a sqlite reader to translate this to a CSV file, and then you can parse that CSV file for the data you'd like.
 
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