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How to create an airport without ICAO code OR resolve ICAO conflicts?

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First a little disclamer: I searched thorough topics with simple search and found nothing. I hope that gives me immunity to my first topic :)

Now an issue - let me be specific.

I was trying to edit in-game UKUA and change it's ICAO at the same time because real ICAO is UKOE. However, in-game UKOE has already been set to Korenovsk Air Base. I searched a little while and found out that Korenovsk Air Base has no ICAO code in real life. But for somre reason. SDK does not allow to add such airfields. That's not a secret that small airfields may not have ICAO.

I tried to change Korenovsk to a fiction ICAO and build the package but for some reason it didn't actually change. I just edited properties of the Airport, changed ICAO, saved/built the project and moved built filed to Community folder - wasn't it enough? The Airpork still had UKOE code. Even if I succeed wouldn't it be any further conflict?

The other solution would be to remove ICAO or Korenovsk air base at all but it seems it can't be done. Are there any other solutions?
 
The way to change an Airport ID is to close the airport, then rebuild it with a new Airport ID (ICAO). Unfortunately, once an ID is closed, it can't be recycled, so it can never be used again. The only option is to close/rebuild the 2 airports, and ID them to something similar to what they should be IDed. I used UKOEA for the correct Liman UKOE, and UKUAA for the Korenovsk Air Base (somewhat swapping the IDs).

I'm not sure how this will affect the ILS, NAV, ATC etc... but it's a start. Attached are the examples. There are 2 packages made, one for each airport. Study the XMLs in the PackageSources folders to see how it's done. I used ADE to make the basic airports from the Asobo stock.
 

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Thank you very much for your answer and files. I believe it should work, but I had no opportunity to launch MSFS these days. I will make a reply once it works as it should :)
 
Okay, I see. That's definitely the best solution we have nowadays. However, I hope they will fix SDK to solve this issue. Thank you!
 
In order for the aerodrome to appear on the FS10 map, it must be assigned an ICAO code.

For my bush strips I invent a fictitious but significant icao code and I indicate it in the Readme.

No conflict with that for the moment...
 
jpfil said:
In order for the aerodrome to appear on the FS10 map, it must be assigned an ICAO code.

For my bush strips I invent a fictitious but significant icao code and I indicate it in the Readme.

No conflict with that for the moment...
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Yeap, that is a solution for a non-ICAO airfields, thank you
 
Also note that an ICAO code can have up to 5 digits/letters. So in case of smaller airstrips you can give them the same ID as a closeby airfield and just add a number. This should reduce the likeliness of duplications.
In the past there have been some 3rd party navigation tools that had problems with 5 digit/letter codes - but currently I'm not aware of such problems for MSFS.
 
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