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I have been reminded that creating a taxiway using the normal methods will give each new taxi point and altitude of zero at the moment. The altitude of a taxi point is not relevant and ignored if the airport is not sloped or created for earlier sim versions. This altitude is AMSL - there is no IsAgl flag available.
The question for me is what altitude value to put into a new taxi point when it is created. I assume that the user will need to manually intervene to set points to suit their sloped design. So does it matter they are zero - generally that could be used as a flag to indicate an unset point altitude. The color of the node might be made say red. There is a small risk that someone will want a taxi way at zero.
An alternative is to set the altitude at the Airport reference altitude
Another would be to take the altitude of the previously created taxi point and use that.
Or...…
I would appreciate some views. Of course if you never plan to create a sloped airport then this need not affect or concern you. For example you are creating for FS9 > P3Dv4
The question for me is what altitude value to put into a new taxi point when it is created. I assume that the user will need to manually intervene to set points to suit their sloped design. So does it matter they are zero - generally that could be used as a flag to indicate an unset point altitude. The color of the node might be made say red. There is a small risk that someone will want a taxi way at zero.
An alternative is to set the altitude at the Airport reference altitude
Another would be to take the altitude of the previously created taxi point and use that.
Or...…
I would appreciate some views. Of course if you never plan to create a sloped airport then this need not affect or concern you. For example you are creating for FS9 > P3Dv4