Frontline Airport

Indeed, that’s something many sims often get wrong, even the latest MSFS2024 still has probably hundreds of airfields where this is incorrect and problematic.

In WT it should be fairly easy to correct, as it’s always the same airfield models, and there are not so many locations. Seems to be reoccurring from time to time however, sadly. Often when something is tweaked and improved, something else is reverted to an undesirable state… = /

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Try it in FS24 in an airliner, it’s fun! = )

Oh, btw check out the current sat image of St.Stephan! Must have been taken right during one of the Hunterfests in the last few years, one can see the papyrus hunter, a Vampi Trainer, Alouette III and some GA: St. Stephan, Bahnhof - Google Maps

How I miss those times when they still flew the Hunter Trainers during those events. Fun times, wonderful people… = (

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Yea I believe in CDK you can put no-vehetations zones around the Airfields

Still in all the Swiss airfields that I saw I didn’t see the same situation as I see in the Greek ones, all the Swiss planes look well preserved meanwhile in Greece you will see hundreds of F-5, F-4,Mirages, F104 even some C-47 and many more planes just roting

one of the many examples

40°31’08.12"N 22°57’51.08"E

Yes, and in pains me a lot when I see how many of the Swiss aircraft that were donated to foreign museums or exhibitions are badly cared for.

Also telling: most surviving and still flying Venoms and Hunters, and maybe also Vampires are ex-Swiss AF airframes: They have been kept in such a well maintained state over all their service time, that they still remain airworthy…

Also, have a look at how airbases are maintained:

miramar air base - Google Maps

vs

Payerne - Google Maps

(Theres big differences between how countries maintain their airbases. IIRC also RAF bases are spotlessly clean, the US often seem to not care too much where they spill oil and fuel…)

Yea it’s also all about how many money someone cares to spend on them, Swiss one looks so clean ( couldn’t expect less) but both of them look way better than the crime against humanity that Greece have done against the A-7s (and some F-104) https://maps.app.goo.gl/j2B2vvLUSFfKAV2p9
they look so sad at least in the other airfields the hundreds other aircraft are in better condition

Dublin Airport (my closest airport) and Casement Aerodrome (headquarters of the Irish Air Corps) are surrounded by literal farms and roads

And don’t forget the fences