Big animals (moose) on the runway


ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
Moose on the runway. Small animals can find holes in the fence, but not moose.

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:
ESSA 19R

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Sometimes

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Spawn into any aircraft
  2. Taxi to the runway
  3. Look out of the window

YOUR SETTINGS

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
Nvidia RTX 2060

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
i7-9700K, 32gb DDR4, 1440p monitor

MEDIA

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

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  • With PG on, my local airport KSBN looks great. But any highly wooded areas like parks look like lumpy mud.
  • With PG off, the same airport has random trees between runways that don’t exist and even worse a herd of wild & crazy horses jumping around on the runway and the taxi way to the terminal!
  • Either way all the gates are full with jetways connected to lot of sail planes.

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• Airports need an exclusion zone for animals.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• yes

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• observed deer on the runway at a small airport, while on short final. Had to go around late.

This happens all the time in real life (deer-airplane accidents are not pretty). I’d prefer not to wholesale exclude this in the sim as it offers a welcome higher level of realism. However, it can go too far due to some obvious limitations - in real life fencing does sometimes preclude larger animals from intruding, but fencing all the way around usually only exists at the larger airports. Additionally, staffed airports can mitigate this to an extent, even if it’s someone in a vehicle chasing them off.

Either of those would require a deeper level of interaction - an exclusion zone created by fencing that is non-existent in the sim (outside of bespoke airports) and/or an ATC menu option for “get these meeses off mah runway!”

More work for the world hub?

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