Monopoly, is Greek for ‘Single civilisation’, which is an incorrect statement as applied to MSFS, as there are other Flight Simulators.
At least two have better flight physics simulation.
If you have a favoutite small field, which is missing AFIS in the game, it can be easily remedied with SDK.
Create the runway ‘Transparent’ over the existing runway.
Create a Taxiparking to spawn at.
Connect the TaxiParking to the runway with a Taxiway by a string of TaxiPoints, using some length of runway.
Link the TaxiParking to the Taxiway with a TaxiPath.
Convert the TaxiWay to a TaxiPath where it is along the runway.
Convert a TaxiPoint to a StopShort,
Copy and paste from the Example Radio cfg and edit it to the correct frequency for the airfield. Edit the name of the Tower.
See Patriot Six on YT.
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I would say please don’t do this. You’re going to generate a duplicate, “ghost field” that overlaps and it’s not going to play nice with the sim in other ways.
It would be better to log it in the master airport error thread so that it’s fixed for everybody.
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MS and Asobo have left it for us, the players, to fill in where they haven’t actioned.
SDK was released exactly for the players to personally modify the small airfields around where they are centered.
Some of the airfields I have modified have more than one runway. I have only utilised the runway pointing into the prevailing wind, the SW direction.
The most used airstrip is evident on arial photo images.
I have a list of seventeen airfield folders in my Community folder.
They are very simple and they would probably be disapointing to other players. They only have one Ramp, because I can only fly one aeroplane at a time. They are OK for me.
This is why I prescribe each player modifying their own group of small fields.
My local game runs great.
As for ‘ghosts’, there is one aerodrome near me with a ghost aaroplane.
Castle Bromwich, where in 1943, a Spitfire crashed, killing the lady ferry pilot.
It can be heard on occasions.
Another Ghost is P/O ‘John the Pilot’.
Of University of Birmingham Air Squadron.
Crashed and killed at RAF Castle Bromwich in an Avro Anson. Co-pilot also killed.
Testing after repairs.
My 2 year old son chatted with ‘John the pilot’ for several months when we lived in Castle Bromwich.
I have spent 10 hours trying to assign commands to controllers in 2024. I still do understand even one of the basics. Because there is no manual. And worse, there is no tutorial.
The tutorials on Youtube by 3rd parties are sloppy and poorly organized because they were not made by professionals. None of them have helped me.
10 hours (so far)!
In the 2020 sim I learned how to do almost all of this in 1 hour by trial and error without any major issues.
Does MS / Asobo want to start getting positive reviews? Then please make a controller assignment tutorial. That is the major number one issue and complaint with this sim on Avsim forum. All other issues are trivial compared to this one.
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Hello @DartoFielder,
There is an FAQ guide on how to bind controls on our Zendesk support site here:
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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I agree with you 
Have to respectfully disagree here.
FS20 and FS24 are leaps and bounds ahead in realism when compared to FS2004. I am certainly not looking back with rose tinted eye glasses on. For me FS24 has been awesome. With the exception of a few minor bugs seen so far (1x pink AI aircraft - missing textures I assume, and three Airbuses superimposed over each other taking off at EGSS) I have been having a real blast with this game.
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I feel deceived. This isn’t a new sim. You have created a marketplace that is designed for cheating the community. This is the old Visual Studio model: buy the new version AND buy all the plugins again. I already had all the planes. What did I pay $300 for?
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