I was flying around Scotland today and found the airfield on Skye (EGEI Broadford) had become Clutton Hill EGEI. Has this airfield had a name change or is this an in sim error?
I just checked out Clutton Hill Airstrip and it is near Bath (roughly to the West) in Somerset. I had a similar experience a couple of days ago. Programmed the G1000 for EGGP (Liverpool John Lennon) to EGXG (RAF Church Fenton/Leeds East) and the planned route on the MFD showed me heading South. Out of interest I followed the GPS route and ended up at a farm strip near Bristol. I landed at EGTG (Bristol Filton). Turns out, in the sim, Church Fenton/Leeds East is EGCM.
As far as I can see EGEI (irl) is still Broadfield although it doesn’t appear in my old Pooley’s Flight Guide.
The Skye airfield has had several changes of name in recent times. Little Nav Map has it listed at XBRO for now.
Interesting to see this today, as I have just had the same confusion.
I installed this software for “Broadford Airfield EGEI ( XBRO MSFS )” only to then find this mess. (Zoom in on the airfield identifier to see the problem)
And indeed, Clutton Hill (GB-0217) (NOT EGEI) is an airfield in Somerset, England, not the Isle of Skye.
http://www.airfields.org.uk/campaign/clutton.htm
If I remove the Broadford scenery from FS2020 I am left with Clutton Hill, wrongly in Skye, and with the wrong ICAO code of EGEI, so this is an error in the base data of FS2020.
Both EGEI and XBRO are codes for Broadford Airstrip in Skye. Neither are codes for Clutton Hill which is GB-0217.
Interestingly, in Content Manager, searching for either EGEI and XBRO each point to the same installed software by Simwerft as below.
With the Asobo Clutton Hill EGEI scenery and the Flightsim.to Simwerft Broadford XBRO loaded simultaneously, both EGEI and XBRO locate at Broadford and both are usable for navigation and spawning on the runway as can be seen below.
Clutton is older and offers runways 06/24, whereas Broadford is more up to date and offers 07/25. The graphics always show 07/25 and there are no problems with double runways overlaying each other. The graphics all seem fine.
Having both installed doesn’t cause any problems except for the mess of seeing both offered when zooming in to choose an airport before starting the flight.
So the fault seems to lie with Asobo. I’ve seen other airports with the same misnaming and miss-ICAO code issues.
For example, the famous Old Warden airfield was named Hatfield a while ago.
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