EPWS altitude wrong

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Do you have any add-ons in your Community folder? If yes, please remove and retest before posting.
No

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No

Brief description of the issue:
EPWS reference altitude in the sim is ca. 300 ft lower vs. the reality. It causes the airport in the sim to lay in a kind of depression around the airport, which makes it impossible to properly land/take off.

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:

Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Just go to EPWS and see.

PC specs for those who want to assist (if not entered in your profile)

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
All versions since the launch

Are you on the Steam or Microsoft Store version?
Steam

Did you submit this to Zendesk? If so, what is your ticket #?
Yes, in ca. September 2020, don’t remeber the # after so many months. No response :frowning:

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Check the MSFS ZenDesk Bug Reporting FAQ. It contains a lot of helpful information about contacting ZenDesk and includes the link to check the status of all the bug reports you have submitted.

ZenDesk Bug Reporting FAQ

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I know the status, without checking the Zendesk (to be honest I don’t think anybody at Asobo cares about Zendesk reports) - the field is still in a 300 ft deep crater in the sim.

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Just checked in my sim and everything looks fine with EPWS (Szymanów).

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  1. Remove all add ons from the Community Folder.
  2. Set your starting postion at EPWS runway (anyway, no parking spots, so no option for cold & dark start - another flaw).
  3. Set altimiter to QNH.
  4. Read the altitude - should be 407 ft (but is ca. 110 ft).
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  1. Attempt a take off - is the terrain raising? It should not, EPWS lies on a flat plain.

In summary:
The EPWS in MFS2020 lies at ca. 110 ft while it should be at 407 ft. In the result, the entire airfield lies in a 300 ft depression, making take off and landing unrealistic (beginning final you should be at ca. 500 ft AGL, however in the sim you are at ca. 200 AGL, just outside the depression).
Additionaly, no parking spots defined, so you can’t cold & dark.

Even on your screenshot you can easilly spot the raising terrain…

EPWS is my home airfield and I’m real world pilot… It’s small field but it’s a pity that Asobo was not able to fix this issue in ca. 10 months. I believe just one number (the airfield reference altitude) should be corrected and just one parking spot should be added. 10 min. task…

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OK, now I see what you meant. At first I thought the whole runway lies in the deep hole like this famous glitched airport in Brazil, if I remember correctly.