[Freeware] Eindhoven Airport - EHEH (WIP)

Interesting will take a look if I can find something regarding this, I just added a runway with the in-game tools and documentation is still very sparse. I’ll fly around some airports with snow as up till now I’ve always used live weather or just clear skies when using the editor.

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OK so I have seen the Apron and left taxiways were covered with snow, where the runway and right taxiways were not. I believe this is due to the added coloration to make them darker (according to the satellite images), though the apron and left taxiways also have this but much lighter.

I checked Schiphol (premium) and it had the same issue on the runways and a few other concrete places, I believe this is then a bug in the game engine and will file a ticket when I did some more testing.

Good to know, yeah make a ticket if that is the case. Thank you for looking at it.
Hope you get ground control working btw.

Small update, version 0.4;

  • Added Military Aprons (west and east)
  • West Apron has taxiways connected
  • Added taxiway that goes around the west apron and connects back to P.
  • Added some more tree patches around west apron and the added taxiway.
  • Adjusted some taxi way points to reduce the amount and make it more streamlined for future.
  • Adjusted parking spots to have airplanes spawn with wheel on T (hopefully)
  • Slightly adjusted coloring of the runway, taxiway, and aprons.
  • Added tire-gum textures to the runway on the touchdown zones.
  • Removed the parked airplane which was a simobject potentially reducing FPS.
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Found a little bug, floating light above the control tower even during the day. maybe lower it or attach a pole to it or something so it doesnt appear to be floating in the sky. Other then that great update again, cant wait to see the finished product

Update version 0.5;

  • Connected the east military apron.
  • Added the helipad apron.
  • Adjusted the parking spots slightly (again).
  • Manually added (roughly) the taxi lights around the taxiways.
  • Added bright lights around the apron, locations are based on the satellite coordinates.

*I just need someone that can create a model of the terminal and figure myself out how to create and added some ground textures for the civil apron. Other than that I only need to create some taxiways around the military hangars between the trees in top-right (from picture).

@patrickb1973 I have disabled the beacon (floating light) as I was unable to adjust the position of it and as you said it was way higher than the actual tower so was kinda pointless at this moment.

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Looking very good.

There’s someone over at Reddit who’s also working on EHEH … or is that you?

Hmm, that is not me :thinking:

Well at least he has models which I am lacking, currently, I am in the process of manually drawing the taxiways and have them exactly like the satellite images (and what he did apparently as well) and I am working on importing the Google Maps images as ground textures to get some more accurate positioning and uncensored area’s so I could finalise the civil apron lines as well. Not sure if I want to do that now and just leave this as-is for now and wait for that mod or somehow collaborate, not really using Reddit so that went completely past me.

Don’t stop because of me, I think your airport looks really good!

While I have the custom buildings, you seem to have the runway figured out mine is still not completely flat (when zoomed in) :wink:

Keep going!
I don’t think my version will be ready anytime soon :slight_smile:

Aight, I will fiddle around with importing Google Maps air images to use as ground texture to uncensor and see how that works out, hopefully that fixes the deformed open-air parking areas. Just that I rather collaborate than doing stuff that someone might be do better job at, I am furthermore completely new to all this in-game modding and modelling and the lack of documentation doesn’t help either :smile:

Of course I don’t remove this thread so people at least are able to use EHEH in-game as for now. Just a question for you did you manually drew the taxiways with a apron in segments or …?

uhm partially, the corners are aprons, but the rest is mostly regular taxiway path/points :wink:

Very cool, thank you for your hard work, groeten from Holland!

Good work, Thanks. Maybe you can work together with this guy.
https://www.reddit.com/user/Jettuh/

edit: StartedCircle35 has already mentioned this.
So keep your good work

Great job! I tried it myself when the SDK was just released and did a pretty good job (if I say so myself), but your version is definitely more accurate. Hope you’ll find someone to do the terminal.

Yes, work together on this! Use the base of this airport and the buildings and structures from the Reddit user!

Version 0.6;

Using data from https://www.lvnl.nl/eaip/2019-08-01-AIRAC/html/eAIP/EH-AD-2.EHEH-en-GB.html;

  • Calculated the midpoint of the runway: 51.450129 5.374512 for exact documented positioning
  • Added ILS LOC frequencies and locations as documented.
    – ILS LOC 03: FREQ: 109.750, ID: EHZ
    – ILS LOC 21: FREQ: 109.750, ID: EHO
    – Have not tried to land with ILS yet, never been able to complete an IFR route in MSFS yet.
  • Set Tower, Approach, and Ground frequencies so there is some communication with ATC.
    – trying to figure out taxi routing and routing to parking, making progress with that.


TACAN ID: EHV Is already present in-game on the correct location, will not adjust/override this.

Version 0.6 Aerial;

I have also a test version of 0.6 with Google Aerial images to unblur the area. Keep in mind that this is a quick test/preview as I have not done anything to the image sources such as clean up. What also might be noticeable is that the runway is slightly off than what is documented/calculated so I am not sure if I want to shift the runway to match the aerial images. Will work on this version as well to clean up and make sure to cover all the censored parts and that it connects nicely with the original bing imagery, like fields not cut in half due to different seasons the imagery was taken.


Before I focus on either updating the visuals around the taxiways/runways -like the aerial imagery shows like by making use of multiple layers- or by cleaning up the Google aerial images, I will focus on taxiway navigation/routing and parking first. Would like someone to test the ILS LOC approach, there might not be a glide scope available.

Well I have stated my intentions that I wanted to work together, we will see, in the meantime I’ll focus on getting navigation, frequencies, routing, and taxiways correct so the other can focus on modeling which is also good.

btw @ErikNL80 I see you!

Cool :slight_smile: Was slewing around there!

That’s amazing, well done!

While I can land using ILS (thanks youtube), the whole setting this up seems to be a lot of work using the XML files.

I’ll have a look and see what I’ll do with my buildings.
Not really sure if I want to make them freeware yet or ask a few euro for them somehow (my 3ds max license runs out in 15 days…)

Some progress on the taxi routing;

Just need to see if I can get ATC to tell you to cross the runway from L2 -> R3. Also, I probably need to “close” R2 so it routes you to R1 to enter the runway ([Freeware] Eindhoven Airport - EHEH (WIP)).

As a bonus I have added a vehicle route around the parking spots and a vehicle spawn so requesting fuel is also possible already in the next update!

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