I have bought and installed the PMS50 Garmin GTN750 GPS add-on.
The map uses two symbols for airports - blue and red. What does the colour mean?
I’ve looked at both the PMS add-on manual, and the real world Garmin manual and I can’t find an explanation. Both types of airport seem functional “in sim” and are not distinguished by size or runway type or anything I can spot.
Blue airports have a control tower and red airports do not.
Aha. Thank you.
I have landed a couple of times recently at airports with no Tower contact available. I had lazily assumed that that was due to the ATC sim subroutine throwing a wobbly. It is rather prone to odd behaviour.
I hadn’t made the connection.
Well, that didn’t pan out the way I expected.
Over the last couple of days, I’ve flown from Marrakesh (GMMX) to Agadir (GMAD), then on to Tan Tan (GMAT), all in Morocco, and finally onto Laayoune (GMML) in Western Sahara. All flights in a Just Flight PA28 Warrior.
Marrakesh was a blue airport on the Garmin, all the others were red. I was a bit surprised about Agadir, because of all the scheduled tourist flights.
All three red airports provided a full Tower service on landing and departure. The only oddity I noticed was that the blue taxi assistance arrows never appeared in Agadir, neither did any ground handlers. Also, Agadir spawned me on the runway on departure, not in the parking, but that might have been my fault when I set the flight up.
So, any more ideas of what’s going on? I don’t doubt that there’s a difference in the real world, but the sim doesn’t seem to be respecting it.