How do I identify airports with gates for Heavy aircraft such as the B787 or B747?

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Hi @TheFakeCake1374, & welcome to the forums

@TheFakeCake1374

why don’t airports that support “heavies” irl show heavy gates in msfs

Virtually all airports in MSFS are procedurally-created. Only a very few are hand-crafted. The procedurally-created airports are only as good as the available data for each airport. Have a look at this post:

Significant Number of Flattened Auto-Gen Airports

Agreed. It is why I wrote: “More types of input data, more accurate data, better pattern recognition, etc. all would help generate a more accurate output.” @CharlieFox00 wrote in the post I linked to previously: IMO, it is unrealistic to expect that Microsoft could somehow acquire the data for the thousands of airports, airstrips & airfields where it currently does not exist, and even if they did, and assuming they created a tool that allowed the creation of one airport per day - maybe also …

and @CharlieFox00’s post that I referenced.