It is not possible to separate heliports and helipads from airports on GNS430 & GNS530

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

  • It is not possible to separate heliports and helipads from airports.

  • Helipads and Heliports appear on the GPS and on tablet as Airports.

  • When flying a plane, helipads and heliports show up as airports, on the GPS G530, G430, when selecting nearby airports.

  • Version: 1.2.11.0

  • Version: SIM Update 1 Beta

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:

  • All world

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Yes, yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

  • Every flight

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Start a free flight
  2. Use tablet
  3. Use GPS G530 / G430

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

  • Not relevant

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

  • No

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

  • Not Relevant

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

  • Not relevant

MEDIA

Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring.

  • Lisbon

  • In the picture only LPCS is an airport.

  • New York

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I try with the Cessna 172 Classic and the DHC-2 Beaver.

GNS530
GNS430
EFB

MSFS2024
Version: 1.3.23.0


  • Only LPCS is an airport, the rest are heliports.


  • Near Airports are heliports

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I think a runway length threshold should be implemented in the map like airliner addons do, to move out any helipads and pretty short runways. It’s so annoying seeing lots of helipads shown on map of a fixed wing aircraft.

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This issue continues in SU2 Beta 1.4.11.0

It is the same with the atc choice for a airport.. all helipads are also in there so fi 2 miles from KLAX there international airport is on page 5!! to choose??

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This issue continues in SU2 Beta 1.4.13.0

This issue continues in SU2 Beta 1.4.14.0

This issue continues in SU2 Beta 1.4.16.0

Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.

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Thank you.
Regards.

This issue continues in SU 2 and in SU 3 Beta 1.5.1.0

Continues in 1.5.15.0

Not only in GNS530/430 or in the EFB, but also in Sim ATC.

Is it possible to do this with the real unit? It’s worth noting that the GNS in MSFS 2024 will display at least airports that in reality would not be shown in the GNS. Yes heliports will be shown but how many of them I have no idea.

MSFS 2020 does not have a database of heliports by default which is why they’re not shown. As for them not being there until SU1 were heliports shown on the World Map prior to SU1?

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Only where it’s marked with the arrow (where the plane is) is an airport, everything else is heliports and helipads.

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Ah ok thanks for the info! Added a vote.

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That’s for markers in the world not the GNS.

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It’s also always been the case in FS2020; the difference was there were very few heliports.

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This problem continues, including on the ATC.

SU4 Beta, version 1.6.3.0

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The same problem is on the World Map.
There are distinct filters for Heliport and Helipads. Each of them hides/shows both types.
So it’s impossible to see only airports and heliports without all those annoying helipads at the same time.

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