Madeira Airport (LPMA) bumpy uneven terrain

PotentialTERROR · August 10, 2021, 7:46pm

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Is it me or is Madeira airport reminiscent of an off-road course?

I’m not sure if it’s the sceney’s mesh or whatever, but taxiing to Runway 23 from the terminals is literally like a roller coaster. It has to be the worst airport I’ve come across so far in the game

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Running all ultra settings

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MarcusCoull · August 11, 2021, 10:28pm

Yep.Was flying into and out of Madeira yesterday.Same thing,up and down,Up and down lol.Wait until they put in the loop,LOL.

iltarix · December 28, 2022, 6:40am

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Brief description of the issue:
LPMA airport from Asobo has some uneven terrain along the taxiway and runway as well. Some weird height map data around the airport as well, resulting in squared hills.

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YearlingDeer319 · December 28, 2022, 11:49am

This is a mesh problem that has been present from the early attempts by Aerosoft in their Madeira X Evolution iteration of the product that they released in 2017. There is a problem with the DEM data as far as I can tell and reading up about the problem, it appears the SDK is not able to fix it.

For info, I’m attaching a screenshot of the commercial version of the airport I bought from ORBX and that has the same problem. See below:

For interest here below is a screengrab of the Google version and, even on that, the problem exists. So it’s not an Asobo fault or bug, the problem has existed for at least 5 years.

Best wishes

SinfulDanTheMan · May 7, 2023, 2:22am

came here to report this big issue. what’s really a confusing point with this is LPMA is an Official Asobo airport that was custom built and released as a flagship airport for their Iberia World Update.

Why would they choose, let alone release, an airport that has such bad, unfixable terrain issues? If Asobo’s own devs can’t fix it, then this sounds like it’s pointing to a larger issue.

I’d be curious to see if anyone has more info on this subject, as it raises a lot of interesting points.