Hi there,
new here and loving the new flight sim!! 
What an INCREDIBLE thing they’ve achieved.
I’m enjoying hopping around the world looking at places I’ve either always wanted to go to or have been to. Latest one has me stumped though … Masada in Israel, by the dead sea. I can’t find it!
Can anyone else find it in the sim?
Also … is there somewhere we can report bugs to? I tried taking off from the nearby I.bar yehuda airstrip and crashed into thin air each time. Sure it’s a bug - no biggy as I took off happily from Arad instead. But thought someone might like to know.
Thanks folks!! Enjoy the flying
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I’ll see if I can find it later if you don’t get an answer before I get back. Report bugs by using Zendesk. Look at the top of the forum page and you’ll see it. Click there and it will show all the info you need to submit. Regards
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Well I found the right “geography”, but they didn’t really capture the remains of the buildings very well. Certainly isn’t recognizable as the site. And it doesn’t have a POI marker for it. Might want to submit a Zendesk request for an update to that area. I’m sure with all the major issues they have right now, it won’t get changed anytime soon, but worth putting it on their radar for future updates. Regards.
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Also flying around a lot in Israel and this is what I noticed:
- Unable to land on water on the Kinneret and Dead Sea, although I would not suggest anyone landing on the Dead Sea
- Acre doesn’t have the old city, just looks like modern houses
- Eilat looks kinda sad
- Ramon international airport is missing
- LLET was closed. It has yellow x-marks on the runway in real life, but still usable in sim.
- Rishon Lezion airfield has buildings placed very close near the runway, I think it’s not that scary in real life Also too many trees at the beginning/end of the runway
Probably some other things missing. Hoping someone makes a guide to modify/add landmarks and airfields, would love to take a shot at modifying some of the scenery.
In general it looks pretty good, even if there are things missing or don’t look correct.
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PLEASE report all bugs to https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com The more people report bugs, the more they know about it and the more they can get resolved.
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Already reported the issues that I mentioned. I don’t report missing landmarks because that’s just a limiting factor of the AI, especially when there’s no photogrammetry.
hahaha
you couldn’t be more wrong.
I think one of the selling features of this version of FS IS the landmarks. I think it’s worth reporting on landmarks which are globally significant. It’s not worth it on things like “Oh, but that’s my highschool!” … but on things like Masada I think it is worth flagging up as something which should be noted as a globally significant landmark.
Also … The old city of Jerusalem seems to be populated by high rise buildings!! Very odd!!
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Yes exactly. I suspect the AI is seeing something should be there, but it does not always have the context of what it is supposed to be. I think these landmarks are supposed to be either modeled manually, or has to be done with photogrammetry. Maybe the AI implementation will get better but I don’t think it’ll manage to recreate accurate 3D buildings for example in Jerusalem, if it only has a top down view.
If you take a look at the satellite data for Jerusalem in bing map, it’s low res. Same for google maps. Not sure why, but might be security related.
edit: https://medium.com/@joshdance/why-is-jerusalem-blurry-on-google-maps-db6e0aec5d64 interesting read
So don’t report bugs and even if you do they won’t be fixed right? Is that what you would rather tell people?
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around llmz the place with wrong elevation, so you can not landing there and for sure can not take off… we need addon, as asobo have big problems with ctd, download/installation, and so one… lacking original buildings everywhere, not only in israel, generated trump towers instead of chemical tube, tv stations, obelisks, everything generated as buildings, so in the program just not some structures for generate their right… good thing in all of this, is more simple addon create, devs have to just some correct or ignore big places, and change only some elevation like in masada airport with add original structures, like bridges(what looks like bridges) obelisks, chemical tubes, factories, hangars, temples etc. and somewhere just correct photoscenery, like around kpsp… if talk about all the world it’s huge work, and only addons can save us fast, and in future i think map generation will much better… as i understand, correct elevation is most simple stuff there, and will corrected first person, who know how to do it