My big problem with MSFS Airports, besides the ones mentioned before, is the overall look and feel. The ground markings are highly inaccurate and look so weird. It’s nothing like a real airport looks like. Sometimes they are missing completely, even in Handcrafted airports (e.g EDDF the yellow lines on the gates) Furthermore everything looks too clean and too uniform.
In comparison, in xplane Airports somehow feel more realistic for me.
There is a mod, I think in flightsim.to, that makes the ground look more realistic. Skid marks from planes landing, etc.
Not sure if free or payware, but I know there is a mod, possibly more, out there to make them look more realistic.
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I’ve found missing line that looked like they were erased off the ground. You can see where the paint was, kind of like when they do road work and remove painted lines that you can still see.
I also see this on some runway lines where there are ghosted lines. I used to think it was a realism simulation but it may just be erased from imagery and redrawn.
I bought a mod for aging the ground at the airports. It looks better but still doesn’t look right for me. And it also only addressed this small factor. The lines still don’t look like at any airport on the world. It seems that the developers have never been at an airport in real life.
And regarding those erased lines: they are really just erased from the underlying images. Another factor which makes the airports bad.
This!!!
I barely missed a flightline pickup truck crossing my active landing into KLAS, then landing in Aruba two pickup trucks pulled up and pretty much blocked me on the taxiway from reaching my parking spot. It felt like they were really trolling me on purpose as we all just sat there having a stare off until I said screw it and just clipped through them out of frustration 
It’s ridiculous that they still haven’t fixed KBWI after over 18 months. Cosmetic issues are one thing, but in this case a whole major runway is missing.
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Any 3rd party fixes available? Merrill C Meigs is beautifully done and that doesn’t even exist any longer in real life.
It really is ridiculous.
I’ve reported it to Zendesk several times starting when the Sim was first released, and other folks have reported it is well.
Not sure how to bring visibility to something like this. Can a Community Manager assist?
As a hub for Southwest, 33L gets a LOT of traffic.
There is a mod available, but this is an International Airport that should have been fixed by now.
For what we get for free I’m not complaining at all. If major stuff is missing that should be fixed but airports IMO just needs night lighting. If you want better buy payware.
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You didn’t read my original post. It talks about things payware airports can’t fix.
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