The signs are too small too. That makes em even harder to read.
But also: THE SDK doesn’t allow us to modify existing scenery! We can only start from scratch!
Asobo, please give us access to modify existing airport layouts like we could in ADE or X-Plane’s editor. It should be an easy process.
I have to use the progressive because of the wrong taxi signs. I ran into issues where taxi signs and the taxi border lights were in the middle of taxi way. The border taxi lights were also in the middle of KSFO which is a hand crafted airport. One big reason I went from standard to premium. Pretty frustrated.
This is by far my biggest issue with the Simulator.
Completely agree this is the first thing I noticed when I taxiied to the holding point at my local international airport for the first time. Unless its fixed it will cause major carnage on Vatsim
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Subject: BINOCULARS
The Zoom level is unable to read the markers from parking/taxi.
Sending out a Drone(camera) to read them would probably get a license revoked.
Having an Airport Diagram open on your iPadd is a great option but Binoculars have always been important.
MS Flight Sims Zoom levels have always been insane. You could zoom in for miles.
Why is something built from FSX not capable of zooming?
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Wrong taxi signs make this unuseable for people on Vatstim etc. I thought it was accurate., I now have to keep my er sims up so I can use them for this, A very severe fault.
100% agree, correct taxi names are extremely important. After landing, literally all immersion is broken and that good feeling of completing a flight quickly vanishes due to the frustration of the current taxiway state
I agree.
Another issue is that the taxiway signs are too small… Especially troublesome when ATC gives you taxi instructions and you can’t even see the signs 
yes, this needs to be corrected. for a flight sim, accurate taxiway numbers are important!
Totally agree, please, yesterday i have a 5 base fly in BANGKOK airport VTBD , and first the gate is so horrible, the jetway is direct into my cockpit, and gate is not align withe jetway at all, and during taxi , i saw runway holding line and runway number in the parking area , in that time i just want to escape the airport , because is so bad made , that i dont want to stay there any longer… please fix it , this is a very basic needs for us between vatsim or else… by the way southeast aisa airport is already less developer want to make airport for southeast asia, even an default airport dont care … we are also fans …
I think the taxiway signs need to be a fair bit larger.
edit: I’ve done some research on taxisigns and the ingame taxisigns.
The leftmost sign is the ingame sign. (unfortunately it’s the back of the sign. The scenery editor didn’t cooperate so I had to improvise)
I think it compares to either size 1 or 2 (right most signs).
In my research I found these sizes are meant for general aviation airports, while 3 and 4 are for international airports.
A table for the sizes:
Size | support height | billboard height (on top of support/measured without support) | text size | max runway length of airport
Size 1 | 18cm / 7inch | 50cm / 20inch | 25cm / 10inch | 800m / 2600ft
Size 2 | 18cm / 7inch | 66cm / 26inch | 33cm / 13inch | 1200m / 3900ft
Size 3 | 18cm / 7inch | 81cm / 32inch | 40.5cm / 16inch | 1800m / 5900ft
Size 4 | 18cm / 7inch | 127cm / 50inch | 63.5cm / 25inch | 1800m+ / 5900ft+
Size 4 is a bit smaller for european airports I think. (107cm)
But yeah, the signs should be larger for the big airports.
Agree too. In A320 I have to do full zoom to see the letters to know where to go in gatwick. Not easy with that small letters.
I did that research too and submitted a Zendesk request which has not been answered. Hope they fix that.
Thanks for taking the time to find the real heights and import them into the sim! It’s telling seeing how small the default signs are in comparison.
Since many devs of Asobo became a GA pilot I think they got easy access to the signs at their GA airport and measured those. They may not have seen the bigger ones even.
However, FSX had all sizes in the game. (I think they only used size 3 though) They even had size 5, which is similar to size 3 but to show how long the remaining runway is. (I don’t think that was ever used either)
I think telling an AI which sign to use is not too hard as it correlates with the longest runway available. Maybe grass runways should have maximum size 2.
so sad , a customer have to do this for the brand… we should enjoy not doing this … but is there any choice we can make? Look like we are teaching teaching them how to make FS.
FS is a professional tool or else., if you put a word “SIMULATOR” is word is heavy and will come with a huge high expectation customers who purchase this… and that who cant fly in real life , this is a major things for them.
Yes, I completely agree.
Will there ever be accurate taxi way signs for all airports in the sim because if I remember correctly FSX had them so why shouldn’t Microsoft flight simulator. Also vatsim has been advertised for the sim and it’s very hard to taxi correctly on vatsim without accurate signage.
I agree. It bugged me from the start. It was mentioned in All early stages over an over, and it was said it would be updated later with data. Guess later means in a major update, not release.
Taxi signs are not only too small, but positioned wrong. I have to have taxi arrows on so I don’t strain my eyes. IT was better in FSX
Some airports need work like George W. Bush (Houston) Really flat Taxi over bridges? Traffic going across runway at those spots?
Blah.
Honestly: give us the possibliity to edit the existing airports in the editor!
Let the community repair the taxiways and lights. You have thousands of users who are willing to repair their home airports
