SABA (TNCS) has big rocks at the west end of the runway

Brief description of the issue: As title says

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:
This is what it used to be in September 2020:

Today, I get this:

Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered: Just go to SABA (ICAO: TNCS)

Seeing the same. Also sure they werent that big previously.

No mods installed.

Update: Looked on Youtube for footage. Last one without the rocks was on Nov 20 https://youtu.be/ZK17NCaMYOk?t=162

Guess the USA update broke it. Could be related to scenery spikes too.

Let’s see if this is fixed in next week’s update.

Good I am not having a particular problem, as you confirm.
There is also a height difference between the apron and the runway, on the taxiway.
I don’t mind small changes, as long as it’s playable, but the rocks at the end of the runway is a major unwanted change. Tricky to land from that end with the Extra! Tricky in the best of times at SABA, trickier with the Extra, the trickiest with rocks at one end!

Yes, modify the title as needed so it’s better.

I thought at a handcrafted airport the AI wouldn’t play havoc.

The rocks at the end of runway 12 didn’t use to be that big, and they certainly weren’t embedded in the paving either. I’ve not checked this by eye, but my assumption that runway 12 is going slightly uphill, which makes sense. But the other day I watched this video, which upset my assumptions somewhat:

Good video. :heart_eyes:

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I tried to change the terrain LOD to see what happens… NO change with terrain LOD 100 (before I had it at 140!

As for the taxiway between the runway and apron, I have this (changing the terrain LOD has no effect whatsoever):

even worse here:

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I haven’t dared try that approach yet. :slight_smile:

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I looked at an old backup, only the shapes.bgl has a diff size, but same results with old version. So not that.

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Valley was there too. But I cant confirm if that was like that before. One can probably look at a few Youtube videos to check.

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Here is a video I made in September 2020: no problems:

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At around 3 minutes mark from video above, no valley

Note: According to the data, the road with the valley is not a marked taxiway.

I removed the only 5 mods I had in Community: NO CHANGE !

What I am surprised of is the few people who report a problem, as it is busy:
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and I saw a few crashing in those rocks!

Wrong runway! :slight_smile:

Try 30, not 12, but in that plane, I’ll bet you can do it.

Hanging cliffs/rocks:

I am now uploading a video.

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I do land in both 12 and 30. In real life they usually land in 12 due to wind.

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I can’t wait til the Twotter comes out. Come on Aerosoft!

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For some weird reason BING DATA WORLD GRAPHICS was off, and so photogrammetry, but I haven’t turned it off! Why did they get turned off??

I turned them back to ON: this resolves the village bug, the “valley” between the apron and runway is not as bad, and some of the hanging cliffs, but not the the rocks at the end of the runway:

Those rocks don’t look any different to what I have seen at Saba. Not sure it’s terribly realistic, though.

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Yes I had a message 2 days ago, about a problem with the connexion, and 2 minutes later another said it was OK. It’s not the first time I had these messages, but the first time these 2 settings were turned off.

I honestly had a moment where I wondered if I had gone insane and would start seeing flying boulders or worse…

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