I would be surprised if it’s anounced for this week and they dont even talk about it.
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It was never formally announced to be released alongside SU13, it was said they “planned” to release it at this point.
However, about one week until final release of SU13 and still no “sign of life” from the developers about the World Hub… curious.
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A question for the dev live stream on 27th. 
Not to mention that the initial plan was to make it first as a limited Beta where we add to candidate…
Last I remember is that it was being Beta tested. Never remember hearing any results, though. Did the Beta happen and, if so, what were the results? I thought the only thing remaining involved legal matters and that’s been the holdup. True?
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It was some data privacy loopholes and making the front end UI as far as I remember.
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Ah, ok, thanks. At least the UI must be done by now.
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It is definitely coming sometime (hopefully soon), it’s just waiting for the reviews to be approved 
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Another week, again no informationen. It seems they want to have the moment of surprise 
Some pre-information about what to expect during a submission’s validation process would be nice, i. e. what is validated against RL (exact shape and orientation of buildings, runway numbers, ATC frequencies etc).
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I think they will make some kind of video tutorial or knowledge base article to give us more details on what is or isn’t part of the process.
I’m also certain they are just as impatient to get the feature out and running. Reminds me of some early on sim issue related to the windows store, thy had to wait a long time for the MS store devs to fix something, and took forever.
I’ve noticed that there are multiple airports where the taxi lights and taxi lines are improperly located. Probably because these are auto-generated. It would be nice to have the ability to make changes to “clean up” airport ground data in such a way that the changes can be reviewed by the MSFS team and then published as a scenery update. Waze has a program like this and it works really well. I’m happy to volunteer my time to help make the sim as great as it can be. Thank you for the great work!!
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There’s some weird time travelling going on in this thread.
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Haha, it’s because I merged in a topic from 3 years ago!
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I find it very odd that the forum is configured to bump stale years-old threads. Usually if there’s been no activity for that long then the information is outdated and better left to slumber.
Topics are auto-bumped every 6-9 months, this one has a 3 year gap because the bump wasn’t merged from the other topic, and the Forum bumps based on the latest (order not date) post.
Several topics with over 400 votes have been auto-bumped in the past (so it is hardly the case that their information is ‘outdated’!), while others with only a handful of votes and a few posts get a flurry of activity and many votes after being bumped (so better not ‘left to slumber’!).
It is a feature of the Forum to make it fairer for all topics, otherwise the only topics that would get attention are the ones that people deliberately bump and share.
[This is why it is against the Code of Conduct for users to bump topics or petition for votes]
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Do we have any description of the “Scenery Gateway System” that will be implemented in MSFS?
Will such a system allow us to correct things such as “airports” that don’t really exist in real life that do exist in the sim?
For example:
- KLOS – this doesn’t exist. I cannot even understand how the sim autogenerated an ICAO-type name for this broken cracked defunct asphalt runway in the middle of rural California ranchlands.
- 36CN – this doesn’t exist. Looking at satellite imagery, it would appear this may have, at one time, been an airstrip, but is now a frontage road along Highway 46 in CA leading to The Lavender Garden. You can see their archway gate on the “runway” via satellite imagery.
- KBUO – this doesn’t exist. Like KLOS, how did this, what looks like a, private airstrip get assigned an ICAO-type name?
I could go on.
Starting out in NeoFly with a starter aircraft it has been eye-opening to see the “airports” that exist in the sim that NeoFly has me flying in/out of.
Will we, end users, be able to address this with this pending tool or will we be stuck with these false airports?
Nope, we only know what was in the dev stream that most recently mentioned it (I can’t remember which stream it was, sorry).
There’s something niggling in the back of my mind that this was brought up on that same dev stream, but I can’t remember for certain.
There was also a discussion about the ability to delete here: Could the "World Hub" be used to delete non-existent airports?
TLDR: Nothing official but when we put the pieces together from the dev stream and what we already know, the general consensus was that we don’t think so because deleting an airport isn’t a SDK option. It’s probably worth giving it a quick read though as it contains everything we know about whether there will be an option to delete.
But then again, we could all be wrong because we don’t actually know for definite yet 
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Indeed, as could I! 
I was notified of this post due to @Speed1994 linking in one of my earlier topics, but that was a discussion that was closed automatically.
Instead, I made a separate Wishlist entry to try to get this better clarified and supported. On the last dev stream, Jayne was kind enough to ask the question from chat, and Martial said he really wasn’t sure - as mentioned in the post above this one. At the very least, I hope we can use the World Hub to ‘exclude’ all of the airport objects for obsolete airfields, such that they disappear from the sim in a fashion… but I’ve not done any airport editing since FSX so not sure if that’s realistic. The ICAO might exist and it will still be on the world map and in every database (e.g. Little Navmap, Neofly) which is read from the sim.
Anyway, here’s a link to the newer Wishlist thread if you’re interested:
Feel free to add your examples to the list. I’m also regularly flying to small airfields, based on automatically suggested routes by external applications. I often find the airfield unsuitable to land on - if I can even find its remnants - due to the age of the airport data. 
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