Wind Turbines in the North Sea with Vegetation as Foundation

If there is anything about MSFS24 that bothers you, or you think you have found a bug, or you have a request/suggestion for improvement, please open a corresponding post. This is solely about wind turbines. Thank you for your understanding!

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• The “Guishan Offshore Wind Farm” was the only one I could find so far that has no vegetation. See the last picture.

If relevant, provide additional screenshots/video:


Rødsand I Offshore-Windpark


EnBW Baltic 1


Northwind in the North Sea


Borkum Riffgrund


BIWF near New Shoreham Rhode Island


Changhua Taiwan


Rudong Shanghai


Guishan Offshore Wind FarmThe only wind farm I could find without vegetation around the base of the installation.

Hello @PuffinFlight :slight_smile:

After a while, I just wanted to politely ask if there’s been any progress on this issue.

I just loaded my project to see if the vegetation around the wind turbine could now be excluded. But I realized that it still doesn’t work, regardless of whether I use a polygon or a rectangle for exclusion.

Is there a “trick” I need to use?

Wind turbines in the middle of the sea have bushes at the base
two wind turbines near 58°6’55.0"N 003°5’9.5"W have bushes at the base.
I have seen it on other locations as well, the basic object needs to be without the bushes at the base.

What do you guy’s think? I had a test-flight today with SU2 running. The exclusion is working now. No problems anymore. Can you prrof that as well?

Yes, I can confirm that. The vegetation foundations can be removed with an exclusion rectangle:

Windfarm Butendiek before…

Windfarm Butendiek afterward ..

However, the option to remove vegetation with a polygon still doesn’t work. So you have to use exclusion rectangles over large areas, which can easily be described as a messy way of working.

Hi, i’m seeing trees at the base of the wind turbinmes in the north sea. Is there a fix for it yet? I see talk about exclusion rectangles etc, how is it possible for me to place exclusion rectangles?

You can’t. It’s already been fixed by the first-party developer as I remember, but Asobo have still not implemented it into a build!

I guess it’s item 17,936 on their list :frowning:

What you wrote is wrong, it works :slightly_smiling_face:

Me? Oh you mean for that location you could… right, yes, I guess you could. I was thinking “globally” … :slight_smile:

That’s right, the wind turbines and the “vegetation foundation” can be excluded.
You need to be in Developer mode and create a project to create exclusion rectangles. You can find detailed instructions on the FSDeveloper.com forum.

The new 2024 version solves all problems for me.

West of EDXW reported by OP, fixed too (ms-store, SU6 beta):

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