Thursday, May 19, 2011

Caution: Foreign Objects on the Runway!

If you have ever tried to fly into Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport in Belize City, Belize (MZBZ), you have no doubt encountered a very nasty little bug in FSX: for some reason, the airport bounds are not correctly computed, and there are all sorts of trees and other objects growing right in the middle of the runway!  Turn off your crash detection for landing at this airport, folks.

Here are some screenshots which illustrate the issue:






Apparently, this is a well-known issue in FSX, although I didn't encounter it until very recently.

There are apparently some third-party fixes available for this problem, although Microsoft has never issued a fix themselves.

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