Author: Dellanie Byron

12.2.0 – “Chockingly” good fun

The X-Plane 12.2.0 beta is finally here! This update has been a labour of love from the team for many months, and we’re excited to see so many users enjoying the changes. The stars of this show go to Daniel, Daniela and Maya for their meticulous commitment to enhancing the atmospherics of the sim. Alas, this is a developer website. So let’s glance at some of the changes relative to our third parties.


1. Changes that concern third parties

Rolling back the time machine, Ben once discussed plugins using private art controls here and here. And that time has come once again because we have changed ALOT.

  • Developers who make use of private art controls in their work (that includes Aircraft, Plugins and Scenery alike) will need to review/remove them from their product.
    • Manipulating cube map positions (which if you used to attempt to solve dark cockpits… may now inversely create dark cockpits). Please return them to their default position. Cockpit lighting now honours the aircraft geometry, eliminating errors such as “glowing orange cockpit at sunset”
    • Atmospheric/Cloud datarefs will behave significantly differently. Cloud scattering and shading is improved, amongst changes in cloud layer presets.
  • Dark cockpits should now be resolved. Aircraft texture artists will need to review albedos, including attempts to brighten cockpits to compensate for previous versions of X-Plane.
  • Terrain roughness (and subsequent brightness) has been improved. However older generated content may appear differently. These will need to be updated with proper roughness and normal direction
  • We have a new AGX tonemapper. This has significantly improved the range of colors we can render, and subsequent “details,” bringing a gorgeous new saturation to the sim.

    However, this will mean that colors* will shift in appearance. So please review your work. This concerns all parties (Artists, livery painters, scenery designers, system developers etc)

*As a Brit, it annoys me deeply having to constantly change “colours” to “colors.” So I hope you all appreciate this noble sacrifice 🤣

^ This is X-Plane’s lighting in 12.1.4. Notice how almost uniform the shading appears!

^ And this is 12.2.0. Not only are the color shades “deeper”, but colors also desaturate under direct illumination (like real life.)

2. Things we’re working on

  • Beer Shadow Maps – They are currently too sharp, and we are attempting to soften them up.
  • Updated cloud darkness – There are still a few cases where clouds are rendering a bit too dark, and in some cases still causing a minor amount of dark cockpits.
  • X-Plane2Blender Update

The above will be addressed in 12.2.0

In addition, we are also aware of the following

  • SSR
  • Cloud formations/Square clouds (This has been a persistent thorn in our sides, and won’t be addressed in 12.2.0. However, we are planning more improvements to this later this year)

3. Brakes!

We’ve radically expanded our brake system, with a plethora of different braking options and behaviours now available. Tom has ensured new documentation is available, which can be found here!

We’ve also introduced a new chocks mechanic, which is part of X-Plane’s ground handling. Only a select few default aircraft currently have this feature which includes:

  • Lancair Evolution
  • Van’s RV-10
  • Boeing 737
  • Cirrus SR-22
  • Aero-works Aerolight 103
  • Beechcraft Baron 58

How do I get chocks onto my aircraft?


We will have a new version of X-Plane2Blender out in the near future, along with documentation (and we will let you know) that allows for chock annotation, similar to particles are referenced. X-Plane provides the model for you, and references the position from the OBJ… not Planemaker.

*On the subject of documentation, Tom has been hard at work re-vamping all of our docs. I think many will be pleased at the changes, which we hope to deploy this year!

5. New Gateway cut

We’ve included a new Gateway cut in 12.2.0. Thank you to all our Gateway artists! We’ve left a rough list of changed airports below.

Some of you may also remember a recent request-for-comment/poll for WED assets. We’ll have a lot more to talk about after the conclusion of 12.2.0. But the spoiler here is: we listened!

🇦🇫 Afghanistan

  • OAMN – Maimana

🇦🇱 Albania

  • LAKV – Kucove AB

🇩🇿 Algeria

  • DAOO – Oran/Ahmed Ben Bella

🇦🇴 Angola

  • FNBC – M’banza Congo

🇦🇷 Argentina

  • SAWC – El Calafate

🇦🇺 Australia

  • AU90 – Cranbrook
  • XY0012 – Rothwell
  • XY0056 – Little River
  • YAYE – Ayers Rock
  • YBCS – Cairns intl
  • YBDG – Bendigo
  • YGGG – Gulgong Aero Park

🇦🇹 Austria

  • LOAR – Altlichtenwarth
  • LOAV – Voeslau
  • LOKF – Feldkirchen/Ossiacher See
  • LOWL – Linz Hoersching
  • LOWW – Wien Schwechat

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan

  • XUB0004 – Zagatala

🇧🇸 Bahamas

  • MYNN – Lynden Pindling Intl (Nassau)

🇧🇾 Belarus

  • XUM0005 – Hozhava

🇧🇷 Brazil

  • SBBU – Bauru
  • SBFL – Hercillo Luz Intl
  • SBGL – Rio de Janeiro – Galeão Intl
  • SBJA – Jaguaruna Regl
  • SBLO – Londrina
  • SBPF – Lauro Kurtz
  • SBPN – Porto Nacional
  • SBSP – Congonhas – Dep Freitas Nobre
  • SBZM – Rgnl da Zona da Mata
  • SDCG – Senadora Eunice Michiles
  • SDJC – Jaboticabal
  • SDMC – Marica
  • SDPD – Pindamonhangaba
  • SDPV – Presidente Venceslau
  • SDUN – Itaperuna
  • SIID – Crepurizao
  • SJHG – Confresa
  • SJRG – Rio Grande
  • SNAV – Agrovale
  • SNBG – Baixo Guandu Aimores
  • SNIF – Fazenda Serra Dourada
  • SNJQ – Jequitinhonha
  • SNKF – Conselheiro Lafaiete
  • SNLN – Linhares
  • SNMD – Mundico Coelho
  • SNMJ – Maracas
  • SNOX – Oriximina
  • SNQV – Curvelo
  • SNSG – Salgueiro
  • SNZW – Itubera
  • SSKW – Cacoal
  • SSUV – Uniao da Vitoria
  • SSXN – Aereo Amazonia
  • SWNQ – Nossa Senhora da Abadia
  • SWSI – Sinop
  • XSB000M – Kartodromo Ayrton Senna
  • XSB000N – Fazenda Murara
  • XSB000O – Custódio
  • XSB000P – Sertao Central

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

  • LBSF – Sofia

🇰🇭 Cambodia

  • XVD0006 – Dara Sakor Intl

🇨🇲 Cameroon

  • FKKR – Garoua

🇨🇦 Canada

  • C09 – Morris Muni J R Washburn
  • CKK7 – Steinbach South
  • CSD4 – Mont-Laurier
  • CSH2 – Aéroport de l’Isle-aux-Grues
  • CVB – Chungribu
  • CYBD – Bella Coola
  • CYBF – Bonnyville Rgnl
  • CYEN – Estevan Rgnl
  • CYGB – Texada/Gillies Bay
  • CYHU – Montreal St-Hubert MET
  • CYQB – Quebec Jean Lesage Intl
  • CYSG – St Georges
  • CYVR – Vancouver Intl
  • CYYD – Smithers Rgnl
  • XC00D3 – Gun Lake
  • XC00D7 – St-Frédéric
  • XCYCNF4 – Lindsay/Kawartha Lakes

🇰🇾 Cayman Islands

  • MWCL – Little Cayman
  • MWCR – Owen Roberts Intl

🇨🇳 China

  • XZ000J – Chengdu Chongzhou GA
  • XZ0029 – Ezhou Huahu Intl
  • XZ002D – Tumshuq Tangwangcheng
  • XZ002E – Zhaosu Tianma
  • XZ0036 – Zhongshan Sanjiao
  • ZBAD – Beijing Daxing Intl
  • ZBSJ – Shijiazhuang Zhengding Intl’
  • ZGFS – Foshan Shadi
  • ZGNN – Nanning Wuxu Intl
  • ZHHH – Wuhan Tianhe Intl
  • ZLXY – Xi’an Xianyang Intl
  • ZPPP – Kunming Changshui Intl
  • ZSFZ – Fuzhou Changle Intl
  • ZSLQ – Taizhou Luqiao
  • ZSLY – Linyi Qiyang Intl
  • ZSPD – Shanghai Pudong Intl
  • ZSWH – Dashuipo
  • ZUCK – Chongqing Jiangbei Intl
  • ZUGY – Guiyang Longdongbao Intl
  • ZUHY – Aba Hongyuan
  • ZUJZ – Jiuzhai Huanglong
  • ZULB – Libo
  • ZUUU – Chengdu Shuangliu Intl
  • ZUZH – Bao’anying
  • ZWAK – Aksu Hongqipo
  • ZWBL – Bole Alashankou
  • ZWWW – Ürümqi Diwopu Intl
  • ZYBS – Changbaishan Baishan
  • ZYHB – Harbin Taiping Intl
  • ZYTL – Dalian Zhoushuizi Intl

🇨🇴 Colombia

  • SKRG – Jose Maria Cordova

🇨🇬 Congo

  • FCOO – Owando

🇨🇷 Costa Rica

  • MRAN – Arenal
  • MRNS – Nosara
  • MRTM – Tamarindo
  • MRTR – Tambor
  • MRUP – Upala
  • XMR0001 – Punta Islita

🇭🇷 Croatia

  • LDDU – Dubrovnik
  • LDLO – Losinj
  • LDSB – Brac
  • LDSP – Split / Saint Jerome
  • XLD000H – [H] Rijeka/Delta

🇨🇺 Cuba

  • MUHA – Havana Jose Marti Intl

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

  • LKHK – Hradec Kralove
  • LKLT – Letnany
  • LKTD – Tachov
  • LKUL – Usti nad Labem

🇪🇬 Egypt

  • HEMA – Marsa Alam
  • HESH – Sharm El Sheikh Intl

🇫🇴 Faroe Islands

  • EKVG – Vágar

🇫🇮 Finland

  • EFLP – Lappeenranta
  • EFNU – Nummela

🇫🇷 France

  • LFBD – Bordeaux Merignac
  • LFBH – La Rochelle
  • LFBT – Tarbes Lourdes Pyrénées
  • LFBU – Angouleme Brie Champniers
  • LFEF – Amboise Dierre
  • LFKA – Albertville
  • LFKB – Bastia Poretta
  • LFLC – Clermont-Ferrand
  • LFMK – Carcassonne Salvaza
  • LFML – Marseille Provence
  • LFMQ – Le Castellet
  • LFMT – Montpellier/Mediterranee
  • LFPB – Paris Le Bourget
  • LFPO – Paris Orly
  • LFRE – La Baule Escoublac
  • LFRS – Nantes Atlantique
  • LFRZ – Saint Nazaire Montoir
  • LFSB – Bale-Mulhouse
  • XLF00BS – Malafretaz
  • XLF00DL – [H] L’Aigle Centre hospitalier
  • XLF00DM – [H] Evreux Centre hospitalier

🇬🇪 Georgia

  • UG25 – Telavi Kurdgelauri

🇩🇪 Germany

  • EDAZ – Schönhagen
  • EDBC – Magdeburg/Cochstedt
  • EDDB – Berlin Brandenburg
  • EDDH – Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel
  • EDDL – Duesseldorf
  • EDDN – Nürnberg
  • EDEW – Walldürn
  • EDFC – Aschaffenburg
  • EDFH – Frankfurt-Hahn
  • EDFQ – Allendorf/Eder
  • EDFS – Schweinfurt Süd
  • EDHI – Hamburg Finkenwerder
  • EDHL – Luebeck Blankensee
  • EDHS – Stade
  • EDKA – Aachen-Merzbrueck
  • EDKF – Bergneustadt-Auf dem Duempel
  • EDKW – Werdohl-Kuentrop
  • EDLE – Essen-Muelheim
  • EDLP – Paderborn-Lippstadt
  • EDLW – Dortmund – Wickede
  • EDNO – Nördlingen
  • EDQA – Bamberg-Breitenau
  • EDRA – Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
  • EDTY – Schwaebisch Hall – Adolf Würth
  • EDVG – Mengeringhausen
  • EDVM – Hildesheim
  • ETOA – [X] [H] Schweinfurt
  • XEDBH – Flugplatz Dehausen
  • XEDD9 – Flugplatz Meiersberg
  • XEDDF – Karlstadt Saupurzel
  • XEDDQ – Kusel
  • XEDE3 – Radevormwald-Leye
  • XEDGA – Flugplatz Warburg

🇬🇮 Gibraltar

  • LXGB – Gibraltar

🇬🇷 Greece

  • LGKR – Ioannis Kapodistrias Intl
  • LGLM – Limnos
  • LGSR – Santorini

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

  • VHHH – Hong Kong Intl

🇮🇸 Iceland

  • BITE – Thingeyri

🇮🇳 India

  • VABB – Chhatrapati Shivaji Intl
  • VAGN – Guna
  • VEBD – Bagdogra
  • VEKR – Kailashahar
  • VISM – Shimla

🇮🇩 Indonesia

  • WADD – Denpasar Ngurah Rai Intl
  • WAPQ – Kisar
  • WATE – Ende Ipi
  • XWA04 – Taro Elephant Safari Park

🇮🇷 Iran

  • OIMJ – Shahroud
  • OING – Gorgan

🇮🇪 Ireland

  • EIDW – Dublin

🇮🇹 Italy

  • LICD – Lampedusa
  • LICR – Reggio Calabria
  • LIEO – Olbia
  • LIMJ – Genova Sestri
  • LIML – Milano Linate
  • LIPH – Treviso Sant Angelo

🇯🇵 Japan

  • RJCC – New Chitose
  • RJTT – Tokyo Haneda Intl
  • ROIG – New Ishigaki

🇰🇷 Korea, Republic of

  • RKJY – Yeosu

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

  • UCFM – Manas

🇱🇸 Lesotho

  • FXME – Matekane
  • FXMK – Mokhotlong

🇱🇾 Libya

  • XHL0004 – El Feel

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

  • ELLX – Luxembourg

🇲🇬 Madagascar

  • FMMI – Ivato

🇲🇾 Malaysia

  • WBKK – Kota Kinabalu Intl

🇲🇭 Marshall Islands

  • PKMJ – Marshall Islands Intl

🇲🇶 Martinique

  • TFFF – Martinique/Aime Cesaire Intl

🇲🇽 Mexico

  • MM01 – Cuauhtemoc
  • MMGM – General Jose Maria Yanez INTL
  • MMPY – Playa del Carmen

🇲🇦 Morocco

  • GMAD – Agadir Al Massira Intl

🇲🇲 Myanmar

  • VYPA – Hpa-An
  • VYPY – Pyay

🇳🇵 Nepal

  • VNBL – Baglung
  • VNBW – Bhairahawa / Gautam Buddha
  • VNCG – Bhadrapur / Chandragadhi
  • VNDH – Dhangadhi
  • VNJP – Janakpur
  • VNNG – Nepalgunj
  • VNRB – Rajbiraj
  • VNSI – Simara
  • VNVT – Biratnagar
  • XVN0003 – Pokhara Intl

🇳🇱 Netherlands

  • XEH24 – Middenmeer

🇳🇿 New Zealand

  • NZAA – Auckland Intl
  • XNZ000K – Raoul Island Airstrip

🇳🇬 Nigeria

  • DN54 – Ashaka

🇳🇴 Norway

  • ENBR – Bergen Lufthavn Flesland
  • ENCN – Kristiansand lufthavn Kjevik
  • ENDI – Dagali
  • ENEG – Eggemoen
  • ENST – Sandnessjøen Stokka
  • ENTC – Tromso Langnes
  • ENZV – Stavanger Lufthavn Sola

🇵🇰 Pakistan

  • OPCH – Chitral

🇵🇦 Panama

  • MPBO – Jose Ezequiel Hall
  • MPDA – Enrique Malek Intl
  • XMP0004 – Corazón de Jesús
  • XMP0005 – Coiba

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

  • AGL – Wanigela
  • AIE – Aiome
  • AYCH – Chimbu
  • AYGA – Goroka
  • AYGJ – Guasopa
  • AYGN – Gurney
  • AYGR – Girua
  • AYKA – Losuia
  • AYKM – Kerema
  • AYKP – Kokoda
  • AYMH – Mount Hagen
  • AYMO – Momote
  • AYMS – Misima Island
  • AYRI – Karimui
  • AYWD – Wapenamanda
  • AZB – Amazon Bay
  • DOI – Doini
  • ESA – Esa’ala
  • IHU – Ihu
  • JOP – Josephstaal
  • KOR – Kokoro
  • KUP – Kupiano
  • MWG – Marawaka
  • RBP – Rabaraba
  • SAM – Salamo
  • SFU – Safia
  • SXH – Sehulea
  • TEO – Terapo
  • TFI – Tufi
  • TGL – Tagula
  • TKB – Tekadu
  • VIV – Vivigani
  • VMU – Baimuru
  • WNU – Wanuma
  • XAY000Q – Ambaluwa
  • XAY000S – Begesin
  • XAY000T – Bank
  • XAY000V – Gokto
  • XAY000W – Mui
  • XAY000X – Yimnalem
  • XAY000Y – Dusin
  • XAY000Z – Wuyabo
  • XAY0010 – Wonenara
  • XAY0011 – Gema
  • XAY0012 – Simogu
  • XAY0013 – Usarumpia
  • XAY0014 – Norambi
  • XAY0016 – Aziana
  • XAY0017 – Owena
  • XAY001B – Amusa
  • XAY001D – Herowana
  • XAY001E – Guwasa
  • XAY001F – Kora
  • XAY001H – Haia
  • XAY001J – Sengapi
  • XAY001K – Mengina
  • XAY001L – Talbakul
  • XAY001M – Kapi
  • XAY001N – Appa
  • XAY001O – Negarbo
  • XAY001P – Dobu
  • XAY001Q – Mount Aue
  • XAY001S – Woposali
  • XAY001U – Sopise
  • XAY0028 – Kol
  • XAY0029 – Giramben
  • XAY002A – Menjim
  • XAY002B – Lumusa
  • XAY002N – Tsendiap
  • XAY002O – Ruti
  • XAY002P – Ande
  • XAY002Q – Sindeni
  • XAY002R – Asinuwa
  • XAY002T – Keglsugl
  • XAY003X – Kikori
  • XAY0041 – Bamu

🇵🇾 Paraguay

  • SGPJ – Dr Augusto Roberto Fuster Intl

🇵🇭 Philippines

  • RPLB – Subic Bay Intl
  • RPLL – Ninoy Aquino Intl
  • RPME – Butuan
  • RPMG – Dipolog
  • RPMO – Ozamis
  • RPMZ – Zamboanga Intl
  • RPSB – Bantayan
  • RPSP – Bohol-Panglao Intl
  • RPVB – Bacolod-Silay Intl
  • RPVD – Dumaguete
  • RPVE – Godofredo P. Ramos
  • RPVM – Mactan-Cebu
  • RPVZ – Siquijor

🇵🇱 Poland

  • EPWR – Wroclaw Strachowice

🇵🇹 Portugal

  • LPAZ – Santa Maria
  • LPLA – Lajes

🇷🇴 Romania

  • LRCL – Cluj Napoca

🇲🇫 Saint Martin (French part)

  • TFFG – St Martin Grand Case

🇸🇲 San Marino

  • SMTO – San Marino-Torraccia

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

  • XOE0003 – Red Sea Intl

🇸🇬 Singapore

  • WSSS – Singapore Changi Intl

🇸🇰 Slovakia

  • LZTN – Trencin
  • XLZ0003 – Komoca

🇸🇮 Slovenia

  • LJPZ – Portoroz

🇸🇧 Solomon Islands

  • AGGN – Nusatupe

🇿🇦 South Africa

  • FAKR – Krugersdorp
  • FALA – Lanseria
  • FAMD – Malamala
  • XFA001E – Aeropark Zyn Kraal

🇪🇸 Spain

  • LEBB – Bilbao
  • XLE002A – Las Torres de Aliste/Vivinera
  • XLE002E – Benabeger

🇸🇩 Sudan

  • HSFS – El Fashir

🇸🇪 Sweden

  • ESNC – Hedlanda
  • ESSA – Stockholm Arlanda
  • XESV5 – Scandinavian Mountains

🇨🇭 Switzerland

  • LSGS – Sion
  • LSZA – Lugano
  • LSZH – Zurich
  • LSZL – Locarno
  • XLS000Q – [H] Stadtspital Waid
  • XLS0013 – [H] Interlaken
  • XLS0014 – [H] Spital Interlaken
  • XLS0015 – [H] Kantonsspital Uri

🇹🇼 Taiwan

  • RCTP – Taipei Taoyuan Intl
  • RCWA – Wang-an

🇹🇿 Tanzania

  • HTAR – Arusha
  • HTNG – Ngerengere AFB

🇹🇭 Thailand

  • VTBC – Chantaburi RTN
  • VTBO – Trat Bangkok Air
  • VTBS – Suvarnabhumi Intl
  • VTBW – Prachin Buri Watthana Nakhon

🇹🇷 Turkey

  • LTBA – Istanbul Ataturk
  • LTCG – Trabzon
  • LTCS – Sanliurfa GAP
  • LTFM – Istanbul Intl

🇹🇲 Turkmenistan

  • XUT0005 – Kerki Intl

🇺🇦 Ukraine

  • UKDD – Dnipropetrovsk Intl
  • UKHH – Osnova intl
  • UKKK – Zhuliany
  • UKLL – Lviv Intl
  • UKLU – Uzhhorod Intl
  • UKOO – Odesa Intl
  • XUK000D – Stryi
  • XUK000S – Mukachevo
  • XUK0019 – Turynka
  • XUK001A – Tsuniv
  • XUK001B – Drohobych
  • XUK001C – Zalyzhnia
  • XUK001D – Hlyniany
  • XUK001E – Belz
  • XUK001F – Apostolovo
  • XUK001G – Korotych
  • XUK001H – Kopanky
  • XUK001I – Lyubsha
  • XUK001J – Borshchiv
  • XUK001K – Smodna
  • XUK001L – Kosyno
  • XUK001M – Shypyntsi
  • XUK001N – Antonivka
  • XUK001O – Kolky
  • XUK001P – Turiysk
  • XUK001Q – Kamianets-Podilskyi
  • XUK001R – Shepetivka
  • XUK001S – Izyaslav
  • XUK001T – Aerofox
  • XUK001U – Mal’ky
  • XUK001V – Nemychyntsi
  • XUK001W – Polonne
  • XUK001X – Motovylivka
  • XUK001Y – Zboriv
  • XUK001Z – Voroniv
  • XUK0020 – Pidlistsi
  • XUK0022 – Derazhnya

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

  • EGBJ – Gloucester
  • EGCC – Manchester Intl
  • EGDX – St Athan
  • EGFF – Cardiff
  • EGGD – Bristol Intl
  • EGHC – Land’s End
  • EGHE – Scilly Isles St Mary’s
  • EGHH – Bournemouth
  • EGHI – Southampton
  • EGKK – London Gatwick
  • EGNM – Leeds Bradford
  • EGNT – Newcastle
  • EGPB – Sumburgh
  • EGPD – Aberdeen Dyce
  • XEG003G – Rougham Airfield
  • XEG005T – Newhall Mains
  • XEG005U – Bolt Head

🇺🇸 United States

  • 05E – Ranta Strip
  • 06OI – Green Acres
  • 09CO – Cottonwood Field
  • 0L5 – [X] Goldfield
  • 0N9 – Slater Field
  • 0WI7 – With Wings and a Halo
  • 15N – Jenkins
  • 19AK – Icy Bay
  • 1L7 – Escalante Muni
  • 1RL – Point Roberts Airpark
  • 21D – Lake Elmo
  • 26ND – Chitwood Airstrip
  • 27K – Georgetown – Scott Co Rgnl
  • 2AZ1 – Indian Hills Airpark
  • 2NC9 – [H] Scotland Meml Hospital
  • 33WI – [H] St Mary’s Hospital
  • 37NY – [H] Cuba Memorial Hospital
  • 3G1 – [X] Erie County
  • 3G6 – Sebring Tri-City
  • 3NK9 – [H] Arnot Ogden Hospital
  • 43IN – Hepler
  • 44TX – White Oak
  • 4G4 – Youngstown Elser Metro
  • 4I9 – Morrow County
  • 4NK0 – [H] WCA Hospital
  • 4R9 – Jeremiah Denton
  • 4U9 – Dell Flight Strip
  • 50KY – Zanzibar Farm
  • 52U – Weatherby USFS
  • 57OH – Fillmans Farms Fld
  • 5FD7 – Chinsegut
  • 5GA5 – Pinebrook Estates
  • 60J – Odell Williamson Muni
  • 64CL – Goodyear Blimp Base
  • 64IN – Peacock Farms
  • 6G5 – Barnesville-Bradfield
  • 6J0 – Lexington County At Pelion
  • 70OK – Old 66 Strip
  • 71IN – Morgan Airfield
  • 72ND – Berg Field
  • 7PA1 – Warren Airpark
  • 7S1 – Ruby Valley Fld
  • 7WI3 – [H] St Vincent Hospital
  • 8B0 – Stephen A Bean Muni
  • 8G6 – Harrison Co
  • 8GA7 – Etowah Bend
  • 8NY6 – [H] Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
  • 9NY2 – [H] Westfield Mem’l Hospital
  • 9VA9 – [H] Bon Secours Southampton
  • 9W4 – Rainelle
  • AZ81 – [H] Boeing
  • AZ97 – X Bar 1 Ranch – Lower
  • CO55 – Christman Fld
  • F57 – [S] Jack Browns
  • I96 – Columbia-Adair Co
  • KADS – Addison
  • KALB – Albany Intl
  • KAPF – Naples Muni
  • KATL – Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson
  • KBAX – Huron Co Meml
  • KBDL – Bradley Intl
  • KBGM – Greater Binghamton
  • KBWW – Bowman Rgnl
  • KCDC – Cedar City Regl
  • KCDI – Cambridge Muni
  • KCEC – Crescent City McNamara
  • KCLT – Charlotte Douglas Intl
  • KCMD – Cullman Rgnl – Folsom Fld
  • KCPK – Chesapeake Regl
  • KCWA – Central Wisconsin
  • KDCU – Pryor Fld Rgnl
  • KDHN – Dothan Rgnl
  • KDRI – Beauregard Regl
  • KDTA – Delta Muni
  • KELK – Elk City Rgnl Business
  • KEWR – Newark Liberty Intl
  • KFFZ – Falcon Field
  • KFKN – Franklin Regl
  • KFXE – Fort Lauderdale Executive
  • KGFK – Grand Forks Intl
  • KGIF – Winter Haven Rgnl
  • KGOK – Guthrie Muni
  • KGPI – Glacier Park Intl
  • KGSP – Greenville Spartanburg Intl
  • KGUR – Camp Guernsey
  • KHOU – William P Hobby
  • KHTH – Hawthorne Industrial
  • KHVE – Hanksville
  • KHVN – Tweed New Haven
  • KIAD – Washington Dulles Intl
  • KIFP – Laughlin Bullhead Intl
  • KIWS – West Houston
  • KJAU – Tommy C Stiner Airfield
  • KJOT – Joliet Regl
  • KJVY – Clark Rgnl
  • KLAA – Southeast Colorado Rgnl
  • KLAR – Laramie Regl
  • KLGA – La Guardia
  • KLNN – Lake County Executive
  • KMLS – Frank Wiley Fld
  • KMRH – Michael J Smith Fld
  • KNEW – Lakefront
  • KOAK – Metropolitan Oakland Intl
  • KOFP – Hanover County Muni
  • KOKZ – Kaolin Field
  • KPAH – Barkley Rgnl
  • KPBG – Plattsburgh Intl
  • KPDC – Prairie du Chien Muni
  • KPHL – Philadelphia Intl
  • KPLK – M Graham Clark Downtown
  • KRBD – Dallas Executive
  • KRIF – Richfield
  • KRPH – Graham Muni
  • KRXE – Rexburg-Madison Co
  • KSFM – Sanford Regl
  • KSPG – Albert Whitted
  • KSPI – Abraham Lincoln Capital
  • KSUD – Stroud Muni
  • KTKI – Mckinney National
  • KTSO – Carroll Co – Tolson
  • KTWF – Joslin Field
  • KUW – Kamusi
  • KVTN – Miller Field
  • KZZV – Zanesville Muni
  • MD88 – Links
  • MO84 – Viburnum
  • MU59 – [H] Cox Medical Center North
  • O09 – Round Valley
  • O37 – Haigh Field
  • PAKT – Ketchikan Intl
  • S18 – Forks
  • T42 – Ruth
  • TX19 – Russells Ranch
  • TX35 – Molair
  • U53 – Henrys Lake
  • UT30 – Deer Springs Ranch
  • VA12 – Gravely
  • VA54 – [H] Crippens
  • WA19 – Pagerungan
  • WI88 – [H] St Clare’s Hospital
  • WS35 – [H] Thedacare Regl Med Ctr
  • XK0017 – [H] St John’s Medical Ctr
  • XK001E – [H] Aspirus Langlade Hospital
  • XK001P – [H] Appleton Medical Center
  • XK001S – [H] Aegis
  • XK0027 – [H] Crossing Rivers Health
  • XK003K – [H] St. Elizabeth Hospital
  • XK004J – [H] Mercy Gilbert Medical Ctr
  • XK005H – [H] Fairview Riverside Med Ctr
  • XK006R – [H] Johnston Willis
  • XK007E – [H] Grant Rgnl Health Ctr
  • XK0097 – [H] Highfalls Stagefield AHP
  • XK009Z – [H] Morrow County Hospital
  • XK00A4 – [H] Park City Regl Med Ctr
  • XK00CF – Dug Bar USFS
  • XK00CH – Cheat River Island
  • XK00CX – Jalapeno Ranch
  • XK00CY – Willow Valley (pvt)
  • XK00D0 – Cuddy Meadows (pvt)
  • XK00D4 – [H] Isle of Wight VRS
  • XKRK1 – Kavik Strip
  • XKVA97 – [H] Buckingham County Rescue

🇻🇪 Venezuela

  • SVVA – Arturo Michelena

🇻🇳 Vietnam

  • VVDN – Danang Intl
  • VVNB – Noi Bai Intl

🇻🇮 Virgin Islands, U.S.

  • TIST – St Thomas – Cyril E King

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

  • FVCP – Charles Prince
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Requests for comment : WED Airport Assets

Dear X-Plane Developers,

Following the success of versions 12.1.2 and 12.1.4 with our scenery and gateway artists, the art department is eager to understand which airport 3D/2D assets are at the top of your wishlist, and we would appreciate your input.

Guidelines:

  • Please focus exclusively on airport assets.
  • Limit suggestions to new static 3D/2D assets. This is not a place for new WED features or graphical (GFX) updates.
  • Please be succinct and polite.
  • Please provide references where appropriate and be as accurate as possible. Saying “I want a new bollard” is not good enough. Is there a size, shape, or colour that you need?
  • Understand that these are suggestions only, or “a request for comment”. There is no confirmation/timeline. Also understand that assets need to be accessible to all, not specific. So that weird hyperspecific 2-wheeled pushback truck at your local airport is not going to be appropriate.
  • We will close off comments on the 9th February

We encourage you to share your thoughts in the comments below or join the discussion on our *Discord server.

Many thanks, we look forward to your ideas!

*To access, click on this link here, and make sure you pick up the “creator” role. There you should see a channel called #rfc-wed-assets

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12.1.4, Scenery Gateway & New Assets

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog post (quite some time right?). We have recently released 12.1.4 as a beta, and we highly encourage you to check it out here. There is some nice content released, that makes for an exciting appetizer for the new year. Whilst we don’t expect to be on this beta for too long (famous last words), most of the new additions will likely be subject to long-term feedback. Please message in support!

One of the major additions for this release is more content and updates for our scenery gateway artists!

New Default Assets

X-Plane Frame

For those unaware, back in November, we welcomed Justin (MisterX) to the Laminar team. He likely needs no introduction, as his scenery work is the stuff of legend amongst the community. So we’re really excited to have him join the team, and Justin represents another infinity stone amongst our third-party hires!

Over the winter period, Petr (Our in-house legendary artist) and Justin went to town on some new scenery assets for X-Plane. Some of which, were highly nominated on our Discord feature requests. These assets include;

Trucks

X-Plane Frame

Emergency/Fire Training Equipment

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Airside Operations

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De-Icing Equipment

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Hopefully not to state the obvious, but these are not dynamic. So please don’t start placing these in areas that will obstruct the “simulator flow”.

We will have some more inbound assets over the coming months, so keep an eye peeled.

X-Plane Gateway

Whilst we didn’t highlight each airport in our initial release posts for 12.1.4, we did have a staggering 1400+ updated entries that we’ve included in our latest cut of the gateway. Take a look below (note, there are approximately 100 airports missing from this list)

Because of our new semantic versioning, internally we’re looking at having these cuts more frequently. Some of you have already noticed our update cadence has been picking up, and hopefully cycling in these updates more regularly will be refreshing to our gateway artists.

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Gateway artists, take a bow!

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SDK Update : Web API v2

X-Plane 12.1.4 Beta is here! And with it, comes another extension to our WEB APIs. Both of which have received extensive powers surrounding commands.

Now available for testing in the Web API v2:

  • Getting the list of commands (REST)
  • Getting the count of available commands (REST)
  • Activate a command (REST)
  • Subscribing/Unsubscribing to one or more Commands to periodic updates about their activation status (Websockets)
  • Streaming one or more activations to the simulator (Websockets)

You can find updated documentation here.

If you find any issues, please report them expediently via our bug reporter.

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World Editor 2.6r1 is available!

World Editor 2.6r1 is now available. This is the first release candidate, for which we encourage you to explore before we lock it down for release! Version 2.6 packs quite an extensive feature list. Features include :

New Shape Entities

Allowing users to define lines and polygons, and then export to .kml or .osm for use in third-party tools!

Polygonal Exclusions

A highly requested feature! (Note, these do not work on forests in current-gen scenery. The default behaviour will instead treat the defined exclusion as one large bounding box)

Terrain Objects

Some of you may have noticed that the terrain for TNCS and TFFJ in 12.1.2 looks a bit more defined. This is somewhat of an illusion, as we are still using the same base mesh that shipped in 12.0.9.

Terrain objects are designed to interface with orthophotos and create small scale 3D details.

*This is NOT a replacement/new/next-gen system for mesh-editing. But rather an additive tool that can help define more awkward structures

Dual-docking Jetway support

Another highly requested feature, WED can now support dual-docking jetways. Existing sceneries are NOT automatically ready, and must be defined by an artist first. Thanks to Michael, in a future version of X-Plane, we will push a new Gateway cut with some demo airports that are ready for dual jetways. These include (*subject to change):

EGLL | EDDF | PHNL | KORD | EDDM | KLAX | OMDB | KJFK | RCTP | RJTT | KSFO

Non-Integer Object String Spacings

Strings can now be defined down to the centimeter, instead of the meter… allowing for more accurate object spacing.

For WED newcomers

In the past, whenever users have attempted to open a scenery pack without an .XML file, all you got was an empty project. This was obviously confusing to users who did not know how to import the scenery files in. Now in WED 2.6, we analyze what is inside your scenery pack and offer to import the relevant files for you. If starting from a completely blank project folder, we now also give you the option to download directly from the gateway! These changes should help newcomers and seasoned artists get stuck into a project with ease!

Misc

In addition, a number of UI enhancements for users have been made available.


X-Plane Frame

X-Plane Frame

X-Plane Frame

You can download Worldeditor 2.6r1 here: Download

You can also view a full changelog from Michael here: Full changelog

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