New ATC Radar

[ztoastednoodle]

There have been many times when ATC has vectored me right into a mountain (Mostly on Training Server). It would be helpful to ATC and pilots if there could be some type of elevation meter or something that shows how high mountains or hill are and how close the planes are to them.
Here’s an example:

Maybe add some color to it so you can see how tall it is like a elevation map.
Edit: Maybe something like this on the map:

I just thought that this would be a good idea to help ATC out. Sorry if this is a duplicate topic but I didn’t see anything like this. Thanks.

[mkwiecek]

This type of map used to exist, but when global was introduced, the map would’ve taken up too much memory, so it was removed. During the most recent developer stream, Val or Philippe (forgot which one) said that a new map is coming with a lot more possibilities, and when I asked about terrain maps, they said they will look into what the new map can integrate which wasn’t there before (before as in the map now). Just to put that out there

[anon45851224]

Hey there mate, such a good request:

@ztoastednoodle

Maybe add some color to it so you can see how tall it is like a elevation map.

But there is also a similar one to this:

Elevation in map

Today, after seeing the tutorial(Thank you aeronaut for that!) about how you takeoff,turn right(or left)3times(not at the same time!),do a final approach and land in the same runway, I was so excited and went to try it out in Southern California region,KNZL runway 25 left. Well, after I took the first 2 right turns I saw there were some mountains ahead. I thought we would turn right before we hit it but I was wrong…I crashed into the mountains as I was taking the right turn. [image]Uploading… Pi…

[Marc]

I created something similar as well and it looks like some of it has been confirmed

Accurate/Improved Map

With the launch of Global, FDS introduced a new map. It’s the map where we can select our departure airport and where we create and see our flight plan. This new map/globe isn’t very accurate though. There are airports which are displayed to be on water, smaler islands aren’t even there and the whole thing in general is very basic. I think it’s important to have a more accurate map in game. It helps with planning the flight; and it simply looks better. My suggestion is a map with the followin…

[Chris_S]

The terrain map, both large and small, was removed for performance reasons with the global release. The developers understand the need and desire for it and the terrain is on the development radar. (Pun intended)