The purpose of this thread is to keep track of Israeli airports in IF.
Project scope:
This project will focus on civil aviation airports. Military airbases are excluded at this point but may be edited in the future. However, airports with mixed military\civil operations are included in the project.
Also not part of the project are:
LLOV (Ovda) - Since the opening of the new Eilat Ramon Airport last month, LLOV has ceased civil international operations and is now military only.
LLET (Eilat) - All operations were transferred to Eilat Ramon, LLET is disused since March 2019.
Airstrips too small for the aircrafts we currently have in the simulator.
Have no worries - there are still plenty of great airports to fly and control!
Tysm I have flown out of LLBG and I find it a beautiful airport so thx
Also Iโm in El Al VA so it rlly helps the VA out that your editing the Israeli airport
Youโre welcome. Iโm happy other people enjoy it as well.
By the way: LLBG has been initially edited by someone else almost 2 years ago. Now iโm just keeping it as current as satellite imagery permits.
Thereโs no way to add LLER until we have satellite imagery, since IF airport editing rules say โmake it accurate or donโt make it at allโ. Same goes to Terminal 3\Concourse E at LLBG which is operational for more than a year but imagery still show it as under construction.
Itโs very unfortunate, but from past experience of Googleโs image updates for our area I wouldnโt expect LLER for at least another year or so.
Unfortunately there are no currently active airports in Palestine. Gaza Intโl (LVGZ) used to be operational and is present in IF, and theoretically had a long enough runway to support an A380. However it was closed in the second intifada and has since been destroyed. Even in terms of Israeli airports, there are definitely no scheduled A380 flights to Israel, and Iโm not aware of any A380 ever landing in Israel. That said, Ben Gurion Intโl (LLBG) does have a long enough runway to theoretically support an A380. Other Israeli airports with long enough runways to theoretically support an A380 include the now-military-use-only Ovda airport (LLOV) and Ramon airport (LLER). There may be more Iโm unaware of. Iโm also excluding Military airports.
Hope that helps!
LLOV is used in case of a diversion from LLER like one time I saw in the 24flightradar a Finnair A319 diverted to LLOV when the LLER was perfectly fine. so until LLER is in the google maps can you please improve LLOV in Infinite flight
Iโm not part of the editing team anymore due to personal circumstances. Iโd love to see LLOV but the editing teamโs policy is not to take requests from the public. Instead everyone edit airports they find interesting.
The problem with LLOV and all other military airports in Israel is that: 1) imagery is poor thanks to the US Congress (google Kyl-Bingaman Amendment) and 2) thereโs no public information available about military airports.
So itโs very hard to edit Israeli military airports accurately and indeed none of them is currently edited in IF.
I know @Major-Tom likes these kind of stuff so maybe heโll be up to take the challenge, or maybe I will try if I rejoin the team someday.
