Feature Request: Show Airport Runway Lengths & Airport Class in Airport Selection Menu
Background: Often times when I am selecting an airport to spawn at, I am not entirely sure if the type of plane I want to fly from that airport is appropriate. It may be a large regional or international airport, but can it really handle the heavy plane I want to fly? You can’t necessarily tell this from the current airport selection screen pre-spawn.
The Request: This feature request is for FDS to include runway lengths when selecting an airport in the airport selection screen prior to spawning. I also think that the addition of the Airport Class (Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo) would also be useful information to view from here as well.
I am aware that a simple Google search can get airport information for us. However, when I am preparing to fly and only have access to one device (such as my small phone) I find switching between windows (FDS & Browser) to be a bit inconvenient.
Current State: The only way within the sim to find out how long an airports runways are is to spawn in, click on the airport and go to the runways tab. Same with the airport class:
It should be realistically possible for FDS developers to be able to pull in the runway lengths as currently other information from the Airport menus is pulled in: (METAR, some information from Airport Info tab).
Current Airport Selection Screen:
Proposed (doesn’t have to be exactly like this, this is just an idea): Mock-up of addition of runways & runway length as well as Airport Class:
I am always appreciative of thoughts and feedback.
(I don’t expect a lot of votes as this isn’t a livery request nor related to a re-work of a plane or the A350, ha!..but feedback is always a good thing…and it’s always nice to put these smaller ideas out there… )
Ryan