Wrong Airport for LYON and missing airport for LILLE (France)

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Wrong Airport for LYON and missing airport for LILLE (France)

Post by Cedric » Wed Sep 30, 2020 12:08 pm

Hello Joe,

I noticed today LFLL was missing for Lyon city (France), instead of LFLL there's LFLY (Lyon-Bron), an old airport not anymore used for commercial flights, do you believe it's possible to have LFLL instead of LFLY?

I noticed too LFQQ was missing, it's a commercial airport for Lille city (in fact at Lesquin city) with a lot of daily flights.

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Re: Wrong Airport for LYON and missing airport for LILLE (France)

Post by Cat » Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:16 pm

This topic has been posted many times regarding airport codes .... so just to bring you up to speed: The airport codes in FSX are currently used in FSA. Now this database is over a decade old so some codes are outdated. FSA determines your location by lat/long and not the actual code so you simply use the old code in FSA while flying to the new/current code in your sim as long as they are in the same location, plus or minus a few miles.

As time goes on and more pilots mitigate away from FSX :(, I am sure at some point Joe will have to flip the airport codes to something more current, especially now that MSFS2020 is out.

fsxmap.com is a great tool to see what the FSX code for any particular airport is.

LFQQ is in the system - you can use the AIRPORTS link down in the database section (lower left margin) to search for airports to get this type of data for each one:
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Re: Wrong Airport for LYON and missing airport for LILLE (France)

Post by Cat » Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:33 pm

After my first post, I decided to check LFLL in the database and it too is already there. Maybe Joe is faster than I am and has installed them since your post and mine? :wink:

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Re: Wrong Airport for LYON and missing airport for LILLE (France)

Post by joefremont » Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:25 pm

Hi All, no I did not do anything to add that airport recently. I would check to see if the code for that airport is LILLE or LFLL in MFSF, but the recent patch is still downloading.

Edit: I see the airport with the code LFLL has not changed, and is used by all the sims I have tracked.
(FS2004) (FSX) (FSX Steam) (OurAirport.com) (Prepar3d) (Prepar3d V4) (Prepar3d V5) (X-Plane 10) (X-Plane 11)

I also checked on LFQQ and yes it is in the database and its been there since FS2004, so I would like to ask what made you think that those airports were missing?
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Re: Wrong Airport for LYON and missing airport for LILLE (France)

Post by Cedric » Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:16 pm

HI all,

Cat, LFLL and LFLY are two differents airports.

Joe, I don't know what i could say, have check it in the "package" destination :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I PROMISE, I NEVER DO IT AGAIN. :lol:
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Re: Wrong Airport for LYON and missing airport for LILLE (France)

Post by joefremont » Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:50 pm

Cedric wrote:
Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:16 pm
HI all,

Cat, LFLL and LFLY are two differents airports.

Joe, I don't know what i could say, have check it in the "package" destination :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I PROMISE, I NEVER DO IT AGAIN. :lol:
No problem, and don't promise not to do it again, it's better to discuss it than have you fume over a problem in private.

In this case they are probably not showing in the drop down lists because you don't have any routes setup to those airports.
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