08-06-2017, 02:04 PM
I personally love to start in the early ages of aviation. But. There is a but for me. Although all the airliners are historical accurate, the airports are not (and a few game aspects are not 100% perfect for it but that could be fixed). A while ago I started on creating historical accurate data for the airports. The only problem is, there is not a lot of info online! Or at least not specific enough.
They do mention a runway and terminal expansion sometimes but only sometimes the new length, and the amount of gates. Fortunately I did manage to do a few airports and off course send this data to pjank. Basically contains this data every expansion of an airport, name changes, and the runway names being changed as well
The airports that I did:
Altough it's extremely satisfying to complete the airports, as you mentioned, not a lot of players start in the early ages
But I would happily volunteer to help complete all (or a lot, since all would be impossible) airports with historical data! Until then, I don't really think it's worth it to go back to the 1910's, plus there are not a lot of airports back then.
Another major issue is the WW1 and WW2. Even now when we can start in the 1930's, I don't think the war is in the game enough. Since it was off course a major thing for aviation.
Conclusion, don't get me wrong. I would love to stand at the beginning of aviation, and discuss with the wright brothers what to do next, but i do want the challenges of those days in the game as well. So short grass runways, no real terminals, no night flights, planes just randomly tearing apart in the skies. (well random, just bad engineering i guess) etc etc etc.
greetings,
Nick
They do mention a runway and terminal expansion sometimes but only sometimes the new length, and the amount of gates. Fortunately I did manage to do a few airports and off course send this data to pjank. Basically contains this data every expansion of an airport, name changes, and the runway names being changed as well
The airports that I did:
- Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
AMS / EHAM
The Netherlands
1916 - Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport
CDG / LFPGFrance1974 - Rotterdam The Hague Airport
RTM / EHRDThe Netherlands1956 - London Heathrow Airport
LHR / EGLLUnited Kingdom1946 - Gatwick Airport
LGW / EGKKUnited Kingdom1928 - Frankfurt Airport
FRA / EDDFGermany1936 - Dublin Airport
DUB / EIDWIreland1940 - London City Airport
LCY / EGLCUnited Kingdom1987 - Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
MAD / LEMDSpain1931 - Vienna International Airport
VIE / LOWWAustria1938 - Copenhagen Airport
CPH / EKCHDenmark1925 - Paris-Orly Airport
ORY / LFPOFrance1932 - Barcelona Airport
BCN / LEBLSpain1918 - Munich-Riem Airport
MUC / EDDMGermany1939 / 1992 - Munich Airport 'Franz Josef Strauß'
MUC / EDDMGermany1992 - Berlin Tempelhof Airport (though i'm not sure if pjank has the data from this one)
THF / EDDIGermany1923 / 2008
Altough it's extremely satisfying to complete the airports, as you mentioned, not a lot of players start in the early ages
But I would happily volunteer to help complete all (or a lot, since all would be impossible) airports with historical data! Until then, I don't really think it's worth it to go back to the 1910's, plus there are not a lot of airports back then.
Another major issue is the WW1 and WW2. Even now when we can start in the 1930's, I don't think the war is in the game enough. Since it was off course a major thing for aviation.
Conclusion, don't get me wrong. I would love to stand at the beginning of aviation, and discuss with the wright brothers what to do next, but i do want the challenges of those days in the game as well. So short grass runways, no real terminals, no night flights, planes just randomly tearing apart in the skies. (well random, just bad engineering i guess) etc etc etc.
greetings,
Nick