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There should be a way for players to add airport. For instance when plane is started on runway option, it will create an request to add it to navigraph database. That way players who use navigraph frequently,can add automaticly airport requests automaticly,without need of a personnel to handle the requests. If there is a premade template created, navigraph can add and handle these requests automaticly without any personnel handling it. Staff would be needed only to approve requests at first,but after awhile and tuning it would probably work auto. this way the actual players would be doing the majority of the work and it would automaticly be pointed to airports that are being used by users.
We derive our FMS Data and Charts from Jeppesen - a professional navdata provider for major airlines worldwide. The airports included depend on which airports are required by their real world customers.
With the exception of the old Kai Tak airport at HK, we do not manually add airports to these databases.
So it is a significant undertaking to add all the navigation data and charts for an airport, hence we rely on the data and charts provided by our supplier.
I had to do that a lot when I was at a charter airline that flew for US DoD up and down the sandbox. The data record needed:
Type of data record (Mil field, private field, Navaid) etc
ICAO Ident
Name of field (e.g., Burpleson AFB)
Length of longest runway in feet/meters
Elevation
Transition Altitude
Lat/Long
When that was all entered, the system would extrapolate the FIR/UIR for AFTN ATC FPL message addressing. Sometimes I’d also have to build a record for the on-field terminal VOR, then build some directs from some enroute fixes in the area so the engine would “see” the new “airport”. With this system, the engine wouldn’t see a fix-combination unless there was either an airway, a DCT, or a radial (which was nothing more than a direct with a specific name format) connecting the two. Once done, I’d add 30 NMs of arrival bias to account for a full VFR pattern.
The worst was building a route that directly straddled the FIR boundaries in the Red Sea which we had to do a couple of times. There are some Middle East carriers that still do that today, and one of the Lido airspace volumes still addresses it today.