HMAS Albatross

83824 – FlyingPenguin711 04/05/2021

Thank you for the heads- up! Took the opportunity and significantly reduced vehicle count (this is not Sydney International anyway); added Air Affairs building with more jets from ESRI image; refined several taxiways; replaced apron lights which were waaay too bright, left one to prove that I know the red-white poles are actually correct here. And I distributed the object visibility label more evenly between 1 and 6 to better match mobile phone resources. Removed/relocated red/white taxiway barriers, there were way too many.

83349 – FlyingPenguin711 03/14/2021

Removed redundant taxi segment names; corrected a few wrong names; named remaining key segments "A B C D" etc where possible. Now the length of ATC instructions is adequate to this small airport. And ATC comms are much snappier and more up to the point.

83002 – FlyingPenguin711 03/02/2021

Ready for release checking. Found a solution for the struggle with rwy03 crossing rwy08/26. Now AI is nicely using both runways, separately for jets and props, depending on wind. Added options for separating opposing taxi traffic. Reworked several lines joints. Overall streamlined taxi network. Repaired missing taxi segment on western end of car network.

82767 – FlyingPenguin711 02/20/2021

Final push - stripped redundant taxiway segments, improved polygon stitching, ironed out wrinkles in buildings. Reverted to yellow taxi lines confirmed by sat images. If no blatant mistakes remain, this will be the rext released version.

82644 – FlyingPenguin711 02/13/2021

Replaced all taxiways by polygons where no aircraft will taxi. Defining taxi routes for vehicles does not mean they also need taxiways underneath.

82259 – FlyingPenguin711 01/28/2021

Fixed jets not landing on RWY21; reasons: 1) undefined "base vector" because my landing pattern (26) did not match arrival rwy (21) and 2) frequency clash with neighboring airport which was not reported as error but instead ATC wrist- slapped the AI pilots, resulting in not landing.

82224 – FlyingPenguin711 01/25/2021

Fixed AI jets not landing because not enough GA ramp starts available. Taxi layout simplified to optimize for AI ATC use. Now it is a nice busy refuge for little jets and helos.

82205 – FlyingPenguin711 01/24/2021

Heli pads added where helos are actually allowed to takeoff and land; small improvements to details and functions.

82126 – FlyingPenguin711 01/20/2021

Taxi route through dirt; minor corrections.

82087 – FlyingPenguin711 01/18/2021

Fixed planes taxiing on the edge of taxiway C.

82063 – FlyingPenguin711 01/17/2021

ATC flows require being able to use the complete runway from end to end. Fixed for 03 by adding more taxiway options. Also fixed small texture mistakes.

82010 – FlyingPenguin711 01/12/2021

As per airport charts, Nowra features _green_ center taxi lines. Since it is a military airport, I removed all unnecessary taxi lights, yellow lines and painted the remaining lines green. Later I found on satellite pics that there are some lights, and thus added them again. There are even yellow lines in the GA area. I generated the airport flow with a slight bias towards small biz jets due to an obscure reason. Max aircraft weight on all pads is5700kg, thus only small aircraft.

35974 – WEDbot 01/17/2015

Airport upload from X-Plane 10.32's default apt.dat