Simfocus Autogen Helipads V2
FLY ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
Have you ever noticed that nearly every airport, airfield and many, many bush strips are available to choose from in the sim. But why limit yourself to just airports?
Here’s where my neat scenery comes in: MSFS Autogen Helipads
This tool relies on openstreetmap data and converts helipads from there into MSFS scenery
While converting it takes into account various parameters to represent these helipads as good as it’s possible in the sim.
F... FLY ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
Have you ever noticed that nearly every airport, airfield and many, many bush strips are available to choose from in the sim. But why limit yourself to just airports?
Here’s where my neat scenery comes in: MSFS Autogen Helipads
This tool relies on openstreetmap data and converts helipads from there into MSFS scenery
While converting it takes into account various parameters to represent these helipads as good as it’s possible in the sim.
Features? Here!
It all really depends on what data is available in openstreetmap, but:
It’s able to generate correct shape helipad
Helipads that dont have ICAO set in OSM will have a custom 5-character designator
Hospital helipads have correct hospital markings
There’s a lot of variation between helipads, examples:
Grass helipads will have a white outline around them to tell where exactly they are
Helipads will come with windsocks to help establish wind direction
Rooftop helipads outside of photogrammetry cities will come with a custom helipad 3D model placed on the roof to allow for using them without dealing with MSFS Building collisions that often don’t work properly
Helipads will flatten the area around them a bit, as MSFS terrain mesh isn’t always as flat as real life
Helipads come with a HELIPAD start and a PARKING start so you can start both Cold And Dark and Ready To Depart
Important Note
Due to high amount of helipads, if they weren’t hidden it would be unusuable due to low framerate. I have included a worldmap filter inside of autogen helipads package, that hides them from the worldmap. To select your departure helipad, use littlenavmap or the map on this website, and search for the helipad in the in-sim search window using it’s name or ICAO code.
You can also access the map of all helipads here, or in the userpoints. csv file for use with littlenavmap (which can be found in the zip)
