Curtis Olson wrote:

[... airport elevation ...]
> Judging by the total lack of end user comments in this area, I think we
> ended up with a pretty good balance of naturally fitting a nice surface to
> the terrain data and blending it into the surrounding terrain.

Agreed.

> The system is automated though so it's not always perfect and I'm sure there
> are airports that could use some tweaking.  One idea that I had (and haven't
> acted on) was to allow specifying a set of "fit parameters" for individual
> airports where the default parameters didn't do a good job.

This is most prominently interesting for airstrips like LFLJ
(Courchevel) which has a slope of slightly below 20 %. An appropriate
procedure is already planned - but not yet implemented.

Cheers,
        Martin.
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