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MSFS20 Helipad Parking/Spawn

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Hey all, didnt' found an answer or topic of my problem.

Had a Model (Heliplattform) which is also definated as collision-object.
Placed it on the top of a house, but how can i set a spawn/parking point or similar?
The "TaxiwayParking" didnt help, because i can't change the height of it.
The "object" Helipad from the MSFS SDK didn't help, it shows only that there is an helipad/port in the MSFS World Map in the game itself.
 
That's a journey you have to go through to make this happen. Finally there is no way that I found based on the helipad component of the airport definition. The only way is to define a runway at allmost the same altitute (some centimeters blow) minimum 6x6 meter in size which will then lift up the ground level close to the helipad. The helipad top material has to have the collision and road flag marked to you can start and land on. I hope it helps. I filed a support ticket in Zendesk for this problem and it's already in the list of issues but no idea when it will be sollved. Regards Guido
 
You can get away with a runway more than a few centimetres below a hardened surface sometimes. It seems to vary but I've sometimes placed it a metre or more below and spawning still worked.

You can also experiment with making the runway transparent if it's bulging in inconvenient places but I haven't had much success with that myself.

Manipulating runways will vary massively between areas. Some areas terraform very easily, others fall apart no matter what you try.
 
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