I’d like to explain a problem I’ve been struggling with for several days regarding Aerosoft LEMD Madrid and the Ortho4XP patch, in the hope of either getting a practical solution or at least some guidance from Aerosoft.

My setup

·       X‑Plane 12 on a MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon.

·       Map Enhancement (XPME) for streamed orthophotos.

·       SimHeaven X‑World overlays.

·       Aerosoft LEMD Madrid X‑Plane 12 scenery:

o   Aerosoft - LEMD Madrid - 1 - Airport

o   Aerosoft - LEMD Madrid - 2 - Mesh

What works / what doesn’t

1.      If I use Aerosoft’s mesh (entry “2 – Mesh”), the airport looks good but the mesh/orthos for the wider Madrid region are effectively overridden. I lose my Map Enhancement Pro and/or SpainUHD scenery around the airport and the surrounding area looks wrong or flattened.

2.      If I disable Aerosoft’s mesh and keep:

o   XPME Europe overlays above,

o   SimHeaven overlays above those,

o   Aerosoft LEMD “1 – Airport” at the top,

3.      then:

o   The terrain and imagery around Madrid look good (XPME + SimHeaven work together).

o   But some terminals at LEMD (notably T1 and T4) have wrong elevation relative to the mesh: apron areas have bumps/steps, and parts of the terminals don’t sit perfectly on the ground. T4S looks fine, but T1/T4 are clearly misaligned.

My understanding is that this terminal elevation mismatch is exactly what the Ortho4XP patch is supposed to solve: it adjusts the airport mesh so the buildings sit correctly on a custom tile, instead of requiring Aerosoft’s own mesh to dominate the entire area.

The problem with the Ortho4XP patch

The documentation for Aerosoft LEMD provides an Ortho4XP patch and a TIF DEM, and explains how to:

·       Put the patch in Patches/+40-010/+40-004/.

·       Set the TIF as custom_dem.

·       Build tile +40‑004 with Ortho4XP.

·       Use the resulting zOrtho4XP_+40-004 tile under the airport.

In theory this is a good solution. In practice, on my Apple Silicon Mac, I have not been able to get Ortho4XP into a reliably working state for this tile:

·       My existing Ortho4XP install repeatedly fails with:

o   DEM not being created (tile.dem is None) and crashes like AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'alt_vec'.

o   OSM “server busy / rejected” issues when trying to build vector data for the tile.

·       Attempts to reinstall Ortho4XP and set up a new Python environment hit limits because:

o   I’m on a pre‑release macOS version, where package managers and GDAL/Proj setups are less stable.

o   Versioned Homebrew packages like python@3.10 are not available on my machine.

·       I’m not comfortable doing deep manual debugging or custom Python builds just to get one tile working; I’m a simmer, not a developer.

So I’m stuck in a situation where:

·       The patch depends on a tool (Ortho4XP) that I cannot realistically get working on my current Apple Silicon/macOS setup.

·       The patch itself doesn’t include a ready-made tile or mesh; it only modifies a tile I’d have to generate with Ortho4XP.

·       The product is advertised as premium scenery, but the recommended solution for users with Ortho4XP/Map Enhancement/SpainUHD relies on technical steps that are well beyond what many non‑technical users can reasonably do—especially on Apple Silicon.

What I’ve tried and confirmed

·       I have XPME working correctly as a fallback:

o   XPME overlays and SimHeaven above.

o   Aerosoft LEMD airport on top.

·       With Aerosoft mesh disabled:

o   Madrid region looks good.

o   Only the terminal elevations (T1/T4) are wrong.

·       I’ve tried multiple imagery sources (BI, ARC, GO2) and different thread settings in Ortho4XP; the DEM/alt_vec crash persists even before imagery becomes a factor.

·       I’ve spent hours following various Ortho4XP guides; none have led to a working tile for +40‑004 on this machine.

What I’m asking from Aerosoft

1.      Is there any possibility that Aerosoft could provide:

o   A pre‑built, Ortho4XP‑compatible tile for +40‑004 with the patch already applied (or at least a ready mesh/DSF) for LEMD?

o   Or an alternative patch / mesh package that:

§  Fixes T1/T4 elevations,

§  Does not flatten or override the whole Madrid region,

§  Does not require users to successfully run Ortho4XP?

2.      If not, would Aerosoft consider:

o   Updating the documentation to make clearer that the patch assumes a fully working Ortho4XP environment on the user’s system (which many Apple Silicon users do not have).

o   Providing guidance or minimum system requirements for the patch (e.g. “tested on Windows only”, or “Ortho4XP recommended but not supported on macOS Apple Silicon”).

3.      As a last resort, given the hours I’ve spent trying to make the patch work and the technical barriers on my platform, is there any possibility of:

o   An alternative solution (e.g. a small adjustment to the Aerosoft mesh so it coexists better with third‑party meshes), or

o   A refund or store credit, if the advertised compatibility with Ortho4XP‑style setups isn’t practically achievable on my system?

I’m not asking Aerosoft to support Ortho4XP itself—that’s a third‑party tool—but the current situation is that the LEMD patch is effectively unusable for me, and the supplied mesh either breaks the surrounding scenery or requires me to give up Map Enhancement and SpainUHD.

Any suggestions, clarifications, or alternative files from Aerosoft would be very much appreciated. I’d like to keep using LEMD Madrid with my usual orthophoto (Map Enhancement Pro) and mesh setup without having to be a Python/Ortho4XP expert.

Thank you for your time and for any help you can offer.

J.

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I just updated the new version of LTFM but still elevation issues happen around gates B. I use with OrthoXP. Do you guys will fix it ?

Safak 

Thanks 

I just buyed LTFM XP12, and install it. Airport looks fine but my ortho tiles is (+41+028) is disappeared. If I remove LTFM it is coming back again. After that I create new tiles with copying SceneryTR - LTFM Istanbul - 2 - Mesh\Patches\+40+020\+41+028\LTFM.patch.osm file in to the Ortho4XP\Ortho4XP\Patches folder.  And remove "SceneryTR - LTFM Istanbul - 2 - Mesh" folder from custom scenrey that ortho starts to appeared again. 

But I do not know, is this correct way to use with orthoxp? because there is no any maunel in the folders for how to use. 

btw older version was flat and this one is not flat and nice to see beacuse airport is not flat in real life.

Thank 

Safak  

I created multiple times the ortho tile using the included patch in both ortho4xp 1.30 & 1.40 with always the same results. I'm testing using just the airport folder and the created ortho4xp tile. Not the LIMC Mesh folder and anything else that might conflict with the scenery. Of course the Airport is above the ortho tile in the scenery order as you can see. Looking forward to your suggestions.

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Greets Heinz

E/SCN: Failed to find resource 'apt_asphalt', referenced from file 'Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EGCC Manchester/ground/'.

I have investigated the files in that folder but haven't found a solution.

This is with XP12.

By the way, this scenery is a disappointment in general. It still has the hangar for an airline that ceased operating in 2017! Fences are missing around public areas, and there are just things missing in general. It's also still using the abandonware SAM plugin. Considering it has been 'updated' for XP12, it's not really better than the default X-Plane airport. I would not buy it again.

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Error on loading scenery package -

Custom Scenery/ Aerosoft - LEIB Ibiza Airport/

The scenery may not look correct

Please see Log.txt for detailed error information

Can someone explain this in simple terms please, relatively new to Xplane 11 and adding scenery.

Log.txt

I have a small problem with the ATC at Aerosoft Airport Zurich.
Every time ATC wants me to start and land at LSZH on Rwy 16 but the AI planes (traffic global) take off from Rwy 32 and land on 34. 

I also tried the default lszh airport and that worked perfectly. Can I fix the ATC Aerosoft LSZH?

I would like to know is it possible to make Lsgg for xp11 work in xplane 12?

I have the 3 files 

aerosoft_LSGG_1_Roads

aerosoft_LSGG_1_Scenery

aerosoft_LSGG_1_Mesh

but doesn’t seem to work in xplane 12 

thanks 

I uninstalled and reinstalled the scenery to see if it was a bug but it still does it. It only displays the terrain and not all the buildings of the airport.

I checked "scenery_packs.ini" to see if there were any errors but everything is OK.
What problem could it be?

Thanks to all

Francesco

Robert Vatta

I've enabled the add-ons and I can see the fold "Skyline Simulations CYTZ Billy Bishop" inside X-Plane 12>Custom Scenery. I tried to re-install it but it still doesn't work. I also tried to select the "Install Missing Scenery" button shown on the screenshot. However, it still doesn't work.

Appreciate if anyone could guide me how I can solve this issue. Thanks a lot!

Recently I was at the real airport and I noticed there is a new terminal for low cost airlines like Ryanair, near gate C01, in real life. This is not featured in the XP version of the airport, instead, there is a construction site where the new terminal is supposed to be in the scenery.

Also I noticed there are no more ads on the jetways and the passenger bridges that lead to the jetways, in real life, where in the scenery the Sixt Car Rental ads are located currently.

I saw the new terminal is actually featured in the MSFS version of Köln Bonn Airport, but sadly not in the X-Plane version.

Is it therefore possible that the XP version of Köln Bonn Airport will get an update soon, so that the 2023/2024 version of the airport is also featured in X-Plane? I would really like to see this beautiful scenery get an update for X-Plane too. X-Plane still gets used by many people, so it really isn’t that only MSFS needs the attention for scenery development.

Köln Bonn Airport is one of my favourites to fly from/to, both in real life and in X-Plane. For that reason I would love to see it get updated for the X-Plane sim as well. It truly would be awesome!

If any of the Aerosoft development team could answer to this topic, that’d be nice. :)

can u please tell me why 

Keith

I have bought the Madrid XP airport, it´s great.

However, when I tune in the ATIS at Madrid Barajas airport, the runways available for takeoff and landing are wrong. Indicates 14R, 14L, 18R, 18L for takeoff and 14R, 14L, 18R, 18L for landing.

The ATC also assigns the wrong taxiways and runway for takeoff or landing.

The official takeoff runways are 36L/36R in north configuration and the 14R/14L in south configuration according to charts.

The official landing runways are the 32L/32R in north configuration and the 18R/18L in south configuration according to charts.

No takeoff from the 18R/18L/33L/33R are allowed and no landings in 36L/36R are allowed.

I have tried the default  LEMD airport of Laminar and the ATIS and ATC indications are right.

This happens to someone else?

Is it a known bug? Are there plans to fix it?

Thanks

We only have ENSB, ENTC and ENGM for XP12... There are more made for XP11, but I haven't seen any news about them being updated for XP12 yet.

SIMON

orly airbridge.xcf

For example: parked in a terminal with a default aircraft Cessna, I have around 44 frames. When I start taxiing and changing views, the frames begin to fluctuate, and in flight I have rates of 19 and 20 frames  and the processor time indicates an increase from 202 to 400 aproximately.

This doesn't happen to me with any other payment scenario. And not anywhere else.

What's going on?

Optimization problem?

I only use Simheaven as an external scenario. Nothing else.

Greetings