Build airports

Ins Simutrans, the plane has a real advantage on all other way taypes : it doesn't need ways along the path. However, they need some arrangements at the start and at the end. The airport will be useful to allow the plane to take off, to land and to load or unload its goods or passengers.

You notice that there are two types of way in the plane construction tool. The “taxiways” are juste ways for the moving of the plane in the airport. They can't be built on slopes (if planes could climb slopes, we would know …) The runway is the way which is completely dark. It can be built only straight (a plane doesn't take off turning …). Plus, anything can be built from the extremity of a runway. It hasn't any minimum or maximum lenght.

So this runways will allow planes ton land and to take off. But the plane has to go on its stop. So join txiways to the runway. Build the whole structure of your airport with taxiways. The stops must be built on taxiways.

This is an example of such a basic airport …

But there, it's would be the mess if you enlarge your airport. To organize that, we will use signals. The only avaible signals for airports are these small arrows on the ground. It's no worth explaining their way of use, you would have understood that they are like one_way signs. So we will organize our airport to be larger. If the planes'traffic is heavy, it's necessary to have several runways. Here, there is one for taking off and one for landing.

There is no choose-signal : planes will go in a free stop by themselves. If there is no free stop, they will turn around in air until a stop gets free.

Of course you know that an airport isn't only ways here and there. So you can see a lot of halls in Simutrans and build a nice airport ;)