more bases and airstrips.

[Baco]

Its a given, since it been announced that more bases will be coming along, but just for the record! I hope we get at least one or two a year until every strip is in there. Its  a beautiful place to explore, and train long range navigation, so the more places to take off and land the better.

And of course Thank you for bringing to life this extraordinary map!

[Beirut]

I hope there are some mountain airstrips for some funky landing challenges. 

[Northstar98]

I'm fairly sure all the paved aerodromes are already there (apart from maybe Porvenir which is 40 km from Punta Arenas, on the opposite side of the strait).

No they aren't, there's a fair few more on the Mainland.

There are a lot of small airfields on the islands, but almost all of them are very small grass strips with only daylight markings and no services (EDIT a lot of these are present, with 3D objects, they're just not marked on the map).

Edited June 10, 2022 by Northstar98

[YoYo]

What we know, at the first stage we will recive: Port Stanley, RAF Mount Pleasant, Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport / AFB Rio Gallegos - Rio Gallegos, Hermes Quijada International Airport / NAS Almirante Quijada - Rio Grande, Malvinas Argentinas Ushuaia International Airport, Ushuaia Heliport I Presidente Carlos Ibáñez International Airport (Punta Arenas).

[AlexCaboose]

Yeah, more airfields is going to be a crucial thing. It really expands the replayability of scenarios, as well as the variety that can be created.

[SlipHavoc]

There's at least a few dozen airports in the map area that aren't modeled yet, ranging anywhere from overgrown and abandoned strips, to short dirt or grass local fields, to full-sized airports with paved runways and facilities for passenger jets.  I found a site that shows all or most of them, and allows filtering: https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/e90996158f0a464189098881379597a6_0/explore?location=-52.911028%2C-65.627450%2C7.00 .  (And here's another that shows most of them, with some other info: https://metar-taf.com/ )

So for instance, here are 11 airports with runways at least 4000 ft long that I was able to put together with a few minutes of clicking around:

Guardiamarina Zañartu Airport
latitude:    -55°55'51"S
longitude:    -68°37'34"W
    
San Sebastián Airport
latitude:    -54°18'58"S
longitude:    -69°39'26"W
    
Rio Chico Airport
latitude:    -52°40'6"S
longitude:    -70°15'37"W
    
Lieutenant Julio Gallardo Airport
latitude:    -52°40'14"S
longitude:    -73°31'44"W
    
28 de Noviembre Airport
latitude:    -52°36'17"S
longitude:    -73°13'13"W
    
El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport
latitude:    -51°16'49"S
longitude:    -73°3'11"W
    
Santa Cruz Airport
latitude:    -51°0'59"S
longitude:    -69°34'45"W
    
Capitan D Daniel Vazquez Airport
latitude:    -50°18'24"S
longitude:    -68°48'9"W
    
Gobernador Gregores Airport
latitude:    -49°46'59"S
longitude:    -71°9'0"W
    
Villa O'Higgins Airport
latitude:    -49°28'9"S
longitude:    -73°33'51"W
    
Los Robles Airport
latitude:    -55°4'8"S
longitude:    -68°39'12"W

The map textures clearly show the runways and airport facilities, so hopefully these and others will be added as usable airfields in due time.  Right now, there's only 4 fields on the mainland and some interesting parts of the map are hundreds of miles away from the nearest one, so adding some of these could really open up the map and allow a lot of different missions.  And the smaller runways could be very useful as staging areas for Harriers, helicopters, or prop planes.

[AbuMuqawama]

I wonder how viable it would be to include the airstrip at Goose Green?

[Northstar98]

20 minutes ago, AbuMuqawama said:

I wonder how viable it would be to include the airstrip at Goose Green?

It's already present, it just isn't marked on the map:

Though it's quite difficult to see in game:

[skywalker22]

IN CHILE:

I found 1 big, which is missing: Porvenir Airport

-53.25304562444255, -70.3223165642046

Edited June 12, 2022 by skywalker22

[skywalker22]

IN CHILE

Almirante airport -53.61078116217274, -70.4707907347529

 

Edited June 12, 2022 by skywalker22

[skywalker22]

Airports that could be added on this map:

ARGENTINA

- Aeropuerto San Julián / Capitán D. Vázquez -49.306461539069744, -67.80170905417621

- Airport Puerto Santa Cruz -50.01715621268124, -68.5801662932522

- Gobernador Gregores Airport -48.78276182986489, -70.15079265483874

- El Calafate Airport -50.28030157147053, -72.05429315955453