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To start classifying airports first navigate to Airports in the administration section just below Aircrafts:

After that the airport administrations selection screen will appear.

1. There you can select only one airport by entering the airports ICAO in the red marked box.
2. Second option is to get all listed airports of a specific country, where you can additionally filter between region/ county/ state/ province and airport class 1 - 14 by choosing from the yellow marked boxes.

To classify an airport click on Edit after marking it in your list by left-clicking it once.

On the airport administration screen you have to fill in some mandatory fields marked in red. You can fill in or click on optional fields/ options marked in green. You must not touch the buttons with the red cross.

1. Field and button meanings:
   • 1 - airport class
   • 2 - maximum amount PAX generated per day
   • 3 - maximum amount cargo generated per day
   • 4 - length of the longest runway
   • 5 - surface of the runway (concrete, grass, dirt, etc.)
   • 6 - done and useable in FTW (mark Yes if you’re finished)
   • 7 - county/ state/ province
   • 8 - Yes: no refuelling station at this airport/ no AVGAS, no JETFUEL
   • 8 - No: AVGAS and JETFUEL available at the airport

Scroll down to check if the airports location is correct. If not correct replace it by just dragging it with your mouse and click on the button “Save” located on the top of the screen.

Rules:

1. If the airports ICAO is incorrect change it to the correct ICAO and leave a NOTAM referring to the old ICAO.
2. If an airport is not available in FTW / ICAO is not present in FTW create it by clicking on the New - button just below the country selection. Additionally fill in the airports correct elevation and set the runways condition to 100.
3. Classify the airport based on
   1. your local knowledge
   2. internet information (e.g. SkyVector, wikipedia)
   3. satellite maps to obtain information on nearby cities or industry - that may help choosing a good airport class
4. Ask other airport admins for help
   1. DocBrown (native german speaker)
   2. Omarza (native english speaker)
5. Try to find information on real world passenger and cargo numbers or on aircraft movements for the airport and try to match them to the sample chart. (see Table 1)
6. If decision on the new FTW-class for the airport is made just use the below shown number ranges for pax and cargo. (see Table 2)
7. Always remember: if you feel that class 6 is not matching to KCPR from the view of aircraft operations (41.712) and you think this airport has to be a class 5 because of infrastructure and surrounding cities, etc. then make it a class 5 airport.
8. But don’t make an airport a class 1 to 4 airport based on it’s name “international airport”. In FTW all airport classes are able to deliver pax and cargo to international destinations!

Table 1:

Table 2: