Frankfurt Airport

The 4th biggest airport by traffic in Europe and the biggest airport in Germany. EDDF has 4 runways, one exclusively used for takeoffs. Frankfurt Airport offers a wide variety of international airlines and heavy aircraft. Together with Leipzig and Cologne/Bonn Frankfurt is also a very big freight hub in Germany.

Differences to the default airport

Many SIDs (Standard Instrument Departures) implemented which give you a feel of the real procedures in Frankfurt.
Many STARs (Standard terminal arrival route) / transitions implemented from SPESA, KERAX, ROLIS and "RAMOB" (not a real STAR, a design choice to keep the airport smaller). The arrivals help manage high amounts of traffic.
Many fixes added which can be given as a direct to arriving aircraft.
Updated airlines and traffic, mostly pre-pandemic (it would be boring without A380s...)

Some tips on how it can be played

Transitions can help with high traffic, but are usually skipped if possible.
Airbus A380 (A388), Boeing 747s (B744 and B748) and McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (MD11) must land on runway 25L/07R as they are not allowed on the shorter runway 25R/07L (not sure if actually not allowed or just not common).
I like to play with Skill Cap 24 as it get's challenging from time to time. For beginners or players who like to play more relaxed 16-20 might be better.
I did not include approaches via every waypoint like in EDDM because waypoint + heading 070/250 in Frankfurt works fine.

Limitations, TODOs and help wanted!

**Note: ** Please don't edit the EDDF.txt file directly as it is generated via a script that is not public currently.

Arrivals via UNOKO are not possible, a shorter imaginary STAR via RAMOB is available. I wanted to keep the already big airspace a bit smaller.
Separation incidents between departing traffic happen occasionally, not sure if that is fixable.
Sometimes traffic might climb too slow to exit the south of the airspace in time.
Traffic balance between airlines is not perfect, freight airlines might be a bit too common.
Some SIDs and arrival procedures might be a bit unrealistic, as I'm not an expert when it comes to Langen Radar and Frankfurt. Feedback via Github Issue or via Discord is welcome!
Aircraft arrivals might be unevenly distributed between north and south.
Altitude restrictions might be missing. Was too lazy to look into that.

Changelog

v1.0

Initial release

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