Trees in the middle of the airbase

[Bilbo_Baggins]

Good day gents,

 

Just wondering about a few of the airbases that have a clump of trees precariously located right next to the runway, sometimes right near the middle of the airbase. I figure the devs put these in for a reason but wanted to know for why they were left there when constructing the base? Does anyone know detailed information about these bases and if those trees were really there back then?

 

Nice to have a bit of fauna and flora around the base but it does raise questions.

 

Regards

[Velxra]

I would assume it would just be for decoration or perhaps an oversight. Could you give us some pictures and the location? 

[ShamrockOneFive]

Depends on the base but I would assume that they were put there on the map because they were there in real life.

 

A lot of WWII bases, especially those on the Eastern Front, were done wherever they could with minimal provisioning for things like clearing trees.

[Yogiflight]

Trees were often used for parking aircrafts there, so they were not seen from the air. Like you do it with vehicles, too.

[Feathered_IV]

Could trees have also functioned as a windbreak on some airfields if the runway couldn't necessarily be angled into the wind?

[MiloMorai]

2 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

Trees were often used for parking aircrafts there, so they were not seen from the air. Like you do it with vehicles, too.

But around the edge of the airfield, not in the middle.

[bzc3lk]

1 hour ago, Feathered_IV said:

Could trees have also functioned as a windbreak on some airfields if the runway couldn't necessarily be angled into the wind?

 

Not an ideal solution as they produce some interesting turbulence to say the least. When I was learning to fly about fourteen years ago I remember the instructor hounding me about touching down after the tree line when we had cross winds, as it produced very uneven wind strengths and turbulence. Since the airfield was an old World War 2 airbase we had the luxury of wide and ample length runways.

Edited June 22, 2019 by bzc3lk

[Bilbo_Baggins]

Why the hell was this moved to bug reports? 

 

There's no claiming this is a bug, rather why are/were there trees in the middle of some of these bases?

Edited June 23, 2019 by Bilbo_Baggins