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The map

FlightOut has one map, and it is the whole of Kashmir at real scale, built from open satellite data. This is what is in it and where it comes from.

Shaded relief chart of the FlightOut map: the Himalaya, Karakoram and the Kashmir valley
The game's own chart of the map, as the map screen (M) shows it.

At a glance

Area
About 803 by 688 km, centred on 34.55° N, 76.4° E
Covers
The Kashmir valley, Jammu, Ladakh, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Aksai Chin and the land around them
Elevation
Copernicus DEM GLO-30: one height every 30 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 2021: forest, grass, crops, built-up areas, water, snow and bare rock, 10 m
Projection
Azimuthal equidistant around the map's centre, with Earth's curvature in flight
Airfields
25 real airfields, 28 runways

Elevation and land cover

The ground is Copernicus DEM GLO-30, a global elevation model from the European Union's Copernicus programme, with a height every 30 metres. FlightOut takes the tiles from 31° to 38° north and 71° to 81° east, and streams them in with continuous level of detail: sharp under the jet, coarser towards the horizon.

What grows and stands on it is ESA WorldCover 2021, a 10 m land cover map from the European Space Agency. It decides where the forests are (about 96,000 trees, conifers higher up and broadleaves lower), where the fields, towns, rivers and lakes lie, and where the snow and bare rock begin.

Shading, terrain shadows and haze are worked out in the game from the same data, so the relief you fly over is the relief that is there.

Airfields

From OurAirports, with their real runways: edge, threshold and approach lights and a PAPI at every runway end. Multiplayer flights start at Srinagar, Leh and Skardu.

Airfields on the map
CodeAirfieldRunways
OPLAAllama Iqbal International Airport18L/36R, 3,348 m; 18R/36L, 2,747 m
VIAWAwantipura Air Force Station12/30, 3,198 m
VI88Beas Airport16/34, 1,226 m
OPBGBhagatanwala Airport07/25, 2,728 m
OP1YChandhar Airport05/23, 2,746 m
OPQSDhamial Army Airbase14/32, 2,039 m
VI66Fukche Advanced Landing Ground13/31, 2,753 m
OPGTGilgit Airport07/25, 1,644 m
ZWTNHotan Airport11/29, 3,168 m
OPISIslamabad International Airport10L/28R, 3,639 m; 10R/28L, 3,648 m
VIJUJammu Airport18/36, 2,060 m
VIGGKangra Airport15/33, 1,408 m
VI65Kargil Airport02/20, 1,834 m
VILHLeh Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport07L/25R, 2,752 m
OPMAMangla Airport14/32, 1,522 m
OPMSMinhas Air Base12/30, 3,030 m
OPRNPAF Base Nur Khan (Benazir Bhutto International Airport)12/30, 3,291 m
VIPKPathankot Airport01/19, 2,736 m
OP27Rahwali Airport05/23, 1,903 m
OPSSSaidu Sharif Airport05/23, 1,744 m
OPSDSkardu International Airport14L/32R, 1,982 m; 14R/32L, 3,651 m
VIARSri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport16/34, 3,297 m
VISRSrinagar International Airport13/31, 3,632 m
VI57Thoise Airport10/28, 3,050 m
VIUXUdhampur Air Force Station18/36, 2,758 m

The border on the map

The map screen draws one red outline around the whole of Kashmir: Jammu and Kashmir with Ladakh, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, the Siachen Glacier, Aksai Chin, the Shaksgam valley and Demchok, joined into a single region. It comes from Natural Earth's public-domain boundaries.

FlightOut draws no lines inside the region. The whole map is playable, and the outline marks the region the game is about, nothing more.