There is much confusion about how to use orthophotos when creating airports in WED. Here is a “long forgotten” YouTube video created by Laminar Research’s WED Guru Michael Minnhaar aka @triplemon . The video shows scenery creators the right way to do it. While the tutorial video is 4 years old and created for X-Plane 11, the information in it is still quite valid:
Turn up the volume – the soundtrack is a bit quiet.