Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV receiver specs

2011-11-30 Thread Adrian Musceac
> Thinking of most GA and business aviation aircraft I know the NAV > antenna (VOR/LOC/GS) is always located on the vertical tail, just below > the horizontal tail with a cross or t-tail and on top of the vert. tail > with a low hor. tail. These are usually two antennas, one on each side > of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV receiver specs

2011-11-30 Thread Eric van den Berg
>> Another big influence is the antenna pattern of the antenna on the >> aircraft. Fuselage, wing and empennage are the blocking structures of >> course. If you want I can have a look and get you some "typical" data >> for "structure blocked signal loss". >> >> A lot of aircraft have a seperate GS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV receiver specs

2011-11-28 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Monday, November 28, 2011 20:20:03 Eric van den Berg wrote: > > That I do not know. But I do know there are long-range and short-range > VOR-s with significantly different output levels. Not sure how to > determine the difference easily. > For NDB-s it is more easy. The short range ones are on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV receiver specs

2011-11-28 Thread Adrian Musceac
> > The nav.dat file contains 'range' in nm for the nav-aid. > http://data.x-plane.com/file_specs/Nav740.htm > > Perhaps you could use some heuristic to create a reasonable power level to > meet the published range? > > Ron > Oh I see then, my bad, I was not aware of this fact. Of course, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV receiver specs

2011-11-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 28 November 2011 11:20:03 Eric van den Berg wrote: > On 11/28/2011 06:14 PM, Adrian Musceac wrote: > > On Monday, November 28, 2011 18:31:42 Eric van den Berg wrote: > >> For GA (what I have handy right now): > >> The good old Garmin 400 series: VOR/LOC:-103.5dBm, GS:-87dBm > >> Avidyne

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV receiver specs

2011-11-28 Thread Eric van den Berg
On 11/28/2011 06:14 PM, Adrian Musceac wrote: > On Monday, November 28, 2011 18:31:42 Eric van den Berg wrote: > >> For GA (what I have handy right now): >> The good old Garmin 400 series: VOR/LOC:-103.5dBm, GS:-87dBm >> Avidyne (EntegraII): VOR: 5uV, LOC and GS: 10uV >> >> www.repeater-builde

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV receiver specs

2011-11-28 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Monday, November 28, 2011 18:31:42 Eric van den Berg wrote: > For GA (what I have handy right now): > The good old Garmin 400 series: VOR/LOC:-103.5dBm, GS:-87dBm > Avidyne (EntegraII): VOR: 5uV, LOC and GS: 10uV > > www.repeater-builder.com/measuring-*sensitivity*/*dbm*2uv.pdf > /for conversi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV receiver specs

2011-11-28 Thread Eric van den Berg
For GA (what I have handy right now): The good old Garmin 400 series: VOR/LOC:-103.5dBm, GS:-87dBm Avidyne (EntegraII): VOR: 5uV, LOC and GS: 10uV www.repeater-builder.com/measuring-*sensitivity*/*dbm*2uv.pdf /for conversion table!/ The Avidyne is TSO minimums if I remember correctly. Their uni