Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Mittwoch 22 Dezember 2004 22:58 schrieb Roy Vegard Ovesen: On Wednesday 22 December 2004 22:43, David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:22:58 +0200, Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really feel that FG should have a built in flight planner of some sort. All the basic

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-23 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:47, Thomas Förster wrote: The format is relatively easy. Every line contains an airway segment. The first 3 values per line are the data for the starting fix (name, lat, lon). The next 3 the same for the endpoint fix. I'm not completely sure about the last 4

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Donnerstag 23 Dezember 2004 11:03 schrieb Roy Vegard Ovesen: On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:47, Thomas Förster wrote: The format is relatively easy. Every line contains an airway segment. The first 3 values per line are the data for the starting fix (name, lat, lon). The next 3 the same

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-23 Thread David Megginson
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:47:59 +0100, Thomas Förster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats right. But some data is also missing I guess (e.g. one way restrictions). I think that the DAFIF has separate airway data for each direction, so we should be able to infer the one-way stuff. As a funny, geeky

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson wrote: I think that the DAFIF has separate airway data for each direction, so we should be able to infer the one-way stuff. As a funny, geeky aside, last Easter I was in Sault Ste. Marie. I accidentally left my charts in the plane, way out of town at the airport, but I wanted to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-23 Thread Nick Coleman
From: Roy Vegard Ovesen Actually there exists a flight planning tool for FlightGear: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fgflightplanner/ It's written in Java, so I guess it should be platform independent. I have only tried it on Suse 9.1. Wow, thanks for that. I've been using FG for a

[Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-22 Thread w1dgeteye
Ok I read the other web site on how to do IFR nav but I still don't know how to setup the radios in flightgear to recieve the signals I need to navigate. Lemme give a fer instance. on the c172 panel there are 2 nav instruments and 1 ADF. in the radio stack there are 2 com/nav radios one atop

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-22 Thread John . Holeman
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: now Say I am sitting at the Amarillo intl airport and want to go to Lubbock which is approximately 100 miles due South. HOw do I setup the radios to Lubbocks beacons or frequencies or whatever the heck the radios use to guide me to Lubbock? Where do I get the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-22 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:43:52 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I get the freqs from? I learned from another web site how to do the navigating but I never found out how to setup the radios to get me from point A to point B. Some of the charts are available

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-22 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Wednesday, 22 December 2004 21:29, David Megginson wrote: Some of the charts are available online, but they're usually a pain to use. Why not invest a few bucks in paper charts if you're going to take all this time? They're available online from many sources, or you can just walk into the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:22:58 +0200 Paul Surgeon wrote: I really feel that FG should have a built in flight planner of some sort. All the basic navaid data is already in FG we just need some way of displaying it. Well, Atlas can be used for displaying it, as Melchior noted. But as for a

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-22 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 22:00, Chris Metzler wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:22:58 +0200 Paul Surgeon wrote: I really feel that FG should have a built in flight planner of some sort. All the basic navaid data is already in FG we just need some way of displaying it. Well, Atlas can

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-22 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:22:58 +0200, Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really feel that FG should have a built in flight planner of some sort. All the basic navaid data is already in FG we just need some way of displaying What's not in FlightGear, like the actual airways, is in the DAFIF

Re: [Flightgear-users] Still haven't found what I need, more on readios :)

2004-12-22 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 22:43, David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:22:58 +0200, Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really feel that FG should have a built in flight planner of some sort. All the basic navaid data is already in FG we just need some way of displaying