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Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby flycanarias » Wed Nov 01, 2017 5:46 pm

Hello guys,

is it somehow possible to include realistic SIDs and STARs in the standard route manager ?
This would make the approach procedure extremely more realistic and would simplify the carry-out of these realistic procedures meaning to program them into the route manager / FMC and to carry it out.

Can this be achieved ?

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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby legoboyvdlp » Wed Nov 01, 2017 6:21 pm

You need to purchase AIRAC data from Navigraph or else create them manually, yourself, I'm afraid.
FlightGear supports the LEVEL D 767 format. The files should be in Scenery/Airports/X/X/X as XXXX.procedures.xml
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby Isaak » Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:26 pm

You can also create routes using www.skyvector.com and export them to the .gpx format. If you include the sid/star name, skyvector is often able to display the correct waypoints. You won't be able to use the dropdoxn menu's, but at least it's something. SID/STARs can be included with Terrasync data, but require a lot of manual work (simply including navigraph data is not authorised because of licensing issues) and will soon get outdated when no-one updates them every now and then.
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby PINTO » Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:40 pm

For some out of date sids/stars, see https://github.com/l0k1/fg-navaiddata
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby tonghuix » Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:46 pm

PINTO wrote in Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:40 pm:For some out of date sids/stars, see https://github.com/l0k1/fg-navaiddata


It's awesome!! Do you have a script that import all of them into FG?
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby Hooray » Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:57 pm

Someone with a little Python knowledge should also be able to parse actual procedure files (public domain) and turn them into a compatible files for FlightGear use.
For instance, consider the www.airnav.com charts, which usually link back to the FAA d-tpp: http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1712/

A typical RNAV approach would be this (KSFO/28R): http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1711/00375RX28R.PDF

This could be parsed by Python to extract the waypoints (radials, offsets), names and altitudes to be used by the route manager.

This would involve some Python/OpenCV or PDF parsing obviously, i.e. no Nasal -but other than that, it's a good way to ensure that up-to-date procedures can be provided without violating any licenses, and this could even be turned into a web-service
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby CaptB » Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:51 am

It would be nice if the route manager would allow for adding custom SID/STAR or even partial navdata files which would override or compliment the default. This way one could add custom waypoints, perhaps procedures based on freely published data in the IAIP.
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby Thorsten » Thu Nov 02, 2017 7:39 am

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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby legoboyvdlp » Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:01 pm

As I said, FlightGear supports LEVEL D 767 format data. You just have to make the .xml in the appropriate format.
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby disguisedelk » Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:45 pm

So I still have my Navigraph subscription and got the files from there, ran them through the script and put them in the Airports folder but when I'm at an airport that has many procedures, this happens

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I think this needs a scroll bar ;)
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby legoboyvdlp » Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:30 pm

Best way to get a scroll bar is to send a request to the FlightGear mailing list for someone to add it :) or else add it yourself and share the patch file if you are able to
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby disguisedelk » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:31 pm

I can only fly these things, not make them :P
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby legoboyvdlp » Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:40 pm

I'll see if it actually is possible. If so I might be able to do it as that problem is quite annoying.
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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby legoboyvdlp » Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:36 pm

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Re: Realistic Procedures (SID / STARS)

Postby www2 » Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:42 pm

@legoboyvdlp can you look in my problem with airport with a 3 letter airport id (FAA airport ID)?

see my bug report: https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/2003/
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