Flight Planning Assistance

Beta Version 3.11.1 has now been posted with the PMDG formats added to the SID and STAR Reports. I have also corrected an error in accessing or locating the SID and STAR data. So now if you are not using the standard Navigraph Navdata then you should identify the location of your Navdata folder, named NAVDATA in PMDG.

Stephen

Opus Software wrote: Would be nice, but I don't think that information is available from FSX, I will check. If I can determine what runway FSX is using then I would provide details of this. I will look into it and see what info I can obtain. There are other Navdata files which provide runway details, what runways are available etc.. But I really need to ascertain what runway FSX has selected as active. I could also show this info in the Opus weather reports if its available. Stephen

If you are using a SID, most SID's are designated for certain runways, that could be a decisive factor for which runway to use. (My past previous suggestion was based on depending on SID and winds would choose a runway or suggest a most likely runway)

Opus Software wrote: How would you like the altitudes bracketed

That's why, the iFly 737 folder has inside the navdata folder 2 seperate folders, one called SIDS and one called STARS so this will never work?

Best email me a copy of your EGLL.txt SID and STAR files so I can check them and add their decoding formats.

Stephen

Recieved them. The files have different names (EGKK.sid and EGKK.star) and also a different format so I will have to change the software to first look for the sub-folder names and then look for the .sid and .star file extensions, and of course decode the different file content.

These 2 are subfolders of the navdata folder and the navaids.txt and waypoints.txt are there else it wouldn't have worked so far for the enroute METARS but none of them contains the stars and sids, only these 2 subfolders and they can be opend with notepad and are readable in there.

Stephen, I'm not sure the content of my iFly 737NG navdata folder agrees with "electric man".

I have the SIDS and STARS folders and the following files (similar to PMDG):
airports.dat
cycle_info.txt
fmc_ident.txt
wpNavAID.txt
wpNavAPT.txt
wpNavFIX.txt
wpNavRTE.txt

Best regards,
Dennis

Hi solentflyer, they are the same as mine but it's only the two that Stephen asked for that matter for Opus ,the wp in front doesn't matter, Opus decodes them the correct way so don't worry, everything up to now worked fine with the iFly737, for the Wilco airbusses though it's an other pair of sleaves, they have a separate folder called "nd", probably short for navdata and the one exel file wich contains everything from waypoints to ICAO's and sids and stars. This folder is used for every airplane variation, weather it's the evolution series 1 or 2 and maybe other Feelthere aircraft aswell but that I don't know since I don't have them.

Hello, in the report SidStarReport.txt I end up with a list of SID and STAR are what is useful? because I have the same in my FMC.

I also believe this information is really useful - when departing from/arriving at an airport with numerous SIDS/STARS, it can be quite tedious to have to page through 5 or 6 pages of SID/STAR names on an FMC with no idea as to which may be the most relevant.

This report will allow us to easily filter this long list down to the 2 or 3 (at most) that are relevant and then find further information from charts etc for those selected if required.

Best regards,
Dennis

You must identify your <FSX>\iFly\Navdata folder within the Flight Plan Options dialog, the software then will look for your <FSX>\iFly\SIDS and STARS folders and the enclosed .sid and .star files.

Stephen

Pointless directing it directly to the SID folder that's not what the software is expecting.

The zip file you sent me does contain the .sid and .star text formatted files, and I have modified the software in the latest beta version 3.11.2.

I put the following link in Opus  C:\programfiles\FSX\iFly\navdata bud it doesn't work, I don't see any .txt formats in the subfolders "SIDS" and "STARS" only extensions like .sid, .sidtrs, .star etc, they can be opend however with notepad and look like a .txt format then but standard they're not.

The FSX folder already was shared, I shared the iFly folder extra and the navdata folder inside to just to be on the sure side and no, it doesn't work and I don't know what you did in unzipping what I send you, I zipped a copy of the SID folder, deleted the copy and then unzipped the zip but I don't see any .txt format files inside?? only the files with the extensions mentioned in a previous post

You must check more than just sharing, please see above. You must check the sharing permissions AND security permissions, that's three separate checks.

Being Administrator makes no difference, you are not the program. You will still have to check everything so the program can access the files.

they are subfolders in the iFly 737 navdata folder like I mentioned several posts earlier. If I move them out of there then I'm scared the 737's FMC wont work anymore like it's suposed to.

Hi Stephen and Herman.
If I point to c:/fsx/ifly/737NG/navdata then no SIDS or STARS show in the notepad window it reports none available or words to that effect. If I then change to point to c:/FSX/navigraph/navdata, then a full list shows up. Indicating as you said Stephen and as Herman has indicated that the Ifly navdata is not being interpreted.
The ifly SIDS and STARS are in there own sub folders of /737ng/Navdata. The ifly 747 is set up in the same way.
I suppose it explains why navigraph publish so many different modules because different sim houses have there own way of doing things. Ie the ifly won't work for PMDG. PMDG won't work with LevelD. LevelD won't work with wilco.....ect ect.
Phil