Version 6.0

FS2KDT60.ZIP is identical to FS2KDT50, except it contains corrected ATIS frequencies. Thanks to Pete Hoek for pointing out the error at KIAH (Houston Intercontinental). ISEC MARGY was added also, located near Paris, France. Please refer to readme.txt for a quick installation guide.

Previous wording for FS2KDT40/FS2KDT50:

This archive has these corrections/additions:

1. I neglected to add one little file, Magdec.bgl, found in the Flight Simulator 2000 (FS2000) Scenery folder, to the previous databases. This oversight has been corrected, and should tell FSNav the correct magnetic variation. The previous databases worked also, but FSNav didn't have magnetic variation information for itself to work with. Now it will.

2. New for this release: Markers and ATIS data have been added. At times the ATIS runway information might have an occasional missing L or R, but the wind components should be correct. For FSNav purposes, the frequency as published by the AFD files, will be the same. This will enable you to "drag" the frequency to the COM1 box in FSNav. If you're in range, you should then see and hear the ATIS information for the airport you selected it for. Due to SCASM limitations, only ATIS frequencies at or above 118.00 MHz and at or below 137.00 MHz were included.

3. The fix information for this release is from fsnavfix.zip, also downloadable at Helge Schroeder's website (below). Sorry to those who requested that other FIX zip files be used. FSNAVFIX.ZIP is copyrighted by Leland Steffensen (c) 1999.

Version FS2KDT60 and earlier versions were released because of Helge Schroeder's marvelous update to FSNav to version 3.0.

You can download FSNav 3.0 & FSNAVFIX.ZIP here:
http://fstools.simflight.de

These databases ARE NOT compatible with FSNav ver 2.3!!! You MUST have FSNav version 3.0 installed, in the FS2000 Modules folder like this:

FSNav.dll Modules folder
Fs2k.000 Modules\FSNavigator (My file number 1)
Fs2k.001 Modules\FSNavigator (My file number 2)
FSNav.isu Modules folder
FSNavDBC.exe Modules\FSNavigator

Note: The latter two files ARE NOT REQUIRED for FSNav to run properly.

Quick installation.

Thanks to Alan White for this procedure to install FSNav 3.0 without having FS98 installed:

1. Unzip the FSNav files into a temporary directory.

2. Run Setup.exe

3. Set the installation file path to c:\FS2000 (or whatever) and carry on from there.

4. When FSNav 3.0 is installed, extract fs2kdt60.zip into

<Your FS2000 Folder>\Modules\FSNavigator.

5. Run FS2000.

6. Hit <F9>

7. FSNav Menu (under FS2000 menu): Options/Scenery Open/FS2K World/OK.

That should do it.


Alan White
in England's Lake District.
http://www.alan.lesley.ukgateway.net

Thanks again Alan!

After more than 100 hours of programming I have managed, at last, to create and improve my previous upload, which included runways and ILS data for FS2K, using the data from the FS2K AFD files, and of course the supplied VOR and NDB files (decompressed when necessary). The intersection data is from already existing and downloadable FIX BGL files.

What is contained in this ZIP archive:

FS2K.000 These are the database files for FSNavigator,
FS2K.001 including Runways & ILS information.

FS2K.CDB Removed. There is currently a problem with Super Flight Planner and FS2000, and, people wanted a smaller file to download.

Additional note. Renaming of these filenames is NOT required. These databases were meant to replace world.000 and world.001 from the previous author who had made databases, but had no runways or ILS data. If you want to use that author's data, go ahead. But don't rename his files either.

All the above were created using newly created bgl files that contain runway and ILS information. Perhaps in the next release, I'll include marker & taxiway information as well. Markers, Taxiways and other Scenery is not included.

For this version (3.0), the following has been changed/added:

1. All the NAVAIDS that were missing from the fs2kdt10.zip should be present now.

2. The runway headings have been adjusted to aircraft position heading, rather that the actual heading information given for the runway. This should properly adjust the runway to compensate for magnetic variation. In some cases, there was NO setup position for some runways. In this case, I used the true heading and adjusted for magnetic variation.

3. Thanks to Sascha Felix for enlightening me on the new ILS BGL conventions. They're included in the database as supplied by Microsoft, decompressed when necessary, and modified in order to read them with FSNav 3.0

I have found, more often than not, that the data in the FS2000 AFD files have considerable errors, but evidently not noticable in FS2000's own mapping routine. Remember, that all the runway data was derived from the FS2K AFD files, directly. So some errors could exist upwards to around 15%, after compensation as explained above. But for the purpose of flight planning with FSNavigator, this is close enough.

Please send feedback to dennis@sinfo.net

This package is FREEWARE; distribution to commercial software packages, or any electronic medium (CDROM, diskette or hard disk), for the purpose of profit by a company or individual is prohibited without express written consent by the author.

Personal use of these databases is authorized.

Acknowledgements:

Flight Simulator 2000 (c) 1999, Microsoft Corporation, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
FSNAV300.ZIP (c) 1999, Helge Schroeder, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. (H_Schroeder@PowerOnline.net)
FSNAVFIX.ZIP (c) 1999, Leland Steffensen, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. (lelands@erols.com)
SCASM (c) 1995-2000 by Manfred Moldenhauer, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
CompuServe: 100117,1465 (100117.1465@compuserve.com)


(c) 1999, 2000 DDT Incorporated, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Author: Dennis D. Thompson
E-Mail: dennis@sinfo.net

Friday, 10 March 2000