FlightGear airport, nav-aid and intersection (fix) data ******************************************************* Version ======= This is version 2.26 of the FlightGear airport, nav-aid and IFR intersection data. See the Change Log section at the end of this file for complete details of changes. The source data for these files is also used for the X-Plane flight simulator, and X-Plane users have provided the bulk of the updated data for this release. Many of the comments in the change log may only be relevant to X-Plane users. Sorry! Notes ===== Please advise me if you are working upon custom taxiways for an airport. I will try and co-ordinate/avoid duplications of effort. I have now written an FAQ (in MS Word format) that attempts to explain the rather curious file formats used in default.apt, default.nav, default.ils and default.fix. Contact me if you would like a copy. Feedback ======== As always, please send feedback to robin@cpwd.com. - If you find errors, please just don't tell me (as many do) that "...it's all wrong ..." - please also tell me how to put it right! - If I seem to have done strange things to any data you send me - I'm sorry - let me know what is wrong and I'll do my best to fix it. I do not have time to test fly every airport and ILS! The software that consolidates all this data is complex, and still has a few bugs that need to be eradicated. And sometimes I receive conflicting data for the same airport. But I do keep copies of everything I am sent, and so it should be possible to resolve any problems that arise. Robin Peel robin@cpwd.com Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Change Log ========== Version 2.26 (this one) Mike Loncaric Detailed taxiways for many US mid-west airports. Great! Dave Spurlock Many new custom taxiways - US west coast & Carribean Shane Fernandes Complete set of IFR fixes for transatlantic (north) routes Armin Hubert Many new airports - Middle East, Africa, etc. Don Ferree Revised taxiways at Washington Dulles (KIAD) Pieter van Wyk Revised data for FATP (South Africa) B Tresarrieu Minor changes to LFQP (Phalsbourg) Gerhard Strack Many updates and additions to European airports and nav-aids Hak the Seagull Added extra space in from of apt elevation for backward compatability Joachim Euler Revised taxiways at Bangor and Grand Canaria Krister Renard Re-aligned + taxiway data for Stockholm (ESSA & ESSB), Oslo & ESNU Luis Italo Some fixes in Latin America Luis Italo MGGT, MRLB, SKSP and MSLP airport details T Ala-Hynnilä New Finnish airpoirts (lots of them!) Wolfgang Stroh Revised Austrian airport data Ryan Konrath Removed water runway at KSTP Ray Young OL7 (Jean, Nevada) - complete new data from aerial photos Pétur Jónsson Icelandic (BIRK, BIAR and BIVM) runway headings corrected Nicola Marangon Approach lighting "inverted" at LIPA and LIPH - corrected M Nordström ESNN revised Robin Peel Removed LOC/GS/Marker lat/lons of zero Kay Nemoto New taxiways at Boston & 3 Japanese airports Version 2.25: Armin Hubert Many african / middle east airports M Stromberg Misc. Swedish airport amendments Joachim Euler Oakland (KOAK) taxiways Dave Spurlock Refined Seattle area airports (KSEA, KBFI) and KSJC A Schroeder KNUC, KSDM, KSAN, KXKX A Schroeder Southern California military ILSs Ivan Finegan Airports and twys at Dublin, Kerry and Sligo (Eire) Steffen Wengorz Many smaller German (50+) and Polish airports Gerhard Strack Taxiways at Brussels and other Eur airports T Soderqvist Many Swedish airports and nav-aids Joachim Euler Moscow and Athens airports and nav-aids Austin Meyer KEDW taxiways and steep ILS for Shuttle landings C Nikolaisen ESOW (Vasteras, Sweden) Anon Revised data for KUKF (N Wilkesboro) apt & ILS Robin Peel Small private airport north of Chama, NM added as NM99 Gerhard Strack EGPD, EHAM, LGAT, EIDW, LTBA, EGLC, EGLL, ELLX, LFPB, LFPO, etc Hak the Seagul Frequency changes to 3 Swiss ILS Jamey Osbourne El Paso (KELP) and t27 taxiways Joachim Euler Croation airports (inc. Dubrovnik, Zagreb) Kay Nemoto Taxiways improvements at SAN CIU SBN DTW Hans-J Blunck Nurnberg, Leipzig (Germany) Tony Sanchez Revised PHNL (Honolulu) apt, twy, ILS and LOC Eric Rolfe KMHT LOC 17 upgraded to ILS Gerhard Strack European airport updates (Berlin, Dusseldorf, Franfurt, Prague, etc) Nicolas Added LFQP Phalsbourg (France) Gorka Icelandic airports and some taxiways Chuck Bodeen Revised ORD etc (taxiway lighting validated) Pieter van Wyk South African airports / nav-aids (eg. FACT) Peter Bore Brisbane, Australie Chuck Bodeen KORD KORD KPDX KMMV KONP taxiways Version 2.20: Austin Meyer Remove trailing spaces from airport names Dave Spurlock KSQL, PAJN, 23Q, KRHV taxiways Anon KORD, KMDW, KPIE taxiways Robin Peel Removed duplicate Lyons Satolas (FLAA); changed apt name. Robin Peel Detailed taxiways for Fairoaks (EGTF), England, home of the LTFC. Robin Peel Very detailed (233) taxiways at KDFW Robin Peel KDFW 35L MM moved from middle of runway Kay Nemoto KAVX, KSNA, KSBD, KPSP taxiways Anthony EHHV (Hilversum) to be grass; Correct dup EHSE/EHSP (Seppe) Ryan Konrath Minnesota area small airport detailed taxiways Austin Meyer PAPI (20 degree) option added (for shuttle landing) Joe Restivo Ft Stockton VOR freq to 116.9 Version 2.19: Robin Peel Complete detail for Albuquerque (KABQ) taxiways Austin Meyer Reverse Edwards LRRS runway data for Shuttle landing navigation Donald Ferree ID change - CYJT to CYTJ (or was it the other way round???) Robin Peel Corrected the "flipping" of some rwy lighting to wrong ends of rwy Greg Hofer Montreal Mirabel, Toronto etc. apts w/ twys; Revised Calgary ILS Versions 2.17 - 2.18: Not published Version 2.16: Joachim Euler Revised EDFE airport/taxiways Armin Hubert Minor airport code changes (Germany) Michel Aarlborg (Denmark) custom taxiways Robin Peel Revised taxiways for KAEG (Albuquerque Double Eagle II) Robin Peel Grass taxiways for EGLM (White Waltham) Hans Van Kampen Major revisions to Dutch and Spanish airports/navaids Robin Peel Removed 500+ duplicate nav-aids Version 2.15: Robin Peel Seaplane bases can now be included in apt.dat (once Austin can get X-Plane to handle them) Armin Hubert Airports - Baltic, Lahr (former Canadian AFB in Germany) & Albania Jobst Grossman New small German airports Luis Airports (+ taxiways) and nav aids - Latin America Michel Norwegian taxiways at major airports Dominique Minor French airport / nav-aid updates Wolfgang Stroh Revised ILS at LOWW Andy Goldstein KORH corrections Sergio Airports with taxiways - Nice, Bern, Milan, Zurich Uwe Peter Perth - code change from APPH to YPPH Armin Hubert Misc. Middle Eastern airports Ray Young KBDR ILS adjustments Joachim Euler A few German ICAO airport ID changes Robin Peel Minor changes to Innsbruck LOC/DME rwy 26 - accurate offset LOC position Toni Santagada Two Ecuadaor airports (more to follow) Version 2.11: Joachim Euler Keflavik, Dusseldorf, Ibiza, Gran Canaria, JFK Wolfgang Stroh Austrian airports Dave Spurlock Seattle airports / taxiways Dave Spurlock W78 etc. on Puget Sound Barry Jacques Kansas City VORTAC relocation Austin Fix zero-width runways (Canadian data) Andy Goldstein KEDW GS location Me Import old 1.60 data Theo Davies ORD, Midway, MSY & Lakefront Wolfgang Stroh LOWL - delete extra runway Armin Hubert Odd European airports & Marakech Me Restore application to pre-disc crash status Chuck Bodeen KONP runway 2-20 location & heading Jon Hay KBOS localiser relocation Curt Olsen Create FG data with MagVar on navaids Dave Spurlock KBFI Boeing Field taxiways Jon Hay Delete Groveland Sheets, FL Tony Sanchez KLAX, KCOU, KJEF taxiways Tony Sanchez MMMX ILS and GS Version 1.60: - Included ISOapt.dat for 5.22+ users, which has the airports sorted by ISO country code then by airport name. Also includes ICAO airport codes in the displayed airport name (but not used for sorting) for all countries except the US and Canada. Use this file instead of apt.dat and give me feedback. - New and revised Australian data, including airports, nav-aids and over 1,000 IFR intersections. Thanks to Barry (and Ross for Sydney's taxiways - try Ross' Sydney scenery). - Two favourite tourist destinations for Americans - Tripoli and Baghdad (thanks Armin). - Revisions and taxiways for major German airports (check out Frankfurt, EDDF, as an example). Thanks to Roger. - New and/or revised airport details for the UK and Eire. Corrected ILS positioning at many UK/Eire airports (eg. London City, London Gatwick). Thanks to Ivan (our North Sea oil rig guru). - Minor updates to the Shuttle Landing Facility at Titusville (more accurate glideslope) - Revised 'ficticious' nav-aids at JJ Brennan's Kingmont helipad and observatory, near Lake Tahoe. Version 1.58 (not published): - Revised taxiways at Vienna (thanks to Wolfgang) Version 1.57: - Several thousand helipads. They are sorted to the end of X-Plane's menus and prefixed with an "H". - New taxiways at 40 more US airports (thanks Kay Nemoto). For example, check out KDTW, KMSP, KEWR, KSTL and many smaller airports such as KFYV. - Refined Austrian data (Wolfgang and Roger). - Nice (France) and Genoa (Italy), (thanks Sergio). - German taxiways (Hannover, Berlin) (thanks to Jobst and Joachim). - Berlin, Jersey (CI) and Biarritz (thanks to Roger). - Taxiways at Oregon airports (thanks Chuck). - New version of Amsterdam Schiphol (thanks to Hans). - Some new Central American airports (Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua) (thanks Luis). - Lots of clean up (eg. removal of duplicate Lyon airport in France). - Denver, Memphis and Mexico City data from the Scenery Registry (thanks Jose and Theo). - Quebec airports and other Canadian improvements (Greg). - Stockholm area and Dusseldorf airports/taxiways (Krister). - Lukla, Nepal (Walter). - Accurate LOC/DME for Innsbruck (no glideslope) - the localisers look goofy in the approach plate view, but they are actually correct. You need real charts to fly in here (try Jeppesen's SimCharts). - Wide taxiways (greater than 999 feet wide) now display correctly. [End]