FlightGear airport, nav-aid and intersection (fix) data
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Version
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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
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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
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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
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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-Hynnil<69> 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
P<>tur J<>nsson Icelandic (BIRK, BIAR and BIVM) runway headings corrected
Nicola Marangon Approach lighting "inverted" at LIPA and LIPH - corrected
M Nordstr<74>m 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.
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