Customizing Sectionals
At a major contest this summer, the file supplied by the organizers had
only the TPs in it; no other airports, public or private. Call me old
fashioned but I remember in the dim dawn of the GPS era when the
official contest DB had at least the airports on the sectional and
often other landing spots as well. Some intrepid pilots apparently flew
the contest with this but since landing spots were not always plentiful
in certain task areas, I wanted all the airports showing in GNII.
I used Excel to open the US Airport Database and sort the data,
selected an area covering the contest envelope and trimmed it, arranged
it in the correct columns and formats, and added waypoint numbers.
After I imported this into the organizers' file, I had to delete all
the duplicate airports that were also TPs. I also had to edit the
comments to make sure the stuff I wanted to see in GNII came up first
(freqs. and runway headings).
QUESTION: Could I have used SeeYou for this?
I did use SeeYou to upload the resulting waypoint file directly to a
Garmin GPS/MAP 76 (my backup GPS/logger).
Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"
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