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In a previous article, "John Bell" said:
As Paul Tomblin has mentioned, navaid.com will allow you to load aviation waypoints. You cannot load an entire database. What you can do is load aviation waypoints as user waypoints. Paul's site is great. I don't know about the 2610 and 2620, but you can then load the waypoints from Paul's site with several programs. Some of the free ones are EasyGPS, www.easygps.com and G7toWin, http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/. While we're indulging in a little self-promotion here, I'd like to ask people a question about my waypoint generator. A little while ago I got frustrated with the fact that the FAA data I get is incredibly inconsistent about the naming of fixes. It's hard to know what fix types to ask for, because what I'm usually interested in are fixes on airways, but the FAA only uses the fix type "AWY-INTXN" about 8 times in the whole country. Most of the others are called something else, but those something elses are also used for fixes I have no interest in myself. So as an experiment, I put a thing in the CoPilot waypoint generator to pick fixes based on what charts they appear on. So I pick ones that appear on IFR Enroute Low Altitude charts only, and I'm not troubled by all those fixes that are only of interest to people with GPSes, or which are part of Jet Routes, or part of an approach but not in the en-route, etc. I put that into CoPilot, and asked for feedback. And so far, not a single person has told me whether they like it or not. So I don't know if I should bother putting it in the other generators or not, or even if I put it in INSTEAD of the other fix type picker. Anybody have any opinions? -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ The language that these files use is just like BASIC, only with all of the good parts ripped out. Oh, and did I mention that it's case-sensitive? I could eat a K&R and ****** a better language. |
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