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How to add SID, STAR, VOR, intersection to New Airport in MSFS 2020?

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I designed a new airport in MSFS 2020. This airport is not a modification of an existing airport, it is a completely new airport that does not actually exist.

I have completely finished the design stages. In order for my project to run smoothly in simulation, I cannot proceed in the stage of preparing navigation data such as SID, STARS, VOR, intersection. I looked through the SDKs, but I couldn't find any menu about adding navigation data in the SDK.

As a result of my research on the internet, I found some *.xml file contents on the subject, but I think that it is not possible to write these *.xml files manually, and a utility is definitely needed.

Which programs are used for adding SID, STAR, VOR, intersection?
 
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This is the best thread I found on writing this info: https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/coding-xml-sids-stars-approaches-a-small-tutorial.449969/
Also, I read that ADE for FSX can be used to create some of the code, and the differences for MSFS can be edited with notepad.

I discovered that VOR and NDB code is written like this:
XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FSData version="9.0" timestamp="1/1/1601 12:00:00 AM">
  <Vor lat="44.555160999298096" lon="-88.19485813379288" alt="767.0F" type="HIGH" frequency="115.500" magvar="359" range="361237.0M" region="K5" ident="GRB" name="GREEN BAY" nav="TRUE" dmeOnly="FALSE" dme="TRUE">
    <Dme lat="44.555160999298096" lon="-88.19485813379288" alt="767.0F" range="361237.0M" />
    <VisualModel imageComplexity="NORMAL" name="{3a5affe1-5cb6-43e9-b5d3-00dfc3b86e78}" />
  </Vor>
  <Vor lat="43.99043329060078" lon="-88.55593353509903" alt="781.0F" type="LOW" frequency="116.750" magvar="358" range="111150.0M" region="K5" ident="OSH" name="OSHKOSH" nav="TRUE" dmeOnly="FALSE" dme="TRUE">
    <Dme lat="43.99043329060078" lon="-88.55593353509903" alt="781.0F" range="111150.0M" />
    <VisualModel imageComplexity="NORMAL" name="{3a5affe1-5cb6-43e9-b5d3-00dfc3b86e78}" />
  </Vor>
    <Ndb lat="44.44047208875418" lon="-88.23951959609985" alt="0.0F" type="COMPASS_POINT" frequency="356.000" range="41681.0M" magvar="3.9" region="K5" ident="GR1" name="FAMIS">
    <VisualModel imageComplexity="NORMAL" name="{2fb72c66-290c-4727-b970-da20984cee83}" />
  </Ndb>
  <Ndb lat="44.334347136318684" lon="-89.01968345046043" alt="0.0F" type="MH" frequency="382.000" range="69469.0M" magvar="2.8" region="K5" ident="PCZ" name="WAUPACA">
    <VisualModel imageComplexity="NORMAL" name="{2fb72c66-290c-4727-b970-da20984cee83}" />
  </Ndb>
</FSData>
 
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Adnan,

neither the SDK nor the developer mode allows us to build SID, STAR, VOR or Intersection for MSFS2020.

But you can create them in an ADE Project for FSX. Copy and paste the resulting xml code to your objects.xml and compile that in MSFS2020 developer mode.

Regards
Hans
 
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