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I've been thinking about a project for a long time and I need some insight. Here's the grand vision:
I want to build a version of FS that is accurate for commercial aviation as it existed between 1990 and 2000 (basically prior to 9/11, which fundamentally changed commercial aviation forever). I'm primarily interested in modeling this for North America, though I'd love to expand this world wide. Eventually, this would include period-accurate AI traffic, in addition to period-accurate navdata.
Since GPS was new, restrictive and not widely available at this time, the navaid situation - at least here in the US - was completely different than it is today. And since the NGA no longer makes DAFIF files available I'm kind of stuck on the nav data that's accurate to this time frame. One solution that I'm contemplating is extracting the navdata from subLOGIC's USA East and USA West scenery, which would at least cover the CONUS. But since that data format is more than 25 years old, I'm pretty much in the dark as to how to extract that data. I have it, but I'm seeking advice on how to extract it. I remember how back then we didn't use latitude and longitude, just "scenery coordinates." I don't remember if there were any tools to either evaluate these files, or convert the data to lat/long.
As a side note, I'd love to get the data for Denver Stapleton. While in the real world my first job out of college was working with the City of Denver on the new airport (still some of my fondest memories), Stapleton was the Denver airport back then.
So that's the ask - does anyone know or have any kind of programs or ideas on how to extract that old data format into something that can be used in - you guessed it - MSFS 2020. That's stage two. If I can get the data out and into like XML format, then the next stage will be to figure out how to import it into MSFS.
Thanks for any insight - thank you all!
Mark
I want to build a version of FS that is accurate for commercial aviation as it existed between 1990 and 2000 (basically prior to 9/11, which fundamentally changed commercial aviation forever). I'm primarily interested in modeling this for North America, though I'd love to expand this world wide. Eventually, this would include period-accurate AI traffic, in addition to period-accurate navdata.
Since GPS was new, restrictive and not widely available at this time, the navaid situation - at least here in the US - was completely different than it is today. And since the NGA no longer makes DAFIF files available I'm kind of stuck on the nav data that's accurate to this time frame. One solution that I'm contemplating is extracting the navdata from subLOGIC's USA East and USA West scenery, which would at least cover the CONUS. But since that data format is more than 25 years old, I'm pretty much in the dark as to how to extract that data. I have it, but I'm seeking advice on how to extract it. I remember how back then we didn't use latitude and longitude, just "scenery coordinates." I don't remember if there were any tools to either evaluate these files, or convert the data to lat/long.
As a side note, I'd love to get the data for Denver Stapleton. While in the real world my first job out of college was working with the City of Denver on the new airport (still some of my fondest memories), Stapleton was the Denver airport back then.
So that's the ask - does anyone know or have any kind of programs or ideas on how to extract that old data format into something that can be used in - you guessed it - MSFS 2020. That's stage two. If I can get the data out and into like XML format, then the next stage will be to figure out how to import it into MSFS.
Thanks for any insight - thank you all!
Mark