Airport Chart Viewer panel icon
John Ward
Airport Chart Viewer is a nifty little program which scans your system
and creates, and lets you view, errr, airport charts...
It works for both FS9 and FSX, and its free, from Avsim.
This little utility/gauge lets you easily add an icon to the panel of
any aircraft that is installed on your system.
The icon invokes Airport Chart Viewer, and is much more convenient than
flubbing your way through the view menus...
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004pan&DLID=136482
Regards,
John Ward
Crusty
wrote:
Does not work with FS9, only FSX and FS2004...
Crusty
MikeW
>
> Does not work with FS9, only FSX and FS2004...
>
> Crusty
Errmm, FS9 is FS2004?
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MikeW
Shrewsbury, UK
Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee.
Crusty
wrote:
>Crusty wrote:
>>
>> Does not work with FS9, only FSX and FS2004...
>>
>> Crusty
>
>Errmm, FS9 is FS2004?
Errmm... My bad. Your right, however when I run the setup it says
FSX, FS2004 not installed. Bummer... Will play further...
Crusty
Gypsy Baron
I've installed this in several of my aircraft but there is one
caveat that you should be aware of.
The utility seems to only scan/use the DEFAULT airport data
in FSX. Almost all of the airports I 'use' regularly have been
modified or enhanced to add parking, correct layouts, etc.
Thus these airports live all over my FSX file structure which
is, of course, allowed in FSX ( and FS9 ) since they are in
folders that you 'point' FSX to via the scenery menu and the
path becomes part of the scenery.cfg file.
So, just be aware that what you see on the 'chart viewer' may NOT
be exactly what you find as you taxi. I've found that the parking
designators almost NEVER match but taxiways most often do.
The "Frequency" display gives you tower and ATIS info. No
ILS freqencies are included, unfortunately.
It is a useful utility but one just needs to be aware of
the limitations.
Paul
scott s.
> John Ward wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Airport Chart Viewer is a nifty little program which scans your
>> system
>> and creates, and lets you view, errr, airport charts...
>>
>> It works for both FS9 and FSX, and its free, from Avsim.
>>
>> This little utility/gauge lets you easily add an icon to the
>> panel of
>> any aircraft that is installed on your system.
>>
>> The icon invokes Airport Chart Viewer, and is much more
>> convenient than
>> flubbing your way through the view menus...
>>
>> http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004pan&DLID=136482
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ward
>
> I've installed this in several of my aircraft but there is one
> caveat that you should be aware of.
> The utility seems to only scan/use the DEFAULT airport data
> in FSX. Almost all of the airports I 'use' regularly have been
> modified or enhanced to add parking, correct layouts, etc.
> Thus these airports live all over my FSX file structure which
> is, of course, allowed in FSX ( and FS9 ) since they are in
> folders that you 'point' FSX to via the scenery menu and the
> path becomes part of the scenery.cfg file.
What the chart viewer does, is it goes through your scenery.cfg
file from top to bottom looking for airports. Once it finds one
it adds it to its data base. As it works its way down, if it finds
a duplicate (that is, revised) airport it will skip it. I wrote the
author that he should consider going from bottom to top (normally
scenery.cfg is sorted so that the highest priority scenery is at the
bottom of the file) but never got a reply.
If you have a lot of addon airports, you can do a one-time fix as
follows: backup your active scenery.cfg file (location will vary based
on OS and install type). Then with a text editor cut and paste all the
default scenery areas from the top of the file to the bottom. You
don't have to worry about renumbering or anything. Then run the
AP chart database utility to build a new database for the appropriate
sim version. Once it is done you can delete the modified scenery.cfg
file and restore your original one. Of course, in the future you can
repeat this if you add or remove additional addon airports.
scott s.
.
Gypsy Baron
I'll have to give that a try as I DO have tons of addon
scenery files and airport files.
Paul
scott s. wrote:
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mcgoldri
>
> Regards,
> John Ward
>
Hi,
I've treid getting airport chart to work with FS2004 within Windows 7 / 64
without success. Everything appears to install correctly, but when I run the
"build" function, I end up with "0" airports. I did try the
rearranging of scenery.cfg suggested by another contributor, but that didn't
work.
Please advise.