coastlines and other landmarks

[Fritz Anton]

Hi,

I have started to notice that there are significant discrepancies between
the position of some airports and topographical details (coastlines, rivers
etc) in the map view of FSNav (vs.4.6). Sometimes helipads or runways (not
seaplane ports!) are off the coast in the water. The difference between
positions of the aircraft relative to - again - coastlines viewed in look
down mode in FS and in chart view of FSNav is sometimes quite drastic.
I understand that FSNav obtains the location of airports and navaids from FS
via FSNavDBC.exe. Is the shape of land/sea/rivers/lakes a fixed element of
FSNav that has not changed with the latest generations of FS?

Fritz

[Dan]

Fritz

>Is the shape of land/sea/rivers/lakes a fixed element of
> FSNav that has not changed with the latest generations of FS?

Yes

1) FSNav takes the data for the map coastline from the [world.map] file. It
is not editable and will remain until it is updated to a higher accuracy.
This will be no mean feat and may not be on the cards for some time.

2) The navaids for VOR and NDB plus the actual airport data is taken from
your version of FS (includes default and all selected add-on sceneries).

3) Intersection and airway data comes from two text files, [isec.txt] and
[airway.txt] respectively.

The latter two files in 3) are the only ones that are updateable from
http://www.navdata.at/ which is Richard Staffans AIRAC update (monthly).

Hope this helps.

Regards

Dan

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[Fritz Anton]

Dan, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!

Fritz

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