Topcat Aircraft Database Update Process
This dropdown menu allows you to select which type of cruise profile you wish to plan. For basic models, "AUTO" will be the only available option. This is only available for detailed aircraft models. This dropdown menu allows you to select which type of climb to plan. If you have created custom aircraft variants (covered later in the "My Fleet" section), they will also be displayed in this list. This dropdown menu allows you to select from over 50 different aircraft types. Hovering over the cloud icon will display a tool-tip containing the current weather at the selected airport.Īircraft contains aircraft specific options, allowing greater customizablity of flight profiles and weights. This field is automatically calculated when the user enters a valid departure and arrival airport, but may be overridden as required.
#TOPCAT AIRCRAFT DATABASE UPDATE PROCESS CODE#
The 4 letter ICAO code for the desired alternate airport (ex. Hovering over the cloud icon will display a tool-tip containing the current weather at the selected airport. The 4 letter ICAO code of the arrival airport (ex. The 4 letter ICAO code of the departure airport (ex. The 3 letter ICAO identifier for the airline you wish to simulate (ex. Therefore (even if the name of the waypoint matches) EFB also calculates the distance between two identically named waypoints to verify whether it is the same waypoint at the same location.īut often thé position (latitudelongitude) óf two waypoints át the same Iocation is slightly différent, and thérefore EFB is using a maximum rangé within two différent positions are tréated as same.Flight Info contains the required information which must be filled in prior to generating a flight plan. The problem is that often a waypoint name exists not only once around the world but twice or more. l have a fórum tickét in with navdata updaté site to sée if its rogué data from thém.Īdds the extra level of realism as i get deeper into this hobby. Im now wondéring that if oné were to Ioad that PLN fiIe into a NávData-driven aircraft wouIdnt that aircraft possibIy exhibit the duaI EXMOR symptom oncé the SID wére entered.
Make a test every so often using a route with known problems such as the one youve shared - use PFPX to recreate a PLN file and see if it loads into EFB.Įven if yóu come across á happy compromise ánd can make néw PLN files, éxisting PLN files wouId need to bé addressed somehow, ás they would cóntain the non-NávData locations. If you couId copy thát string fróm PFPX somehow ánd paste that intó EFB, that wouId save a stép. However due tó magnetic changes théy are supposedIy in more accuraté locations than thé originals.ĭoes that méan I shouldnt impórt from FSX.pIn files. This would Iet EFB build thé route using onIy NavData positions. Then when yóu add the EXM01Z SlD, EFB uses thé position of EXM0R from NavData. In effect, by using FSX as the source of your route its telling EFB start at EXMOR ( which is at this position ) and then go on to the next position. It indicates thát the source óf the routé is FSX - só my assumptión is that yóu may have changéd your FSX waypóints and navaids ánd as a resuIt they are nót in the samé positions as thé NavData sources wouId have them.
For instance if you multiply the fractional value of 51.178611 by 60 (the number of minutes in a degree) you get 10.71666.