On 08/04/2005 at 11:10 Melchior FRANZ wrote:
>* David Luff -- Friday 08 April 2005 10:46: >> The ATIS and tower lists should be reasonably complete, since they're >> generated from the DAFIF, as is Robin's data. He might well have a >number >> of user additions / corrections in there though. > >That would explain it. At least there are a few Austrian international >airports for which $FG_ROOT/Airports/apt.dat.gz has an ATIS frequncy, but >$FG_ROOT/ATC/default.atis has not: examples: LOWL, LOWG, LOWK, which is >almost half of our international airports. Same problem for default.tower > >I assume that the reason why there are two separated databases at all >is only that apt.dat.gz is rather new, Yes, the older airport data formats had no ATC freq data when I first came to need it, so I just created the default.atis etc files out of necessity. > and that the long-term goal is >to read all information from there? It would seem to make sense - your examples above indicate that the coverage would probably be a lot better outside of the US. Cheers - Dave This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
