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



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