Innis Cunningham wrote:
> Hi All
> While using 9.8 today to fly using waypoints I came across
> a problem where the aircraft did not fly to the waypont I
> had selected but headed off in the opposite direction(North).
> On investigation it turned out that there is two fixes(waypoints)
> of the same name in the data base and FG seems to select the
> northern hemisphere one to fly to over any others.
> Has anyone mostly in the southern hemisphere experienced this
> problem when using waypoints to fly by.
> As at a casual glance there seems to be many instances of more than
> one waypoint with the same name in the data base is there a way to
> select the one that is closest to the aircraft position when navigating
> by waypoints.
>
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With 26^5 (11881376) possible identifiers You'd think there wouldn't be
any duplicates. Actually, I just checked fix.dat.gz, and it came up with
70011 entries whether I did a sort -u on it or just counted the entries.
This should mean that there are no dups. What fix were you using?
Josh
> gunzip -c fix.dat.gz | awk '{print $3}' > fix
> vi fix # to get rid of the header and footer
> sort -u fix.dat | wc -l
70011
> wc -l fix
70011
>
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