: Paul Surgeon writes
On Sunday 13 November 2005 06:20, Josh Babcock wrote: > 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 Fixes are only required to be unique on a per country level. Each country is legally allowed to use the same set of identifiers as a neighbouring country although it's not recommended. There are 2158 non-unique fix identifiers in the database out of a total of 70007.
Yep and I found two of them in a row RIC08 being one and the other one escapes me at the moment. Anyway that is not the problem.The problem is FG choosing to fly to the one that is 15000 miles away over the one that is 50 miles away. Cheers Innis _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
