Re: [Flightgear-devel] TACANs (was DAFIFT progress)

2003-02-03 Thread David Megginson
James Turner writes: > That said, the UPP TACAN is not listed in NAV.TXT, if you know of any > others, please let me know and I'll check. (Or did you mean UUP, > 'Uplands'?) That's it -- I was giving the ident from memory. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TACANs (was DAFIFT progress)

2003-02-03 Thread James Turner
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 07:40 pm, David Megginson wrote: It's more complicated than that. DME receivers (which are UHF) can use TACANs to get distance information -- usually, you do that by tuning in a fake paired VOR frequency. For example, if I tune my DME to 108.8, or slave it to a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TACANs (was DAFIFT progress)

2003-02-03 Thread Jon Stockill
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, David Megginson wrote: > It's more complicated than that. DME receivers (which are UHF) can > use TACANs to get distance information -- usually, you do that by > tuning in a fake paired VOR frequency. For example, if I tune my DME > to 108.8, or slave it to a NAV radio tuned

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TACANs (was DAFIFT progress)

2003-02-03 Thread David Megginson
James Turner writes: > So, armed with the knowledge that TACANs are UHF, not VHF, and that > they use military channel codes, I went and looked at the DAFIF fields > again ... and guess what the field two after FREQ is? Yeah, it's the > channel. Boy do I feel silly. It's more complicated t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TACANs (was DAFIFT progress)

2003-02-03 Thread James Turner
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 05:30 pm, Mally wrote: The UK ones appear to be TACANs at Odiham and St Athan: http://www.nightstop.freeola.com/beacon%20decodes/beacon%20decodes.htm Thanks for this, I've now done a bit more background reading on TACANs.. In the netherlands: TWN SSB