Have you ever been approaching an airport and wished you could quickly get
a list of ILS frequencies for that airport so you could tune the one you want ?
Sure there are charts, but it could take a while to find your runway, and not everyone
has the charts. This gauge will allow you to quickly find your runway and set the correct
frequencies for the approach.
It should be very helpfull when flying online ATC with SATCO or IVAO and the
Controller tells you the runway to expect. Now you don't have to start
frantically fliiping through your charts to find the frequency/obs setting
info.
Just click on this gauge, enter the ICAO information, and your all set.
Enjoy
Ernie.
INCLUDED FILES:
RwyInfo.gau Gauge File (put this in your FS2000\gauges directory)
Prwydata.txt Runway Information file (put this in your FS2000 directory)
Pnavdata.txt Navaid Information file (put this in your FS2000 directory)
Readme.txt This file.
NOTES: Build #3 makes a distinction between Localizer type approaches (ILS,LOC,BC, LDA, SDF)
ILS ILS approach (Localizer and Glideslope)
LOC Localizer only (No Glideslope)
BC Localizer Backcourse approach
LDA Localizer type directional aid (May or may not have a Glideslope, Usually is offset from the runway heading).
SDF Similar to an Localizer only approach but is less precise.
A description of these different approach types can be found here... http://www.faa.gov/ATPubs/AIM/Chap1/aim0101.html
INSTALLATION :
1) Copy the 'RwyInfo.gau' file to your FS2000/Gauges directory.
2) Copy the 'Prwydata.txt' file to your main FS2000 directory (ie the same place
where your 'fs2000.exe' file is located.
3) Add the Gauge to your Panel (probably under [Window00]. You can put the Gauge anywhere
on your panel you wish, and size it as you choose (make sure the Guage is named 'RwyInfo!V1').
4) The gauge will be displayed on your Panel as a black rectangle with the words in white
lettering 'RWY INFO'
Examples: (put in your aircraft's panel.cfg file)
Stock Boeing 777 (This setting will place it just below the Clock)
gauge31=RwyInfo!V1,10, 360, 50
Stock Boeing 737 (This setting will place it just above the analog airspeed indicator)
gauge37=RwyInfo!V1,30, 50, 50
USAGE INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Click on the hot area of the gauge, and a Dialog box is displayed.
2) Select type (Airports or Navaids)
3) Type in the ICAO code you wish to recive runway information for.
4) A list of runways for that airport are displayed
5) DoubleClick on the runway line to have the Nav1 Freq/VOR1 OBS set
for the runway selected in FS2000.
When you DoubleClick on a runway the Dialog box will close and the
Nav1 Freq/OBS will be set for the runway you selected.
Theres a ComboBox on the top Center, that will display the Airport Name
if one is found that matches the characters you enter into the ICAO box.
Partial matches will be displayed in a list in the ComboBox. Click on the
down arrow to see the entire matching list.
Example: If you type the letter 'K' all the Airports who's code 'begins'
with the letter 'K' will be displayed.
If you wanted to select from all the UK Airports, you can enter
'EG' and all the Airports who's code begin with 'EG' will be displayed
in the ComboBox.
If you select an Airport name from the ComboBox list, then the runway
information for that airport is displayed in the ListBox below.
When an exact match is found, the runway information will be displayed
for that airport.
Note: This Gauge only works with FS2000/FS2002 as far as I know. I doubt very much it will
work with FS98.
This zip file can be uploaded to other websites if you wish, make sure this original
zip file will all the included files remains in tact.
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For using the autopilot setting features.
1) Enter the value in the boxes below, or select the item off the pulldown menu.
2) Click 'Exit', when exit is clicked whatever values that are currently in the boxes
will be set on exit if the box is not empty.
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More details can be found at the website below.
This gauge was created with information contained in the gauge creation tutorial
'FS2000/CFS Gauge Creation Tutorial Rev. 3 (sd2gau04.zip)' by Dai Griffiths.
The file is available at SurClaro.
