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The ACSGPS DB Creator Plugin for Super Flight Planner
(C) 2000 Alessandro G. Antonini - alex@futurtechno.com
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********* PRELIMINARY NOTE: ***********
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THIS PLUGIN IS NOT MEANT TO CREATE IMMEDIATELY WORKING DTB FILES. You must
be aware of ACS-GPS naming convention. ACS-GPS wants two prefixes for its DB
files:
note the N_ and A_ preceeding prefixes. You will therefore need to rename
exported files before using them in ACS-GPS or you will gladly end up with
an empty database list. See ACS-GPS documentation regarding. In any case this
plugin is unsupported software, so do not bug me with E-Mail to which I can't
answer. Use it *completely* at your own risk.
Support and warranty:
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There are no warranty of any kind: use it at your own risk. As I said before,
I won't provide any kind of support either by E-Mail or by any other means.
Sorry, but I'm already busy enogh to provide support for SFP itself and I
simply can't nor do I want to take this burden on my shoulder as well.
Description:
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This is a freeware Super Flight Planner plugin which, when installed, adds
the capability to create ASCII files in DTB format for the great ACS-GPS 98
by Alain Capt. It needs SFP 2.5 but should as well run with previous SFP
releases, though this is untested.
Constructive criticism to Alain:
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A real database system would have been far better and much less memory
consuming, in my humble opinion...
there are many good libraries to implement engines such as DBF, FoxPro
or MsAccess. However I don't want to discuss this right here, this is
just a note.
Installation:
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1. copy PLACSDB.DLL into your SFP\PLUGIN subdirectory. If your SFP is
installed in c:\sfp then the directory would be c:\sfp\plugin
2. run SFP and click the Install Plugin menu voice
(Plug-Ins->Install Plugin from SFP main Menu).
3. on the popping up dialog, type the following infos:
PLACSDB.DLL - in the "Plugin Name" edit field (no path and no quotes)
ACS-DB Creator - in the "Plugin description" field.
if you wish SFP to list the plugin in the Plug-Ins->List sub menu, then
check the "Install in Menu" check box
4. click OK and restart SFP for changes to take effect.
Running:
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pretty straight forward. From SFP main menu, choose Plug-Ins->Execute Plugin
and select the newly created entry. You will be prompted which kind of
navaids you want to export in a dialog box. You may choose to export
Airports, VORs, NDBs and GPS fixes. Select what you wish to export and
click OK. The plugin will start working and will warn you with a message
when the exporting is done. Exported files are always placed into your
main SUPERFL directory. If SUPERFL directory may not be found then they
will be placed into the current directory.
The plugin will split the exported files in chunks of 2500 entries about
and will name them by sequence (*).
(*) As I said before, you will need to rename these files using the proper
prefixes.
Note: GPS fixes (or Intersections) are saved as NDB with a Fixed frequency
of 999.0 Mhz. The plugin does not save Ground and Tower frequencies along
with airports.
(C)opyrights:
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ACS-GPS is (C) by Alain Capt and may be found at www.acsoft.ch
SFP is (C) by Central Park Informatica and Future Technologies. It may
be found at www.futurtechno.com/centralpark/
