ALLNAV99.zip MISSING NAV-AIDS SCENERY FOR FS98 DEFAULT SCENERY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Previous version (allnav97.zip covering ALL navaids, including FS95/FS98 navaids) to be found on the scenery page of the INDEPENDENT FS98 site. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cranenburgh/fs98.htm) Also available "The making of...." all about the making of allnav and the downloadable versions: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cranenburgh/allnav.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the LAST version of my ALLNAV series! Microsoft and Jeppesen finally agreed to use the Jeppesen database for the next version of Flight Simulator. This is good news and will make allnav2000 no longer needed..... Contents of this information file: 1. Copyright 2. Contents 3. Compatibility 4. Installation 5. How the "see" the navaids 6. Coverage 7. Magnetic variation and Altitude 8. Types of navigation 9. Range 10 Credits ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. COPYRIGHT The data in this file and the connected BGL file are copyrighted by JEPPESEN and this company gave their exclusive permission to use the data for non-commercial purposes for PC-flight simulation. The scenery files are copyrighted by Johan van Cranenburgh and Jeppesen Sanderson and may not be sold in any way or any form and not be placed on any Internet site, BBS or on disk CDROM or DVD without my written permission no matter this site, BBS, disk, CDROM or DVD is commercial or non-commercial. Introduction With the help of JEPPESEN, the biggest company specialized in distributing navigational data, I started making scenery files containing ALL VOR's and NDB's. JEPPESEN exclusively provided me with the needed data files under the restriction that the data would only be used for non commercial scenery's for PC flight simulation. (The database is dated April 1997. About the same time the FS98 scenery has been compiled....) So take the copyright instruction above very serious: in that way we can keep Jeppesens permission to use the database. Included files 2. Contents Included are two kind of files: a. The enroute navaids files, to be found in the files afrnav98.bgl, eeunav98.bgl and so on. These are the most important files, they include all 6500 enroute navaids (NDB's and VOR's) MINUS the navaids already included in FS98. I had to remove those manually so maybe some are still in. This is NOT a problem for FS98 as the program just ignores double navaids. But if you find one, please inform me. b. The 1217 NDB's connected to approaches (located in the in the separate zip locnav.zip with the names: locafr.bgl, loceeu.bgl, loceur.bgl and so on. These NDB's are placed in the centerline of approaches to runway's and mostly connected to Middle Markers or Outher Markers. I can imagine that people want to use only the approach-ndb's delivered with the airport scenery. But be sure: also these files can be used without any problems. It's just because these navaids do have no enroute function why I didn't add them into the main files . 3. Compatibility. This scenery is of course fully FS98 compatible. If you still use FS95 you can better use allnav97.zip to be found at my homepage. No database errors have been reported and I can't force them either. 4. Installation Remove the previous version of the allnav scenery if installed: file names: eurnav.bgl eeunav.bgl or eurnav98.bgl eeunav98.bgl and so on. Just copy the new BGL files into your main scenery directory. ([drive]:/Fltsim98/scenery) 5. How to "see" the navaids After installation you will be able to receive the included beacons. As in real aviation, you need to be airborne to get a signal! To make the navaids visible (to find out what frequency's you need) you may use one of the available FREE Flight Planners like Superplanner by Allessandro Antonini or the shareware FSplan by Sascha Felix. You will find these at my homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cranenburgh All navaids are real excisting beacons. So you may also use real aviation maps. Information about the availability of those maps can be found at my site too. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cranenburgh/charts.htm 6. Coverage This version includes all navaids in the world except USA (this one is included by FS98) and Canada. This means about 6500 enroute VOR's and NDB's in -Europe -Eastern Europe -Middle East -Asia -Africa -Pacific Bassin -Southern Pacific -South America -Latin America For flight planning purpose only you can better use my previous version allnav97.zip containing ALL VOR's and NDB's. You can download it from my site: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cranenburgh/allnav97.zip The 97 version however runs also well in FS98 but some people seem to be allergic for double navaids. This is why this 98 version has been made...... 7. Magnetic variation and altitudes. In these files I added the correct Magnetic variation using a superb utility delivered to me by Ronald Heine. The altitude of all VOR's is correct. 8. Types of navigation The following are included correctly (according to Jeppesen...) * VOR only * VOR/DME * DME only 9. Range I added ranges for the VOR's according to the official class and the guaranteed range of receipt. Standard High Altitude VOR's will have a range of 130 NM. Standard Low Altitude VOR's will have a range of 40 NM Standard Terminal VOR's will have a range of 25 NM In real life range can be bigger in some cases but it is physically not possible to add the actual range of each different VOR. Note that ranges will be subject to daily change as a result of weather circumstances. NDB's ranges are set according to the power output in real life: Power output below 25 watts means a usable range of 25 NM Power output of 50 to 1,999 watts results in a range of up to 50 NM Power output of 2,000 watts or more results in a usable range of 75 NM. 10. CREDITS: I used SCASM version 2.0 to compile the stuff. Thanks to Manfred Moldenhauer! Ronald Heine made a nice utility for me to calculate the correct Magnetic Variation. Johan van Cranenburgh http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cranenburgh e-mail: cranenbg@publishnet.nl November 1998