ADF frequencies

[Archive1]

How do you create a unique ADF frequency setting and assign it to a specific airbase? For example: Xavier has designed 80 airbases for the Spanish Civil War series, and while there may be an ADF file listed in the SceneDB/scenery file as: "SceneDB/airscw/scenery/*xpb_spain_albacete_v1_adf.bgl" the file is actually empty. How can one assign a unique frequency setting for this *.bgl to enable one to use ADF in Free Flight situations? I know, no ADF was available in the 1930 Spanish campaign, but it would be nice to use the airbases in Free flight and have the ADF routings available.
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[MaskRider]

I may be missing something here but I think perhaps that you are confusing AFD (Airport Facility Directory) bgl files and ADF (automatic direction finder) gauges that detect the NDB (non directional beacon) frequencies broadcast by airports.

ADF gauges either are or are not installed in an aircraft's panel.

If installed then one only need dial in the frequency of the desired airport's NDB on the ADF panel and then, if within range of that airport's NDB, one "flies the needle" on an ADF slaved compass.

Chris

[MaskRider]

I am not sure whether Xavier's airfields have NDBs installed, but if they do then the frequencies would likely be listed someplace- like in the installation readme or some other included text file.

Chris

[Archive1]

Maskrider:

You're right I mean the NDB frequencies that are used by the AFD unit that resides on the panel. Xavier has a field for the NDB frequencies in the SCW scenedb/scenery file but he does not know how to obtain or "install" the frequencies so an AFD finder can operate. I don't know either. I uploaded someone's Spain/Portugal NDB frequencies a long time ago (don't remember whose) but I have no idea how one can (or if one can) get those into his scenery file. Since such frequencies exist for many airbases, including your great examples, there must be a routine for assigning them to a specific base - but maybe that's all buried in compiled code and one must have access to the programming to solve the problem. Of course, Xavier would have such access.
Anyway, thanks for the response. If there is someone else I should bother about this, let me know. The SCW list is so complete that it's too bad one cannot have access to NDBs for free flight, ILS operations.
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[MaskRider]

Archive1,

The NDBs usually get added at the time that the add on airfields are made- using FSSC or some other similar such proggie.

Now, since, like me, total realism does not seem to be a huge issue for you- ie. NDBs during the SCW- I would imagine that if there were another perfectly adequate way of navigating around that that would suit you, too?

I would strongly suggest getting ACS-GPS. You can easily crate a dtb and flight prg files for the SCW airfield coords (using runway entry data) and not have to worry about installing NDB at the airfields.

Of course you would have to add an ACS-GPS gauge or panel window to your current panels. But that is a very easy thing to do.

Chris

[Archive1]

Chris:

First an apology for the tangled mess of a message I sent to you. Turned out I was heading downhill with pneumonia and the brain was scrambled...along with the grammar and syntax (AFD for ADF and ILS for IFR, etc). Goes to show, never send a technical email while ill.

ACS-GPS, means what? I think I communicated with you earlier about your GPS database file for the Pacific (don't remember the name of it off hand), that could be installed in memory and called up by a panel GPS automatically, but could never get it to work correctly, and the directions in fractured English by the designer (French maybe?) of the panel instrument using it were too tough to decipher. I already have installed an operating, panel GPS instrument on each aircraft: one that I use to manually enter Lat and Long of bases - some of the Pacific and European bases are preinstalled in separate instruments - but the NDBs would be nice to have installed for a specific Spanish airbase. Yes, I know these were not available for the Spanish Civil War, but they would be convenient for just free flight around Spain in bad weather, using Xavier's airbases.

In any case, thanks for the reply, and for your courtesy in not commenting on my dreadful message. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, but have been out of commision for awhile as you might expect.

Don (Archive1)

[MaskRider]

Hi Don

ACS-GPS doesn't mean anything much.

As you know it is a GPS tool that can be used with FS98/CFS2 and other MSSims for GPS Navigation.

The fellow who dreamed it up is named Alain Capt and the name of his little development outfit is Alain Capt Software or ACSoft or ACS. Thus ACS-GPS.

He is a French speaking Swiss- far as I can determine and his website url is:

http://www.acsoft.ch/

Click on the Flight Simulator link at the bottom.

If you need any help getting it set up give a holler.

Chris