Fsbuild-2 Flight Planner

Ernie,

I have been using the web site to get real world flight plan's and have been coping them into FSBuild 2.2.2 to export them to the various aircraft flight plans. I ran into my first real flight stopper with the airway "Q1" used by all airlines on flights from KPDX (Portland, OR) to KSFO (San Francisco, CA). This is the route filed by UAL, ASA, Horizon, Air West, etc. "EASON Q1 PYE.

Looking at the latest FSB_awy2.txt file dated 2/8/2006 I have these entries:

Q1 --- EL 64.081111 -21.770833 B
Q1 --- SOGID 64.152500 -21.067500 B
Q1 --- THORI 64.340000 -19.000000 B
Q1 --- KOBBI 64.548889 -16.155833 B
Q1 --- KLAKI 64.655556 -15.770000 B
Q1 --- KELDU 64.881111 -15.194167 B
Q1 --- VA 65.109525 -14.596136 B
Q1 --- ES 65.238481 -14.452042 B
Q1 --- ELMAA 47.148041 -123.409550 B
Q1 --- ERAVE 46.909722 -123.401667 B
Q1 --- EASON 44.500000 -123.328889 B
Q1 --- EBINY 42.480556 -123.250181 B
Q1 --- ENVIE 41.335833 -123.208889 B
Q1 --- ETCHY 39.091111 -123.134722 B
Q1 --- PYE 38.079757 -122.867828 B

As you can see from the LAT/LON entries, this airway is obviously in two different locations at the same time. But the main problem is that there also appears to be a NAV (NDB) point with the same name but the program does not try to use this NDB and routes me via Africa instead: (see attached screen shot)

Q1 TADOULE_LAKE N58:43:36 W98:30:01 NDB 389.0

This is NOT the Q1 showing up on my route. It is located at N00.000.00 W00.000.00. Also Q1 is listed in the fsb_nawy_dup.txt and according should show up as an airway instead of a waypoint or nav aid.

Is there any way to make the entries use an airway instead of a NAV point?

Thanks,

Steve Park

Ernie,


I think I found the problem. When I enter the plan without the STAR PYE1 (POINT REYES 1), just the PYE VOR, it find's the airway and all is correct. When I select the PYE1 STAR, then it tries to build the flight plan via Africa. The problem was in the FSB_STARS.txt file. Seem's that the PYE VOR was not listed as a point in the PYE1 STAR:

ENI.PYE1 ENI
MXW.PYE1 MXW
SAC.PYE1 SAC
SAC.PYE1 POPES
SAC.PYE1 SAC
PYE1 STINS
PYE1 HADLY
PYE1 OSI

I added the PYE VOR like this:

ENI.PYE1 ENI
MXW.PYE1 MXW
SAC.PYE1 SAC
SAC.PYE1 POPES
SAC.PYE1 SAC
PYE1 PYE
PYE1 STINS
PYE1 HADLY
PYE1 OSI

and reindexed, exited and restarted FSBuild and all is OK now. Hope this helps someone else out also.

Steve Park[/b]