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Pepere

Charter Member 2015
I've seen this posted before but cannot find it. So maybe someone can help.

First: Is there a way to add AI traffic to the default GPS?

Second: How do you get the ILS of you destination airport runway. I know it's there but for the life of me cannot remember how to get to it.

Third: Is there a better payware/freeware GPS with all the bells and whistles?

thanks

David
 
I know the ILS frequencies are given but you arent provide with the course.

You have to use small nob on the bottom right to turn to the airport pages. Once you get to the frequency page you can click on the center of the nob to highlight the ICAO at the top, then use the larger (outside) nob to move down and to scroll through the frequencies.

Hope that helps.
 
Pepere said:
I have acceleration but don't have a cab extractor..

David
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I use winRAR myself, but there are many freeware and trial compression/decompression tools out there that can do the job.

Regards, Mike Mann

OPPS. I see that Bjoern beat me to it!
 
I thought Windows opened cabs anyway, it's just repacking them you need a utility for.
I 'think' FSX looks for the file outside the cab before it uses the one inside but I'm not 100%.
 
FS will look first for a folder with the main gauge name, then look for a .cab file with the same main gauge name...
 
Easiest way I've found is to extract the cab file as described above (I use winrar) and then rename the original so it isn't used anymore.

Rename "fs9gps.cab" to "!fs9gps.cab" or something similar.

Make your changes to the xml files inside the new "\fs9gps.cab" folder that was created when you extracted the files.
:ernae:
 
Merlin216 said:
I know the ILS frequencies are given but you arent provide with the course.

You have to use small nob on the bottom right to turn to the airport pages. Once you get to the frequency page you can click on the center of the nob to highlight the ICAO at the top, then use the larger (outside) nob to move down and to scroll through the frequencies.

Hope that helps.
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Okay! I found the ILS. Thanks!

Bjoern I got 7Zip. Opened up the mxl file and well - don't think I should mess with that stuff. Thanks for the help...

David
 
Okay I've decompiled the xml file then edited it. So how do it get it back into the cab file? 7Zip does not compile files and winzip's trial version was so complicated. So is there a simple program that will simple put the xml file back into the cab file?

David
 
Default FSX GPS Terrain Map Not in 3D

Hello all, on a similar note, I remember somewhere in the past, a discussion on how to restore the GPS terrain map image to a more 3D look like it was in FS9. Does anyone remember how this was done? Thanks!
 
Yep I have that it's a new cab file for fs9gps. But don't know where I got it. There is another thread on this subject but cannot find it...

David
 
Pepere said:
Okay I've decompiled the xml file then edited it. So how do it get it back into the cab file? 7Zip does not compile files and winzip's trial version was so complicated. So is there a simple program that will simple put the xml file back into the cab file?

David
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There are several CAB utilities around, but why bother? Simply leave it "un-CABed..."

FS9 and FSX will automatically search for "gauges" in this order:

1. the aircraft's ..\panel folder for a ..\folder name
2. the aircraft's ..\panel folder for a .CAB name
3. the default ..\Gauges folder for a ..\folder name
4. the default ..\Gauges folder for a .CAB name
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But, rather that download a bunch of stuff from MS you don't need, you can d/l CAB MAKER v2.0 from here:

http://www.brothersoft.com/cab-maker-71732.html
 
FS2002 sdk has a tool, Cabfile_SDK.exe not sure it adds anything, though there is an option not to compress any bgl files in the cab.

scott s.
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I made a folder named fs9gps with the decompiled files in it with out the xml edit and the gps worked normally. When I edited the xml to add the below info it didn't change anything. Don't know if I placed it in correctly. If I edit it, the xml file, incorrectly the gps does not show up in the sim so I know I am effecting it in some way. If someone can show me where to place this data in the gps_500.xml file it may be helpfull. Thanks.

<TerrainShadow>True</< font>TerrainShadow>

<!-- =============FSX TCAS ============== -->
<LayerVehicles>1</< font>LayerVehicles>
<DetailLayerVehicles>True</< font>DetailLayerVehicles>
<TextDetailLayerVehicles>True</< font>TextDetailLayerVehicles>
<ObjectDetailLayerVehicles>0x05</< font>ObjectDetailLayerVehicles>
<ColorLayerVehicles>(@g:setup_ColorTerrain) 1 == if{ 0x006666 } els{ 0x44ffff }</< font>ColorLayerVehicles>
</< font>CustomDraw>

David

 
Pepere said:
I made a folder named fs9gps with the decompiled files in it with out the xml edit and the gps worked normally. When I edited the xml to add the below info it didn't change anything. Don't know if I placed it in correctly. If I edit it, the xml file, incorrectly the gps does not show up in the sim so I know I am effecting it in some way. If someone can show me where to place this data in the gps_500.xml file it may be helpfull. Thanks.

<TerrainShadow>True</< font>TerrainShadow>
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The biggest problem is that this @#@^#$ forum software will NOT allow us to post XML without it being totally mangled... :a1451:

For example, in the single line above the forum has stripped out the closing tag's < and \ characters... it should be (without the blank spaces between the < and / and T):

<TERRAIN Shadow>
Code: 
[COLOR=#0000ff]<[/COLOR][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000]TerrainShadow[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]>[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2]True< / [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]</< font>[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000]TerrainShadow[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]>[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE]
</TERRAINSHADOW>
 
Hey Bill, I have a question. I use the freeware Simflyer 296 handheld GPS in most my 'hand flyers', but noticed a couple months ago it wasn't showing the airspaces, like the default 295.....which can be important keep myself out of 'harms way', or should I say, being the 'harmee' ;)

So....last weekend I uncabbed both to try and figure out what was missing in the simflyer XML file, but could not locate the lines that displayed it in the default so I could 'copy/paste the lines into the Simflyer unit.

Any idea what I should be looking for?


EDIT: Never mind Bill, I swapped out some code for airspace from the default, and now it's back....odd, wonder why that happened? Must have been a small mis-typed code....also added the 'shadowed' terrain. ;)
 
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