Author Topic: Add an NDB to scenery  (Read 2587 times)

kaha

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Add an NDB to scenery
« on: July 06, 2020, 12:22:24 PM »
How can I do that? Any of you can please tell me that this is simple and fast.  ;D

Well, I probably need to create a new .bgl file. But I do not know how to do that. Is there a tool for that?

I just want to add a single NDB with

identifier
name
frequency
position
altitude
range class
range

and then use it with my ADF.

Thx,
Karl


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kaha

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Re: Add an NDB to scenery
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2020, 01:14:46 PM »
I tried Herves BGLNavEditor program. I used PF20 NDB.bgl as a start and tried to change it. But the program wouldn't let me do it.


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Re: Add an NDB to scenery
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2020, 06:32:08 AM »
Airport Design Editor will let you do it. But it isn't "simple and fast" without the learning curve of the program, which is an airport design and editing tool But not to steep of a curve if you're willing to be patient, keep at it, and read the manual.

https://www.scruffyducksoftware.com/shop-and-downloads

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Re: Add an NDB to scenery
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2020, 06:59:08 AM »
Thank you Steve, ADE really seems to be a very nice software.

As I just need one NDB I did some search in the V5 SDK and found how to create an NDB .xml file and how to compile it using bglcomp.exe. So I made the .xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<FSData
     version="9.0"
     xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
     xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd" >

<Ndb

      lat="55.395599"
      lon="-116.484001"
   alt="611.3"                   
   type="MH"                   
   frequency="406.0"   
   range="75N"                   
   magvar="15.5"                       
   region="CY"                       
   ident="2S"             
   name="High Prairie">

</Ndb>

</FSData>

compiled it, put it in and there it is, the new NDB.

The story behind is this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Into-Abyss-Extraordinary-True-Story-ebook/dp/B009CJK4GA

A crash caused by pilot error. A broken NDB (so just one left), low ceiling and  a calculation error made for a fatal crash. I want to refly the route but obviously the sim does not have the High Prairie NDB.

Karl
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Re: Add an NDB to scenery
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2020, 08:04:52 AM »
XML obviously works too. The nice thing about ADE is that you can place things on a map type of layout, relative to other parts of an airport layout.

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Re: Add an NDB to scenery
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2020, 08:37:27 AM »
And that would be the correct way to do it, probably. The NDB rather belongs to the High Prairie airport.
Karl
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