PMDG's DP/STAR syntax format is open to anyone who would want to use it. It's great because you can actually sit down a write a procedure file by hand with charts in a near natural-language type fashion. Also cuts down on the amount of space the procedures take up on the HD - with PIC1's method of tons of small text files, you get a lot of slack space left over from partially unfilled clusters.I'm guessing they've kept it the same though to keep backwards compatibility with files programmed for PIC1. We are going to have new psuedo waypoints to deal with and add to the procedures though. (DME, ALT, RADIAL based etc)

>of space the procedures take up on the HD - with PIC1's method>of tons of small text files, you get a lot of slack space left>over from partially unfilled clusters.Hmm, it's 15Mb in total, so that's not really an issue with todays hard disks of 80Gb or more ... ;-)I prefer to keep the backwards compatibility, think of all the navdata available. And with PIC1 you can sit down and program you're SID, or whatever procedure, in the FMC, using waypoints, and save it in a file.Regards,Nicowww.nicokaan.nl

Same here!