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Is it possible to determine which gates at which airports are in the database? I sure spend a lot of time trying to init pos places that aren't in the database on the FMC.


Dennis Trawick

 

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airport gates are all in there, but if the gate is on a taxiway then the letter tends to be in front of the gate, for example gate 42L at EGSS is on taxiway Charlie, so you need to enter C42L to get the coords.

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If you go into your PMDG folder - sidsstars folder - you will find lots of .txt files for each airport ICAO - open the one you are interested in seeing if it has the gate files, and you will see an entry inside the file for the gates - you can check then if its there and how its presented.

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If you go into your PMDG folder - sidsstars folder - you will find lots of .txt files for each airport ICAO - open the one you are interested in seeing if it has the gate files, and you will see an entry inside the file for the gates - you can check then if its there and how its presented.
Excellent, that was the file I was looking for. Actually, I already used the taxiway symbology, just didn't know it. Whatever gate I loaded into FSX, I tried to find. Now I know where to look beforehand. Thanks, James

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Is it due to Navdata lacks?
Yes. As far as I can tell there are no gate coordinates for KORD - at least not in cycle 1109.

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Yes. As far as I can tell there are no gate coordinates for KORD - at least not in cycle 1109.
Thanks, very bad. In Europe many terminal charts have the coordinates for every gate, while for the U.S. I cannot have that information :(

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For those who have a bit of patience and a knowledge of LAT and LON coordinates, you can add the gates that you want to your PMDG aircraft by editing each airports file under the PMDG/SIDSTARS folder by adding lines below. Some will have gates already under the GATES heading and others will not have them at all. Add a new line for each gate as shown below and once you restart your FSX you will be able to get the correct gate coordinates into your FMC. You will have to use Google Maps to get the coordinates for each gate at your airport of choice and then convert them from decimal degrees to degrees and minutes accurate to 4 or 5 decimal places (see below).

 

I like to fly using the United livery so below are all the United gates at KLAX if you would like to add them.

 

GATES

GATE 60 N 33 56.54028 W 118 24.10476
GATE 61 N 33 56.53644 W 118 24.00726
GATE 62 N 33 56.514 W 118 24.10176
GATE 63 N 33 56.50416 W 118 24.15066
GATE 64 N 33 56.48658 W 118 24.0963
GATE 65 N 33 56.48058 W 118 24.14754
GATE 66 N 33 56.45994 W 118 24.09246
GATE 67A N 33 56.4462 W 118 24.1452
GATE 67B N 33 56.42682 W 118 24.1401
GATE 68A N 33 56.43144 W 118 24.08928
GATE 68B N 33 56.41416 W 118 24.09156
GATE 69A N 33 56.41008 W 118 24.13218
GATE 69B N 33 56.41116 W 118 24.11172
GATE 70A N 33 56.55804 W 118 23.95662
GATE 70B N 33 56.53164 W 118 23.95668
GATE 71A N 33 56.55324 W 118 24.00912
GATE 71B N 33 56.53644 W 118 24.00726
GATE 72 N 33 56.49798 W 118 23.95416
GATE 73 N 33 56.50008 W 118 24.00594
GATE 74 N 33 56.47044 W 118 23.95038
GATE 75A N 33 56.46786 W 118 23.99958
GATE 75B N 33 56.44266 W 118 23.99574
GATE 76 N 33 56.43528 W 118 23.94594
GATE 77 N 33 56.42700 W 118 23.98116
GATE 80 N 33 56.57052 W 118 23.87574
GATE 81 N 33 56.55354 W 118 23.86020
GATE 82 N 33 56.53470 W 118 23.85858
GATE 83 N 33 56.51646 W 118 23.85402
GATE 84 N 33 56.49798 W 118 23.85180
GATE 85 N 33 56.47836 W 118 23.85774
GATE 86 N 33 56.45982 W 118 23.85246
GATE 87 N 33 56.44128 W 118 23.85174
GATE 88 N 33 56.41896 W 118 23.85480
ENDGATES
 
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