Does anyone know a tool for reading FSX database? I need to read airport data, ils, vor ndb freq because sometimes those data differs from FMC data (AIRAC is updated instead of FSX), especially for ils freq.

 

I know that some flightplanner allows that, but I need something very light to use in flight, before approach to xcheck fmc data and fsx data.

 

thanks a lot for your help

I don’t know what plane you are using,

 

But what I would do is to add a default popup GPS gauge to the aircraft’s panel config.
A 295 will suffice.

That is a wonderful piece of advice and is the most simple tool to view freq's while in flight.

You could build a .bat file to read the individual airport's which are updated by an AIRAC and output it to a spreadsheet (your new weekend project?) but it could prove to be quite a task.

The most simple but not free would be for you to purchase a utility such as Aivlasoft EFB which can be used in a networked configuration. It is a wonderful piece of kit and adds the eye candy we all like (as opposed to a sterile spreadsheet), it may also make you feel even more like a real pilot. :biggrin:

There is good read here regarding FSX and NavData:

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7415
 

Hope you find the best solution to your question soon.

A partial solution would be to update the FSX's VORs, NDBs, and fixes.  Check this.  

Thank you guys for your help, but I was searching for something very minimal.

 

The best solution would be a synced FSX fatabase with AIRAC's one but this is impossible due to FSX and BGL nature.

 

The package you indicate me is quite good but don't update ILS (or very few) so there is also the doubt when you are in approach phase to mismatch ils freq.

 

A good solution would be a simple db reader could extract data from FSX database. Most fplanner have built in one and could read all entire database from FSX, so you could verify if ils reported in your FMC (Ifly with NGX and MD11) correspond to FSX one.

 

A gret solution was FSNavigator for FS9.

Peter Dowson has a great tool which extracts the FSX database in a couple of formats and it's free.

 

MakeRunways 4.671 at http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html

I was looking for somethinglike that:

 

http://fsxdb.com/Airports

 

but running on my pc and reading my fsx database.

 

 

This disconnect between the aging FSX database from 2005 and the much newer airac databases provided with FMSes from various newer add-ons is getting more and more problematical.   It's very nasty to put together flight plans with your favorite FMS and then find the sim world you're flying in doesn't fit.

 

Everyone seems to be focusing on updating FSX to match the latest nav data (which is a huge problem and may well be nigh impossible) but what about the other way around?   Unless I am flying online (which I never do) why do I care if I have the latest nav database?  What I want is one that matches the FSX world.

 

Some crumbs here and there show that airac 0612 may be pretty close to the original FSX database.  If I could get hold of that data I'd gladly reset any FMS database I'm using back to it so it would match.

 

Another alternative which I'm considering (someone talk me out of it!) is to write a utility to read the FSX BGL data and produce a matching set of airac text files with the airports, runways, navaids, intersections, and approaches to match.

 

Years ago it was easy to live with the occasional mismatch, but as the world changes and our sim world stays the same it's not so easy any more.

 

Dutch

I was looking for somethinglike that:

 

http://fsxdb.com/Airports

 

but running on my pc and reading my fsx database.

 

I built this gauge a while ago.  It gets its data from the FSX GPS interface.  Not in any way a realistic unit, but it will provide you with a good deal of information about your destination airport.

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=dsd_gps.zip&CatID=root&Go=Search

 

Doug

There used to be a program, super flight planner, that could create csv files that you could use in a spreadsheet.  Some navdata updates might also work as spreadsheet formats so you could find the differences.

 

scott s.

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I built this gauge a while ago. It gets its data from the FSX GPS interface. Not in any way a realistic unit, but it will provide you with a good deal of information about your destination airport.

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=dsd_gps.zip&CatID=root&Go=Search

 

Doug

Thanks Doug I tried it buy I can't understand how to install your gauges.

 

For the rest I thought this operation was more simple that could expect, I'll try to write a little program in cpp that handle what I'm looking for, when I have a bit of time.

Wouldn't it be easier to just download updated freeware afcads of the airports you are flying to / from? It would be more realistic as well

Wims80,

 

Can't speak for the OP but for me it depends on the flying style.  While many of us do fly standard trips between a fairly small set of well-known airports, others thrive on more variety and never know where we are headed next.

In my current career choice I can draw assignments from any of hundreds of destinations on any given day.  I don't know until I see my choices and make one. 

Having to assess if my destination of the day has changed since 2005, and possibly downloading and updating an AFCAD if it has, is pretty much exactly what I'm trying to avoid having to do.

 

If I flew to a few locations over and over your solution would be the best.

 

Years ago it was easy to live with the occasional mismatch, but as the world changes and our sim world stays the same it's not so easy any more.

 

I know this is somewhat off-topic but I couldn't agree more. This aspect is disconcerting to me since I'm reading in my free time about charts, flight planning, and saving up some cash to buy more realistic aircraft such as the NGX and some other airliners, all in trying to move to a more challenging level of flying with FSX.

 

I realized some time ago that things have moved well beyond the released FSX data. Each time I fly the Eaglesoft Citation X, I have to clear an FMC message about the database being out of date and that's getting real old. I cannot afford an AIRAC update subscription (I actually don't know how much Navigraph costs, but I don't have any extra money anyway right now), so I just live with it. The FMC of the CX has capabilities that I have heretofore ignored and I want to put those to good use. I have to expect problems since there are many forum posts (also ignored until lately) on Eaglesoft's support site (and elsewhere) that indicate there are inherent shortcomings in the FMS functionality. ESDG put a lot of time in their product, but it is getting to be pretty old now and no product updates seem to be on the horizon. I just hope that I don't get so frustrated that I give up moving up in realism completely, but that's the only plane I own that may come close to realistic FMC programming. I have the ATR from F1 too, but it is an FS9 port job and I doubt it is a good testbed for this kind of learning. Please, if someone has used the F1 ATR FMC in FSX to it's fullest capabilities and it works well, please respond and give me hope.

 

So, I have been wondering if this P3D can actually take us all where we want to go as far as an up-to-date simming environment. I won't purchase P3D until I hear some promising words from those who are spectacularly impressed with it.

Thanks Doug I tried it buy I can't understand how to install your gauges.

 

For the rest I thought this operation was more simple that could expect, I'll try to write a little program in cpp that handle what I'm looking for, when I have a bit of time.

 

A solution may be to use ScruffyDuck's BGL2XML, then parse the XML file and compare to a parsed AIRAC?  Should be easy enough in cpp or c#.