Good evening gents,

 

Is a method to add new Doha airport OTHH to radar contact database?

I know how to add frequencies, but RC4 doesn't speak nothing for Doha airport..

 

Thanks in advance

If you install an add-on scenery for Doha airport added properly in the FS scenery settings, it will be detected when you run the RC scenery rebuild. RC will speak the name with the phonetic alphabet since there is no recorded audio file for this name.

 

In the Controller Page for RC after a plan is entered you can enter com frequencies in there. There you can also add the transition altitude and the MSA altitude. I know the com frequencies are not saved but there is a work around for that.

 

In http://forum.avsim.net/topic/450167-runways-at-kord-and-kmia/#entry3064013 I go over updating the RC scenery database including checks to see if the airport was properly added. Be sure OTTH was added in r4.csv and a4.csv opening those in wordpad Do not save these files. Just read them for now.

 

To get com frequencies into RC's fixed com database, after you have rebuilt the RC scenery database you can do the following:

 

First for safety in your RC folder make copies of keyboard.dat and rcv3.dat and place these copies in your documents folder for a safety backup. Do not open RC until all changes are made.

 

Now in your FS folder open in wordpad, not a spreadsheet, f4.csv. You can right click on f4.csv and select open with wordpad. These frequencies are pulled from your scenery. Search for OTHH. Copy the entire line into your clipboard. Note what airports are before and after. Close Wordpad.

 

Go to your rcv4 or rcv4x \data folder. Once again right click on f4.csv here and select open with wordpad. Search for a name of the you found before or after OTHH. In this list airports are in alphabetical order. Go to the line preceding where you want OTHH to go. Hit the end key followed by the Enter key to create a new line. Now use Paste or crtl-v to paste in the OTTH line you copied from the f4.csv folder. Hit the end key. If the cursor does not stop after the last number backspace to get rid of any space character. If no line separation follows to the next airport hit the Enter key.

 

Now  in Wordpad File\Save As choosing MSDOS text type. Be sure the name stays as f4.csv and not f4.csv.txt or f4.csv.doc.

 

That is it for frequencies.

 

If you MSA and transition altitude did not stick, in the same \data folder make a copy of m4.csv for pasting into your documents folder as a safety copy.

 

Now right click on m4.csv opening it in Wordpad. The airports are in alphabetical order.

 

Here is a sample entry:

 

OTBD,196,13000

 

The order is ICAO code, merge altitude about 200 below MSA I think, and the transition altitude in feet.

 

Go to a line that will be before OTTH, hit the end key, then the return key to add the new line. From your chart enter the ICAO,merge altitude,transition altitude. If there is an airport near there use their numbers if you do not have charts. Save the file as before.

 

f4.csv and m4.csv files in rcv4\data are not pulled from your installed airports. The first f4.csv correction procedure used the f4.csv file in your FS folder created by makerwys.exe. The m4.csv procedure can be used to add the airport if necessary for transition altitude and MSA.