Pilot's Ultimate Mesh for v4.5 hf2 can I...

[briansommers 74]

I was wondering is there anyway to turn off Pilot's mesh for a specific state in the USA?

I want to turn it off for Alaska but keep it for everything else.

[BillW 210]

Try installing your new mesh over the Pilot's version.

 

Bill W

[briansommers 74]

I don't have new mesh. I just want to turn off Pilot's mesh because it's messing up two little airports for me.

 

KEB and PGM

[Nemo 1,305]

According to Pilots' (http://www.fsim.net/files/INSIDE_FSGLOBAL_2010.pdf)

"it’s not too difficult to calculate the coverage area when you see the filename, here are the formulas:
Longitude coverage: -180 + 3.75 * x to -180 + 3.75 * (x+1)
Latitude coverage: 90 – 2.8125 * (y+1) to 90 – 2.8125 * y

X and Y the indices as described above, referring to the filename scheme DX0xx0yy.BGL. And vice versa – to calculate the file that covers a certain point that is defined by (Latitude, Longitude): XX: truncate ( ( Longitude + 180° ) / 3.75 ) YY: truncate ( ( 90 – Latitude) / 2.8125)

Example:
The Matterhorn summit is at E007° 39.5’ (= 7.65833°), N45° 58.6’ (= 45.97667°).
Inserting these values to our formula leads to:
XX = truncate ( (7.65833+180) / 3.75) = truncate ( 50.04 ) = 50
YY = truncate ( (90-45.97667) / 2.8125) = truncate ( 15.65 ) = 15
So the Matterhorn summit is contained in the FS Global file DX050015.BGL."

I've recently used this formula to exclude KSEA area ...

[IAhawkeyeDDS 158]

Did you try using PILOT's AFM2 tool?

[briansommers 74]

Yes, I tried that and it made things super weird.

[Mace 1,909]

3 hours ago, briansommers said:

Yes, I tried that and it made things super weird.

Do you use Orbx Vector?

[briansommers 74]

yes

[Mace 1,909]

8 hours ago, briansommers said:

yes

Orbx Vector has an elevation correction tool as well.  I have had good results using it with Pilots Ultimate Mesh

[briansommers 74]

yep, tried that as well.

[ChrisDa 41]

You'll have to use Nemos's solution above.

You have to get the latitude and longitude from Google Earth for the middle of the airport in question.

Then convert those coordinates to decimal Lat, Long.  Tools on the web to do that   https://www.latlong.net/degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal-degrees

Then plug those numbers into Nemo's formula above.

I made an Excel spread sheet to arrive at the solution.

Just have to be careful of the final .bgl format and the 0 (zero) separators. Then change the extension of the bgl file to off.

Done it many times and works a treat.

Chris.

 

 

[briansommers 74]

I'm horrible with math, and dyslexic

I gave this a try and I must've calculated something wrong.

 

KEB 

N59 21.17'
W151 55.48'

that converted into 

LAT 59.35277778
LONG 151,92472222

then:

XX=88
YY=10

but that is in Asia not NAM area.

 

A little help.  

[Nemo 1,305]

13 hours ago, briansommers said:

I'm horrible with math, and dyslexic

I gave this a try and I must've calculated something wrong.

 

KEB 

N59 21.17'
W151 55.48'

that converted into 

LAT 59.35277778
LONG 151,92472222

then:

XX=88
YY=10

but that is in Asia not NAM area.

 

A little help.  

According to your data, the file you want to disable in FSG is DX007014.BGL

 

[briansommers 74]

I don't even have that file in my Pilot's Mesh 

under NAM I go up to DX007011 but no 14