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Any suggestions on correct installation order taking into account magnetic variation. Having installed FSX from scratch, should one install payware scenery/airports and pmdg + service packs before installing/updating magnetic variation updates? gura75
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Hi, I am trying to develop my home Airport VECC (Kolkata, India), and I am encountering problems to determine the runway headings. In the AIRAC 1306, the following information is given: NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA B VECC01L 10728 007 22.640197 88.443992 000.00 007 000 20 NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA B VECC01R 11900 007 22.642197 88.446314 109.90 007 000 20 NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA B VECC19L 11900 187 22.670750 88.449389 110.30 187 000 19 NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA B VECC19R 10728 187 22.664900 88.446895 111.30 187 000 19 In the AIP and NOTAMs (current) published by Airports Authority of India the following is given: 01L 6.25° GEO 7.00° MAG 19R 186.25° GEO 187.00° MAG 01R 6.25° GEO 7.00° MAG 19L 186.25° GEO 187.00° MAG Using the runway threshold coordinates in the AIRAC/NOTAM, if I draw a guideline in Airport Design Editor, the heading of the line is shown as 5.7 deg. If the AIRAC is correct, then shouldn't the heading come to be 6.25 as published? (I understand that ADE uses true headings, not magnetic.) Also, the magnetic variation in the NOTAM from FAA is given as 'MAGNETIC VARIATION IS AMENDED AS 0 DEG 30 MINUTES WEST'. Shouldn't this be 0 deg 45 min west? (Since 7.00 mag - 6.25 geo = 0.75 deg = 0 deg 45 min). Please help. -- Asmit (eruku)
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Hello! I have upgraded my Prepar3d v3 simulator by installing the following Orbx products: FTX Global Base, FTX Global Vector and FTX Global openLC Europe. I am trying to update the files containing the magnetic variation and the navaids in Prepar3d, by applying the following: http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids3.html A very short test showed that the effects are not visible: runways 15/33 from LRIA should have become 14/32, the runways should have had PAPI lights etc. The scenery contained in the FTX products has greater priority in the Scenery Library, and the navaids update is applied only to the stock files of the simulator. Do I have any chance of using the navaids update together with the Orbx products? If yes, how? If not, how do you guys manage to fly on VATSIM, for example, where (I understand) the ATC controllers give instructions based on updated scenery and navaids? Thanks in advance!
