Howto:Add procedures to the route manager
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Objective
a free way to get mor e SID STAR for the routeplanner in fg[1]
Background
Make some yourself. Charts are easy to find and a quick search will find you the syntax. This is what FlightGear is all about; doing it yourself and sharing it to others. A quick search would also find existing packages...[2]
Instructions
Something like
<scenery directory>/Airports/I/C/A/ICAO.procedures.xml
Where ICAO is your airport code.[3]
for example if you want to import a sid/star file for VTSP, you name the file VTSP.procedures.xml and put it in <scenery directory>/V/T/S/ . In there you will likely find VTSP.twr.xml but not an existing *. procedures.xml file.
Substitute VTSP for your airport code.[4]
File structure
Here is a link to an example to show how to implement what I've outlined above: https://github.com/fgx/fgx-airports/blob/gh-pages/LDS767_AIO_Individual_XML_Airports/KATL.xml[5]
Bash script
ZirconiumX wrote a bash script for putting the XML files into the FG required locations.[6]
for file in $(ls *.xml)
do
# First, rename all the files to the correct convention
mv "$file" "${file%.xml}.procedures.xml"
# Then move it to the correct place
icao=${file%.xml}
icao1=$(echo $icao | cut -c 1)
icao2=$(echo $icao | cut -c 2)
icao3=$(echo $icao | cut -c 3)
mkdir -p $icao1/$icao2/$icao3
mv "${icao}.procedures.xml" "$icao1/$icao2/$icao3/${icao}.procedures.xml"
done
References
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