Simviation Forum - Canadian Airports

May 27^th, 2003 at 5:45pm

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Good afternoon everyone! (At least it's afternoon where I am)

I'm trying to add AI traffic for Westjet and Air Canada Jazz, but I'm learning that a great many of the outlying airports in Canada have no stock AI traffic, hence there are no entries for these airports in the airport.txt file.

Can someone point me toward (or share!) a list of the Canadian airports in .txt format so that I won't have to go through the process of adding them piece by piece as I try to compile the filght plans? Sad

Erik

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Reply #1 - May 27^th, 2003 at 5:46pm

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......................please?............................

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Reply #2 - May 27^th, 2003 at 5:53pm

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I suspect I have a list of a fair few you can throw right into ttools airports.txt file.

I'd need ICAO codes though - it's raw data.

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Reply #3 - May 27^th, 2003 at 5:58pm

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AFAIK, Project AI (http://projectai.flight1.net) have Air Canada Jazz and Westjet AI traffic packages to save you doing all the work.

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Reply #4 - May 27^th, 2003 at 6:01pm

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It's been a while since I messed with AI (been busy doing other things) but I thought that so long as an airport had a tower frq AI could use it AND the latest version of Ttools contains a utility to automatically find and place ALL suitable sirports automatically into your airport.txt file.

Am I wrong? (.....it has been known!.... Wink

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Reply #5 - May 27^th, 2003 at 6:12pm

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It's been a while since I messed with AI (been busy doing other things) but I thought that so long as an airport had a tower frq AI could use it AND the latest version of Ttools contains a utility to automatically find and place ALL suitable sirports automatically into your airport.txt file.

Am I wrong? (.....it has been known!.... Wink

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Towered airports are definitely fine as you say.

I'm uncertain about the ttools auto-add airport feature but you may well be right. I've only been messing with ttools for a week or so. Back to the readme file again for me...LOL

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Reply #6 - May 27^th, 2003 at 6:36pm

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Howdy:

as RollerBall indicated, the days of collecting airport reference data by hand are over.

The latest TrafficTools (v1.3.2) has a handy little stand-alone utility called CollectAirports.exe and does just that. Just double-click and after a couple of minutes you'll find a largish (700kb) airports.txt file with all airports in FS2002, including those you might have added yourself.

Unfortunately, what it doesn't tell you (and I don't know of any utility that does) is which airports have tower freqs and which don't.

Cheers, Holger

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Reply #7 - May 27^th, 2003 at 7:11pm

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Okay, I'm back.................

After further review, I decided that the best long-term solution to the problem would be to upgrade to the newest version of Traffic Tools, v1.3.3.

The Airport Collector feature is a really nice addition for those that have older versions of TTools. After using it, let's just say that my Airport.txt file has a slightly different appearance. I checked and saw that all of my overlays were still there, as well.

Grew a few brain cells today.......................that's good.

Now I'm hungry.

Thanks everyone for the help!

Erik Grin

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