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FS2004 Determining glide slope angle

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First is there a way? and if so what would be the best method?
Of determining the glideslope angle of a destination from information within the sim. There's nothing generated by makerwys for example. Nine times out of ten it's 3deg. so that's not a problem but occasionally one comes across an airport like Innsbruck that has a GS of 3.8 deg
London City being another extreme example. I'm trying to find a way of automating the calculation of the FAP. Final Approach point fix.
The difference for example between 3deg and 3.8deg is 5nm. That's too much of an error margin.
Any ideas welcome, thanks.
 
You could use the law of sines.

Not sure how you could incorporate it with XML or other coding, but here is how you can apply it to a glide.

You have to know the height of capturing and the distance from the ils when starting to descend on the glide.

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Thanks but it's a bit more obscure/complex than that. Whilst the capture altitude is a known factor and it's an easy formula
for 3deg e.g. ((QNH altitude-airport elevation/3)/100) gives me the FAP. I can do that until the cows come home. What I need to obtain from the sim
is the actual reported angle. There is (A:NAV RAW GLIDE SLOPE ) but I can't get it to work. and also I would want it to be reported through FSUIPC.
 
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