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Region Codes?

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Does anyone know where to find Region codes? For that matter, what are they?

They are mentioned in the SDK, but I havent found out what they are. They tell you to go to ICAO.org and I did, ran a search, found nothing. Its a two digit code.

IS there a page in the SDK perhaps that someone could direct me to? A section at least?
 
lionheart said:
Does anyone know where to find Region codes? For that matter, what are they?

They are mentioned in the SDK, but I havent found out what they are. They tell you to go to ICAO.org and I did, ran a search, found nothing. Its a two digit code.

IS there a page in the SDK perhaps that someone could direct me to? A section at least?
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which region codes are you referring to?
airports
waypoints and fixes
gps
 
Kevin.

Many thanks Sir.

I didnt know. I didnt think they were talking about the airport codes. I hadnt really heard of 'region codes' before.

I was needing this for installing NDB's in Alaska and it requires a 2 digit regional code but thats all it said in the SDK.

From the sample I had, it had K6 and I didnt know what it was. Seems like America is K, and Alaska is PA, so that must be what I need.

Cant thank you enough.



Bill
 
lionheart said:
Kevin.

Many thanks Sir.

I didnt know. I didnt think they were talking about the airport codes. I hadnt really heard of 'region codes' before.

I was needing this for installing NDB's in Alaska and it requires a 2 digit regional code but thats all it said in the SDK.

From the sample I had, it had K6 and I didnt know what it was. Seems like America is K, and Alaska is PA, so that must be what I need.

Cant thank you enough.



Bill
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Yea those region codes. I will look for them. I have them somewhere. Give me a few.
 
still looking for the map, but the regions are same as the airports generally. the K in the USA is split 7 or 8 ways because of its containment of navaids vs elsewhere in the world. There are 25 to each 1 in the usa vs other nations. This makes ID's butt into each others space, IE, AF for an NDB has what, 4 in the USA. THe only way to tell the difference between them is the region code, as on a GPS, they are ALL accessible, regardless of distance. The REGION codes just depend on where it is in the USA. O know the southeast is K7, NW is K1, dont quote me, I havent seen the map since 2005 but I do have it somewhere.

It looks like this, but is has the region codes. This is a AFD region map.
AFD_Depiction.jpg
 
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Thanks Kevin.

Its a huge part of the key to making the key work. Without these codes, it seems the things will not work. Once I got the region code correct, it started broadcasting, oddly enough.




For others later that might find this post, I found that I cannot (cannot) place multiple NDB entries in the same BGL file. With scenery files, you can usually have TONS of entries, but with NDB's, it appears you must make each one separate. 30 In this case for me. :S



Bill
LHC
 
lionheart said:
Thanks Kevin.

Its a huge part of the key to making the key work. Without these codes, it seems the things will not work. Once I got the region code correct, it started broadcasting, oddly enough.

For others later that might find this post, I found that I cannot (cannot) place multiple NDB entries in the same BGL file. With scenery files, you can usually have TONS of entries, but with NDB's, it appears you must make each one separate. 30 In this case for me. :S

Bill
LHC
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Well, in the cont. usa, it can only be k1-k7
Outside the USA, it should be the same as the region code for the airports.
The USA split up the region to 7 due to clutter of identifiers, a situation they have been working on fixing. You have the same identifier for 3 or 4 navaids in the USA, and the k1-k7 region would tell you which one you wanted. Take the PINCY NDB id is AM (decom), it has different region code choices that start with a K. K4 and K7 and other elsewhere in the world, but the K7 is the one in florida, whereas the K4 is in texas.
http://www.airnav.com/navaids/

This should follow the chart above.
The Region codes on the chart correspond to this to my best recollection.
NW K1
SW K2
NC K3
SC K4
EC K5
NE K6
SE K7
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Region codes are used in FS to qualify idents. It is possible that the same ident can appear in different parts of the world. The region Ident is part of the key that allows this.

ADE will find a region ident for you automatically.
 
Dreamliner said:
Hey all.

I now i'm a little bit late with this one, but i'm new to this forum.
When i read this thread i saw that 2 convenient sites were not listed here.
I will put up the links here.

http://skyvector.com/

http://airportnavfinder.com/index.php

I hope that you can use this two. Sorry for the late replay again.
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skyvector is just an online chartmapping service and has same info as Airnav.com
http://www.airnav.com is for real world or informational use, updated every 56 days, as skyvector. Both can be used for sim as well.

Airportnavfinder has similar information but is over a year old and strictly intended for sim usage.

None of these services listed above offer any sort of region coding information.
 
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O i'm sorry.
I use both for my FS and make also flightplans on skyvector.
Thought that this was updated everytime.
I asume that navfinder isn't working correctly anymore?
 
Dreamliner said:
O i'm sorry.
I use both for my FS and make also flightplans on skyvector.
Thought that this was updated everytime.
I asume that navfinder isn't working correctly anymore?
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I fly in real world, I use airnav and skyvector for info on top of the afd and paper charts.
navfinder works, just not up to date. its old data about 15months old.
 
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I'm a bit late to this topic, so I wonder if any solution was found to sort of "derive" region codes from FSX or compile a list of airports with region codes?

I need this because my flight plan conversion tool requires region codes to map airports according to region/nation codes...

Thanks!
 
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