Thomas George 827476 Posted March 22, 2006 at 07:45 AM Posted March 22, 2006 at 07:45 AM Hello Folks, Last night, I was trying to prepare an ACS for Belgium, and I wanted to position an aircraft over KOK VOR. I don't know these things from memory, I am pleased to say, so I looked the lat/long up on a chart. When entering them using the same convention as the example ACS, the aircraft appeared to be slightly offset KOK to the southwest. When I put in the lat/long exactly as they appear in the sector file for KOK, it showed up closer, but still slightly offset KOK. Any ideas? Thomas George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Loxbo Posted March 23, 2006 at 12:20 AM Posted March 23, 2006 at 12:20 AM Make sure you convert the co-ordinates correctly to decimal degrees. From a sector file I got this position for KOK: N051.05.57.120 E002.39.16.920, i.e. N 51° 5' 57.120" E 2°39'16.920". In decimal degree format this equals N 51.099200° E 2.654700°. The values in the ACS file should therefore be 51.099200 and 2.654700. I found a lat/long converter here: http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/convertDMS Martin Loxbo Director Sweden FIR VATSIM Scandinavia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Horan 901577 Posted March 23, 2006 at 12:55 AM Posted March 23, 2006 at 12:55 AM I found a lat/long converter here: http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/convertDMS You've just made me very happy! Matt www.vatsim.net/prc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas George 827476 Posted March 29, 2006 at 06:12 PM Author Posted March 29, 2006 at 06:12 PM Sorry for late reply, but thanks! Thomas George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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