Forum Overview :: Pinback's Web Central :: STEP 2: Create a sector file, fix the goddamn file format, and make the airport.

[quote name="pinback"]Tracon initially stores sector files as UTF-16-encoded XML. That makes dicking around with it difficult (for me). So I used Sublime Text to save it as UTF-8, and it seems to work just fine. If this comes back to bite me later, I will cry, but so far so good. I then used airnav.com and my good ol' "findfix.sh" script to get the location/elevation of the ABQ airport, and add a single fix. I created the airport in the editor itself, where you can see where I entered the lat/long/elev values, but then I manually edited the file and added the fix info. Which worked, which is great, because then I can just write a script, once I have a full list of the fixes, to loop through them, find their locations, and automatically shove them all into the XML. A job I thought would take hours will take... well, still hours, but just to write all the scripts. Then once it's time to go, boom, done. Look at this awesome sector! <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pinback/abq.jpg"/>[/quote]