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From: t-jasonb@microsoft.UUCP (Jason Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft flight simulator
Keywords: Need help w/coordinates
Message-ID: <1210@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 01:51:09 GMT
References: <117@verdix.verdix.com>
Reply-To: t-jasonb@microsoft.UUCP (Jason Barnett)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <117@verdix.verdix.com> bob@verdix.com (Bob Boulanger) writes:
>Hi:
>I recently purchased MS Flight Simulator 3.0.  So far I really like the
>program, but I'm having one difficulty with it.  I can't figure where they
>the North and East coordinates from.  I would like to enter the coordinates
>for the local airports, for which I have the correct scenery disk, but
>can't figure out how they arrived at those numbers.

   There is no correlation between longitude/latitude and the airport
coordinates listed in the back of the "Flight Simulator Information
Manual and Flight Handbook".
   Flight Simulator coordinates cannot be easily translated into
real-earth latitude and longitude values because Flight Simulator uses
a flat plane, x-y coordinate system to simulate the earth.
   The chapter titled "The World and Navigation", Pages 76-77 of the
"Flight Simulator Information Manual and Flight Handbook" for Version
3.00, gives the center coordinate (x=0,y=0) of the Flight Simulator
world as "40 degrees north latitude and 88 degrees 30 minute
west/east longitude, about 30 miles southwest of Champaign, Illinois."

 - Jason