As aircraft increasingly use GPS for navigation, older navigation aids such as NDBs (Non Directional Beacon), VORs (VHF Omnidirectional Range) and DMEs (Distance Measuring Equipment) are being phased out. This is true in Papua New Guinea (PNG) as much as anywhere else.
This mod resurrects - brings back to life - several non-GPS navaids which used to exist in PNG.
If you like to navigate old school style, you might like to try this enhancement.
This package adds these navaids:
- LAE (Lae, nearest airport AYNZ) NDB 388
- MD (AYMD Madang) VORDME 116.30
- GNY (AYGN Gurney) VORDME 115.60
- GUA (AYGR Girua) NDB 224 (but DME is in default)
- GBE (AYGB Gobe) NDB 215, DME 113.60
- KIU (AYKI Kiunga) DME 113.80
- MH (AYMH Mt Hagen) DME 115.00
- WK (AYWK Wewak) VORDME 116.60
- VNO (AYVN Vanimo) DME 115.60 (but NDB is in default)
- TK (AYTK Tokua) VORDME 113.60
- HKN (AYHK Hoskins) NDB 251, DME 114.00
- BUK (AYBK Buka) NDB 269, DME 114.70
For convenience, here's a list of the PNG non-GPS navaids that already exist in default MSFS (as at early October 2021):
- VN (AYVN Vanimo) NDB 257 (but DME added by mod)
- OKT (Ok Tedi, nearest airport AYTB Tabubil) NDB 1630, DME 114.80
- YXM (AYXM Komo) VORDME 113.70, ILS RW16 108.10
- MOR (AYMR Moro) NDB 1642, DME 114.60
- NZ (AYNZ Nadzab) VORDME 113.90
- GR (Girua, nearest airport AYGR) DME 116.50 (but NDB added by mod)
- PY (AYPY Port Moresby) VORDME 117.00, ILS RW32R 109.50, ILS RW14L 110.10
- DGO (Daugo Island, nearest airport AYPY Port Moresby) VOR 114.50
- RB (Rabaul, nearest airport AYTK Tokua) NDB 278
- LHR (AYKY Kunaye) NDB 218
- KVG (AYKV Kavieng) VORDME 117.10
- MOE (AYMO Momote) NDB 212, DME 113.50
- KIA (AYKT Kieta) NDB 374
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This mod is included in my mega mod for PNG and western New Guinea. If you download the mega mod, you can in future just update that single mod to get airfields, airstrip fixes, terrain fixes and more for Papua New Guinea and western New Guinea (Indonesian Papua province and other provinces), instead of having to update multiple mods.
You can then delete my other mods from your flightsim.to downloads list, so you only get notified about updates to the mega mod.
TMiller51
juk123
I can't get Little NavMap to display these navaids
wantok author
Thanks - it turns out that the format has changed, and this was not working in the last couple of versions of MSFS. If you update to version 1.0.2, it should work (works for me in SU11).
2 years ago
timot75
nice work
by any chance, did you find a way to remove or delete default VOR ILS NDB in order to change name or freq, or make a new one
I did not find any command in the SDK to do so
thanks
wantok author
No, I didn't try to remove or modify any existing navaids. I believe it's fairly easy to change an ILS or terminal NDB at an airport by using the deleteAllILSs and deleteAllTerminalNDBs options in the general airport delete, but I haven't looked at trying to modify non-airport navaids.
3 years ago
donfanucci
Thank you, I have been wanting this for a long time!