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The use of most of the downloads listed below
is explained in my
BareBones tutorial on the
Kinetic SBS 1 website.
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Outline
Files - Airspace
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UK and Ireland Airspace
Outline files for UK and Irish
airspace. This data is correct to the UK 28
Aug 2008 and Ireland
Dec 2006
AIRAC data.
Outlines include:
Airfield
plans for 123 civil airfields.
Runway
centrelines for 125 airfields - (10nm for precision approach
runways and 6nm for non precision approaches).
Lower
Airway centrelines.
Lower
Airway edges for users who don't like centrelines.
Upper
Airway centrelines.
ATZ and MATZ (Military Aerodrome Traffic Zones).
CTA
(Control Area), TMA (Terminal Control Area) and CTR
(Control Zone) airspace.
Danger,
Prohibited and Restricted airspace.
FIR,
ATSDA and HUACA airspace.
Military
ARA, ATA, MTA, TRA, AIAA, E3D Orbit and AARA airspace. TACAN
Routes
VOR
Roses.
See the included readme file
for further details. It is imperative that you read this prior
to installing.
Latest update - 28
July 2008
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Outline Files - Coastlines
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Medium Resolution /High Resolution Coastline sets
Medium resolution coastline files
are ideal for low end systems and cover: England,
Ireland and Scotland
High Resolution coastline files
are for users with high end systems and cover: UK,
Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands and Northern France.
Note: Both coastline sets
are included in the one zip file so users must ensure both sets
are not active at the same time. See the readme file for details.
For a more detailed screenshot
click
HERE
Latest update - 03 July
2006
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World
Coastline (no UK)
Replacement
General.out file that contains the world coastline data but
with the UK and Ireland removed. This resolves the double coastline
effect if using my UK coastal outline files.
In
addition each continental section now contains appropriate header
information to make further user editing easier.
Latest update - 08
July 2006
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Outline Files - Airfield Plans
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Civil Airfield Plans
Civil airfield outlines are included
in the UK and Ireland Airspace file.
Highly
detailed airfield plans are provided in the UK and Ireland Airspace
download. They cover the following 123 airfields:
Aberdeen,
Aldergrove,Andrewsfield, Barra, Barrow, Barton, Beccles, Belfast
City, Bembridge, Benbecula, Beverley, Biggin Hill, Birmingham,
Blackbushe, Blackpool, Bodmin, Bourn, Bournemouth, Bristol,
Caernarfon, Cambridge, Campbeltown, Cardiff, Carlisle, Chalgrove,
Chichester, Clacton, Compton Abbas, Cork, Coventry, Cranfield,
Damyn's Hall, Denham, Derby, Doncaster Robin Hood, Dublin, Dundee,
Dunkeswell, Durham Tees, Duxford, Eaglescott, Earl's Colne,
East Midlands, Edinburgh, Elstree, Exeter, Fairoaks, Farnborough,
Fenland, Filton, Full Sutton, Glasgow, Gloucester, Haverford,
Hawarden, Hucknall, Humberside, Inverness, Isle of Man, Jersey,
Kemble, Land's End, Langford Lodge, Lashenden, Leeds, Leicester,
Lerwick, Liverpool, London City, London Heathrow, London Gatwick,
London Stansted, London Luton, Lydd, Manchester, Manchester
Woodford, Manston, Netherthorpe, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich,
Nottingham, Old Buckenham, Old Warden, Oxford, Panshangar, Perranporth,
Peterborough Conington, Peterborough Sibson, Plymouth, Prestwick,
Redhill, Retford, Rochester, Sandown, Sandtoft, Scatsta, Seething,
Sheffield City, Sherburn, Shobdon, Shoreham, Sleap, Southampton,
Southend, Stapleford, Stornoway, Shannon, Sumburgh, Swansea,
Tatenhill, Thruxton, Truro, Turweston, Warton, Wellesbourne,
Welshpool, West Wales, White Waltham, Wickenby, Wolverhampton,
Wycombe, Yeovil.
Further
plans will be added for Ireland, Scotland and Wales as data
become available.
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Military Airfield Plans
Highly
detailed airfield plans for 46 UK military airfields:
Barkston
Heath, Benson,
Boscombe Down,
Brize Norton,
Chivenor,
Church Fenton,
Colerne,
Conningsby,
Cosford,
Cottesmore,
Cranwell,
Culdrose,
Dishforth,
Fairford,
Henlow,
Honington,
Kinloss,
Lakenheath,
Leconfield,
Leeming,
Leuchars,
Linton-on-Ouse,
Lossiemouth,
Lyneham,
Marham,
Merryfield,
Middle Wallop,
Mildenhall,
Mona,
Netheravon,
Northolt,
Odiham,
Predannack,
Scampton,
Shawbury,
St Athan,
St Mawgan,
Ternhill,
Topcliffe,
Valley,
Waddington,
Wattisham,
Wittering,
Woodvale,
Wyton,
Yeovilton
Author:
Paul Brown
Latest update - 25
June 2008
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Outline Files - Other
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European VOR Roses
VOR roses for European navaids
that are the next en route point for airways exiting UK airspace.
Also included is a waypoint file for users who do not have any
European navaid data loaded.
The VOR roses are enabled by
turning on Layer 15 in the Outlines section of the Display Settings.
Latest update - 21
May 2007
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Waypoint
and RadioFrequency Files
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UK and ireland Waypoint and Radio Frequency Data
Waypoint and Radio Frequency
files for all UK and Ireland airspace. This data is correct
to the UK Aug 2008
and Ireland Dec 2006
AIRAC data.
Waypoints include:
UK/EI02 - Major Airfields
UK/EI03 - VOR's
UK/EI04 - NDB's
UK/EI05 - Intersections (Fixes)
UK07 - Minor Airfields
UK08 - Air Navigation Obstacles.
UK09 - Disused Airfields.
UK10 - Parachute Sites
UK11 - Gliding Sites.
UK12 - Helipads
UK13 - Hang Gliding Sites
UK14 - Microlight Sites
UK/EI15 - Visual Reporting
Points (VRP's)
Radio frequency files
include:
Airfields - all published airport
frequencies including
TWR, APP, RAD, ATIS, AFIS, A/G, GND, CLR
Volmet frequencies
Centre frequencies (listed
but not yet linked)
Users of my earlier Waypoint
data MUST remove these files before installing the new set -
the Waypoint file structure (and names) have been substantially
altered to suit the latest SBS software changes.
Latest update - 28
July 2008
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USA Waypoint Data
No airspace data, just airfields
- 2052 of them to be exact.
Last update - 27
July 2005
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Other Files
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Improved Civil/Military Flags sets
These sets are designed to replace
the default country flags in the BMPFlags folder and provide
both updated data and additional flags.
There
are seven sets available with options for standard or wide bitmaps,
civil and military flag sets and even pale or dark backgrounds
for the military roundels. The sets are:
Standard
Bitmap size (20 x 20 pixels)
Set
1. Country flags - a basic set replacing the Kinetic
bitmaps but with spelling corrected and additional flags for
countries omitted from the original list.
Set
2. Country Registration Prefixes - An alternative
to Set 1 with bitmaps showing the country registration prefix
instead of the national flag.
Standard
Bitmap size (20 x 20 pixels)
Set
3. Military Roundels (Dark) - An additional set to
provide military roundels. These roundels have a dark background.
Set
4. Military Roundels (Light) - An alternative
to Set 3. These roundels have a light background.
Users
only need download two of the above files. You should choose
between Sets 1 and 2 and between Sets 3 and 4.
Wide
Bitmap size (40 x 20 pixels)
Set
5. Country flags and Reg prefix - a basic set replacing
the Kinetic bitmaps but with spelling corrected and additional
flags for countries omitted from the original list. This wide
bitmap set combines flag and reg prefix into one image.
Set
6. Military
Roundels (Dark)- An
additional set to provide military roundels. These roundels
have a dark background.
Set
7. Military Roundels (Light) - An alternative
to Set 6. These roundels have a light background.
The
flag sets above will not display on the Basestation aircraft
listing unless an updated countries.dat file is installed. The
DAT file is a separate zip (because it is still undergoing frequent
revision./update) and contains all known country and military
Mode S allocations to date. It is updated as new information
is discovered - usually quarterly.
Downloads -
Standard
bitmaps :
Choose Set 1 or Set
2
Choose Set 3 or
Set 4
Wide
bitmaps:
Download Set 5
Choose Set 6 or
Set 7
Country.DAT
file Last update
1 Sep 2008
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Operator Logos
The new logo column in Basestation
129 (and above) now allows the use of operator logos in the
aircraft listing.
This
starter set contains 1120 bitmap logos for airlines,
charter aircraft, business aircraft and military operators.
The bitmaps are large (85 x 20)
and not ideally suited for users of existing bitmaps sets from
Andy (FlyingArt) and Mark Coles.
Read the included readme.txt
file before installing these bitmap sets. This explains how
the logos can be set up to work in BaseStation.
Download
Last update 8
June 2008
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Operator Logos - Extended data
The starter set above contains
sufficient bitmaps to populate the majority of SBS aircraft
records. Further logos are available for users to build up their
collections:
Jack
Ford's Operator Logo's
The starter set contains logos
for ICAO operators only. Jack continues with these but has also
created logos for military units, operators without an ICAO
code and even individual aircraft. The screenshot above shows
a small sample of Jack's images including some for the Battle
of Britain Memorial Flight.
Jack's
collection can be viewed at SBS-1
Operator Flags (Logos) by JF
Ian
Kirby's Aircraft Silhouettes
Ian has provided a collection
of aircraft silhouette bitmaps to complement the logo files.
These are ideal for displaying an image for non ICAO operators
- for example almost anything from microlights right up to private
executive jets. The images will display if the aircraft Type
code is inserted in the ICAOOprCode field rather than the Operator
code.
Ian's
collection can be viewed at IK
Silhouettes
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UK Intersections KMZ
Find it hard to locate a fix
in the UK or Ireland?
This KMZ file can be opened in
Google Earth and you can selectively locate any UK or Irish
intersection with a single click.
Last update - 25
April 2007
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UK Navaids KMZ
This KML file can be opened in
Google Earth and you can selectively locate any UK or Irish
navaid with a single click.
Last update - 25
April 2007
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UK Airfields KMZ
This KML file lists all known
UK airports (approx 1700) with current status and brief history
for each. The data is taken from my Catalogue
of UK Airports and should be considered a work of reference
rather than specifically for SBS use.
Last update - 1
December 2007
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Third Party Resources
Other useful files are available from the
Kinetic Resources forum but these are getting buried as the number of posts
increase. Below are some items that I have come across in forum
posts.
Note that some thread titles bear no
resemblance to the utilities they describe! The inevitable thread drift
syndrome..
The SBS software has been updated with a major change to the database structure. The
earlier Spider
software stored data in XML files whilst the new Snoopy upgrade is
using an SQLite database. XML utilities will not work with Snoopy - and SQL
utilities will not work with Spider.
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General
SBS Utilities
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Registration Prefix Mod
No idea what country a flag is
from? Prefer the registration prefix to show instead?
This excellent file from Dave
Reid replaces the country bitmaps to show registration prefixes
instead.
Author:
Dave Reid
Filename:
RegPrefixPanels1.0.zip
Forum
Post:
Displaying reg prefixes in the
aircraft list
Download
from:
Dave Reid's site
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3D
Flight Logger for Google Earth
This utility converts a recorded
BST log file into KML files ready for viewing in Google Earth.
Author:
Sean Johnston (Sejo)
Forum
Post:
3d Flight track producer for
Google Earth
and
My next project - 3D flight path
viewing using Google Earth
Download
from: Forum
post.
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Live
3D Flight Tracker for Google Earth
This JAR script converts socket
output into KML files for live viewing in Google Earth.
Author:
Varta
Forum
Post:
Fun with Google Earth
Download from: Forum
post.
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Polar
Diagram Plotter
This excellent utility will capture
SBS port data and record maximum ranges aircraft are picked
up for varying altitudes. It is ideal for determining your SBS
coverage and to check coverage variation after upgrading your
hardware.
Author:
Andy (Threemiles)
Forum
Post:
Polar Diagrams
Download from:
http://jetvision.de/sbs/
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ACARSD 1.7
ACARSD
is a free ACARS decoder that can also process Mode S data from
SBS. When first released ACARSD provided much additional data
(including photographs and routes) not available in BaseStation.
Despite these now being provided from other utilities ACARSD
is still well worth exploring.
Author:
www.acarsd.org
Forum
Post:
acarsd 1.70 RC3 Public
Download from: Forum
post.
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METAR Viewer
This neat utility will give a
decode of the current METAR data for a selected airport. Just
enter the ICAO code.
Author:
Ian Garton
Forum
Post:
METAR Viewer
Download from: Forum
post.
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Flight Display
A neat display that sits at
the bottom of your BaseStation screen and shows the route
information for the selected aircraft.
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Overflight Logger
Overflight Logger is an Excel
spreadsheet that can watch for aircraft within a specified
radius of your SBS unit and can also log aircraft for a separate
defined radius. It produces graphs for Max Range, Max % Horizon,
Min Altitude and Min Elevation plus a 2D plot showing lowest
altitudes recorded.
Download
from: Forum
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ICAO Doc 8643- Aircraft Type
Designators
A lookup page from ICAO giving
aircraft type codes. Useful for the ICAOTypeCode field in
Reporter.
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SBS
Database Utilities
(only for
users with the new BaseStation version 1.1.1.110 or later)
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Spider users who wish to upgrade
to Snoopy should read my page at
SBS_Upgrade.htm
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SBS-1 Populate
Similar to the above but SBS1
Populate is designed to update aircraft record details in
the SQB database in the Snoopy software (which will
replace the XML file structure used by Spider).
SBSPopulate can import records
into the SQB database individually, from a CSV file or from
a user defined range of ModeS codes.
Filename:
SBSPopulate.zip
Author:
Gatwick Aviation
Society
Forum
Post: Many
- see Resources Forum
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Active
Display
Active
Display (AD) is a companion to the Kinetic SBS-1 Basestation
software providing additional data viewing and editing facilities.
There are 3 major components...
1
The Active Display which lists and allows editing of all aircraft
received in the current session. Data is extracted from the
SBS basestation.sqb database and can be optionally combined
with that from GAS or other sources.
2
The Aircraft Display which lists and edits the SBS-1 basestation.sqb
database using the same interface as the Active Display.
3 The embedded SBSPopulate
functionality.
Author:
Gatwick Aviation
Society
Forum
Post: Various - still under test
Download
from:
Gatwick Aviation Society
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Aircraft Details pop-up box
Similar to the Spider popup box
but Snoopy allows a few extras such as Callsign, ICAO Type and
pictures..
Click on the picture for full
size view.
Author:
Various
Forum
Post:
Aircraft Photo's in Aircraft Details Window
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Hardware Accessories |
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For official hardware accessories see
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SBSNet Ethernet Adaptor
SBSnet is intended to be a bridge
between the USB port of the SBS-1 and an Ethernet network. It will not
require opening of the SBS-1 case, but uses the current USB cable and
an Ethernet cable on the other side. This will make it possible to
view your SBS-1 flight data anywhere in your local network or the
Internet.
Author:
Andy (Threemiles)
Web Site:
http://jetvision.de/sbs/
Support:
http://www.cougarvirtual.com/mode-s/ |
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