The Unofficial XCSoar Manual

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The airfield details file is a simple text format file containing entries for each airfield, marked in square brackets in uppercase, followed by the text to be displayed on the Waypoint Details Dialog for that particular waypoint.

The names of airfields used in the file must correspond exactly to the names in the waypoints file, with the exception of being converted to uppercase.

The XCSoar website provides airfield details files for several countries and includes tools to convert from various Enroute Supplement sources to this file format.

Users are free to edit these files to add their own notes for airfields that may not otherwise be included in the Enroute Supplement sources.

Advanced - Programming

The airfield file is straightforward. It's a text file, with entries for each landable waypoint in capital letters, followed by plain text with a narrow margin (say, 40 characters). For example, if your airfield was called Innisfail, some of the text might look like this:

			[INNISFAIL]
			RUNWAYS:
			  21 14 32 03

			COMMUNICATIONS:
			  CTAF - 126.7 FSS-BRISBANE
			  CENTER - 124.6 REMARKS:
			  (circuitarea)

			REMARKS:
			  CAUTION - AG ops wi 10 NM to
			  5000'. MISC - Ldg fees. Arpt
			  unlicensed. Ctcarpt for
			  current info, fone C074-030-
			  2222.

			ICAO: YIFL

			[PORT HEDLAND INTL]
			RUNWAYS:
			  14 32 18 36

			etc etc etc.