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jonahbird Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Acronyms" 03-05-03, 07:11z  Does anyone know of a comprehensive glossary of flying acronyms. In particular I have recently been racking my poor old grey cells for 'AFCAD'. We're all familiar with RTFM but where's the manual for these blasted initials? Regards to all Frank Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      RE: Acronyms andrewluck 03-05-03 1    RE: Acronyms jonahbird 03-05-03 2    RE: Acronyms vgbaron 03-06-03 4   RE: Acronyms Ben_Chiu 03-05-03 3    RE: Acronyms jonahbird 03-06-03 5

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andrewluck Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 1. "RE: Acronyms" 03-05-03, 07:29z  Frank A Google search on 'aviation acronyms' turns up pages of them. Didn't see AFCAD though. Regards Andrew Luck 18 SW EGSH Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

jonahbird Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 2. "RE: Acronyms" 03-05-03, 10:01z  Hi Andrew Thanks for that heads up Regards Frank Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

vgbaron Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 4. "RE: Acronyms" 03-06-03, 01:40z  Hi Andrew - From the readme - 3. What is AFCAD? It is a freeware CAD-style program that allows you to modify the Airport and Facilities Data (AFD) used in Microsoft Flight Simulator (FS2002). Facility data is part of the scenery database for Flight Simulator but facility data does not control any of the visual elements of scenery, like airport buildings or ground textures. Instead facility data controls the invisible maps of airports and other data that ATC uses to give directions and AI uses to move around and park at airports. It also controls the information that you see on the ?map view?, GPS screen, flight planner, and start position set-up window in Flight Simulator. You can modify any of that with AFCAD. AFCAD is a third party program for modifying the Airport files. It allows you to add gates, etc and much more. Not sure exactly what AFCAD stands for but the CAD part is probably Computer Aid -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Vic Baron -OLR.PL v1.81- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Ben_Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 3. "RE: Acronyms" 03-05-03, 23:41z  Greetings Frank: > Does anyone know of a comprehensive glossary of flying acronyms. In > particular I have recently been racking my poor old grey cells for > 'AFCAD'. In what context was AFCAD used e.g. where did you see it? Ben -= VPC OffLine Reader 2.1 =- Registered to: Ben Chiu -OLR.PL v1.80- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

jonahbird Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 5. "RE: Acronyms" 03-06-03, 18:25z  Hi Ben I think Vic has solved it. I would think it means 'Airport Facilities Computer Assisted Drawing'. He certainly describes what it does. AFCAD airport facility files are installed using software developed by Lee Swordy. It is simple to use. These text files are dragged and dropped into the program window, and they are installed instantly. BTW using google led me to discover a super sounding manual by Bill Stack. Does anyone know this product? Regards Frank Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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