Requirements


PATHy is a cross platform software project, developed on a Mac. It has been tested on various systems and configurations, both on Mac and PC.

PATHy on a Mac

- PowerPC (G3 and better recommended)
- 6 MB RAM (8+MB recommended for full ap/nav set)
- 1024*768, 256 colors
- MacOS 8.5 and later
- Quicktime 4


PATHy on a PC

- Pentium (300+ MHz recommended, the faster the better...)
- 6 MB free RAM (8+MB recommended for full ap/nav set)
- 1024*768, 256 colors
- Win95/98/2000/NT (MacOS recommended ;-)
- QuickTime 4 for windows



In PATHy, both speed and memory consumption, greatly vary with the amount of airports, VORs, NDBs and ILS you want to be handled. To speedup initialization or the leg point lookup procedure of PATHy, and to simultaneously decrease the required memory partition, you might want to use PATHy with subsets of the airport and navaid files.

Due to copyright restrictions, I cannot include these subsets into the PATHy package. You can either truncate the files yourself, or you can ask one of the dESPair crew members for help.


General requirements

PATHy needs two files to run: “apt.dat” and “nav.dat”. Both files need to reside in the root folder of PATHy (in the same folder as the PATHy application).

You can get these files freely from:

ftp://ftp.x-plane.com/pub/links/AptNav225.zip

Thanks to Robin Peel, who manages a central database with all the airports and navaids, you can get a free copy of the latest files through the X-Plane ftp server.

The airport and navdata has been gathered in thousands of hours work from many friendly soul in the X-Plane realm. All these people that have spent so much work for free deserve a big applause.

PATHy would be useless without this data.

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1) What is PATHy
2.) Requirements
3.) Registration
4.) Tutorial
- Installation
- Navigation / Controls
- Exploring the windows
- Centering the map
- Measuring distances
  /headings
- Planning a flight
- Using airports
- Using VORs and NDBs
- Adding legs
- Printing the MFD
- Printing the flight plan
- Saving the flight plan
- Working with maps
- Planning VFR flights
5.) Download / Updates
6.) Support