A standalone nomograph should suffice, there's some in the downloads section, ahhh found them, compare one or both of these nomograph files against the vanilla versions and you'll see the changes that have been made.
I use WinMerge to view edited files as its much easier than doing it by hand.
Imperial Nomograph with readme how-to for version 1.5
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...do=file&id=912
Metric Nomograph for version 1.5 with readme how-to
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...do=file&id=913
That
menu_1024_768 ini file is a very complicated beast, you'd be wise to stay clear of it if you don't know what you're doing.