Doug Haluza wrote:
Hey, WOW, great show! I've been looking for this, and was even
considering paying up for the CD subscription. Now I don't have to.
Thanks!

I see you have the airports coded based on surface type, and the
gliderports are also coded separately.

I was amazed when I saw the gliderport symbol the first time I flew with
the new database! Thought it must be an error, but it was on the paper
chart I had with me, so I was impressed.

You even have the runway
directions corrected for magnetic variation. Very nice!

You're welcome! But, remember, I just found the CDs, Paul Remde found
the free online access, and John Leibacher wrote the scripts to parse
the FAA data file. I didn't even think about asking him to correct for
the magnetic variation, even though I use SeeYou and it uses true North
for displaying runway directions, so I'm assuming John figured that one
out on his own.

For my purposes, I'd also like to have the AWOS/ASOS frequencies listed
in the comments section. John says he's open to suggestions, but might
not take all of them :^). Part of his concern is getting it into other
formats, and the more stuff there is, the more awkward it is to
translate it. This is especially true of the older ones, like the
Cambridge DAT format, which has smaller and fewer data fields in it.

Regardless, these are just wrinkles that will be ironed out one way or
the other; the great thing is we now have full coverage database that
can be updated several times a year.

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