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Here is a great link to a GIS mapping program that I found that can be used
to customize digital sectionals that are available from the FAA: http://www.globalmapper.com/ You can download a demo version for free. This gives you 85% of the functionality of the full package, which costs ~$250. This program lets you open multiple sectionals and automatically pastes them together using the graphic coordinates that are imbedded in the geo-tiff sectional files. This is particularly useful in an area like Mpls / St. Paul, which is at the corner of 4 sectionals. Using this program, you can create a custom sectional that incorporates pieces of all 4 sectionals. In addition, you can overlay the sectionals with other drawings (flight plans, distance circles, etc.). The main limitations of the demo version vs the paid version is: 1. You can't reopen saved workspaces. 2. You can't print to scale. 3. You can only open 4 sectionals (the full version lets you open more, but you had better have a fast computer). Have fun! -- Mike Schumann |
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On Oct 6, 10:55 am, "Mike Schumann" wrote: Here is a great link to a GIS mapping program that I found that can be used to customize digital sectionals that are available from the FAA: http://www.globalmapper.com/ You can download a demo version for free. This gives you 85% of the functionality of the full package, which costs ~$250. BTW, the charts must be purchased from the FAA at: http://www.naco.faa.gov/ecomp/Catalo...S+DIGITAL+DSEC for $1.50 each or a DVD of half the US for $12.60. There is also a product http://www.glideplan.com/ that is geared to planning soaring flights. With some coaxing, maybe Matt will add some stitching ability, and extend this product into a fully featured electronic sectional chart system for use while flying. He is already providing current scans for no additional charge, so it is already legal to use in the cockpit. Note that so far, I think GlidePlan is plent good enough to replace my paper charts, but better printing options would turn it into a great product. Oh, there is a commercial product available for about $100/yr that will do this as well, but it is aimed at the airplane pilot so likely has many features most of us would not be interested in. Also at the FAA page is a Digital National Flight Database with all airport inofrmation. It's not clear, but I asume all the frequency, etc., info is there as well. It would be really cool if someone came up with a scheme to take what is currently available at the Worldwide Turnpoint exchange (http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/SOARING/JL/TP/) and somehow update the airport portions of the available files with current frequency info. Heck, I'd be willing to pay a reasonable subscription rate to know that the comments field in my GNII database is current, as this would be yet another reason to keep the sectional chart tucked safely behind my elbow. -Tom |
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John Liebacher has made the FAA airport database available at:
http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/TP/FAA If you have SeeYou, you can load this database, then overlay your turnpoints, and reject nearby duplicates. This will update the airport data in your exiting turnpoint database, plus give you landout airports for the whole country. You can then trim this down as much as you like. 5Z wrote: Also at the FAA page is a Digital National Flight Database with all airport inofrmation. It's not clear, but I asume all the frequency, etc., info is there as well. It would be really cool if someone came up with a scheme to take what is currently available at the Worldwide Turnpoint exchange (http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/SOARING/JL/TP/) and somehow update the airport portions of the available files with current frequency info. Heck, I'd be willing to pay a reasonable subscription rate to know that the comments field in my GNII database is current, as this would be yet another reason to keep the sectional chart tucked safely behind my elbow. -Tom |
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Doug Haluza wrote:
John Liebacher has made the FAA airport database available at: http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/TP/FAA If you have SeeYou, you can load this database, then overlay your turnpoints, and reject nearby duplicates. This will update the airport data in your exiting turnpoint database, plus give you landout airports for the whole country. You can then trim this down as much as you like. You may not need SeeYou, as John may have a version for GNII. The SeeYou version does include the frequencies, runway width, fuel availability (for motorgliders, of course). Some formats have smaller comment/description fields and may not have all info. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly "Transponders in Sailplanes" on the Soaring Safety Foundation website www.soaringsafety.org/prevention/articles.html "A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" at www.motorglider.org |
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Eric Greenwell wrote: You may not need SeeYou, as John may have a version for GNII. The SeeYou version does include the frequencies, runway width, fuel availability (for motorgliders, of course). Some formats have smaller comment/description fields and may not have all info. I didn't see a version for GNII or for Garmin. My almost new but now obsolete 396 does not include private fields so hope John adds a Garmin compatible format one day. Andy |
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Hi,
If you open the SeeYou version or the US Airport Database in SeeYou, or the StrePla version in StrePla, you can then export waypoint files for use in Glide Navigator II or transfer waypoints to a Garmin (I think). I create Glide Navigator II files using SeeYou often. It works great. Paul Remde "Andy" wrote in message ups.com... Eric Greenwell wrote: You may not need SeeYou, as John may have a version for GNII. The SeeYou version does include the frequencies, runway width, fuel availability (for motorgliders, of course). Some formats have smaller comment/description fields and may not have all info. I didn't see a version for GNII or for Garmin. My almost new but now obsolete 396 does not include private fields so hope John adds a Garmin compatible format one day. Andy |
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Which of these programs will allow me to make maps for contests --
import the turnpoint database, overlay on a sectional, then print out the relevant area, perhaps at a different scale? John Cochrane BB |
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At a major contest this summer, the file supplied by the organizers had
only the TPs in it; no other airports, public or private. Call me old fashioned but I remember in the dim dawn of the GPS era when the official contest DB had at least the airports on the sectional and often other landing spots as well. Some intrepid pilots apparently flew the contest with this but since landing spots were not always plentiful in certain task areas, I wanted all the airports showing in GNII. I used Excel to open the US Airport Database and sort the data, selected an area covering the contest envelope and trimmed it, arranged it in the correct columns and formats, and added waypoint numbers. After I imported this into the organizers' file, I had to delete all the duplicate airports that were also TPs. I also had to edit the comments to make sure the stuff I wanted to see in GNII came up first (freqs. and runway headings). QUESTION: Could I have used SeeYou for this? I did use SeeYou to upload the resulting waypoint file directly to a Garmin GPS/MAP 76 (my backup GPS/logger). Chip Bearden ASW 24 "JB" |
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Eric Greenwell wrote:
Doug Haluza wrote: John Liebacher has made the FAA airport database available at: http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/TP/FAA If you have SeeYou, you can load this database, then overlay your turnpoints, and reject nearby duplicates. This will update the airport data in your exiting turnpoint database, plus give you landout airports for the whole country. You can then trim this down as much as you like. You may not need SeeYou, as John may have a version for GNII. The SeeYou version does include the frequencies, runway width, fuel availability (for motorgliders, of course). Some formats have smaller comment/description fields and may not have all info. I just tried exporting to a Cambridge DAT format, and the radio frequencies are not exported, though the runway width and fuel show up in the comments field. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly "Transponders in Sailplanes" on the Soaring Safety Foundation website www.soaringsafety.org/prevention/articles.html "A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" at www.motorglider.org |
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