5" PNA & APIC

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:15:25 -0700, jb92563 wrote:

LK8000 is free and I believe you can load/attach auxilliary info for
airfields, although I have personally not tried that yet.

The existing airfield information includes coordinates, airspace
frequencies, runway numbers and occasionally comments so I dont find the
need to see an airport map since I dont fly in to anything more complex
that Class D airspace.

XCSoar and LK8000 currently use the same method of handling airfield
information. You create an airfield.txt file that contains textual
information about one or more airfields, each preceded with the airfield
name in square brackets on a separate line, i.e. "[AIRFIELD]", which must
be an exact match on the name of a turnpoint in one of the turnpoint
files - preferably a TP carrying an 'airfield' or 'landable' annotation.

Tapping the airfield on the display brings up a scrollable page of
information about it.

Its worthwhile setting up an airfields file containing your home field,
even it its the only entry, and marking it as your home field. Here's
what mine looks like:

[GRL GrnsdnLd=HOME]
Gransden Lodge

because the program tends to default to it if there's no current task.

It would take some work however to gather the extra airport info and
load it up yourself if you wanted more details ....ie setup....

Yep - as always, the problem is getting hold of the airfield information
in a suitable, machine-readable form.


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