New on-line instrument approach plate service

On 1/4/06 3:18 PM, in article
, "Ron Garret"
wrote:

In article ,
(Ron Lee) wrote:

Ron Garret wrote:

The service is, for the moment, free of charge.

So we can expect something similar to the $100 hamburger site?

The server is paid for through the end of March, so all it will take to
keep it up and running until then is a little encouragement :-) After
that I need to figure out a way to pay for the bandwidth. (Because the
files are so large I need to run it out of an actual data center or
performance will be abysmal.) I'm hoping that Adsense ads will be
enough. It only needs to generate a couple of hundred dollars a month
to be self-sustaining. I'm not looking to make a huge profit on this,
but I don't want to have to subsidize it out of my own pocket either.

rg

If you can get a regular flow of traffic, Adsense should be enough to meet
your goal, but it looks to me as if you'll need a few more pages with some
content to get it.
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Ron
Make an unsolicited proposal to the FAA about providing a service for the
users.
Al


"Ron Garret" wrote in message
...
In article ,
(Ron Lee) wrote:

Ron Garret wrote:

The service is, for the moment, free of charge.

So we can expect something similar to the $100 hamburger site?

The server is paid for through the end of March, so all it will take to
keep it up and running until then is a little encouragement :-) After
that I need to figure out a way to pay for the bandwidth. (Because the
files are so large I need to run it out of an actual data center or
performance will be abysmal.) I'm hoping that Adsense ads will be
enough. It only needs to generate a couple of hundred dollars a month
to be self-sustaining. I'm not looking to make a huge profit on this,
but I don't want to have to subsidize it out of my own pocket either.

rg

Stan Gosnell wrote:

Slight glitch. Your form only accepts 3-letter identifiers. Many
airports, especially smaller ones, have 4-letter identifiers. I
tried to input LS99 and several others, unsuccessfully.

While I admit that accepting four-letter ICAO identifiers is probably a good
idea, the point of Ron's site is to provide instrument approach procedures
in PDF format. LS99 doesn't appear to have any published approaches. Do
you have examples of airports you tried that do have IAPs?

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In article ,
Stan Gosnell wrote:

Ron Garret wrote in news:rNOSPAMon-
:

I am pleased to announce the beta launch of a new on-line instrument
approach plate service at http://siap.awun.net/

This service collects all the plates you need for a trip into a single
PDF file. Try it out and let me know if you think it's useful.
(There's a feedback form at the end.) The service is, for the moment,
free of charge.

Slight glitch. Your form only accepts 3-letter identifiers. Many
airports, especially smaller ones, have 4-letter identifiers. I tried to
input LS99 and several others, unsuccessfully.

I fixed this, but you still won't be able to input LS99 because it has
no instrument approaches so it's not in my database. In fact, there are
only five airports with four-letter identifiers that have any instrument
approach plates associated with them at all, and most of those are
STARs, not approaches.

rg

In article ,
"Allan9" wrote:

Ron
Make an unsolicited proposal to the FAA about providing a service for the
users.
Al


Not a bad idea. Is there a web page that describes the procedure for
submitting such a proposal? I tried a Google search to no avail.

rg

I don't beleive FAA charts exist for airports with 4 letter IDs. Once
you get big enough for an instrument approach you get 3 letters. I
could be wrong though.

-Robert

In article . com,
"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

I don't beleive FAA charts exist for airports with 4 letter IDs. Once
you get big enough for an instrument approach you get 3 letters. I
could be wrong though.

There are four airports with four-letter identifiers that have
instrument approach plates associated with them:

VA39 (FORT LEE HELIPAD NR. 3)
07FA (OCEAN REEF CLUB)
36MI (TECUMSEH PRODUCTS)
06FA (WILLIAM P. GWINN)

Of these, only two (06FA and VA39) actually have any approaches. The
others are just associated with STARs.

There used to be a fifth:

5KY3 (WEST KENTUCKY AIRPARK)

which had two GPS approaches, but they appear to have been
decommissioned.

rg

Ron Garret wrote

There are four airports with four-letter identifiers that have instrument
approach plates associated with them:

Very interesting. How did you find that out? I don't have a clue as to how
to do it.

Jon

In article ,
"Jon Woellhaf" wrote:

Ron Garret wrote

There are four airports with four-letter identifiers that have instrument
approach plates associated with them:

Very interesting. How did you find that out? I don't have a clue as to how
to do it.

PlateMate has a local database of all the instrument approach plates
(which it gets by crawling the NACO site), so I just ran a query on that
database.

Now, of course, I am going to have to kill you. ;-)

rg

Let me see if I can find something Maybe try searching for RFP's (Request
for Proposals) and use that format
Al


"Ron Garret" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Allan9" wrote:

Ron
Make an unsolicited proposal to the FAA about providing a service for the
users.
Al


Not a bad idea. Is there a web page that describes the procedure for
submitting such a proposal? I tried a Google search to no avail.

rg