AVIATIONTOOLBOX: I've added your approach plates.

Thanks to Dennis Megary at MyAirplane.com, I've added the vector
(PDF) approach plates to my collection.
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/approaches/

There's a lot that I plan to do with these, but for now I have a
terribly simple kludge for finding them here.
https://aviationtoolbox.org/members/...tools/airports

This is all very messy right now but I wanted to make it
available quickly. Plan for it to change.

--kyler

In article ,
Kyler Laird wrote:

Thanks to Dennis Megary at MyAirplane.com, I've added the vector
(PDF) approach plates to my collection.
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/approaches/

There's a lot that I plan to do with these, but for now I have a
terribly simple kludge for finding them here.
https://aviationtoolbox.org/members/...tools/airports

This is all very messy right now but I wanted to make it
available quickly. Plan for it to change.

--kyler

Awesome! A truly excellent resource!

In article ,
Kyler Laird wrote:
Thanks to Dennis Megary at MyAirplane.com, I've added the vector
(PDF) approach plates to my collection.

Have you worked out the XML someone mentioned was used to index them?
Is there any georeferencing?

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

In a previous article, (Ben Jackson) said:
In article ,
Kyler Laird wrote:
Thanks to Dennis Megary at MyAirplane.com, I've added the vector
(PDF) approach plates to my collection.

Have you worked out the XML someone mentioned was used to index them?
Is there any georeferencing?

Assuming it's the same XML that's on the Sporty's chart viewer DVD, there
isn't a lat-long value for the airport, just a state and chart volume
(EC-1, SW-4, etc). They also have totally screwed up the ICAO ids for
Alaska.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.
-- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary

(Ben Jackson) writes:

Have you worked out the XML someone mentioned was used to index them?

Yes, I'm stumbling through it with the Python SAX module. Here
is some really bad code that uses it.
http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/gadflyize.py

Is there any georeferencing?

No, I haven't noticed any. I thought about it earlier, but I'd be
very surprised if the plates could be reasonably georeferenced
anyway. I recall seeing "not to scale" warnings on some of them.

--kyler

P.S. Anyone know if the flight simulator guys fly IFR? They've
already hit the sectionals pretty hard. (I'm happy they find it
useful. I'm just curious.)

(Paul Tomblin) writes:

Have you worked out the XML someone mentioned was used to index them?
Is there any georeferencing?

Assuming it's the same XML that's on the Sporty's chart viewer DVD, there
isn't a lat-long value for the airport,

Oh! Is that all that you want? It's available in the FAA ATA-100
data set.
http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/ATA-100/
There are coordinates for the reference points and for most of the
runway ends.

--kyler

In a previous article, Kyler Laird said:
(Paul Tomblin) writes:
Have you worked out the XML someone mentioned was used to index them?
Is there any georeferencing?

Assuming it's the same XML that's on the Sporty's chart viewer DVD, there
isn't a lat-long value for the airport,

Oh! Is that all that you want? It's available in the FAA ATA-100
data set.

Oh, *I* don't need it, I subscribe to the CD. You know that.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Heaven has all the lusers, a generous supply of larts -
and no PHBs anywhere in sight.
-- The BOFH Heaven, according to Suresh

In article ,
Kyler Laird wrote:
No, I haven't noticed any. I thought about it earlier, but I'd be
very surprised if the plates could be reasonably georeferenced
anyway. I recall seeing "not to scale" warnings on some of them.

I've just seen screenshots of Jepp's chartview on the MX20 with the
airplane overlayed on the procedure. So Jepp must have their chart
coordinates electronically.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

(Ben Jackson) writes:

No, I haven't noticed any. I thought about it earlier, but I'd be
very surprised if the plates could be reasonably georeferenced
anyway. I recall seeing "not to scale" warnings on some of them.

I've just seen screenshots of Jepp's chartview on the MX20 with the
airplane overlayed on the procedure. So Jepp must have their chart
coordinates electronically.

The airport diagrams have nice longitude and latitude lines overlaid
but the approach plates are often a little loose. What would you do
with the squiggly lines by ROGEE here?
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/.../00001R17L.pdf

I'd trust that Jepp has all of the geo data for their own charts but
I doubt it's a simple thing to add back to the FAA/NOS charts. It
sure would be nice though.

--kyler

Very cool, all I've ever been able to get online up to this was poorly
scanned copies of the FAA plates (example the AOPA airport directory). I was
think the FAA still had a building full of draughtsmen carefully drawing the
plates.

-Brenor

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
...
Thanks to Dennis Megary at MyAirplane.com, I've added the vector
(PDF) approach plates to my collection.
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/approaches/

There's a lot that I plan to do with these, but for now I have a
terribly simple kludge for finding them here.
https://aviationtoolbox.org/members/...tools/airports

This is all very messy right now but I wanted to make it
available quickly. Plan for it to change.

--kyler