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Old December 23rd 07, 06:03 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Eric Greenwell
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Default (USA) Soaring airspace files from NFD -- now available

Tuno wrote:
Your desired region can be as big as you want. To get everything,
specify top = 89, left = -175, bottom = 0, right = 0.

Just don't open the .kml file with Google Earth -- it will gag on it.
(At least mine does, and I have a googleplex of RAM.)

2NO


OK, signed up, paid my money, got my airspace - good website!

One good featu the MOA's are named the same as the names on the
chart, and are the names used by the "controlling agency". The SeeYou
airspace files use numeric names that weren't recognized by anybody.
If/when we get the radio frequencies for the MOAs in the files, I will
be one happy camper!

Let the whining begin...

1) In my area (Washington and Oregon States) there are two "For reasons
of national security, pilots are requested to avoid flight at and below
1800' (or 5000'- Oregon) MSL in this area". These are displayed as
Prohibited areas, instead of something like a "warning area". Don't know
what the official designation is, but it's definitely not Prohibited.

2) The coordinates in the FAQ for pilots wanting the entire USA caused
the website to issue an error when I tried to use them. The ones I used
instead are

Top: 50
Bottom: 24
Right: -130
Left: -65

and they seemed to get the entire continental USA. I didn't try for
Alaska! Been there, done that, wouldn't mind doing it again, but not in
2008.

3) Adding small note that the numbers are Latitude and Longitude in
degrees, and W longitudes are negative (-) numbers will speed things up
for the initially clueless like me. Or let people put in N and W, in
addition.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA
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