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Bulk Obstacle Evaluation / Analysis Feature for large datasets

Further to the blog last year about obstacle evaluation/analysis is seems that users have an abundance of data sources, this data is coming from surveys, satellites and even the USA Space Shuttle did a radar topography mission that obtained digital elevation models. More recently lasers are being used in surveying to create a data-set of [...]

2020-02-06T13:34:06+00:00February 6th, 2020|FPAssistant SDK/API News|

Tech View into 2020

2020 has now arrived and I have just been attending "Microsoft Ignite The Tour" in London which was quite interesting in many ways. The agenda, as expected, presented a lot of cloud based tech around Azure. One area I would like to investigate this year is the use of 'Containers" and Docker seems one of [...]

2020-01-17T11:10:22+00:00January 17th, 2020|General News|

Tech Review of 2019

Looking back at my Tech View of 2019 it seems a little quiet on what I expected to see appearing, below are my thoughts of 2019 and soon I would like to post what might or might not happening in 2020. From Microsoft Windows Core OS - This new version of Windows did not really [...]

2019-12-02T12:19:41+00:00December 2nd, 2019|General News|

API & App: ICAO Visual Manoeuvring (circling area)

We had a recent request in to calculate the different radii for Visual Manoeuvring based on the ICAO PANS-OPS criteria in Doc. 8168. The definition from Doc. 8168 is explained as follows... "Visual manoeuvring (circling) is the term used to describe the visual phase of flight after completing an instrument approach, which brings an aircraft [...]

2019-11-15T12:25:06+00:00November 15th, 2019|FPAssistant App News, FPAssistant SDK/API News|

API: FAA Geodetic Calcs for TERPS API added to SDK

Geodetic Calculation Feature Improvement To expand on the existing geodetic capabilities of the FPAssistant Suite SDK and to comply with FAA Order 8260 the GeoCoordinate and GeoCoordinateBasic objects (Structs) now support geodetic calculations based on Appendix A. TERP Standard Formulas for Geodetic Solutions. As documented in the appendix, it states... >> Algorithms and methods are [...]

2019-10-07T14:45:50+00:00October 7th, 2019|FPAssistant SDK/API News, General News|

Obstacle Evaluation / Analysis Feature

With the increasing use of electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data (eTOD) there is requirement for fast and effective evaluation of this form of data against 3D surfaces (facets). The FPAssistant SDK will soon offer full support covering the 3 types of obstacles being analysed for intersection on planar and non-planar 3D surfaces. Namespace FpAssistantCore.GeneralAviation.Obstacles There [...]

2019-06-10T13:08:07+00:00June 10th, 2019|FPAssistant App News, FPAssistant SDK/API News|

ARINC 424 Parser – Update 1

Good progress has been made on the Parser with API support for the ARINC 424 records list below, the data is accessed through an data object returning collections of records with fields/properties. A unit test framework has been added so that further tests can be added for checking ARINC 424 validation rules and other constraints. [...]

2019-01-07T14:35:24+00:00January 7th, 2019|FPAssistant SDK/API News|

Tech View into 2019

The end of 2018 is coming and the start of a new year will bring some new technology both hardware and software, so I hope. Here are a few topics that I'm looking to see and do during 2019. From Microsoft Windows Core OS The launch of the latest Windows version known as Windows Core [...]

2018-12-21T15:18:11+00:00December 21st, 2018|General News|