News about FPAssistant covering both the user app and the SDK used by developers
The dev team have recently added an example app that display the data within a ARINC 424 navigation database file. The app is written using Microsoft Visual Studio targeting Windows OS using .NET 8.x and the Windows App SDK. The app has a split pane and will display the ARINC 424 records in a tree [...]
A quick look back of this year 2023... FPAssistant Suite SDK Work has progressed this year on the SDK but not so much on adding new features but improving existing functionality in the areas of code along with hardware and OS support. Support to access the ICAO Data Service API using minimal code and returning [...]
To assistant in helping developers use the FPAssistant SDK we now have a home page on GitHub. This will be place to find demo apps and examples for existing customers and those who looking at using the SDK in their aviation application. FPAssistant home page on GitHub This can be found on GitHub by [...]
Here is a good blog written by Antonio Locandro who used FPAssistant App to create a ICAO PANS-OPS Basic ILS set of surfaces and then imported into QGIS and then exported as 3D KML for display in Google Earth. This shows workflows of what can be achieved using free tools. Click here to read the [...]
Further to earlier post here covering the addition to the SDK of the FAA formula for Geodetic distance and destination, these have now been added to the SDK example app. The current version of the App is available for Windows 10 in the Microsoft store. APP showing example calcs Distance : Will calculation [...]
To assist further with your calculation covering RNP AR from both FAA and ICAO (9905) the API for RNP AR has been extended to expose the underlying calculations covering the sources of variation and the bias errors for MOC. The sources of variation include: Actual Navigation Performance Error (ANPE) Waypoint PRecision error (WPR) Flight Technical [...]
Recently calculations based on the ICAO RNP AR document 9905 were added as an RNP Class to the SDK; click here for further details. To start with this includes the FAP and temperature calculations. As a demo and for testing purposes, an RNP AR page has been added to the app along with a map [...]
GML - Support added to the SDK There are now further methods added to the GeoMapElement business objects to assist in the output to GML. But first, what is GML? The explanation on WikipediA is... >> The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical [...]
A new version of the App has been released and added to the Microsoft store today, this version had two areas for improvement and updates. Firstly, GML support has recently been added to the FPAssistant Suite SDK and this allows for GML files to be created easily from the GeoMapElements objects. The feature has been added [...]
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 [...]
