News and stories about how FPAssistant is developed and the technologies used to create it
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 [...]
.NET 8.0 Released .NET 8.x is now general available and support has been added to the FPAssistant SDK. Microsoft are releasing .NET currently in a yearly cycle and .NET 9.0 can be expected towards the end of 2024. The support policy for FPAssistant is that the current release and previous two releases will [...]
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 [...]
The FPAssistant SDK now offers a simply way to use the ICAO API Data Service giving you a head start in accessing the data offered by ICAO. It is important to understand that the software developer will still need to license the data access direct from ICAO and provide your 'API KEY', from ICAO, to [...]
A new NOTAM struct has been added to provide support to handle NOTAM's in your own software development apps. A NOTAM can be completely decoded into information to present to the user, this is handled with a series of enums; example There is also an in-built validation to the NOTAM struct that will warn the [...]
Finnair have been using the FPAssistant SDK suite along with the optional ARINC 424 Parser module to develop their own software tool in-house, an insight of the Microsoft Windows app is explained further below by Toni Kivinen who is the manager of Simulator Engineering at Finnair. Finnair Flight Training has been struggled for years to [...]
The following FAA standard formulas with test cases passing have recently been implemented with more to follow. Click on the link to open the FPAssistant SDK documentation. WGS84CrsIntersect - Computes the coordinates where two geodesic curves intersect WGS84Destination - Computes destination point based on course and a static point WGS84Distance - Distance between two points [...]
Developer requested upgrades and news is detailed below but in short the developer team has switched to developing the SDK now using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. This enables host of new features and we are looking at .NET MAUI for support for macOS and mobiles although this is still early stages. .NET 6.0 .NET 6.0 [...]
A support question arrived asking about adding data into a spatial database, as it happens a article was written a while back on LinkedIn. In short, the GeoMapElements (Point, Circle, Line, Polygon, LineString, etc) are easily added to a spatial database using the method AsGeography(). The article describes how data contained in a Excel spreadsheet [...]
