News and stories about how FPAssistant is developed and the technologies used to create it

SDK: FPAssistant demo apps hosting on GitHub

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 [...]

SDK: Using the ICAO API Data Service in two lines of code

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 [...]

2023-04-16T13:11:38+00:00April 16th, 2023|FPAssistant SDK/API News, General News|

SDK: NOTAM support being added

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 [...]

2023-03-27T14:34:03+00:00March 27th, 2023|FPAssistant SDK/API News, General News|

Spotlight: Finnair Develop Flight Simulator Tool for ARINC 424 Navigation Data

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 [...]

2022-08-29T14:38:36+00:00August 29th, 2022|FPAssistant SDK/API News, General News|

API: TERPS Standard Formulas for Geodetic Calculations (8260.58)

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 [...]

2022-08-28T00:55:00+00:00August 28th, 2022|FPAssistant SDK/API News|

SDK: .NET 6.0 Support with Microsoft system updates

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 [...]

2022-06-11T15:19:47+00:00June 11th, 2022|FPAssistant SDK/API News, General News|

UK Obstacle Data – QGIS and SQL Azure

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 [...]

2022-05-22T15:08:23+00:00May 22nd, 2022|FPAssistant SDK/API News, General News|

FPAssistant Suite SDK Binaries Options on .NET

The FPAssistant Suite SDK uses the .NET platform from Microsoft as the developer platform, this is because is free, cross-platform and open source. Here is a link to find out more about .NET. The big release a while back was .NET 5.0 and it seems that Microsoft and the community are releasing .NET on a [...]

2022-04-01T12:56:20+00:00April 1st, 2022|FPAssistant SDK/API News, General News|

Microsoft announces .NET 6.0

Well, a year later and we now have .NET 6.0 developed by the .NET team and community. This is another great step forward for aviation software developers using the FPAssistant Suite SDK as this is fully now supported for .NET 6.0. This release is a unified development platform and as you can see from the [...]

2021-11-16T14:46:58+00:00November 16th, 2021|FPAssistant SDK/API News|