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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This object has been designed for speed and memory usage to offer a minimal handling of a Latitude and Longitude geographical coordinate, it simply stores the coordinate in the form of decimal Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS) over two properties named Latitude and Longitude. It is cut down and only offers some form of validation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just added are the 3 calculations from 8260 Volume 3 covering the RNAV and RNP 1 Departures, these are: Projected Altitude VA Segment Distance VA Segment Termination Altitude ROC, CG and Climb Gradient Termination Altitude These are available in the SDK and coming very soon to the Windows 10 App SDK Usage PbnCalculations pbnCalclations = [...]
