AIXM
Aviation Obstacle Data – What’s the deal?
Importance of obstacle data provision, format and update
AIP
PANS OPS, Aeronautical Charting and Aeronautical Information Management Consulting, What I have been doing lately
Consulting life and a quick summary on my first year
AIP
NOTAM Radius of Influence Calculation using QGIS
Quick review on how to calculate the NOTAM radius of influence using QGIS
AIP
What do ICAO regional offices mean by AIXM Interoperability?
I want to know what AIXM interoperability tests are all about according to ICAO regional offices, comments welcome at the blog post
AIM
Are we really doing our jobs as Aeronautical Charting Specialists?
Over the last few weeks I have been preparing material for an upcoming aeronautical charting course to be delivered this 2020. It is a lot of reading of different ICAO SARPs between annexes and documents due to the nature of the data we are using, as such I started thinking Read more…
AIP
Magnetic variation updates and calculation of isogonals (magnetic isolines) for aviation charts
Brief almost tutorial of how to generate isogonals, you can trim a bit of the procedure but I left it just for completeness which may be useful in other situations
AIP
UK ENR Obstacles in XLS but no easy digest
If you will publish digital obstacles it is better if they can be directly ingested by any GIS software
AIXM
NOTAM – Radius of Influence
So after talking a little bit about the issues with NOTAM checklists (thanks to Hatem Jaouadi and Jan-Ove Digernes (JOD) for additional comments) now I want to discuss another thing that is important and that in many NOTAM offices in the world are struggling to deal with, this is the Read more…
AIXM
Making an Instrument Approach Chart using QGIS (Aeronautical Charting) – Part I
usually one of the things when I travel to provide instruction in the AIM domain or PANS OPS is the recurrent complain about people about how expensive the tools are to be able to make charts. QGIS has just made a huge new release QGIS 3 which is very powerful and feature rich, I can say in some areas it is now ahead of the paid stuff but can it be used for Aeronautical Charting?
AIP
5 Practical Tips Transitioning to AIXM 5.1 Database and AIM software in general
Tips to transition to AIXM 5.1 DB and AIM software in general also https://soundcloud.com/aim101