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
AIM
Test using HTML & CSS rendering in QGIS
Test using HTML & CSS rendering in QGIS for aviation charting
AIM
ENR Obstacles from AIP – 100m AGL
Quick post on ENR Obstacles, I am preparing a course where we need to design several parts of an instrument flight procedure and I usually start with the minimum sector altitudes (MSA) To calculate these we need to do a 25NM radius around a significant point, ARP or HRP, in Read more…
Aviation
Obstacle outside of protection area awesome lower minimums – Not really!
One of the key things when doing procedure design is to remember that obstacles are not points, we get a lot of them just as surveyed positions but they actually have an area. Following image illustrates obstacles that by their position are out but reality is those blades are inside Read more…
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…
Aviation
NOTAM checklist common errors
A few of the most common mistakes on the NOTAM checklist format for peers to review and improve the information they are sending
AIM
Global AIM 2018 – My notes on it
This year I was lucky enough to get approved to attend Global AIM at Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana. The last conference I attended what the one at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 where I gave a talk Towards AIXM & Electronic Chart Implementation (youtube video, slides). A lot has changed since Read more…