GIS
November 2019
November 2019
A few of the activities done September – October – November on Aeronautical Charting, AIM, GIS and PANS OPS
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…
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
GIS
What’s new? Summer 2019
Just a quick post on what has changed during the last few months I no longer work for COCESNA, after 11 years working there I decided to try to make it on my own and I am working as an independent aviation consultant. This has to be probably the most 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?
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…
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
GIS
Postgresql won’t Connect Oh no! [Windows]
So I was running a Postgis instance playing around with Vector Tiles in tegola for visualization and running queries in QGIS to check beforehand and apparently did something to shut the server to the point that even from starting services from Windows wouldn’t help, it would start and then immediately Read more…