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
If you will publish digital obstacles it is better if they can be directly ingested by any GIS software
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
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?
Yesterday while I was checking out the QGIS tag in twitter I noticed something about not being able to work with snapping, so I decided to create a short screencast on how to enable snapping QGIS Snapping Video on Vimeo
So I work in aviation and the big buzz over the last years (practically the last decade) is something called AIXM or Aeronautical Information Exchange Model, basically its a standardized format so that data can be exchanged (free??) between different aviation sectors. It is based on XML and GML and Read more
QGIS is a very nice GIS open source software that I have been playing a lot lately. I think it is getting really good specially the new development version QGIS 2.0. Everyday I use ARCGISAdvanced 10.0 at work and when I switch to fool around with QGIS I try to do some Read more