European AIS Database
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Sorry. I didn't actually bother to read anything before I went and downloaded the first thing in sight.
Assume I want a system that allows you to plan routes on your home PC, upload it to a GPS-capable palmtop, track your position on aero charts, and get in-flight information about various ATZs you are flying through and altitude changes you must make, etc. based upon your actual position rather than your planned route. Unless there is a system I can afford that does all of this, where can I start looking for the data to build my own?
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Assume I want a system that allows you to plan routes on your home PC, upload it to a GPS-capable palmtop, track your position on aero charts, and get in-flight information about various ATZs you are flying through and altitude changes you must make, etc. based upon your actual position rather than your planned route.
The first two you can do with various software, Navbox (www.navbox.nl) is a good start. As this is a single-user app, there are some issues you've got to watch with transferring planned routes from one PC to another, so planning the route on the actual laptop is a better idea. (There is a Pocket/PC version too)
The rest (position tracking, airspace info), well you get that to varying degrees with any moving map GPS from Garmin, Skyforce, etc. But AFAIK the only solution which displays the official CAA charts on the moving map is a PDA-based product called Memory Map; it may run on a windoze laptop also, I don't know.
I hope this is what you meant! It isn't relevant to the AIS database, which needs internet access, and there is no easy way to do that while airborne (GSM only works at very low levels and sporadically at best, and is probably illegal to use) but you could probably do it using satellite internet access!!!
Assume I want a system that allows you to plan routes on your home PC, upload it to a GPS-capable palmtop, track your position on aero charts, and get in-flight information about various ATZs you are flying through and altitude changes you must make, etc. based upon your actual position rather than your planned route.
The first two you can do with various software, Navbox (www.navbox.nl) is a good start. As this is a single-user app, there are some issues you've got to watch with transferring planned routes from one PC to another, so planning the route on the actual laptop is a better idea. (There is a Pocket/PC version too)
The rest (position tracking, airspace info), well you get that to varying degrees with any moving map GPS from Garmin, Skyforce, etc. But AFAIK the only solution which displays the official CAA charts on the moving map is a PDA-based product called Memory Map; it may run on a windoze laptop also, I don't know.
I hope this is what you meant! It isn't relevant to the AIS database, which needs internet access, and there is no easy way to do that while airborne (GSM only works at very low levels and sporadically at best, and is probably illegal to use) but you could probably do it using satellite internet access!!!
