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To assist further with your calculation covering RNP AR from both FAA and ICAO (9905) the API for RNP AR has been extended to expose the underlying calculations covering the sources of variation and the bias errors for MOC. The sources of variation include: Actual Navigation Performance Error (ANPE) Waypoint PRecision error (WPR) Flight Technical [...]
Recently I wrote about .NET Standard 2.1 support for FPAssistant Suite SDK and this has now been completed. This means that the following SDK deliverables are available for download or by request: Windows Class Library 32-bit/64-bit for Intel Windows Class Library 32-bit/64-bit for ARM Portable Class Library (PCL) [Not all API's available] .NET Standard 2.0 [...]
Part 1 - Testing the calculations and internals Testing software is a very important part of the development process and this can be broken down into two areas, firstly the internal calculations, database queries and procedures (Part 1) and secondly the User Interface (UI) making sure that the results and UI are working as designed [...]
The API documentation for FPAssistant Suite SDK is available on the web at the following URL: http://api.fpassistant.com/ This contains documentation for developers as well as articles to assist in using the product. API Documentation Website A few people have recently asked 'how this is produced?', being developers we like to make it easy and automatic! [...]
Recently calculations based on the ICAO RNP AR document 9905 were added as an RNP Class to the SDK; click here for further details. To start with this includes the FAP and temperature calculations. As a demo and for testing purposes, an RNP AR page has been added to the app along with a map [...]
GML - Support added to the SDK There are now further methods added to the GeoMapElement business objects to assist in the output to GML. But first, what is GML? The explanation on WikipediA is... >> The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical [...]
A while back Microsoft announced .NET Standard 2.1 (here) this was about a year after 2.0 and towards the end of this year (2020) .NET 5 will be available as an early release for developers, I will not go into the importance of .NET 5 now and leave that for another blog post. FPAssistant SDK [...]
A new version of the App has been released and added to the Microsoft store today, this version had two areas for improvement and updates. Firstly, GML support has recently been added to the FPAssistant Suite SDK and this allows for GML files to be created easily from the GeoMapElements objects. The feature has been added [...]
Spatial data can be found in most parts of aviation and represents information about a physical location defined by different geometric shapes. The physical location is normally held in a WGS-84 geographical coordinate Latitude and Longitude; this is a round-earth coordinate system in fact an ellipsoid. Some countries do use their own country based projection [...]
