News and stories about how FPAssistant is developed and the technologies used to create it
The FPAssistant Suite SDK uses the .NET platform from Microsoft as the developer platform, this is because is free, cross-platform and open source. Here is a link to find out more about .NET. The big release a while back was .NET 5.0 and it seems that Microsoft and the community are releasing .NET on a [...]
Well, a year later and we now have .NET 6.0 developed by the .NET team and community. This is another great step forward for aviation software developers using the FPAssistant Suite SDK as this is fully now supported for .NET 6.0. This release is a unified development platform and as you can see from the [...]
In our world of aviation we get the data in all forms and many different digital formats. To support the most commonly used, the SDK uses: WGS-84 Latitude / Longitude Coordinates with GeoCoordinate and GeoCoordinateBasic Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system (UTM Map Projection) North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) If we are [...]
A few days back the latest build of FPAssistant SDK was added to the NuGet Gallery, it has been a few months and the Dev Team has been working to improve, add new features which some have been requested by users. Further details can be found below. NuGetGallery - FPAssistant SDK JSON - [...]
We got asked the other day for a list of the Target Frameworks supported in the FPAssistant Suite along with future plans; so here is a technical answer, the following Frameworks are supported all as Class Libraries ready to be referenced in Visual Studio or some through NuGet: FPAssistant with Geodetics calculated locally on computer [...]
Further to earlier post here covering the addition to the SDK of the FAA formula for Geodetic distance and destination, these have now been added to the SDK example app. The current version of the App is available for Windows 10 in the Microsoft store. APP showing example calcs Distance : Will calculation [...]
This object has been designed for speed and memory usage to offer a minimal handling of a Latitude and Longitude geographical coordinate, it simply stores the coordinate in the form of decimal Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS) over two properties named Latitude and Longitude. It is cut down and only offers some form of validation [...]
Support is currently being added to objects defined within the SDK to assist in the serialization and deserialization (marshalling and unmarshalling) from JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). This is being done by adding the required attributes to object class/struct member(s) and properties defined by the Microsoft library System.Text.Json. Microsoft describe this library as "Provides high-performance and low-allocating types [...]
.NET 5.0 Overview Yesterday on the 10th November 2020 Microsoft released .NET 5.0 as a major release including C# 9.0 and F# 5.0 along with Visual Studio 16.8. It was only 6 weeks ago that I added a blog on .NET Standard 2.1 and .NET 5.0 Support .NET 5.0 is available now [...]
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 [...]
