News and stories about how FPAssistant is developed and the technologies used to create it
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Further to the blog last year about obstacle evaluation/analysis is seems that users have an abundance of data sources, this data is coming from surveys, satellites and even the USA Space Shuttle did a radar topography mission that obtained digital elevation models. More recently lasers are being used in surveying to create a data-set of [...]
We had a recent request in to calculate the different radii for Visual Manoeuvring based on the ICAO PANS-OPS criteria in Doc. 8168. The definition from Doc. 8168 is explained as follows... "Visual manoeuvring (circling) is the term used to describe the visual phase of flight after completing an instrument approach, which brings an aircraft [...]
Geodetic Calculation Feature Improvement To expand on the existing geodetic capabilities of the FPAssistant Suite SDK and to comply with FAA Order 8260 the GeoCoordinate and GeoCoordinateBasic objects (Structs) now support geodetic calculations based on Appendix A. TERP Standard Formulas for Geodetic Solutions. As documented in the appendix, it states... >> Algorithms and methods are [...]
With the increasing use of electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data (eTOD) there is requirement for fast and effective evaluation of this form of data against 3D surfaces (facets). The FPAssistant SDK will soon offer full support covering the 3 types of obstacles being analysed for intersection on planar and non-planar 3D surfaces. Namespace FpAssistantCore.GeneralAviation.Obstacles There [...]
Development has been continuing of the ARINC 424 Parser and more recently a new user app to present the navigation data in textual and in a graphical form on a map. This new app is known as A424 Explorer and is being created as a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for Windows 10 to be [...]
