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Revision as of 19:52, 25 May 2020

Flightgear Airports
Developed by Keith Paterson
Initial release 2020
Latest release 0.0.10 (21.05.2020)
OS Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS X
License GNU General Public License
Website

Sidebar

Flightgear Airports is a (free) taxiway editor for FlightGear licensed under the GNU GPL. It is cross-platform, known to work on Windows but should work on all platforms supported by electron. The usage philosophy is not to be file centred, but airport centred.

Properties

Currently selected item can be edited here.

Parking List

Table of all parkings for easy editing.

Search

You can search for airports with ICAO or parts of the name. Only airports with flights are shown. If you want to view another one it will be added when you type the full ICAO.

Check result

Work in Progress

List of edited airports with the possibility to remove after upload.

World view

When zoomed out you will see circles. Their size corresponds with the number of flights. Blue means Ok. Yellow too little parking. Red no groundnet.

Setup

  1. Set directories in settings (bottom left)
    1. Airports Directory - The directory with all/most airports. Must conform to Airports/A/B/C/ABCD.groundnet.xml form.
    2. Flightgear Directory - Flightgear directory. apt.dat and traffic is read from here.
    3. Test Directory - Work in progress can be copied here for test purpose.
  2. Start scans one after the other in sidebar with sync icon.

Overview

FG Airports editing view


Edit Bar

Button with ICAO code opens the Airport data in the edit tab.

FG Airports Menu Bar
  • The top 4 buttons in the button bar are for zooming (+/-/details/large).
  • Upload sends the current airport to groundweb.
  • Edit switches into edit mode
  • Undo undos all changes or all changes during session
  • Save, saves the groundnet
  • Draw taxiline
  • Draw push
  • Add parking
  • Remove element, removes the currently selected element
  • Check triggers the groundnet check.

ToDo / Wishlist

Work item Version Progress
Zoom/Move performance 0.10.0 WIP.png Fixed
Extend properties editing 0.11.0 WIP.png Fixed
Loading Performance (SET_PARKINGS) 0.12.0 Pending Pending
ParkPos Icon Unclear 0.12.0 Pending Pending
Consistent click behaviour 0.11.0 Pending Pending
Layer visibility 0.12.0 Pending Pending
Full Airline names in dropdown 0.12.0 Pending Pending
Import from X-Plane Gateway 0.13.0 Pending Pending
Editing of single airport (without terrasync copy) Pending Pending
Undo Pending Pending