FGAirports
| Developed by | Keith Paterson |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2020 |
| Latest release | 0.0.15 (01 Jul 2020) |
| OS | Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS X |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | |
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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
- Set directories in settings (bottom left)
- Airports Directory - The directory with all/most airports. Must conform to Airports/A/B/C/ABCD.groundnet.xml form.
- Flightgear Directory - Flightgear directory. apt.dat and traffic is read from here.
- Test Directory - Work in progress can be copied here for test purpose.
- Start scans one after the other in sidebar with sync icon.
Overview
Edit Bar
Button with ICAO code opens the Airport data in the edit tab.
- 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 |  Fixed
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| Extend properties editing | 0.11.0 |  Done
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| Consistent click behaviour | 0.11.0 | Done
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| Loading Performance (SET_PARKINGS) | 0.12.0 | Done
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| ParkPos Icon Unclear | 0.14.0 |  Pending
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| Layer visibility | 0.14.0 | Pending
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| Full Airline names in dropdown | 0.14.0 | Pending
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| Import from X-Plane Gateway | 0.14.0 | Pending
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| Editing of single airport (without terrasync copy) | Pending
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| Undo | Pending
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