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	<bookinfo>
		<title>GNU/Linux Aviation HOWTO</title>
		<subtitle>Flying with GNU/Linux</subtitle>

		<authorgroup>
			<author>
				<firstname>Nicolas</firstname>
				<surname>Dufour</surname>
				<affiliation>
					<address><email>nicolas.dufour@nemoworld.info</email></address>
				</affiliation>
				<contrib>Current author of this document.</contrib>
			</author>
			<author>
				<firstname>John</firstname>
				<surname>Petterson</surname>
				<affiliation>
					<address><email>jcp@eskimo.com</email></address>
				</affiliation>
				<contrib>Original author since 2000 from version 1.0 to 1.5.</contrib>
			</author>
		</authorgroup>

		<abstract>
			<para>
				This document is intended to provide pointers to software packages
				that run under GNU/Linux and are usefull to pilots (private, commercial or military),
				airlines, airports or any actors in the aeronautical domain. I want
				to encourage everybody to contribute to this document, either by providing
				pointers to existing software, or by writing new application for GNU/Linux.
			</para>
		</abstract>

	</bookinfo>

	<preface><title>Introduction</title>

		<para>The business and sport of aviation is about as mission critical as any human endeavor gets. Pilots have an implicit expectation for their aircraft to be well designed, ergonomic, predictable, reliable, and safe to operate. Certificated aircraft are designed and built to engineering and quality standards that far exceed those of <emphasis>any</emphasis> other consumer product.  In my opinion, any computing environment used for aviation related applications should meet similar high standards. I also believe that the open software development model and the GNU/Linux operating system is the computing environment with the greatest potential to meet such high standards.</para>

		<para>This document is intended to provide pointers to software packages that run under GNU/Linux and are usefull to pilots (private, commercial or military), airlines, airports or any actors in the aeronautical domain. Most of the software packages mentioned in this release are freely distributable, and come with source code. However, I will gladly include entries for commercial products from any vendors who are GNU/Linux friendly.</para>

		<para>My own personal interests center around air traffic flow management since I have worked almost 4 years for Eurocontrol providing simulations to increase the safety and effeciency in the european sky. I wanted to be pilot, but with my color-blindness I have a bit abadon it. I know work for both USA and Europe world of traffic management, and it's exciting to see the difference and the history which created those.</para>

		<para>Each of the software pointers in this document consists of a brief description of the software, information on who wrote it, where to find it, and user comments in some cases. In the interest of brevity, I did not include explicit pointers to source code or binaries when they are available through reasonably obvious links on the software's home page.</para>

		<section><title>Audience</title>
			<para>
				This document is written for all actors in aeronautic domain :
				pilots (private or pro), airlines, airports, <acronym>ATC</acronym> entities, etc.
			</para>
		</section>

		<section><title>Revision History</title>
			<para>
				<revhistory id="revhistory">
					<revision>
						<revnumber>2.2</revnumber>
						<date>2006-09-27</date>
						<authorinitials>nd</authorinitials>
						<revremark>Updates and new applications added.</revremark>
					</revision>
					<revision>
						<revnumber>2.1</revnumber>
						<date>2006-03-13</date>
						<authorinitials>nd</authorinitials>
						<revremark>Updates and new applications added.</revremark>
					</revision>
					<revision>
						<revnumber>2.0</revnumber>
						<date>2005-05-21</date>
						<authorinitials>nd</authorinitials>
						<revremark>New release and rewriting of the whole document.</revremark>
					</revision>
					<revision>
						<revnumber>1.5</revnumber>
						<date>2005-01-15</date>
						<authorinitials>jp</authorinitials>
						<revremark>Added new entries for the Gpsdrive, GPLIGC, JFlight, and KFlog packages.
							Five years between updates is rather ridiculous, time to turn this HOWTO
							over to someone with more time!</revremark>
					</revision>
					<revision>
						<revnumber>1.4</revnumber>
						<date>2000-10-14</date>
						<authorinitials>jp</authorinitials>
						<revremark>Added a new entry for the AirLog logbook package. Added some additional
							references to the section on embedded hardware, as well as a short blurb
							about the availability of GNU/Linux for the iPaq handheld. Updated the
							contact information for the author, (new e-mail address).</revremark>
					</revision>
					<revision>
						<revnumber>1.3</revnumber>
						<date></date>
						<authorinitials>jp</authorinitials>
						<revremark>Added a small section on hardware, mostly pointers to other resources.
							I also added entries for several newly discovered packages;
							Gpsd, GPSMan, and JEEPS.</revremark>
					</revision>
					<revision>
						<revnumber>1.2</revnumber>
						<date></date>
						<authorinitials>jp</authorinitials>
						<revremark>I added some new and more focused application categories. For some of
							them, I added pointers to other information resources that address issues
							related to that particular application area, but from a more generic,
							and non-Linux specific perspective. Also added entries for several newly
							discovered software packages.  I removed the references to the Linux
							Documentation Project, the maintainers never responded in any way to my
							request to add this document to the archive?</revremark>
					</revision>
					<revision>
						<revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
						<date></date>
						<authorinitials>jp</authorinitials>
						<revremark>Added information about the linux-aviation mailing list.
							Some minor changes in grammar, as well as a whole bunch of corrections
							to my consistent abuse of punctuation. Thanks to my good friend David
							Moore for these corrections.</revremark>
					</revision>
					<revision>
						<revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
						<date></date>
						<authorinitials>jp</authorinitials>
						<revremark>First public release.</revremark>
					</revision>
				</revhistory>
			</para>
		</section>

		<section><title>Contributions</title>
			<para>Thanks to John C. Peterson the original author of this document and for his support.</para>
		</section>

		<section><title>Feedback</title>
			<para>Missing information, missing links, missing characters?  Mail it to the maintainer of this document: <address><email>nicolas.dufour@nemoworld.info</email></address></para>
		</section>

		<section><title>Copyright information</title>
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			<para>
				This document, <emphasis>GNU/Linux Aviation HOWTO</emphasis>,
				is copyrighted (c) 2005-2006 by <link linkend="about">Nicolas Dufour</link>.
			</para>
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				Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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				License, Version 1.1 or any later version published
				by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
				with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.
				A copy of the license is available at
				<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">
					http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html</ulink>.
			</para>

			<para>
				Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
			</para>
			<para>
				Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc.
			</para>
		</section>

	</preface>

	<toc></toc>

	<chapter><title>Flight</title>

		<sect1><title>Planning</title>

			<sect2><title>fplan</title>

				<para>The fplan application is designed to assist general aviation pilots in
					creating flight plans for cross country flights in powered aircraft.
					It reads a planfile containing a description of the flight: departure
					and destination airports, navigation aids, intermediate waypoints, winds
					aloft, fuel consumption rates, and produces a flight plan including
					wind corrected magnetic headings, distance, estimated time and fuel
					consumption for each leg, latitude, longitude and <xref linkend="vor"/> fixes for each
					checkpoint, etc. A graphical preview of the flight is available on
					systems with X11 Windows and the XView Toolkit.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Steve Tynor</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Maintainer</emphasis>: John C. Peterson <email>jcp@eskimo.com</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 1.4.2, 1999/05/01</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/fplan/">http://www.ibiblio.org/fplan/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of fplan -->

			<sect2><title>Flight Navigation Planner</title>
				<para>Flight Navigation Planner lets you make flight plans based on known airports, navaids, fixes, or cities. You can use the sectional charts, wacs, or the vector/terrain planning charts. It calculates headings, winds, time, and fuel. It features Airways-based Auto-Routing, Climb and Descent calculations (a/c type based), Fuel Stop Planning, Auto-Route around MOAS and Restricted Airspace, Hi-Res Weather Radar Overlay, Viewing of current sectional, wac, and IFR charts, the ability to see a route over TFRs, detailed nexrad radar overlays over your routes, Terrain Profiles with cloud ceilings, and the ability to upload flight plans to GPS.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: rvsc</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 104, 2004/03/08</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: Unknown</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://fnp.berlios.de">http://fnp.berlios.de</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of FNP -->

			<sect2><title>FlyWay</title>
				<para>Flyway allows the user to find and enter U.S. waypoints (airports, navaids, and fixes), then it calculates courses, wind corrections, and travel times. Information about the waypoints is provided (including frequencies, elevation, fuel availability, and runway descriptions). The route data can also be used to fill in an editable FAA Flight Plan form, fetch basic weather information from the internet, and display a very rough map.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Doug Bell </para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.4.1, 2005/12/14</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.bellz.org/flyway/">http://www.bellz.org/flyway/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of FlyWay -->

			<sect2><title>OpenFlyers</title>
				<para>OpenFlyers is an aircrafts (airplanes, gliders, ulms, etc.) online booking system opensource for flying clubs and more generally for everyone who need to share one or more aircrafts planification.</para>

				<para>This booking system is based on the PHP language and the MySQL database. It is opensource (under GPL licence) and can be freely downloaded.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: OpenFlyers devteam <email>devteam@openflyers.org</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 1.3.0, 2006/09/06</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://openflyers.org">http://www.bellz.org/flyway/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of OpenFlyers -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of Planning section -->

		<sect1><title>GPS</title>

			<sect2><title>ChartPlotter</title>
				<para>ChartPlotter is a Java based moving map program for use with GPS
					units that support the NMEA communication protocol (the GPGLL sentence).
					ChartPlotter can be used with user scanned charts saved in JPEG format.
					The program transforms a latitude, longitude value to a position on the
					raster image with the help of 2-4 known reference points.</para>
				<para>First on the wish list of things to do is a converter program so
					that we can use charts in the BSB format. As I understand there
					are such programs around but I need to modify the chartplotter
					program so that it can read the output from the converting
					program.</para>

				<para>Second on the wish list is to read GSHHS (Global Self-consistant
					Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines) found somewere at
					www.ngdc.noaa.gov. </para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Rikard and Henrik Bjorkman <email>hb3@eit.se</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.46, September 2005</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.eit.se/chartplotter/">http://www.eit.se/chartplotter/</ulink></para></listitem>
					<listitem>
						<para><emphasis>Roadmap</emphasis>: </para>
						<para>First on the wish list of things to do is a converter program so
							that we can use charts in the BSB format. As I understand there
							are such programs around but I need to modify the chartplotter
							program so that it can read the output from the converting
							program.</para>

						<para>Second on the wish list is to read GSHHS (Global Self-consistant
							Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines) found somewere at
							<ulink url="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/">www.ngdc.noaa.gov</ulink>. </para>
					</listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of ChartPlotter -->

			<sect2><title>GPSd</title>
				<para>gpsd is a service daemon that monitors a GPS attached to a host computer through a serial or USB port, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications (such as navigational and wardriving software) can share access to a GPS without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the NMEA 0183 emitted by most GPSes. The gpsd distribution includes a linkable C service library and a Python module that developers of gpsd-aware applications can use to encapsulate all communication with gpsd.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Eric S. Raymond <email>esr@snark.thyrsus.com</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 2.33, 2006/06/09</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="bsd" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://gpsd.berlios.de/">http://gpsd.berlios.de/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of GPSd -->

			<sect2><title>GpsDrive</title>
				<para>GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays
					your position provided from your NMEA capable GPS receiver on a zoomable
					map, the map file is autoselected depending of the position and prefered
					scale. Speech output is supported if the "festival" software is running.
					The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position
					and can be downloaded from Internet. All Garmin GPS reveiver with a serial
					output should be usable, also other GPS receiver which supports NMEA
					protocol.</para>
				<para>GpsDrive is written in C with use of the GTK+ graphic toolkit and runs
					with Linux and FreeBSD.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>:Friedrich Ganter <email>ganter@ganter.at</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 2.10pre3, 2006/03/10</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.gpsdrive.cc/">http://www.gpsdrive.cc/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of GpsDrive -->

			<sect2><title>GPSMan</title>
				<para>GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical geographic data manager that
					provides a user friendly graphical environment for the preparation,
					inspection and editing of waypoint, route and track data for use in
					GPS receivers. GPSMan supports a variety of derived computations
					such as distance and bearing from one waypoint to another, course
					and distance between waypoints in a track, etc.  GPSMan can make
					cartographic maps to scale, using one of several projections with
					over plotting of waypoint, route and track data. The map can be saved
					in Postscript format for printing. GPSMan is a stand-alone Tcl/Tk
					program that was designed for use at home (as opposed to real-time
					use). GPSMan currently supports communication with both Garmin and
					Lowrance receivers.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Miguel Filgueiras <email>mig@ncc.up.pt</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 6.3.1, 2006/07/25</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/">http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of GPSMan -->

			<sect2><title>Elgaard Positioning System</title>
				<para>The Elgaard Positioning System is a Java based application designed
					for use with GPS receivers. It provides an interface capability:
					tracks can be saved from units with NMEA format output.  For units
					that support the proprietary Garmin protocol, EPS can upload and
					download waypoints, routes, and tracks. It can also display user
					scanned charts with interactive zooming, scrolling, over plotting of
					tracks, and can compute distances and speeds. EPS runs on any platform
					with a JVM compatible with the 1.1 version of the Java API.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Niels Elgaard Larsen</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.9.2beta, 2003/02/07</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://eps.sourceforge.net/">http://eps.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of Elgaard Positioning System -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of GPS section -->

		<sect1><title>Soaring</title>

			<sect2><title>GPLIGC</title>
				<para>
					GPLIGC is an application licensed under the GNU General Public License for
					the analysis of IGC data files, such as those produced by the GNSS flight
					data recorder. (Downloading of the data from logger devices and/or conversion
					to IGC format has to be done with other software). GPLIGC can compute
					a variety of statistics such as thermal climb rates and glide ratios.
					Plotting of raw data or derived statistics is done through the
					Gnuplot application.</para>

				<para>
					Also included in the distribution is openGLIGCexplorer, an openGL
					application for visualization of flight tracks in 3 dimensions against
					a shaded terrain map (assuming digital elevation data is available).</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Hannes Kr&uuml;ger <email>Hannes.Krueger@uibk.ac.at</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 1.5, 2005/06/14</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://pc12-c714.uibk.ac.at/GPLIGC/GPLIGC.php">http://pc12-c714.uibk.ac.at/GPLIGC/GPLIGC.php</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of GPLIGC section -->

			<sect2><title>IGCview</title>

				<para>IGCview is a Java application designed for soaring pilots
					who want to display and analyze GPS log files in the
					<ulink url="http://www.fai.org/gliding/">FAI IGC</ulink>
					or Gardown formats. Both formats contain simple ASCII records of time
					stamped latitude and longitude values. The IGC format also contains
					altitude information (pressure and/or GPS) and the task (route). IGCview
					can also import Gardown format files and export them in IGC format.</para>

				<para>The program is oriented wholly towards looking at the GPS log traces
					produced by glider flights. You can examine other traces, but the analysis
					will not be particularly useful. It can compute quantities such as: start
					to finish, average task and individual leg speeds, climb rates, L/D,
					etc. It can also read and compare multiple flights in detail making it
					a very useful learning tool for cross country and competition oriented
					soaring pilots.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Ian Forster-Lewis <email>igcview@forsterlewis.com</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 3.12, 2003/04/24</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: Freely Distribuable</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.forsterlewis.com/soaring/igcview/igcview_home.html">http://www.forsterlewis.com/soaring/igcview/igcview_home.html</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of IGCview section -->

			<sect2><title>JFlight</title>

				<para>JFlight is a Java based application developed for Hang-glider and
					Para-glider pilots to assist with pre-flight task planning and post-flight
					analysis of GPS, Barogram, Vario data. (It should prove useful to full
					scale glider pilots as well). The flightbook feature provides a mechanism
					for waypoint and route management. Flight tracks can be viewed on a
					simple display.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: R&uuml;diger Bien <email>ruedbi@users.sourceforge.net</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.9, 2003/07/16</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://jflight.sourceforge.net/">http://jflight.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of JFlight section -->

			<sect2><title>KFLog</title>
				<para> KFLog is an OpenSource program aimed at glider pilots. It gives You a powerfull tool to plan You flight tasks and analyse Your flights afterwards.</para>

				<para>KFLog is the only flight analyser program available for GNU/Linux to be recognized by the <ulink url="http://www.fai.org/gliding/">FAI IGC</ulink>.</para>

				<para>KFLog projects the flights on a digital vectormap, that contains not only airfields and airspaces, but a complete elevation-map, roads, cities, rivers, and lots of other interesting objects.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para>
							<emphasis>Authors</emphasis>:
							<itemizedlist>
								<listitem><para>Heiner Lamprecht <email>heiner@kflog.org</email></para></listitem>
								<listitem><para>Florian Ehinger <email>florian@kflog.org</email></para></listitem>
							</itemizedlist>
					</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 2.1.1, 2003/07/17</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>:<ulink url="http://www.kflog.org/">http://www.kflog.org/</ulink> </para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of KFLog section -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of Soaring section -->

		<sect1><title>Analyzis and Logbook</title>

			<sect2><title>Airlog</title>

				<para>Airlog is a flight logging system designed to meet the unique needs
					of glider pilots and students. The Java based client allows multiple
					users to access a common database (interface drivers are provided for
					the Instant DB, PostgreSQL, and Oracle database systems). Referential
					integrity is used to insure valid data.  When multi user functionality
					is enabled, user access to the common database is authenticated using
					a login, password form that is presented at startup.</para>

				<para>Airlog also supports searches of the common database, as well as a
					report generation capability. The "Training Barometer" and "Speed Input"
					reports are designed to assist both instructors and students in the
					training process.  A "Fit for Flight, Instruction" report is planned
					for a future release.</para>

				<para>Airlog was developed in Denmark with an emphasis on Danish regulations,
					but was localized from the ground up. Other languages can be supported
					by simply providing a "message text catalog" for the desired language
					(catalogs are provided for both Danish and English).</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Authors</emphasis>:
							<itemizedlist>
								<listitem><para>Ken Andersen <email>kentan@get2net.dk</email></para></listitem>
								<listitem><para>Frederik Hansen <email>roirex@users.sourceforge.net</email></para></listitem>
								<listitem><para>Steve Brown <email>delancie@users.sourceforge.net</email></para></listitem>
							</itemizedlist>
					</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: alpha-0.53-2, 2000/11/25</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://airlog.sourceforge.net/">http://airlog.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of AirLog -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of Logbook section -->

		<sect1><title>Weather</title>

			<sect2><title>pyRadar</title>

				<para>pyRadar is retrieves and displays radar images from NOAA's NEXRAD radar stations, which are located around the United States and its territories. These images are released into the public domain on behalf of the American public.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Authors</emphasis>: John Diaz</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.4, 2005/08/22</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://pyradar.sourceforge.net/">http://pyradar.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of pyRadar -->

			<sect2><title>WeatherCheck</title>

				<para>WeatherCheck is a program that uses Java Swing to prompt for a US zip code and display the local forecast from the National Weather Service. It also provides the extended forecast and dBZ radar information.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Authors</emphasis>: Teri Solow</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.5, 2002/08/10</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.terisolow.com/programs.php#WeatherCheck">http://www.terisolow.com/programs.php#WeatherCheck</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of WeatherCheck -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of Weather -->

	</chapter> <!-- end of chapter Flight -->

	<chapter><title>Airline</title>
		<para>To be completed.</para>
	</chapter> <!-- end of chapter Airline -->

	<chapter><title>Airport</title>

		<sect1><title>SMS</title>
			<para>The Surface Management System (SMS) increases shared situational awareness of airport surface operations between the Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT), the Ramp Tower, the air carriers that operate at an airport, and the various airport authorities and other ATC facilities. By increasing situational awareness and providing tools for airport surface traffic management, SMS improves the efficiency and flexibility of airport surface operations.</para>
			<itemizedlist>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Metron Aviation Inc. <email>bizdevelopment@metronaviation.com</email></para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: Unknown</para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: Commercial</para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.metronaviation.com/sms_overview.php">http://www.metronaviation.com/sms_overview.php</ulink></para></listitem>
			</itemizedlist>

		</sect1> <!-- end of SMS -->

	</chapter> <!-- end of Airport chapter -->

	<chapter><title>Simulation</title>

		<sect1><title>Flight Simulators</title>

			<sect2><title>FlightGear</title>

				<para>The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.</para>

				<para>The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Curtis L. Olson <email>curt0001@flightgear.org</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.9.10, 2006/04/05</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.flightgear.org/">http://www.flightgear.org/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of FlightGear -->

			<sect2><title>X-Plane</title>

				<para>X-Plane is a flight simulator that reads in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figures out how that aircraft will fly. It does this via an engineering process called "blade element theory", which involves breaking the aircraft down into many small elements and then finding the forces on each little element many times per second. These forces are then converted into accelerations, which are then integrated to velocities and positions. This gives X-Plane the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Austin Meyer <email>austin@x-plane.com</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 8.50 RC1, 2006/08/21</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: Proprietary with Free Trial</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://x-plane.com/">http://x-plane.com/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of X-Plane -->

			<sect2><title>JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model</title>

				<para>JSBSim is an object-oriented (C++), multi-platform, 6-DOF, Flight Dynamics Model (FDM). It can be run as a standalone, batch-mode flight simulator (no graphical displays), or integrated with FlightGear or other flight simulator.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Jon S. Berndt <email>jsb@hal-pc.org</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.9.9, 2005/08/10</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/">http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model -->

			<sect2><title>IFT</title>

				<para>IFT is a small flight simulator written for the purpose of training
					pilots not experienced in instrument flight. It includes a couple of
					VOR and NDB stations and displays. These can be used to exercise basic
					radio navigation skills.</para>

				<para>It's made and tested on GNU/Linux, but it should work on all Unices,
					since all it uses is the X11 library.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Sukru Cinar <email>vantadu@email.com</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 1.0, 2005/07/22</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://geocities.com/cinarus/IFT.txt">http://geocities.com/cinarus/IFT.txt</ulink></para></listitem>

				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of IFT -->

		</sect1>

		<sect1><title>Navigation Helps</title>

			<sect2><title>Atlas</title>

				<para>Atlas aims to produce and display high quality charts of the world for users of FlightGear, an open source flight simulator. This is achieved through two main parts: The map creator (simply called Map) and the Atlas viewer.</para>
				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: David Luff <email>daveluff@users.sourceforge.net</email> </para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.3.0, 2005/07/28</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://atlas.sourceforge.net/">http://atlas.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of Atlas -->

			<sect2><title>OpenGC</title>

				<para>OpenGC is a multi-platform, multi-simulator, open-source C++ tool for developing and implementing high quality glass cockpit displays for simulated flightdecks. Our goal is simple: support all widely available flight simulators, all widely available operating systems, and provide a selection of gauges that mirrors the diversity of interests within the flightsimming community. I hope you enjoy OpenGC, and encourage you to contribute in any way possible!</para>
				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Damion Shelton <email>damion@opengc.org</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.57, 2006/04/24</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="bsd" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.opengc.org/">http://www.opengc.org/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of OpenGC -->

			<sect2><title>A340GC</title>

				<para>The Glass Cockpit Library (libGC) is created for the Airbus A340 Glass Cockpit (a340gc) which is an Open Source project. The a340gc project is part of the Airbus A340 simulator project of the IRADIS Foundation. The goal of libGC and a340gc is to create a free framework that can be used to build a glass cockpit upon.</para>
				<para>This is only a part of a bigger project carried by Iradis to create a realistic A340 cockpit with a full view. See this <ulink url="http://www.iradis.org/">website</ulink> for more details.</para>
				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Iradis <email>info@iradis.fat.org</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.3, 2002/05/19</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: <xref linkend="gpl" /></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://a340gc.iradis.org/">http://a340gc.iradis.org/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of A340GC -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of navigation helps -->

		<sect1><title>Others</title>

			<sect2><title>Tim's Air Navigation Simulator</title>

				<para>This is a Java applet that simulates the operation of <xref linkend="adf" /> and <xref linkend="vor" />
					instruments. A canvas shows the position of a hypothetical aircraft and
					two ground based navigational aids, (which can be dragged to arbitrary
					positions with the mouse). The instrument display shows what the pilot
					would see in the corresponding situation. The applet code is available
					for download if you want to install it on your own machine.</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: Tim Carlson <email>mim@visi.com</email></para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 19981015, 1998/10/15</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: Freely Distribuable</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav/index.html">http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav/index.html</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>

			</sect2> <!-- end of Tim's Air Navigation Simulator -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of others -->

	</chapter> <!-- end of Simulation chapter -->

	<chapter><title>Training</title>

		<sect1><title>PilotPal</title>

			<para>PilotPal is a Java applet designed to assist (student) pilots studying
				for the US <xref linkend="faa"/> written examinations. The latest version provides
				study questions for both the Private Pilot and Instrument examinations.
				If you don't have a high bandwidth connection to the Internet, you may
				want to download the applet and install it on your own machine.</para>

			<itemizedlist>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: PilotPal.com <email>info@pilotpal.com</email></para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 2006/08/23</para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: Freely Distributable</para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.pilotpal.com/">http://www.pilotpal.com/</ulink></para></listitem>
			</itemizedlist>

		</sect1> <!-- end of PilotPal section -->

		<sect1><title>NeoKit</title>

			<para>Description:
				<itemizedlist mark='opencircle'>
					<listitem><para>NeoKit &copy; is a Computer Based Training environment dedicated to initial training to Air Traffic Control and Management software,</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>The NeoKit &copy; tools covers the whole training cycle: scenarios preparation, dynamic and interactive training with Record and Replay capabilities and customizable reporting tool for analysis and debriefing,</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>NeoKit &copy; is developped on the Java platform environment and is so fully interoperable on any operating system (GNU/Linux, Windows, etc.),</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>Specific plugins dedicated to other Business Domain (e.g. Marine, Military) are easy to develop through the complete set of the Java APIs of NeoKit &copy;.</para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</para>
			<para>Features:
				<itemizedlist mark='opencircle'>
					<listitem><para>Computer Based Training tool.</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>Lightweight <xref linkend="atc"/> and <xref linkend="atm"/> simulation platform.</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>Distributed event-based discret simulation engine.</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>MCQ-SQC dialog engine.</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>Custom reporting for trainee progress tracking.</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>Java based.</para></listitem>
					<listitem><para>XML data input and output.</para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</para>
			<para></para>
			<itemizedlist>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Author</emphasis>: NeoSYS <email>info@neosys.fr</email></para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Latest release</emphasis>: 0.4, Jan 2004</para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Copyright</emphasis>: Commercial</para></listitem>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.neosys.fr/neokit">http://www.neosys.fr/neokit</ulink></para></listitem>
			</itemizedlist>

		</sect1> <!-- end of NeoKit section -->

	</chapter> <!-- end of Training chapter -->

	<chapter><title>Data sources</title>
		<para>Data sources are of course more important that the tools you can use. And specially the quality of those data.</para>
		<para>We can classify two big types of data here :</para>
		<itemizedlist>
			<listitem>
				<para><emphasis>Environment data</emphasis></para>
				<para>Data which dont change often like airport position (even if I have see airport jumps in data sometimes ;-). It's called also static or semi-static data.</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para><emphasis>Dynamic data</emphasis></para>
				<para>Data which change very often like flight position or traffic load in a controlled sector.</para>
			</listitem>
		</itemizedlist>
		<para>Usually, the second type is computed with the help of the first one, so it's very important to take care of the accuracy of the environment data : right geographic location (lat,long), up-to-date semi-static data according to an activity (current capacity of an airport), or even new performance data for a new aircraft.</para>

		<sect1><title>Environment</title>

			<sect2><title>DAFIF</title>
				<para>The Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (or DAFIF) is a set of files that contain data on airports, navaids, waypoints, special use airspace and other facts relevant to flying in the entire world. This data is provided by the US military, through the <ulink url="http://www.nga.mil">National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)</ulink>, and is primarily developed for the benefit of military aeronautical operations, but was made available to the general public.</para> 
				<para>Except for the United States, which is also covered by data provided by the <xref linkend="faa"/>, it is usually the ONLY comprehensive digital data available for pilots. Other countries either don't provide digital data at all, or they do it through a proprietary web interface or in non-reusable formats (like PDF files of scans of paper documents). Even within the US, there is data that is available in the DAFIF which is not in the <xref linkend="faa"/> data. For instance, the navaid.com database generators use the DAFIF data to find ICAO identifiers for airports in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and other places where there 3 letter <xref linkend="faa"/> id is not enough data to generate the ICAO id.</para>
				<para><emphasis>Attention!</emphasis> This source will be removed at october 2006 of the public access for several reasons. Look <ulink url="http://www.navaid.com/dafif.html">here</ulink> for more details and support the existence of DAFIF. You can also help creating a replacement solution <ulink url="http://xcski.com/navdata/bin/view/NavData/WebHome">here</ulink>.</para>
				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="https://164.214.2.62/products/digitalaero/index.cfm">https://164.214.2.62/products/digitalaero/index.cfm</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of DAFIF section -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of Environment -->

		<sect1><title>Dynamic streams</title>

			<sect2><title>LiveATC</title>
				<para>This site was launched as a resource for those who enjoy listening to live Air Traffic Control (<acronym>ATC</acronym>)...aviation enthusiasts, student pilots, student air traffic controllers, flight simulation enthusiasts, FBO operators, airline operators, and anyone with an interest in aviation communications.</para>
				<para>A good site to listen, discover and perhaps also learn the language. They propose several live feeds in USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, Columbia, or even Dutch caribean !</para>

				<itemizedlist>
					<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.liveatc.net/">http://www.liveatc.net/</ulink></para></listitem>
				</itemizedlist>
			</sect2> <!-- end of LiveATC -->

		</sect1> <!-- end of Dynamic streams section -->

		<sect1><title>Geographic sources</title>
			<para>To be completed.</para>
		</sect1> <!-- end of Geographic sources -->

	</chapter> <!-- end of Data source chapter -->

	<chapter><title>Websites and catalogs</title>
		<sect1><title>Open-Aero.org</title>

			<para>This new website is designed to maintain an up-to-date list of opensource projects for the aeronautic world, and help the maintenance of the this current howto.</para>

			<itemizedlist>
				<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://www.open-aero.org/">http://www.open-aero.org/</ulink></para></listitem>
			</itemizedlist>

		</sect1> <!-- end of Open-Aero.org -->

	</chapter> <!-- end of Websites and catalogs -->

	<appendix id="about"><title>About the author</title>
		<para>I was born in 1973 in the little town of <ulink url="http://www.ville-mont-saint-aignan.fr/">Mont St. Aignan</ulink> near <ulink url="http://www.rouentourisme.com/">Rouen</ulink> in <ulink url="http://www.normandy-tourism.org/">Normandie</ulink> (France). I grow up in the south of Ile-de-France (region near Paris) surrounded by wheat and corn fields :-) and a sugar factory where I used to walk in it, smelling and eating sugar.</para>
		<para>Always attracted by sciences and particularly geology, I got a degree (BA) of Geophysic/Geochemistry and try to get the next degree but fall back to another direction : computer science. I got my master of computer science applied to geosciences in 1998 at <ulink url="http://www.upmc.fr">Paris</ulink>.</para>
		<para>I got my first job at <ulink url="http://www.eurocontrol.int/eec/public/subsite_homepage/homepage.html">Eurocontrol</ulink> and it changes a lot my life. Even if I worked for Schlumberger for 6 months (big oil service company), I now work for 6 years for a little french company (<ulink url="http://www.neometsys.fr/">Neometsys</ulink>) in aeronautic.</para>
		<itemizedlist>
			<listitem><para><emphasis>Home Page</emphasis>: <ulink url="http://nemoworld.info/">http://nemoworld.info/</ulink></para></listitem>
			<listitem><para><emphasis>Email</emphasis>: <email>nicolas.dufour@nemoworld.info</email></para></listitem>
		</itemizedlist>
	</appendix> <!-- end of "about the author" appendix -->

	<appendix><title>Used acronyms</title>
		<para>Used acronyms in the current document and explanations.</para>

		<glossary>
			<glossdiv><title>A</title>
				<glossentry id="adf"><glossterm>ADF</glossterm>
					<glossdef>
						<para>Automatic Direction Finder</para>
						<para>Navigation instrument that receives and interprets the <xref linkend="ndb" /> signal.</para>
					</glossdef>
				</glossentry>
				<glossentry id="atc"><glossterm>ATC</glossterm>
					<glossdef>
						<para>Air Traffic Control</para>
					</glossdef>
				</glossentry>
				<glossentry id="atm"><glossterm>ATM</glossterm>
					<glossdef>
						<para>Air Traffic Management</para>
					</glossdef>
				</glossentry>
			</glossdiv>
			<glossdiv><title>B</title>
				<glossentry id="bsd"><glossterm>BSD</glossterm>
					<glossdef>
						<para>BSD license</para>
						<para>See <ulink url="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php">here</ulink> for details.</para>
					</glossdef>
				</glossentry>
			</glossdiv>
			<glossdiv><title>F</title>
				<glossentry id="faa"><glossterm>FAA</glossterm>
					<glossdef>
						<para>Federal Aviation Administration</para>
						<para>See <ulink url="http://www.faa.gov/">here</ulink> for details.</para>
					</glossdef>
				</glossentry>
			</glossdiv>
			<glossdiv><title>G</title>
				<glossentry id="gpl"><glossterm>GPL</glossterm>
					<glossdef>
						<para>GNU Public License</para>
						<para>See <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">here</ulink> for details.</para>
					</glossdef>
				</glossentry>
			</glossdiv>
			<glossdiv><title>N</title>
				<glossentry id="ndb"><glossterm>NDB</glossterm>
					<glossdef>
						<para>Non-Directional Beacon</para>
					</glossdef>
				</glossentry>
			</glossdiv>
			<glossdiv><title>V</title>
				<glossentry id="vor"><glossterm>VOR</glossterm>
					<glossdef>
						<para>Very-high-frequency Omni Range</para>
						<para>Beacon very usefull to navigation.</para>
					</glossdef>
				</glossentry>
			</glossdiv>
		</glossary>

	</appendix> <!-- end of "used acronyms" appendix -->

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