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@takwerx takwerx released this 09 Oct 11:52
· 20 commits to main since this release
v0.3
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AirAware answers one question for a crew working under or in the air: what is
in the column of air I am in, and what am I allowed to do here. Built for
wildfire aviation and UAS crews.

Everything is drawn on your own device. No TAK Server, no Data Sync, no CoT —
nothing about you or your position leaves the phone.

Six layers, each switched on its own

  • TFR — Temporary Flight Restrictions as 3D volumes between their published
    floor and ceiling. Red in effect, amber scheduled.
  • Airspace — Class A through G, one shelf per published step, so a Class B
    airport is drawn as the stack the FAA actually publishes rather than one
    ring. Sectional colors.
  • Special Use — Prohibited, Restricted, Warning and Alert areas and MOAs,
    with whether each is continuous or activated by NOTAM.
  • UAS ceilings — the FAA UAS Facility Map: how high you may fly without an
    authorization, green through red, and whether LAANC covers that airport.
  • Obstacles — the FAA Digital Obstacle File, standing at their published
    height with the height on a label.
  • METARs — flight-category chips in the aviation convention: green VFR,
    blue MVFR, red IFR, magenta LIFR, as published and never derived here.

UAS flight planner

Place a launch point and a circle or a drawn area, see the terrain above your
ceiling painted as islands and the charted obstacles with their headroom, and
work the ceiling out both ways — given one, see what reaches it; need one, and
be told the number to ask for. Links out to file a LAANC authorization and to
notify Flight Service, with the plan's own numbers filled in.

Also

  • A restriction can be turned into an ATAK geofence, so you are warned when you
    cross it.
  • What the plugin has downloaded comes back after a restart with no network.
    Switching a layer off hides it; it never deletes it.
  • The pane says what it is not showing — a trimmed list, a layer under its
    zoom gate, an area never downloaded.

Which download

ATAK-CIV APK
5.6 ATAK-Plugin-AirAware-0.3--5.6.0-civ-release.apk
5.7 ATAK-Plugin-AirAware-0.3--5.7.0-civ-release.apk
5.8 ATAK-Plugin-AirAware-0.3--5.8.0-civ-release.apk

A plugin built for another ATAK version will not load. Sideload the one
matching your ATAK, then load it from ATAK's Plugins manager.

User guide with screenshots
— the same guide is built into the plugin, under Settings → Tool Preferences →
AirAware.

Everything AirAware draws is advisory: a picture of published data at the time
it reached the device. It is not a clearance and does not replace current
charts, NOTAMs or a call. Data published by the Federal Aviation
Administration; use of FAA data does not imply FAA endorsement.

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