Re: [Flightgear-users] List of Airports in FlightGear

[Andy R. <an...@ne...>]

David Megginson wrote:

> Christian Blicher Terp writes:
>  > Is there a list of available airports in flightgear?
> 
> Yes, but it's a little cryptic -- look at
> $FG_ROOT/Airports/default.apt.gz.

Bah, crypticity* isn't a problem when you have the right tools.  OK,
I'm on a perl kick this week.  So I applied my own private brand of
line noise to the task and came up with the following "pretty printer"
for the default.apt file.  Just feed it the (uncompressed!) contents
on standard input and it'll generate nice output like:

Airport KJFK: New York John F Kennedy International (40.639751, -073.778926)
  Runway 04L/22R: 150x11351 ft.
  Runway 04R/22L: 150x8400 ft.
  Runway 13L/31R: 150x10000 ft.
  Runway 13R/31L: 150x14572 ft.

Useful?  Probably not.  But someone might like to play with it.  It
ignores a bunch of stuff in the original file, by the way, including
the S and H records (seaplane and heliport, maybe?) and some flags
fields that I didn't understand or bother to look up.

Andy

* Yeah, that's a word.  Pretty sure.


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