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Feature Request: Airspace display on map

Started by kevinfirth, January 21, 2015, 06:45:04 AM

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kevinfirth

Hi Tim,

I'm working my way through a project to update a lot of the airspace data using accurate into from the UK AIP.  I'm finding that there's a LOT of overlaid info, such as altimeter setting regions, FIR regions, all the class A and upper airspace, updated danger/warning/training/military stuff etc.

So much so that the display can easily get very cluttered very quickly and the shading where the lower limit is the surface starts to get quite obstructive.

At the moment, there are only ICAO, Centre, RDPM and Special Use airspace categories.  Would it be possible to allow users to define what data is shown more flexibly please, by perhaps having subdivisions within those?  For example, in ICAO, I would be able to determine if I didn't want ASRs, or FIRs, or any individual class of data?  In RDPM, I would like to select which if any of those I would like to display?   Would it be possible to specify a particular altitude range and only display airspace that affects that range? (perhaps it could be tied to a generated flightplan, so PlanG would then if selected only show the airspace that was directly relevant to the planned flight?

Also, to mitigate the issue of many different boundary areas overlapping, causing very dark shading and potentially obscuring information, would it be possible to let users determine the colour/level of shading applied to each of the airspace categories please?

Thanks K

tim arnot


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chaders

It would certainly be nice to only see airspace below a certain level. Would probably speed up the drawing of the map as well.