Getting the plates on your GRT HX EFIS or Your Hard Drive BROKEN!!! See
update below
Here
is your landing zone for getting those NACO approach plates. Provided by the FAA
NACO team, this script below will allow you to d/l those plates locally to your
hard drive, USB stick, eBook, PDA, or whatever. Since these sites only allow you to
get these one at a time. Its a pain. This script will allow you to get em all
easily. My goal was to get all the plates, arrival and departure, as well as
airport diagrams, locally, into a usable form to transportation on my usb stick
to my plane. Note. Charts available here.
Get your current version v3.0 of the
downloadplates.zip script and read the
instructions please. License available also.
NACO 28/56 day cycles
here.
UPDATE May 6th, 2012.
As a result of changes by the FAA
to charge for the digital chart services. This entire application of mine is
broken until further notice. If you find a way to get the xml catalog, Im all
ears.
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Mr. Stewart:
We are no longer providing the xml file for the d-TPP product on-line. It is
available on the d-TPP DVD, which can be obtained by going to http://faacharts.faa.gov/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=DTPP .
Best Regards,
Jim Grant
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Federal Aviation Administration
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June 14, 2011
FAA changed the directory location.
January 6, 2011 v2.9
Cleaned up some old code. Fixed
problem with slashes spaces and periods in city names for the statefolders
options so directory writes dont get rejected.
August 8, 2010 v2.8
Feature enhancement. Added switch to
store the plates by state by city. If your a GRT user this will be of no use.
But for the rest of the planet this will be useful. So now if you want to just
store these plates in a useable file structure where the folders are
\plates\Alabama\Montgomery\BHM you can now do so. This makes a lot of sense for
most folks. Smart PDA's, iPads, inflight notebooks, your computer, etc. Se
instructions for using this switch. I also deprecated the startover function as
it was just too difficult to implement cross platform. So now it you want to
start over, delete your plates directory yourself and use the --forceupdate
yes switch.
August 6, 2010 v2.7
FAA changed its URL location.
June 17th, 2009 v2.6
Fixed wget global variable bug
June 16th, 2009 v2.5
Added Mac Support
April 20th Update v2.4
added wget.exe to the root
added ip address support
added file size counts.
April 6th Update v2.3
Critical defect found with the wget -c command. Fixed. Added some other stuff
in there.
March 28th, 2009 updatev2.1
Ive added the ability for you to select states, volumes, a debug mode, and a
few other items.
List of volumes
here.
March 17th, 2009 updatev2.0
I have deprecated the old getallplates.zip files in favor of a new approach
thats much more efficient. Also I talked GRT into not using the ICAO airport
identifier in favor of the FAA airport code instead. This made life easier. Instructions with information on
what it does is above. Simply this scripts gets
you all the FAA approach plates in pdf form and stores them on your local box.
From there you can do what you want. I needed to accomplish this so I could get
the plates on a USB stick for use in my GRT EFIS system. You may find other
interesting uses.
March 10, 2009
GRT has made available in version HHX1c beta the ability to display approach
plates and airport diagrams in PDF form onto the box. Currently these are not
geo referenced. Meaning its just a display of the plate just like you would have
it on your paper version.
Once you have a waypoint loaded, you hit the plate button and it looks to the
USB stick for a directory called plates and a subdirectory of the airport
identifier. something like \plates\KLZU
What ever PDF is in that directory, it will display a list for you.
So, how do we get the plates? Well you can go to any aviation site one at a
time and get em, or you can use my script to get them all. Save this file, unzip
it and follow the instructions.txt file and your in business.
Some pictures of the functionality.
FAA xml definitions file pdf, or
xsd..
Enjoy.
Back to Super 8 or
Team RV
Here
is your landing zone for getting those NACO approach plates. Provided by the FAA
NACO team, this script below will allow you to d/l those plates locally to your
hard drive, USB stick, eBook, PDA, or whatever. Since these sites only allow you to
get these one at a time. Its a pain. This script will allow you to get em all
easily. My goal was to get all the plates, arrival and departure, as well as
airport diagrams, locally, into a usable form to transportation on my usb stick
to my plane. Note. Charts available here. 