Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Call for Volunteers: Flight Plan Database

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Call for Volunteers: Flight Plan Database

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
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2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
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Posted onPost created on December 10 2003 19:30 ET by Luke Kolin

Luc Clements raised an interesting question for us as an airline: a flight plan database. I think this would be a great idea, and am willing to cobble together a basic database for you to store them in. I do have a few questions:

what formats?
what features?

Let me know what I can do to help everyone here.

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA1070
Senior Captain, B777-200
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Joined on January 28 2003
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Jeffersonville, IN USA

218 legs, 841.9 hours
182 legs, 778.3 hours online
108 legs, 505.1 hours ACARS
42 legs, 200.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 11 2003 02:22 ET by Adam Gaweda

Luke,
What do you think about this:
http://www.fly.faa.gov/Products/Coded_Departure_Routes/CDM_Operational_Coded_Departur/cdm_operational_coded_departur.html
This site has a downloadable csv file with the fp (only US routes) data base on it that we could build upon.

DVA1416
Captain, B747-400

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Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland Netherlands

1,042 legs, 3,271.2 hours
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Posted onPost created on December 11 2003 10:05 ET by Luc Maaskant

Hey!

This looks pretty promising... I think the code wil be hard to get, if you wanted to integrate it into the website.. I don't think the FAA wil take us serious if we just sent them an email with the question if we could use their code.. Well I think if we can use it, we need to add some Flight Levels, and try to display it in a realistic way like;

Callsign
Aircraft Type
Departure ICAO Code
Speed/FL Route
Arrival ICAO Code

If you need someone to work on pure FP's, I'd like to volunteer...

Luc

Luc Maaskant

Captain, B747-400

Posted onPost created on December 12 2003 12:14 ET by Luke Kolin

They seem to allow the entire DB to be downloaded. Let me see what information it has and what I can add.

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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