XP Airports is a small programm which provides navigation data from X-Plane to the user. The skript uses the earth_nav.dat file of X-Plane as data pool. The user is able to search for an airport or the ident of the navigation point.
The idea to that script is very easy. A user enters a search phrase and the programm reads the navigation file and filters the right entries. Because of the small file-size there is no need for a database.
- GUI using Tkinter
- search for an airport over an ICAO code
- search for an ident of all navigation-points
- filter for types (e.g. ILS, VOR or NDB)
- update of the navigation data
- integration to X-Plane programm using the python gui
- provide .exe file for windows users
The navigation data file is availiable at http://data.x-plane.com/get_data.html.
The documentation to the file format of the earth_nav.dat as pdf: http://data.x-plane.com/file_specs/XP%20NAV810%20Spec.pdf