Re: Flight Planning (was Re: Introduction)

[Jerry Kaidor <jerry@tr2.com>]

John C. Peterson wrote:
> 
> 		http://metalab.unc.edu/fplan/
> 
> It's come a long way since Steve's last public release, but there's
> still many obvious improvements that could be done. It's been out for
> a few months now, but I haven't received too much feedback in the
> way of suggestions for improvements yet. Comments and volunteers
> are welcome....
> 
*** Wow John,

   You beat me to the punch!  I had found fplan a few years ago, and
had gotten it compiled and working on my Linux box.  Just yesterday,
I'd put the tar.gz up on my website for people to play with.

   As I remember, fplan had a good parser for a database file, another
parser for inputting your desires.  The main thing it lacked to be useful
was - I forget exactly what - but it was lacking some major piece of the
leg calculation, either density altitude or Winds Aloft.

   I had even gotten a copy of the O'Rielly Lex&Yacc book, specifically to
play with fplan.  I had also started experimenting with a sockets-based
interface for it to suck down DUATS data, but that never went anywhere.

                      - Jerry Kaidor ( jerry@tr2.com )

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