Airspaces

Airspaces can be inspected, modified, imported or added on this page. They are visualized on the map of the logging page.

The page is split: on the left side all - unless a text filter has been specified - airspaces inside the database are listed. If no airspace is selected on the left side all files that can be potentially used for the import of airspaces are shown on the right side. If an airspace is selected the airspace's details are listed on the right side.

To modify the data of an existing airspace select an airspace and touch edit. To add manually an airspace touch at any time the "plus-sign"; an airspace initialized with default data appears on the right hand side. Besides for informational purposes some of the data also fulfills other purposes. The airspace class for example also determines the color with which the airspace is shown on a map. In case of airspace classes 'A' to 'E' and 'R' the airspace is drawn in pink, 'P' and 'Q' in red, 'W' in green and classes 'F' and 'G' are drawn in light blue.

Before the height can be entered the height's unit has to be specified. Afterwards an additional cell for the height value itself appears.

The airspace's area itself can either be a circle or its border can be specified by individual points that are connected with the next element by straight lines or by arc segments.

The easiest way to enter airspaces is to import airspace from files of the so called "OpenAir" format. These files can be downloaded from various places on the internet and then copied into the document folder of SkyLoggerXXL. Afterwards the files will appear on the right side of this page.

Although the OpenAir format is the only popular format for specifying airspaces, the format is not well defined. This can lead to inconsistent data. SkyLoggerXXL will stop importing the data - an error message will be displayed - and no data is being imported. The user has to modify the file before starting another attempt to import the file. If a file has been parsed successfully, all airspaces are added to the database.

Remark: SkyLoggerXXL only supports ASCII or UTF-8 encoded text files! If other encodings are used, the names of airspaces having characters outside the english character set will be incorrectly spelled.