Release notes for version 1.2.2

  • Export of selected chapters of the AIP as a single PDF document. (This function is currently only available for the AIP-VFR).

  • Export a list of AIP pages that were changed after a specified date.

  • Direct opening of the folder with the export files via the sidebar.

  • Dirket link to the now also freely accessible Nachrichten für Luftfahrer via the sidebar.

Release notes for version 1.2.1

  • This is an important update to restore the functionality of the AIP Browser DE after changes to the DFS website.

Release notes for version 1.2.0

Dropped features

  • Self-geo-referencing of charts. This feature was deemed too complicated and dangerous and was therefore dropped.

AIP update

  • Allow switching between the AIP-VFR and AIP-IFR of Germany. (The maps in the AIP-IFR are not geo-referenced!)

  • Thanks to more intensive caching and a few other measures, IP blockages by the DFS should no longer occur. (See: https://github.com/mipastgt/AIPBrowserDE-Public/issues/19)

  • Display a message when the model data is updated from the server.

Geo-referencing

  • Consistent naming of exported, airport-related file names. They now always start with the ICAO code and are separated from the name part by a '_'. This follows the convention used by some flight planning programs. (E.g., SkyDemon, https://www.skydemon.aero)

  • Support for general, affine transformations. It is now possible to geo-reference rotated aerodrome maps.

  • Pre-transformation of exported images so that, for example, rotated images can also be used with VFRNav or EasyVFR.

  • The airport and taxi charts of all international airports in Germany (EDDx) are now geo-referenced.

Trip-Kits

  • Add dates and abbreviations to the TOC of native trip-kits and to the manifest of ForeFlight content packs.

  • When exporting aerodrome pages as a single file to a native trip-kit, the generated section names in the PDF now start with the ICAO code, which corresponds to the actual sort order.

  • VFRNav encoding of geo-reference data in trip-kits is now possible.

  • Simplified trip-kit generation with just a few mouse clicks.

  • The trip-kit creation can now be canceled.

Release notes for version 1.1.5

AIP update

  • A message is shown when new AIP model data or auxiliary model data was loaded.

  • A consistency check of the geo-info is performed after the AIP data has been updated from the server.

Trip-Kits

Versions

The new trip-kit configuration version is 1.0.3.

Native Trip-Kits

An entry abbreviation was added to the TOC file together with the effective and the expiration date.

The TOC file now looks like this:

{
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "name": "Flying in the Ländle",
    "abbreviation": "Flying-BW",
    "description": "An area covering Baden-Württemberg",
    "creationIsoDateTime": "2024-01-27T10:46:52.631025Z",
    "effectiveIsoDate": "2024-01-11",
    "expirationIsoDate": "2024-02-08"
}

ForeFlight Content Packs

In the trip-kit configuration you can now specify an abbreviation of the trip-kit name for display purposes in ForeFlight. E.g.,

    "abbreviation": "AIP-VFR-DE",

This is written to the generated manifest.json file.

In addition, the effective and the expiration date of the AIP-VFR is automatically added to the manifest. A generated manifest might look like this:

{
    "name": "AIP-VFR-Germany-Charts-Only",
    "abbreviation": "AIP-VFR-DE",
    "expirationDate": "20240208T00:00:00",
    "effectiveDate": "20240111T00:00:00",
    "organizationName": "AIP Browser DE"
}

Release notes for version 1.1.4

Trip-Kits

  • Support for the FlyIsFun „Documents“ directory structure.

  • Added a switch to suppress the creation of a ZIP file.

  • Definition of an alternate output directory. This can be used together with DropBox or NextCloud client for example.

  • Export of geospatial-PDF (ISO 32000) as geo-referencing format.

  • Creation of ForeFlight Content Packs as a special kind of trip-kit.