Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 14:03:33 -0700
Subject: rec.aviation.misc #16433 - AIM/Airport data on FTP/WWW (was: AIM / Airport on disk) 

In article <36ci5c$o8a@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov>, kjenks@sd-www.jsc.nasa.gov (Kenneth C. Jenks) writes:
|> Bruce Hampton (behamp@news.mcc-care.com) wrote:
|> : I have recently acquired a copy of the AIM on disk, and I'd be glad
|> : to share it.  I also have a listing of ~4,500 airports worldwide 
|> : listed by Country, State, airport name (LAX), city, longitude, and 
|> : latitude that I will also share.
|> 
|> Bruce and I put his data on the General Aviation World Wide Web
|> server, http://aviation.jsc.nasa.gov.  Here's the data I now have
|> from the FAA (either on my machine or references to it on other
|> machines):
|> 
|> * Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR's)
|> 
|> * High Mountain Flying in Ski Country U.S.A.
|> 
|> * Airport, Runway and Navigation data, 1993
|>     (I'm working on getting the latest.)
|> 
|> * Airmen's Information Manual (AIM), 1994 (856k)
|>     Also available in compressed format for the PC (307k)
|> 
|> * List of Airports, September 28, 1993 (260k)
|>     Also available in compressed format for the PC (74k)
|> 
|> * Access DUATS flight service via telnet
|>     Weather and flight planning
|> 
|> I'm working with the FAA's National Flight Data Center and our own
|> Edward Boykin (ccasted@prism.gatech.edu) to get a whole pile of
|> data via 9-track tape and post it on the FTP server, 
|>   ftp://aviation.jsc.nasa.gov/pub/flight/data
|> This would include continuous updates of the files what are now on
|>   ftp://seas.smu.edu/flight/  
|> We should have that process nailed down in a couple of months.
|> Cross your electronic fingers.
|> 
|> I'm also pretty close to getting the NOAA's aeronautical chart
|> CD-ROM on-line.  The sectional charts are drafted manually, still.
|> The NOAA is scanning these into a super chart (raster), and making
|> it into an experimental moving-map display for the cockpit.  They're
|> also automating the Airport/Facility Directory, and thinking about
|> their own Web server.  It's possible, though a bit unlikely, that
|> we could get that "super chart" on-line.  (Wouldn't THAT make for
|> great simulator scenery!)
|> 
|> -- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/SD5, Space Biomedical Research Institute
|>       kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov  (713) 483-4368
|> 
|>      "The only way to make a difference in the world is to put ten
|>       times as much effort into everything as anyone else thinks
|>       is reasonable.  It doesn't leave any time for golf or cocktails,
|>       but it gets things done."
|> 	 -- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover