New features in 1.6
Update: 20Feb10 – Approved. Quickest approval by Apple yet (1 day).
Update: 19Feb10 – Submitted to App Store
Highlighting active NOTAMS. You can choose whether they highlight red if active now or for the next 2,6 or 12hrs. Also overhauling the SPFIB system to support submitting (single stage) SPFIB. Will be similar to flight plan/sartime in that you will be able to quickly load/save your own.
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Hi Rowan, I noticed today the SPFIB update function no longer seems to work. It says it has updated but all the forecasts including TTF’s are the same as the original. Tried the update all and update SPFIB buttons but neither worked,Brett
Hey Brett,
I just tested my copy again and it appears to be working. Just to start simple – there may not yet be an updated set of weather out if insufficient time has elapsed so an update won’t get anything different from the original.
You can tell if it is updating properly by looking at the title of the updated weather. The original SPFIB will have a title that says “PRE-FLIGHT INFORMATION BULLETIN” where as any update will have the title “PRE-FLIGHT INFORMATION BULLETIN UPDATE”. You can also check “Valid from xxxx” and check that is now. If anything appears to be not-normal, let me know and I’ll investigate further. Also give me your SPFIB number that you are having problems with in any follow ups.
Cheers!
Rowan.
G’day Rowan,
Thanks for your app, have been using it for a couple of months now. Very handy in my line of work. I tried to submit a flight plan the other day and several times since and end up with a heap of error messages for data not entered, even though it has been entered. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong or a fix. Tried removing the app and reinstalling it but still the same. All weather and charts functions work as advertised. As an aside when I get this sorted I regularly use 3 stages in flight plans for EMS work. Any help appreciated. Cheers Darryl
G’day Darryl,
The most common cause of this is not filling in the route information. As a minimum, your route should consist of (for example) “DCT SY DCT”.
Have a go at that and let me know if it works.
Rowan.
Hi Rowan I tried again to do the SPFIB updates and It doesn’t work for me. What I am doing is creating an SPFIB from the NAIPS program on the work computer. Then when on a turn around I used to be able to enter the SPFIB number off the already created briefing into the IPhone NAIPS and use that to update it on subsequent turn arounds. This worked before the last update but no longer works for me. What happens now when I press the update button is that it just seems to download the original again. Things like TTF Metars which as you know are updated regularly only now show the original version. Our SPFIB briefing only seem to be valid for about 24 hours after they are created or I could give you the number to try. Hope this helps, Cheers Brett
G’day Brett, I can’t seem to reproduce your problem. If it’s still happening can you tell me if the title says “UPDATE” in it? If it does, then it is an Airservices problem and I can’t do anything about it. Everything seems to be working fine from my end.
Hi Rowan,
Great app, well done for writing it, i have only just started using it and am impressed with it.
As well as a pilot, i am also a developer. I was wondering how your application communicates with NAIPS. Does Airservices Australia expose an API that you are using, or are you scraping and parsing HTML for the website?
Thanks and well done again on the app, and for being called Rowan!
Hi Rowan (with a w)
yeah there is no API as such – I basically parse the html from the website and send stuff as http get requests as per the forms in the website code. E.g. By sending a http message MSG=0092&AID=NOSEND&DOM=1&LOC=YSSY&MET=1
you would get back a met location briefing for Sydney in HTML. Cut out the crap at the start and end (beware the various error messages have different layouts) and you are left with the final text.
Make sure you login first and get a session cookie that you send with every http header or the only thing you will get back is the error message saying you need to login. The cookie is good for about 10mins I think so you can reuse it for subsequent requests.
You can no shit test all this with telnet and typing out the http get requests and seeing what it spits back at you. Or you can run tcpdump and go to the website and read what is going on.
Hope that helps – let me know what your working on and I’ll see if I can help. The more stuff like this out there the better.
Comment by Darryl | March 5, 2010
Hi Rowan, I was having exactly the same trouble as Darryl was (above) Problem solved by entering Route details as you suggested. Great App by the way. Peter
Hi Rowan,
I am running a 3G with OS3.1.3, which does not support Naips 1.6.2, is it possible to get an older version? I don’t want to run OS4 as it slows down the phone considerably. Thanks, Michael.
Hi Michael, I’ve tried to support OS 3.0 to 3.1 as long as possible but unfortunately now is the time I need to use 3.2 as a base since the app is a universal binary for iPad. Since the only OS that uses 3.2 is the iPad, the only choice is OS4 for iPhone users.
I understand that OS4 runs slow on the 3G but I can’t do much about this if I’m developing for iPad. The advantage of using OS3.2 upwards as a basis are that it can soon support other features like multithreading and local alarms for things like flight plans expiring which I’m thinking about doing soon
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Hey,
Fantastic app ! Congrats on such a great program to integrate with NAIPS.
I am debating buying an iPhone (main reason is this application) as opposed to an HTC Wildfire. Is there any way that this application can be used with an HTC device ?
Cheers,
Mark
Nope iPhone only sorry