Flying related stuff
These are some applications I wrote during the time I was learning to fly. The ADF Tester is a java applet that gives practice on steering intercept angles to or from an NDB. The other three are actually java servlets running on a tomcat server. The flightplanner was an effort to get my flight planning spreadsheets converted to java, which gave me a good opportunity to learn how servlets work (probably overkill for this application, however).
The other two are useful in their own right, but were developed in the process of getting the flightplanner going. The metar tester was written to help debug an automated merar decoder I wrote in Java. I didn't write it from scratch. I found some C code somewhere that did a partial job of it, and that helped a lot. But this goes a good deal further. Though it was useful to me in writing a decoder, it may be useful to others in that it provides practice in decoding metars.
The faadb application is simply access to various FAA database info available on the FAA subscription cd. There is a lot of good information here about airspace fixs, and navaids. Try entering an airspace fix id like "gosip" or "bargr" or a navaid like "gll" or "bjc".
While these were all fun to write, I expect one is still better off doing one's flight planning with the commercially available tools.
