I'm looking for a source of (free of charge) nav data (navaids + airports + waypoints) for Europe. The data doesn't have to be official, no lives at risk and for personal use only.
Ideally this would be a machine readable database (CSV, SQLite etc.). I found it for the US but for Europe only some Microsoft Flight Simulator files.
Anyone know of a good source?
EAD would be the ideal source but I only know of the PDF documents for each country which one could download and parse for the information but that is tedious (and stupid). Does EAD provide access to the waypoint/navaid database? ENR 4.4 of Germany says "Coordinates ... are taken from the European AIS Database (EAD)...".
The X-plane file looks interesting. The file format appears to be well documented. Now I would be interested in how accurate the data is.
For France there is a downloadable Excel file at ; it aims mainly at "ulmodromes" but has the bigger fields too. Only in French, but I think you can mange that. You need to register, it is free.
Myself am typing lots of European airfields in an Excel sheet, though it will not be complete in this lifetime. I could send you a copy if you wish, as of today it holds 2687 aerodromes with their coordinates and some more info.
For navaids, I once wrote a decoder for the data files of Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I only have the 2002 version so that info is now very outdated. But I can send it for what it is worth.
Hey,
perhaps you can talk to Pete (http://www.funair.cz/forum/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=f705931845597a082a5ab5446c02e146) about the database. As I recall, he uses free data and might be able to help with computer readable databases.
cheers,
If you select SDO (Static Data Output), you can download either "tab separated value" or XML files.
Excellent, exactly what I was looking for! It seems that with EAD Basic, one can only choose among the predefined reports and there is no report that would combine all navaids, waypoints and airports.
It seems that with EAD Basic, one can only choose among the predefined reports and there is no report that would combine all navaids, waypoints and airports.
Yes. You'll need to download navaids, designated points (4 quadrants) and airports separately.
Slightly tedious, I know.
