Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport codes (was Re: plib-1.8.4_RC)

[David Megginson]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:44:23 +0200, Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The 3 letter FAA airport codes have been prepended with a K but they never
> used to be.
> e.g. C83 now equals KC83

Canada has done that officially -- all Canadian airport codes are now
four-letter ICAO codes starting with 'C', even the ones for tiny grass
strips or floatplane bases.  The last I checked, though, the US had
not yet done the same (even though it owns the prefix 'K', so could
easily do so with no conflicts); only the airports that had proper
IATA codes now have ICAO codes, as far as I can tell.

Robin's database should use ICAO codes where available, of course;
sooner or later, the US will switch over all its airports officially,
so KC83 will be a real identifier, but they're not quite there yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA_airport_code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_airport_code


All the best,


David

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport codes (was Re: plib-1.8.4_RC)

[Paul Surgeon]

On Saturday, 15 January 2005 09:42, Chris Metzler wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:04:08 +0200
>
> Paul Surgeon wrote:
> > BTW: Is Robin going to give us a fixed airport db before we release
> > 0.9.8? i.e. The appended K's to the FAA codes is not pretty and caught
> > me out today.
>
> Can you elaborate on what you mean here?  What is it that you're saying
> is broken, and why?

The 3 letter FAA airport codes have been prepended with a K but they never 
used to be.
e.g. C83 now equals KC83

Is this normal? Why the change?
Are these official ICAO codes?

Paul

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